Parashah Scavenger Hunt שְׁאֵלוֹת הַשָּׁבוּעַ
Welcome to Devash's Parashah Scavenger Hunt for Parashat Korah!
Aliyah 1 (Bemidbar 16:1-13)
- What was Korah’s relationship to the person, Levi?
- What place do Datan and Aviram describe as “flowing with milk and honey”?
Aliyah 2 (Bemidbar 16:14-19)
- How many מַחְתּוֹת (mahtot, firepans) were used in total in the showdown between Moshe and Korah?
- What has Moshe not taken from any of Korah’s followers?
Aliyah 3 (Bemidbar 16:20-17:8)
- What happens to the copper mahtot used by the 250 rebels?
- Who got eaten up by fire?
Aliyah 4 (Bemidbar 17:9-15)
- How many people died in the plague that followed Korah’s rebellion?
- How many times does it say that the plague started, and how many times does it say that the plague ended?
Aliyah 5 (Bemidbar 17:16-24)
- What kind of food grew out of Aharon’s staff?
- What was written on the staff for the tribe of Levi?
Aliyah 6 (Bemidbar 17:25-18:20)
- Aharon and his descendants get a lot of privileges, but what do they not get?
Aliyah 7 (Bemidbar 18:21-32)
- When the לְוִיִּם (Levi’im, members of the tribe of Levi) received מַעֲשֵׂר (ma’aser, a tenth) from the crops of Benei Yisrael, what percentage did they have to give to the כֹּהֲנִים (kohanim, priests)?
- Where are Bnei Yisrael instructed to stay away from?
Look anywhere in the parashah to find the answer to these questions!
- What was Korah’s family relationship to Moshe?
- Which person started out as a named rebel and then disappeared from the story? What tribe was he from?
- How many times in our parashah does God talk directly to Aharon without speaking to Moshe?
- How many times do people fall on their faces in our parashah? When?
- Who receives a one-percent gift?
From the Haftarah (Shmuel Alef 11:14-12:22)
- What does Shmuel say that is nearly identical to something Moshe says in our parashah?
Scroll down to see the answers!
Answers:
Aliyah 1
Aliyah 2
Aliyah 3
- They are beaten into a covering for the copper מִזְבֵּחַ (mizbei’ah, altar) (17:2-4)
- The 250 people who had offered קְטֹרֶת (ketoret, incense) for Korah’s side (16:35)
Aliyah 4
Aliyah 5
Aliyah 6
- Land (18:20)
Aliyah 7
From anywhere in the parashah
- They were first cousins—Korah was the son of Yitzhar, who was the brother of Amram, who was the father of Moshe (16:1)
- On ben Pelet from the tribe of Reuven (16:1)
- Three (18:1, 8, 20)
- Three times: Moshe falls on his face when he first hears the claims of Korah and his followers (16:4), then on two other occasions Moshe and Aharon fall on their faces and cry out to God to make sure God doesn’t punish everyone (16:22, 17:10)
- Kohanim, because Levi’im receive a one-tenth gift, and then they give one-tenth of that to kohanim (18:26)
Haftarah
- That he did not take a single donkey that did not belong to him (Shmuel Alef 12:3; compare to Bemidbar 16:15)
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