Torah Deep Cuts
Ruth: The Deeper Story
Customs & Curiosities
Ten Utterances
Harvest Mysteries & Time
100
This is the first Parsha in which the Ten Utterances are found.
What is Yitro?
100
Ruth's was of this nationality.
What is Moabite?
100
Cheesecake, blintzes, pudding, milk are all forms of this favorite type of food and Shavuot staple.
What is dairy?
100
This name is another name for Mount Sinai.
What is Mount Horeb?
100
This grain is known to be harvested around Shavuot.
What is wheat?
200
This book of the Torah lists the festival offerings for Shavuot.
What is Bamidbar or Numbers?
200
Ruth agreeing to follow this person made her a Jew by choice.
Who is Naomi?
200
The Shalosh Raglayim are: Pesach, Shavuot, and this holiday.
What is Succoth?
200
The ten utterances are further delineated into this number of mitzvot.
What is 613?
200
This basket represents Bikkurim which is an offering of this produce.
What are the "First Fruits"?
300
This parsha is read on the Shabbat before Shavuot.
What is Bamidbar?
300
Ruth is the great, great grandmother of this famous wise king.
Who is king Solomon?
300
This phrase is often associated with accepting the Covenant and the Utterances.
What is "We will do and obey (listen, hear)?"
300
The second commandment prohibits idols and doing this.
What is "making images of anything in heaven or in the earth"?
300
Wheat, weeks, and spiritual attributes are all part of this pre-holiday mitzvah.
What is Counting the Omer?
400
This agricultural tool is mentioned in connection with Mitzvot related to the harvest.
What is the sickle?
400
Naomi gives herself this new name when she returns to Bethlehem
What is Marah?
400
Some communities read this during Shavuot to reenact this scene.
What are the Ten Utterances or Commandments?
400
This mitzvah is the only mitzvah in the ten Utterances with a promised reward.
What is "Honor your father and your mother."
400
The counting of seven sets of seven to the 50th which is joyful is a theme of what other agricultural related mitzvah?
What is the Jubilee (Yoveil)?
500
This emotional expression is commanded for Shavuot.
What is joy? (Devarim 16:11)
500
Boaz does this legal act finalizing the redemption of Ruth as a near kinsman.
What is removing a sandal?
500
This custom involves staying up all night on Erev Shavuot is metaphorically a jewel in the brides adornment.
What is Tikkun Leil Shavuot?
500
Lo tirzach is means literally means this.
What is "Do not murder"?
500
It is said that more than just the people who came out of Egypt were at Sinai, but rather, these were present too.
What are all souls?