Parashat Korah: Scavenger Hunt
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Parashah Scavenger Hunt שְׁאֵלוֹת הַשָּׁבוּעַ

Welcome to Devash's Parashah Scavenger Hunt for Parashat Korah!
Aliyah 1 (Bemidbar 16:1-13)
  • What was Korah’s relationship to the person, Levi?
  • What place do Datan and Aviram describe as “flowing with milk and honey”?
Aliyah 2 (Bemidbar 16:14-19)
  • How many מַחְתּוֹת (mahtot, firepans) were used in total in the showdown between Moshe and Korah?
  • What has Moshe not taken from any of Korah’s followers?
  • What happens to the copper mahtot used by the 250 rebels?
  • Who got eaten up by fire?
Aliyah 4 (Bemidbar 17:9-15)
  • How many people died in the plague that followed Korah’s rebellion?
  • How many times does it say that the plague started, and how many times does it say that the plague ended?
Aliyah 5 (Bemidbar 17:16-24)
  • What kind of food grew out of Aharon’s staff?
  • What was written on the staff for the tribe of Levi?
  • Aharon and his descendants get a lot of privileges, but what do they not get?
  • When the לְוִיִּם (Levi’im, members of the tribe of Levi) received מַעֲשֵׂר (ma’aser, a tenth) from the crops of Benei Yisrael, what percentage did they have to give to the כֹּהֲנִים (kohanim, priests)?
  • Where are Bnei Yisrael instructed to stay away from?
Look anywhere in the parashah to find the answer to these questions!
  • What was Korah’s family relationship to Moshe?
  • Which person started out as a named rebel and then disappeared from the story? What tribe was he from?
  • How many times in our parashah does God talk directly to Aharon without speaking to Moshe?
  • How many times do people fall on their faces in our parashah? When?
  • Who receives a one-percent gift?
From the Haftarah (Shmuel Alef 11:14-12:22)
  • What does Shmuel say that is nearly identical to something Moshe says in our parashah?
Scroll down to see the answers!
Answers: 
Aliyah 1
  • He was his great-grandson (16:1)
  • Egypt! (16:13)
Aliyah 2
  • 252—One for Aharon, one for Korah, and 250 for Korah’s allies (16:17)
  • A donkey (16:15)
Aliyah 3
  • They are beaten into a covering for the copper מִזְבֵּחַ (mizbei’ah, altar) (17:2-4)
  • The 250 people who had offered קְטֹרֶת (ketoret, incense) for Korah’s side (16:35)
Aliyah 4
Aliyah 5
Aliyah 6
Aliyah 7
  • A tenth! (18:26)
  • The אֹהֶל מוֹעֵד (ohel moed, tent of meeting) (18:22)
From anywhere in the parashah
  • They were first cousins—Korah was the son of Yitzhar, who was the brother of Amram, who was the father of Moshe (16:1)
  • On ben Pelet from the tribe of Reuven (16:1)
  • Three (18:1, 8, 20)
  • Three times: Moshe falls on his face when he first hears the claims of Korah and his followers (16:4), then on two other occasions Moshe and Aharon fall on their faces and cry out to God to make sure God doesn’t punish everyone (16:22, 17:10)
  • Kohanim, because Levi’im receive a one-tenth gift, and then they give one-tenth of that to kohanim (18:26)
Haftarah