Ilustration Credit: Elad Lifshitz, Dov Abramson Studio
Parashah Scavenger Hunt שְׁאֵלוֹת הַשָּׁבוּעַ
Welcome to Devash's Parashah Scavenger Hunt for Parashat Shoftim!
Aliyah 1 (Devarim 16:18-17:13)
- What does our parashah say that God hates?
- What could be blinding?
Aliyah 2 (Devarim 17:14-20)
- Why shouldn’t a king have a lot of horses?
Aliyah 3 (Devarim 18:1-5)
- Which three parts of an animal does the כֹּהֵן (kohen, priest) get when someone slaughters meat to eat?
Aliyah 4 (Devarim 18:6-13)
- In this aliyah, what are the problematic practices of the people living in Eretz Canaan?
- Where are there sorcerers that Benei Yisrael must not be like?
Aliyah 5 (Devarim 18:14-19:13)
- Our parashah gives a specific example of how a person might kill someone else accidentally, with a tool. What is it?
Aliyah 6 (Devarim 19:14-20:9)
- What four groups of people are allowed to go home when the people go to war?
- What punishment do false witnesses get?
Aliyah 7 (Devarim 20:10-21:9)
- When an army is attacking a city, what are they not allowed to cut down?
Look anywhere in the parashah to find the answer to these questions!
- What are all the leadership positions mentioned in our parashah?
- What word appears in identical form twice in a row in our parashah?
- What two numbers of witnesses does the Torah explicitly approve of?
- Who should we not have compassion for?
From the Haftarah (Yeshayahu 51:12-52:12)
- What does God do to the sea?
Scroll down to see the answers!
Answers:
Aliyah 1
Aliyah 2
- Because they might lead him to bring the people back to Egypt (17:16)
Aliyah 3
- Shank, cheeks, stomach (18:3)
Aliyah 4
- Different kinds of magic and sorcery (18:10-11)
- In the land that will be given to Benei Yisrael (18:9-11)
Aliyah 5
- Someone might be chopping wood in a forest and the blade might fly off the handle of the ax—וְנָשַׁל הַבַּרְזֶל מִן־הָעֵץ (though this could also mean that the ax might cause a wood chip to fly out of the tree!) (19:5)
Aliyah 6
- 1) Someone who has built a house but not yet dedicated it; 2) Someone who has planted a vineyard but not yet tasted of it; 3) Someone who is engaged but not yet married; 4) Someone who is afraid (20:5-8)
- Whatever they tried to do to the people they were lying about in court (19:19)
Aliyah 7
- Trees with edible fruit (20:19-20)
From Anywhere in the parashah
- שֹׁפְטִים (shoftim, judges) (16:18, 17:9, 17:12, 19:17-18, 21:2); שֹׁטְרִים (shotrim, officers) (16:18, 20:5-9); כֹּהֲנִים (kohanim, priests) (17:9, 17:12, 17:18, 18:1, 18:3, 19:17, 20:2, 21:5); מֶלֶךְ (melekh, king) (17:14); לְוִיִּם (Levi’im, members of the tribe of Levi) (18:1, 18:6-7); נָבִיא (navi, prophet) (18:15-22); זִקְנֵי הָעִיר (ziknei ha-ir, the elders of the city) (19:12, 21:2-4, 21:6)
- צֶדֶק צֶדֶק (tzedek tzedek, justice justice) (16:20)
- Two and three (17:6, 19:15)
- שֹׁפְטִים (shoftim, judges) (16:18, 17:9, 17:12, 19:17-18, 21:2); שֹׁטְרִים (shotrim, officers) (16:18, 20:5-9); כֹּהֲנִים (kohanim, priests) (17:9, 17:12, 17:18, 18:1, 18:3, 19:17, 20:2, 21:5); מֶלֶךְ (melekh, king) (17:14); לְוִיִּם (Levi’im, members of the tribe of Levi) (18:1, 18:6-7); נָבִיא (navi, prophet) (18:15-22); זִקְנֵי הָעִיר (ziknei ha-ir, the elders of the city) (19:12, 21:2-4, 21:6)
- A false witness (19:21)
Haftarah
- Stir it up into waves (Yeshayahu 51:15)
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