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Parashah Scavenger Hunt שְׁאֵלוֹת הַשָּׁבוּעַ
Welcome to Devash's Parashah Scavenger Hunt for Parashat Noah!
Aliyah 1 (Bereishit 6:9-22)
- How long was the תֵּיבָה (teivah, ark)?
- What would Noah and the animals eat while in the תֵּבָה (teivah, ark)?
Aliyah 2 (Bereishit 7:1-16)
- What is the usual opposite for the word טְהוֹרָה (tehorah, pure)? What words does the Torah use here instead to say “impure”?
- How old was Noah at the time of the מַבּוּל (mabul, flood)?
Aliyah 3 (Bereishit 7:17-8:14)
- What two types of birds does Noah send out of the teivah?
Aliyah 4 (Bereishit 8:15-9:7)
- When they come out of the teivah, what is the one thing that God forbids Noah and his children from eating?
- What’s the first thing Noah does after leaving the teivah?
Aliyah 5 (Bereishit 9:8-17)
- What promise does the rainbow signify?
Aliyah 6 (Bereishit 9:18-10:32)
- Who was such a great hunter that his name became an expression for saying how great a hunter someone was?
- Who is אִישׁ הָאֲדָמָה (ish ha-adamah, a man of the earth/soil)?
Aliyah 7 (Bereishit 11:1-32)
- Who was the father of Shelah?
- Who is Avram’s father?
Look anywhere in the parashah to find the answer to these questions!
- How long does the flood last, as measured from the first drop of rain until the land totally dries out?
- When Avraham is born (as Avram), how many of the people on the list of Shem’s descendants are still alive?
- How many אַמּוֹת (amot, cubits) above the ground did the water rise during the flood?
- How many generations are there from Noah to Avram?
- What does Noah plant after finally leaving the teivah?
From the Haftarah (Yeshayahu 54:1-10 for Sefardim and 54:1-55:5 for Ashkenazim)
- What does the flood symbolize?
Scroll down to see the answers!
Answers:
Aliyah 1
- 300 amot (about 450 feet—the length of 1.5 football fields!)
- Food that Noah gathered and brought to the teivah in advance (6:21-22)
Aliyah 2
- טְמֵאָה (temei’ah, impure)—instead, here, the Torah says “אֲשֶׁר לֹא טְהֹרָה“ or “אֲשֶׁר אֵינֶנָּה טְהֹרָה” (that were not pure)
- 600 (7:6)
Aliyah 3
- Dove and raven (8:7-8)
Aliyah 4
- בָּשָׂר בְּנַפְשׁוֹ דָמוֹ (basar be-nafsho damo, meat with blood in it)—limbs of live animals
- Builds an altar and offers sacrifices to God (8:20)
Aliyah 5
- That there will never again be a flood that wipes out the world (9:13-16)
Aliyah 6
- Nimrod
- Noah (9:20)
Aliyah 7
- Arpakhshad
- Terah (11:26)
From anywhere in the parashah
- From the 17th day of the second month until the 27th of the second month the following year—a lunar year of 12 months plus 10 days, which is just about a full solar year!
- All of them! If you do the math, you will see that Avram is born 390 years after Shem. Everyone on that list lives beyond that point!
- 15
- 10 (11:10-27)
- A vineyard (9:20)
Haftarah
- God being angry with the Jewish people. Just as God promised there will never be a flood again to destroy the earth, God promises here never to be angry with the Jewish people, and that God's mercy and covenant of peace will never be taken away. (Yeshayahu 54:9-10)
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