Parashat Behaalotkha: Scavenger Hunt
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Parashah Scavenger Hunt שְׁאֵלוֹת הַשָּׁבוּעַ

Welcome to Devash's Parashah Scavenger Hunt for Parashat Behaalotkha!
Aliyah 1 (Bemidbar 8:1-14)
  • What had to be sprinkled on the לְוִיִּם (Levi’im, members of the tribe of Levi) before they could get to work?
  • How many lamps did the menorah in the mishkan have?
Aliyah 2 (Bemidbar 8:15-26)
  • What was the retirement age for Levi’im?
  • What’s important about the age 25?
Aliyah 3 (Bemidbar 9:1-14)
  • Which sacrifice is known as קָרְבַּן יהוה (korban Adonai/HaShem, God’s sacrifice)?
  • What was the makeup date for the קָרְבַּן פֶּסַח (korban pesah, pesah offering)?
  • If Moshe blew one of the silver trumpets, who would gather?
  • What’s something that would happen when Benei Yisrael went to war and on holidays?
Aliyah 5 (Bemidbar 10:11-34)
  • On what date did Benei Yisrael finally leave Sinai?
  • Which tribe had a leader named Pagi’el?
Aliyah 6 (Bemidbar 10:35-11:29)
  • Which two people couldn’t stop acting like prophets?
  • Who says that their job is too difficult?
  • The entire nation waited for someone before moving on. Who was it?
  • How many days did Miriam quarantine outside the camp?
Look anywhere in the parashah to find the answer to these questions!
  • Which three tribes always moved out last when the people traveled?
  • Which verse in our parashah is out of chronological order?
  • Which characters appear in our parashah for the first time since Sefer Shemot?
  • Where do eyes and noses appear in our parashah?
  • What quality did Moshe have, more than anyone else in the whole world?
From the Haftarah (Zekhariah 2:14-4:7)
  • In a better time in the future, where will people invite each other to sit?
Scroll down to see the answers!
Answers: 
Aliyah 1
  • מֵי חַטָּאת (mei hattat, waters of purification; 8:7). We don’t really know what this is yet! But it seems like it might be a flash forward to the water mixed with the ashes of the red heifer that we will learn about in Bemidbar 19.
  • Seven (8:2)
Aliyah 2
  • 50 (8:25)
  • It’s how old the לְוִיִּם (Levi’im, members of the tribe of Levi) were when they started to work in the mishkan (8:24)
Aliyah 3
  • The קָרְבַּן פֶּסַח (korban pesah, pesah offering) (9:7,13)
  • The 14th day of the second month (we call it Iyyar) (9:11)
Aliyah 4
  • הַנְּשִׂיאִים (the nesi’im, the chiefs of the tribes) (10:4)
  • The חֲצוֹצְרֹת (hatzotzrot, trumpets) would be blown (10:9-10)
Aliyah 5
  • The 20th day of the second month of the second year (since leaving Egypt) (10:11)
  • The tribe of Asher (10:26)
Aliyah 6
Aliyah 7
From anywhere in the parashah
  • Dan, Asher, and Naftali (10:25-27)
  • 9:1—The command to bring the korban pesah comes in the 1st month of the 2nd year in the wilderness, but the book of Bemidbar begins with a command to count the people on the 1st day of the 2nd month of this second year!
  • Moshe’s father-in-law (10:29), Yehoshua (11:28), Miriam (12:1)
  • Moshe asks his father-in-law to act as eyes for Benei Yisrael (10:31); God says Benei Yisrael will eat meat until it comes out of their noses (11:20)
  • Humility (12:3)
Haftarah