Parashah Scavenger Hunt שְׁאֵלוֹת הַשָּׁבוּעַ
Welcome to Devash's Parashah Scavenger Hunt for Parashat Behaalotkha!
Aliyah 1 (Bemidbar 8:1-14)
- What had to be sprinkled on the לְוִיִּם (Levi’im, members of the tribe of Levi) before they could get to work?
- How many lamps did the menorah in the mishkan have?
Aliyah 2 (Bemidbar 8:15-26)
- What was the retirement age for Levi’im?
- What’s important about the age 25?
Aliyah 3 (Bemidbar 9:1-14)
- Which sacrifice is known as קָרְבַּן יהוה (korban Adonai/HaShem, God’s sacrifice)?
- What was the makeup date for the קָרְבַּן פֶּסַח (korban pesah, pesah offering)?
Aliyah 4 (Bemidbar 9:15-10:10)
- If Moshe blew one of the silver trumpets, who would gather?
- What’s something that would happen when Benei Yisrael went to war and on holidays?
Aliyah 5 (Bemidbar 10:11-34)
- On what date did Benei Yisrael finally leave Sinai?
- Which tribe had a leader named Pagi’el?
Aliyah 6 (Bemidbar 10:35-11:29)
- Which two people couldn’t stop acting like prophets?
- Who says that their job is too difficult?
Aliyah 7 (Bemidbar 11:30-12:16)
- The entire nation waited for someone before moving on. Who was it?
- How many days did Miriam quarantine outside the camp?
Look anywhere in the parashah to find the answer to these questions!
- Which three tribes always moved out last when the people traveled?
- Which verse in our parashah is out of chronological order?
- Which characters appear in our parashah for the first time since Sefer Shemot?
- Where do eyes and noses appear in our parashah?
- What quality did Moshe have, more than anyone else in the whole world?
From the Haftarah (Zekhariah 2:14-4:7)
- In a better time in the future, where will people invite each other to sit?
Scroll down to see the answers!
Answers:
Aliyah 1
- מֵי חַטָּאת (mei hattat, waters of purification; 8:7). We don’t really know what this is yet! But it seems like it might be a flash forward to the water mixed with the ashes of the red heifer that we will learn about in Bemidbar 19.
- Seven (8:2)
Aliyah 2
- 50 (8:25)
- It’s how old the לְוִיִּם (Levi’im, members of the tribe of Levi) were when they started to work in the mishkan (8:24)
Aliyah 3
- The קָרְבַּן פֶּסַח (korban pesah, pesah offering) (9:7,13)
- The 14th day of the second month (we call it Iyyar) (9:11)
Aliyah 4
- הַנְּשִׂיאִים (the nesi’im, the chiefs of the tribes) (10:4)
- The חֲצוֹצְרֹת (hatzotzrot, trumpets) would be blown (10:9-10)
Aliyah 5
- The 20th day of the second month of the second year (since leaving Egypt) (10:11)
- The tribe of Asher (10:26)
Aliyah 6
Aliyah 7
From anywhere in the parashah
- Dan, Asher, and Naftali (10:25-27)
- 9:1—The command to bring the korban pesah comes in the 1st month of the 2nd year in the wilderness, but the book of Bemidbar begins with a command to count the people on the 1st day of the 2nd month of this second year!
- Moshe’s father-in-law (10:29), Yehoshua (11:28), Miriam (12:1)
- Moshe asks his father-in-law to act as eyes for Benei Yisrael (10:31); God says Benei Yisrael will eat meat until it comes out of their noses (11:20)
- Humility (12:3)
Haftarah
- Under the shade of vines and fig trees (Zekhariah 3:10)
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