Parashah Scavenger Hunt שְׁאֵלוֹת הַשָּׁבוּעַ
Welcome to Devash's Parashah Scavenger Hunt for Parashat Va'ra!
Aliyah 1 (Shemot 6:2-13)
- What name of God was familiar to Avraham, Yitzhak, and Yaakov?
- In this aliyah, who hears, and who doesn’t hear?
Aliyah 2 (Shemot 6:14-28)
- How old was Amram when he died, and who in this aliyah also lived to the exact same age?
- Who is married to Aharon?
Aliyah 3 (Shemot 6:29-7:7)
- How many years older than Moshe was Aharon?
- According to God, what will מִצְרַיִם(Mitzrayim, Egypt) come to know?
Aliyah 4 (Shemot 7:8-8:6)
- What did the frogs have in common with dough?
- How long did the plague of blood last?
Aliyah 5 (Shemot 8:7-18)
- What did the magicians call the plague of כִּנִּים (kinnim, lice)?
- Which place will not be affected by עָרֹב (arov, the plague of wild animals)?
Aliyah 6 (Shemot 8:19-9:16)
- What body part is used to describe דֶּבֶר (dever, pestilence)?
- How did the plague of שְׁחִין (sh’hin, boils) start?
Aliyah 7 (Shemot 9:17-35)
- Two crops survived the בָּרָד (barad, hail)—what were they?
- What was special about wheat and spelt?
Look anywhere in the parashah to find the answer to these questions!
- Which plagues in our parashah did Aharon help bring about?
- For which plagues in our parashah does the Torah specify that the land of Goshen, where Benei Yisrael lived, was unaffected?
- In this parashah, which two people lived to the same age?
- What was the first plague that the Egyptian magicians were unable to mimic?
From the Haftarah (Yehezkel 28:25-29:21)
- What proud boast does Pharaoh express?
Scroll down to see the answers!
Answers:
Aliyah 1
Aliyah 2
Aliyah 3
Aliya 4
Aliyah 5
Aliyah 6
Aliyah 7
From anywhere in the parashah
Haftarah
- “The river is mine and I created it for myself” (Yehezkel 29:3)
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