Parashah Scavenger Hunt שְׁאֵלוֹת הַשָּׁבוּעַ
Welcome to Devash's Parashah Scavenger Hunt for Parashat Bemidbar!
Aliyah 1 (Bemidbar 1:1-19)
- On what date does the book of Bemidbar begin?
- Where did the census happen?
Aliyah 2 (Bemidbar 1:20-54)
- Of the 12 tribes counted, which tribe was the smallest?
- Which were the two largest שְׁבָטִים (shevatim, tribes)?
Aliyah 3 (Bemidbar 2:1-34)
- Which group of three tribes went second when the camp marched through the desert?
- Which tribes camped on the northern side?
Aliyah 4 (Bemidbar 3:1-13)
- Which tribe was assigned the job of serving Aharon?
- Who receives someone else’s role?
Aliyah 5 (Bemidbar 3:14-39)
- What was the name of the נָשִׂיא (nasi, chief) of the family of Merari?
- Which family was in charge of the mishkan’s bars, pillars, sockets, and vessels?
Aliyah 6 (Bemidbar 3:40-51)
- How much silver was collected from the Israelite firstborns?
- How many extra firstborns were there?
Aliyah 7 (Bemidbar 4:1-20)
- What color cloth went on top of the main מִזְבֵּחַ (mizbei’ah, altar)?
- Which of the mishkan’s כֵּלִים (keilim, vessels) was covered with a cloth the color of אַרְגָּמָן (argaman, purple)?
Look anywhere in the parashah to find the answer to these questions!
- On which side of the camp did Moshe live?
- When you try to add up the three families that made up the tribe of Levi, there is an addition problem. What is it?
- Which of the heads of the tribes shares his first name with a famous rabbi from the Mishnah?
- Who shares a name with Moshe’s father-in-law?
- When you try to add up the three families that made up the tribe of Levi, there is an addition problem. What is it?
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- How many people understood the meaning of the code that Yehonatan said when he shot his arrows?
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Answers:
Aliyah 1
- The first day of the second month (in the second year since the people left Egypt) (1:1)
- מִדְבַּר סִינָי (Midbar Sinai, the wilderness of Sinai) (1:19)
Aliyah 2
- Menasheh—32,200 (1:35)
- Yehudah with a count of 74,600 and Dan in second place with 62,700 (1:27, 1:39)
Aliyah 3
Aliyah 4
Aliyah 5
Aliyah 6
Aliyah 7
From anywhere in the parashah
- East (3:38)
- The family of Gershon has 7,500 (3:22), the family of Kehat has 8,600 (3:28), and the family of Merari has 6,200 (3:34). That adds up to 22,300. But the Torah tells us (in 3:39) that the total Levi count was 22,000!
- Gamliel ben Pedatzur, the head of Menasheh, shares a first name with Rabban Gamliel, one of the most important rabbis after the destruction of the Second Beit Ha-Mikdash (1:10, 2:20)
- The נָשִׂיא (nasi, chief) of the tribe of Gad was named Eliasaf ben Re’uel (2:14); Re’uel is one of the names of Moshe’s father-in-law (more commonly called Yitro).
- The family of Gershon has 7,500 (3:22), the family of Kehat has 8,600 (3:28), and the family of Merari has 6,200 (3:34). That adds up to 22,300. But the Torah tells us (in 3:39) that the total Levi count was 22,000!
Haftarah
- Only Yehonatan and David (Shmuel Alef 20:39)
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