Parashah Scavenger Hunt שְׁאֵלוֹת הַשָּׁבוּעַ
Welcome to Devash's Parashah Scavenger Hunt for Parashat Naso!
Aliyah 1 (Bemidbar 4:21-37)
- Which part of the שֵׁבֶט (shevet, tribe) of Levi was responsible for carrying the curtains of the mishkan?
- Who supervised the work that the family of Gershon did?
Aliyah 2 (Bemidbar 4:38-49)
- How many members of Shevet Levi were counted, from the ages of 30 to 50?
- Which family of Levi’im was the smallest?
Aliyah 3 (Bemidbar 5:1-10)
- When a person does something wrong to someone else, what’s the first thing they are supposed to do to make it better?
- Who is supposed to be sent out of the camp?
Aliyah 4 (Bemidbar 5:11-6:27)
- For which relatives is a נָזִיר (nazir) allowed to become impure?
- What part of Shabbat dinner is a nazir not allowed to have?
Aliyah 5 (Bemidbar 7:1-41)
- How many wagons did the family of Merari get?
- Why didn’t the family of Kehat get any wagons?
Aliyah 6 (Bemidbar 7:42-71)
- How many shekels of silver was the bowl brought by each shevet?
- What kind of קָרְבָּן (korban, sacrifice) was the goat that each נָשִׂיא (nasi, chief) brought?
Aliyah 7 (Bemidbar 7:72-89)
- What was the total amount of silver brought by all the shevatim?
- Where did Moshe hear God’s voice?
Look anywhere in the parashah to find the answer to these questions!
- Which two names of God appear in the names of the chiefs of the shevatim?
- Did a שֵׁבֶט (shevet, tribe) bring gifts to the mishkan on Shabbat?
- Naso is the longest single parashah in the Torah. How many verses does it have?
- Who burns their hair?
From the Haftarah (Shoftim 13:2-25)
- What’s the angel’s name?
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Answers:
Aliyah 1
Aliyah 2
Aliyah 3
- Confess (5:7)
- Someone who has the skin disease צָרַעַת (tzara’at) and someone who is a זָב (zav) (5:2)
Aliyah 4
Aliyah 5
Aliyah 6
Aliyah 7
- 2,400 shekels (7:85)
- From above the כַּפֹּרֶת (kaporet) that covered the אֲרוֹן (aron, ark), between the two כְּרוּבִים (keruvim, winged angels) (7:89)
From anywhere in the parashah
- א-ל (El) and ש-די (Shaddai)
- They must have! Moshe was told נָשִׂיא אֶחָד לַיּוֹם נָשִׂיא אֶחָד לַיּוֹם (one chief should present a gift each day, one day after the other; 7:11), and there were 12 chiefs, so that had to include a Shabbat. There’s a midrash (quoted in Da’at Zekeinim on Bemidbar 7:48) that it was Efrayim who brought the gift on Shabbat. Can you guess why? Take a look at Bemidbar 7:48.
- 176. These verses contain 2264 words and 8632 letters! (Average length of a parashah is 108 verses.)
- Someone who is bringing sacrifices to mark the end of their period of being a nazir (6:18)
Haftarah
- He won’t tell! (Shoftim 13:18) (Bonus: Who’s another angel with a secret name in Tanakh? Look at Bereishit 32:30 for the answer.)
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