Parsha Quiz!: VaEtchanan

It was a not so quiet week in Lake Wobegone. Still not ready to blog in a present tense, linear way.

If you'd like to read a "vort" by me on the parsha please click on VaEtchanan in the Torah link in the archives.

And now (trumpets please) a new feature here at the NYFR blog: A Parsha Quiz. Yaaaaaaay!
(Thank you Kermit).

Feel free to print these and use them to stay alert during Kriyat HaTorah.

The questons are taken and sometimes adapted from the sefer Torah Sha'ashuai by Frankel.

Shabbat Shalom

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1. 7:3 in our parsha states the 248th negative command in the Torah – “do not have mercy on them.” How does this relate to what Pinchas did and how he accomplished his task?


2. 2:30 speaks of where we turn when in dire straits. Later on in the parsha we are told of a place we can run to, and the name of this place is comprised of the same word that means dire straits. Name the 2 words.


3. This parsha contains 3 out of 6 of a group of important places. It also contains one out of four famous categories of people. Name them both.


4. Our parsha contains four pesukim that are recited at different points of the taking out and reading of the Torah. Name them.


5. According to tradition at the start of this parsha Moshe does a gutsy thing, something that he does, according to Rashi, on a total of three occasions. Descibe what he does and name the other occasions.


6. What word does Moshe use to the Jewish People in a restraining manner, that is used back at him by G-d in this parsha? Who previously used this phrase against Moshe and then Moshe used it back in response to him?


7. What place that is prominent in the news is mentioned in both the haftorah and the parsha? Cite the sources. According to Rashi and Unkelus, in the parsha this is actually referring to what (something other than what it sounds like)?


8. What pronoun that is used for Moshe in this parsha indicates, according to Chazal, that he was losing his strength?


9. E’avrah Nah, is said by Moshe famously in this parha. Where are two other places where Moshe asked this same phrase of people rather than G-d?


10. What prediction in this parsha is similar to a quote from Hallel that is also similar to a Simon and Garfunkle song. Name the Hallel and Simon quotes.