Names
What is the only Yom Tov mentioned by name in this Parsha?
Yom Kippur
25:9
How much is the value of a male between the ages of 20-60, and a female between the ages of 20-60?
Male: 50 silver shekel
Female: 30 silver shekel
בחקתי = חקת
How many cities were given to Leviim?
48
25:32
What other Parsha in Torah contains a Tochacha (words of rebuke)?
Parshas Ki Savo in Sefer Devarim
Name the three places listed in Parshat Behar-Bechukotai.
Har Sinai
Egypt
Canaan
Find a Passuk where the same number is mentioned 4 times.
25:8
וְסָֽפַרְתָּ֣ לְךָ֗ שֶׁ֚בַע שַׁבְּתֹ֣ת שָׁנִ֔ים שֶׁ֥בַע שָׁנִ֖ים שֶׁ֣בַע פְּעָמִ֑ים וְהָי֣וּ לְךָ֗ יְמֵי֙ שֶׁ֚בַע שַׁבְּתֹ֣ת הַשָּׁנִ֔ים תֵּ֥שַׁע וְאַרְבָּעִ֖ים שָׁנָֽה:
You must count for yourself seven sabbatical cycles, i.e., seven years seven times. The time-period of these seven sabbatical cycles will thus amount to 49 years.
What two words does the Torah in this Parsha use, for interest?
נֶ֣שֶׁךְ
תַרְבִּ֔ית
25:36
When is it the best time for it to rain, and why?
26:4
בְּעִתָּם - In their time - i.e., at a time that it is not usual for people to go out, such as on Sabbath nights.
Har Sinai is mentioned in the beginning and end of this Parsha. Provide two other names for Har Sinai.
Har Chorev (Shemos 33:6)
Har HaElokim (Shemos 3:1)
What is the name of the Masechta which is based on Shishi of this week's Parsha?
ערכין - valuations
Fifth masechta in Kodshim. Begins with the laws of donating one's prescribed value to the Beis HaMikdash
Which number appears 4 times within the Tochacha (rebuke)?
7.
26:18, 21, 24, 28
Dever = pestilence (as part of the punishments in the Tochacha).
26:25
Who would be considered a "Toshav?" תוֹשָׁ֛ב
Any non-Jew, living in Eretz Yisrael, who accepts upon himself not to worship idols.
25:35
Which three of the Aseres HaDibros is mentioned in this week's Parsha?
- Shabbos 26:2
- Not building/worshipping idols 26:1
- Anochi Hashem Elokeichem
A: Which two metals are named in the Parsha?
B: And which implement made out of one of these metals is mentioned 5 times?
A: Iron and Copper
26:19
וְשָֽׁבַרְתִּ֖י אֶת־גְּא֣וֹן עֻזְּכֶ֑ם וְנָֽתַתִּ֤י אֶת־שְׁמֵיכֶם֙ כַּבַּרְזֶ֔ל וְאֶת־אַרְצְכֶ֖ם כַּנְּחֻשָֽׁה
I will break the pride of your strength. I will make your skies like iron and your land like copper.
B: Sword - חֶ֛רֶב
Find context for the numbers:
1, 3, 5, 7, 9
1: ten women will bake bread in one oven, part of the curses (26:26)
3: enough produce for three years if you keep Shmittah (25:21)
5: five will pursue one hundred, if we follow Hashem's commands (26:7)
7: seventh year is shmittah (25:4)
9: eat from kemach yashan until the 9th year (25:22)
Which 3-word phrase appears 4 times in this week's Parsha?
אֲנִ֥י יְהֹוָ֖ה אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶֽם
25:17
25:38
25:55
26:1
According to Rashi, why were Bnei Yisroel sent into Golus ?
Because they were not careful about keeping the laws of Shemittah
70 years of Golus Bavel = 70 Shmittot that went unobserved
25:18
Of the 24 Mitzvot found in Parshat Behar, what do the following three prohibitions have in common?
Only with respect to these three prohibitions does the Torah add the words:
וְיָרֵ֖אתָ מֵֽאֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ - "You shall fear your G-d"
verbal harassment - 25:17
abuse by an employer - 25:43
interest - 25:36
List the 4 people mentioned in this week's Parsha.
Of the five, one of their names is spelled with an extra letter. Who is it, and what is the extra letter?
Moshe
Yaakov
Yitzchak
Avraham
Yaakov is spelled with a Vav
Find a Passuk that has six words in a row, all beginning with the same letter.
25:8
Which word meaning "forever/perpetuity" appears twice in this Parsha, but nowhere else in the entire Torah?
לַצְּמִיתֻ֛ת
selling a home in a walled city will be a permanent sale - 25:30
25:23 -no land can ever be sold permanently because everything really belongs to Hashem
Which Rashi (Passuk) teaches us that it is a Mitzvah to put effort into learning Torah?
26:3
אִם־בְּחֻקֹּתַי תֵּלֵכוּ - If you advance in My rules. I might think that this refers to fulfilling the commandments. However, in saying: “and safeguard My commandments and perform them,” fulfilling the commandments was already stated. How then do I explain: “if you advance in My rules”? That you must toil in studying the Torah beyond the minimal requirement.
Find four Pesukim which contain a word and its exact opposite.
(eg: TALL/SHORT, BLACK/WHITE)
1) Good/Bad - 27:10
ט֥וֹב / בְּרָ֖ע
2) Male/Female - 27:5
וְלַנְּקֵבָ֖ה / הַזָּכָ֖ר
3) Sons/Daughters - 26:29
בְּנֵיכֶ֑ם / בְּנֹֽתֵיכֶ֖ם
4) Old/New - 26:10
יָשָׁ֖ן / חָדָ֖שׁ