Parashat Eikev: Scavenger Hunt

Parashah Scavenger Hunt שְׁאֵלוֹת הַשָּׁבוּעַ

Look for the answer in Aliyah 1 (Devarim 7:12-8:10)

What are the שִׁבְעַת הַמִּנִּים (shivat ha-minim), the Torah’s seven favorite kinds of produce associated with Eretz Yisrael?
What items lasted far longer than expected for Benei Yisrael in the wilderness?

Look for the answer in Aliyah 2 (Devarim 8:11-9:3)

If Benei Yisrael get too comfortable and wealthy, what might they say in their hearts?
Who is compared to fire?

Look for the answer in Aliyah 3 (Devarim 9:4-29)

What five place names are mentioned in this aliyah as places where Benei Yisrael rebelled or made God angry?
What lasted 40 days and 40 nights? (Two things)

Look for the answer in Aliyah 4 (Devarim 10:1-11)

Look for the answer in Aliyah 5 (Devarim 10:12-11:9)

Look for the answer in Aliyah 6 (Devarim 11:10-21)

How is the source of water in Egypt different from the source of water in Eretz Yisrael?
When and where are you supposed to teach your children about mitzvot?

Look for the answer in Aliyah 7 (Devarim 11:22-25)

What four major land features are given in our parashah as guides to the boundaries of Eretz Yisrael?

Look anywhere in the parashah to find the answer to these questions!

How many times does the root ע.ק.ב. appear in our parashah?
Moshe repeatedly talks about spending a certain amount of time on the mountain with God. How much time did he spend there?
Can you identify in our parashah a famous phrase from the first בְּרָכָה (berakhah, blessing) of the Amidah?
How many people from Benei Yisrael went down to Egypt?

From the Haftarah (Yeshayahu 49:14-51:3)

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Answers: 

Aliyah 1

חִטָּה (hittah, wheat), שְׂעֹרָה (seorah, barley), גֶּפֶן (gefen, grapes), תְּאֵנָה (te’einah, figs), רִמּוֹן (rimmon, pomegranate), זֵית שֶׁמֶן (zeit shemen, olive oil), דְּבַשׁ (devash, honey) (8:8)
Their clothing, which did not wear out (8:4)

Aliyah 2

כֹּחִי וְעֹצֶם יָדִי עָשָׂה לִי אֶת־הַחַיִל הַזֶּה (“my own power and the strength of my hand created this wealth”) (8:17)
God (9:3)

Aliyah 3

Horeiv (9:8), Taveirah, Massah, Kivrot Hataavah (9:22), Kadeish Barnei’a (9:23)
Moshe’s time up on the mountain to get the Torah (9:9), and Moshe’s prayers on behalf of Benei Yisrael after חֵטְא הָעֵגֶל (heit ha-eigel, the sin of the golden calf) (9:18)

Aliyah 4

Aliyah 5

The ancestors of Benei Yisrael (10:15) and the גֵּר (ger, stranger)—a person from a different nation who chooses to live with Benei Yisrael, and who is usually poor (10:18)
Our hearts (10:16)

Aliyah 6

In Egypt, you “water your garden with your feet” (11:10)—irrigation canals provide water from the Nile that can be pedaled in by your feet to your fields. In Eretz Yisrael, you have to wait for rain (11:11).
When you stay at home and when you go out on your way, when you lie down to sleep and when you get up (11:19)

Aliyah 7

הַמִּדְבָּר (ha-midbar, the desert off to the south and the east), הַלְּבָנוֹן (ha-levanon, the Lebanon mountains in the north), נְהַר־פְּרָת (nehar perat, the Euphrates River in the northeast), יָּם הָאַחֲרוֹן (yam ha-aharon, the Western Sea aka the Mediterranean) (11:24)

From Anywhere in the parashah

Four—twice in the form of the word עֵקֶב (7:12 and 8:20), twice in the form of וּלְיַעֲקֹב (9:5 and 9:27)
40 days and 40 nights (he mentions this five times!—9:9, 9:11, 9:18, 9:25, 10:10)
הָאֵ-ל הַגָּדֹל הַגִּבֹּר וְהַנּוֹרָא (ha-El ha-gadol ha-gibbor ve-ha-nora, God the Almighty the Great the Powerful the Awesome) (10:17)
70 (10:22)

Haftarah

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