Parashah Scavenger Hunt שְׁאֵלוֹת הַשָּׁבוּעַ
Welcome to Devash's Parashah Scavenger Hunt for Parashat Behar!
The answers to the first seven questions can be found in the matching numbered aliyah in the Torah reading. The answers to the last three are harder and can come from anywhere in the parashah.
- The land must rest one year out of every how many? Look for the answer in Aliyah #1 (Vayikra 25:1-12)
- Does the price of a field go up, go down, or stay the same the closer you get to the next יוֹבֵל (yovel)? Look for the answer in Aliyah #2 (Vayikra 25:13-18)
- How does the Torah say people will survive without planting and harvesting for a whole year? Look for the answer in Aliyah #3 (Vayikra 25:19-24)
- There are two words in this aliyah that, together, form a palindrome (they read the same backwards and forwards). What are they? Look for the answer in Aliyah #4 (Vayikra 25:25-28)
- What are you forbidden from doing when loaning money to a fellow Jew or someone who lives in your land? Look for the answer in Aliyah #5 (Vayikra 25:29-38)
- According to our parashah, if a fellow Jew is sold to you to pay off a debt, when do they go free? Look for the answer in Aliyah #6 (Vayikra 25:39-46)
- Why does the Torah say that Benei Yisrael cannot be allowed to be slaves to other people? Look for the answer in Aliyah #7 (Vayikra 25:47-26:2)
- How many cycles of שְׁמִטָּה (shemittah, year of release) have to pass before getting to the yovel?
- What do you do on Yom Kippur of a yovel?
- How many times do words with the root ג.א.ל. (to redeem) appear in our parashah?
Scroll down to see the answers!
Answers:
- Seven (25:4)
- It goes down; the price is based on how many harvests are left before the next yovel (25:15-16)
- During the sixth year, God will make sure there is a huge crop that can last for three years (25:20-21)
- יָדוֹ דֵּי (his hand is sufficient, 25:28)—and the next letter in the adjacent words in either direction is a ה!
- Charge them interest on the loan (25:36-37)
- At the yovel (25:40)
- Because we are already slaves to God! (25:55)
- Seven (25:8-10)
- Blow the shofar (25:9)
- Nineteen! Can you find them all?
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