Ilustration Credit: Elad Lifshitz, Dov Abramson Studio
Parashah Scavenger Hunt שְׁאֵלוֹת הַשָּׁבוּעַ
Welcome to Devash's Parashah Scavenger Hunt for Parashat Vayeishev!
Aliyah 1 (Bereishit 37:1-11)
- About whom did Yosef tattletale?
- In Yosef’s second dream, who bowed down to him?
Aliyah 2 (Bereishit 37:12-22)
- Where did Yosef finally meet up with his brothers?
- What did the brothers call Yosef when they saw him approaching?
Aliyah 3 (Bereishit 37:23-36)
- What items for sale were the Yishmaelites carrying in their caravan?
- What was in the pit with Yosef?
Aliyah 4 (Bereishit 38:1-30)
- What was the name of Tamar’s second son?
- How were Er and Onan related?
Aliyah 5 (Bereishit 39:1-6)
- What was Potiphar’s job?
- From whom did Potiphar purchase Yosef?
Aliyah 6 (Bereishit 39:7-23)
- When Yosef got in trouble, where was he put?
Aliyah 7 (Bereishit 40:1-23)
- In his dream, what was the cupbearer holding in his hand?
- Who forgot to uphold their end of a deal?
Look anywhere in the parashah to find the answer to these questions!
- What word in our parashah has the special שַׁלְשֶׁלֶת (shalshelet) note on it?
- What word in our parashah is written with dots on top of it?
- What word is used twice in our parashah to describe two different places where Yosef found himself?
- Which two people tear their clothes in the parashah?
- Two people in the parashah refuse something, with the word וַיְמָאֵן (vayema’ein). Who are they?
From the Haftarah (Amos 2:6-3:81)
- Amos says that God is willing to forgive some of the sins of the people of Yisrael, but not others. Which are unforgivable?
Scroll down to see the answers!
Answers:
Aliyah 1
- The children of Bilhah and Zilpah
- The sun, moon, and 11 stars (37:9)
Aliyah 2
- Dotan
- בַּעַל הַחֲלֹמוֹת (ba’al ha-halomot, the dreamer) (37:19)
Aliyah 3
- נְכֹאת וּצְרִי וָלֹט (spices, balm, labdanum)
- Nothing, not even water (37:24) — Rashi quotes the Gemara (Shabbat 22a) that says that the pit actually had scorpions and snakes in it; otherwise why would the Torah tell us it was “empty” and also that “it had no water”?!
Aliyah 4
- Zerah (It is true that in 38:30 he is called Zarah, but that is because the name appears at the end of a verse, and so the vowels change).
- They were brothers (38:3-4)
Aliyah 5
- שַׂר הַטַּבָּחִים (sar ha-tabahim)—it’s not fully clear what this means!
- From the Yishmaelites who brought Yosef to Egypt (39:1)
Aliyah 6
- Prison (39:20)
Aliyah 7
- The royal wine cup
- The cupbearer (40:23)
From anywhere in the parashah
- וַיְמָאֵן (va-yema’ein, and he refused)
- אֶת (et, 37:12)
- בּוֹר (bor): describing the pit where his brothers threw him, and the dungeon where he was imprisoned
- Reuven (37:29) and Yaakov (37:34)
- Yaakov (37:35) and Yosef (39:8)
Haftarah
- Selling a righteous person for money, selling a poor person for shoes (Amos 2:6)
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