Ilustration Credit: Elad Lifshitz, Dov Abramson Studio
Parashah Scavenger Hunt שְׁאֵלוֹת הַשָּׁבוּעַ
Welcome to Devash's Parashah Scavenger Hunt for Parashat Devarim!
Aliyah 1 (Devarim 1:1-10)
- How many days’ journey was it from Horeiv to Kadeish Barnea?
Aliyah 2 (Devarim 1:11-21)
- What kind of cases does Moshe tell the other judges to bring to him?
- Who should get preferential treatment in court?
Aliyah 3 (Devarim 1:22-38)
- According to our parashah, whose idea was it to send spies into the land?
- What did the spies bring back from Eretz Yisrael?
Aliyah 4 (Devarim 1:39-2:1)
- What animal are the Emori people compared to?
- Where were Benei Yisrael for “many days”? (Two places)
Aliyah 5 (Devarim 2:2-30)
- What funny-sounding word did the Ammonim use to describe the Rephaim?
- Who lived in Se’ir?
Aliyah 6 (Devarim 2:31-3:14)
- How long was the bed of Og, King of the Bashan?
Aliyah 7 (Devarim 3:15-22)
- The Dead Sea is commonly called יָם הַמֶּלַח (Yam Ha-Melah, “The Salt Sea”). What other name for this body of water appears in our parashah?
- Who is told not to be afraid?
Look anywhere in the parashah to find the answer to these questions!
- There are four נְחָלִים (nehalim, streams) mentioned in our parashah. What are their names?
- What was special about the 60 towns in חֶבֶל אַרְגֹּב (Hevel Argov, the Argov Strip)?
- Of the five megillot in the Tanakh, which has an opening word that does not appear in our parashah?
- What place has the same name as a character from the book of Bereishit?
- What insect appears in the parashah, and in what context?
From the Haftarah (Yeshayahu 1:1-27)
- What does God not want from Benei Yisrael?
Scroll down to see the answers!
Answers:
Aliyah 1
- 11 (1:2)
Aliyah 2
Aliyah 3
- The people (1:22). In Bemidbar 13, it sounds like it was God’s idea!
- Fruit of the land (1:25)
Aliyah 4
Aliyah 5
Aliyah 6
- Nine Amot—more than 13 feet! (3:11)
Aliyah 7
From anywhere in the parashah
- Eshkol (1:24), Zered (2:14), Arnon (2:24), Yabok (2:37)
- They were all walled with locking doors (3:5)
- Shir Ha-Shirim—the first word of that megillah, שִׁיר (shir, song) does not appear in our parashah. The others do: Ruth and Esther both begin with the word וַיְהִי (vayehi), which appears in 1:3; Eikhah begins with the word אֵיכָה (eikhah), which appears in 1:12; Kohelet begins with the word דִּבְרֵי (divrei), which appears in 2:26.
- Lavan (1:1)
- Bees; the Amorites are compared to them (1:44)
Haftarah
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