First Fruits
According to the Torah, when a person enters the land of Israel, they must bring a basket of these as an offering.
What are the first fruits (bikkurim)?
These are a lengthy list of consequences for violating the covenant with God, and they appear in this portion.
What are the curses (tocheichah)?
These are the rewards for keeping the covenant with God, and they are described in this parsha.
What are the blessings?
This parsha is the 50th weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading.
What is the 50th Torah portion?
What is the Hebrew term for the "first fruits" mentioned in this parsha?
What is bikkurim?
In the ceremony on Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim, the Levites recited 11 of these out loud.
What are the curses recited by the Levites?
The Torah promises that God will open this heavenly place for those who follow the commandments.
What is the heavenly storehouse?
The portion is found in this book of the Torah.
What is the Book of Deuteronomy
What is the phrase the farmer recites to the priest, summarizing Jewish history, before presenting the offering?
What is "A wandering Aramean was my father"?
This curse is for "the man that makes a graven or molten image and sets it up in secret".
What is a curse for idolatry?
This blessing promises the people will be "set high above all the nations of the earth."
What is a promise of greatness among nations?
The name Ki Tavo literally means this.
What is "When you enter"?
Which ancestor does the farmer refer to as a "wandering Aramean" during the declaration?.
Who is Jacob?
What number of tribes stood on Mount Ebal, and what number stood on Mount Gerizim?.
What are six on Mount Ebal and six on Mount Gerizim?
According to the parsha, what will God do for the people in the land that "he swore to your fathers"?
What is make them wealthy and numerous?
What did the Israelites do with 12 stones on Mount Ebal, as commanded in the parsha?.
What is write the words of the law on them?
The offering of first fruits is brought annually between which two holidays?.
What are Shavuot and Chanukah?
How does the Torah describe the person who "causes the blind to go astray"?.
What is a person who gives intentional bad advice?
What does the Torah promise will happen to the "fruit of your womb, and the fruit of your ground"
What is a promise that they will be fruitful?
According to the text, the covenant detailed in Ki Tavo was made while the people were in this location.
What is the land of Moab?