Show:
Unit 1
Unit 2 - Ramban
Unit 3
Unit 4
people and words
100
What are topics found in Sefer Shmot?
Exodus, exile, redemption, mishkan, matan Torah, Egel HaZahav (golden calf), mann, 10 commandments
100
Why is ספר בראשית called ספר יצירה according to the Ramban?
Because Bereisheet is about the formation of the nation and the birth and actions of our forefathers, who, in a sense, are also the formation of the nation.
100
What are the two things that HaShem commanded us in פסוק ב'?
1. Hashem showed Moshe how Rosh Chodesh looks (1st of the month) 2. Nissan is the first month of the year
100
What are the 3 Netivot Shalom questions?
1. Why does the exodus start with sorrow? 2. Why does it say “ויהי בשלח פרעה את העם”, referring to Paroh, and not HaShem? 3. Why did the Israelites need to take the long way?
100
Who was the Ramban?
Rabbi Moses ben Naḥman Girondi (1194 – 1270), also known as Ramban and Nahmanides, was a leading medieval Jewish scholar, Sephardic rabbi, philosopher, doctor, kabbalist, and biblical commentator. He was raised, studied, and lived for most of his life in Girona, Spain
200
what is the first thing that happens in Sefer Shmot?
Story of Bnei Israel going down to Egypt
200
What was the beginning of the גלות according to the Ramban?
Bnei Israel going down to Egypt
200
What important trait does an independent culture (such as the Jewish people) need in order to survive, according to Nachum Sarna?
independance
200
What was lacking in the process of יציאת מצרים?
Bnei Israel's involvement in יציאת מצרים, their active role in it
200
Who was Nachum Sarna?
Nachum Sarna (1923– 2005) was a modern biblical scholar who is best known for his study of the books of Bereishit and Shemot represented in his Understanding Genesis (1966) and in his contributions to the first two volumes of the JPS Torah Commentary (1989/91).
300
What is the last thing that happens in Sefer Shmot?
Bnei Israel's travelling through the desert with the Mishkan
300
What is the final stage of גאולה, according to the Ramban?
When Bnei Israel got to the spiritual level that their forefathers were in before the exile. they got there when the received the Torah and Mishkan
300
Why are there ‘unique’ names given to the Jewish months, according to the Rashbam?
To remember and honour יציאת מצרים
300
How was that accomplished by קריעת ים סוף?
They had another opportunity to face פרעה, in which they were active, they fought their יצר הרע themselves.
300
Who was Natan Sharansky?
Natan Sharansky (born in 1948) is a Soviet-born Israeli politician, human rights activist and author who spent many years in a Soviet prison for allegedly spying for the Defense Intelligence Agency. Natan Sharansky has served as Chairman of the Executive of the Jewish Agency since June 2009.
400
How much time passes from beginning to the end of Sefer Shmot?
211 years
400
“הגלות הראשון הנגזר בפירוש” – What do you think רמב"ן is referring to?
Hashem decreed in Brit Bein Habtarim that Bnei Israel will go down to exile in Egypt
400
What is the meaning of ‘freedom of the body’? What is the meaning of ‘freedom of the spirit’?
physically free free to decide for oneself
400
What was Hashem's Battle plan?
ה' ילחם לכם, ואתם תחרישון Hashem will fight for you, and you will sit quietly.
400
Who was the Netivot Shalom?
Rabbi Sholom Noach Brazovsky (known as the “Slonimer Rebbe”) Born in 1911 and passed away on 2000 He opened the Slonimer yeshiva in Yerushalayim in 1941 with just five students. He authored many volumes of his own teachings, including the seven-volume Nesivos Shalom and many smaller works on educational issues, marital harmony and other issues.
500
What is the correct order of the following events:  Journeying towards הר סיני  Leaving Egypt  Moshe begs HaShem to forgive the Jewish people  Moshe’s early life  Moshe’s mission  The laws are given to the Jewish people  The laws of building the משכן are given  Enslavement  The laws of the כהנים’s clothing are given  The second לוחות are given to the Jewish people  The sin of the עגל הזהב (Golden calf)  The מכות (plagues)  The משכן is built  Yitro arrives  HaShem’s presence dwells in the משכן  מתן תורה (Giving of the Torah)  קריעת ים סוף (Splitting of the Reed Sea)
Enslavement, Moshe’s early life, Moshe’s mission, The מכות, Leaving Egypt, קריעת ים סוף, Journeying towards הר סיני, Yitro arrives, מתן תורה, The laws are given to the Jewish people, The laws of building the משכן are given, The laws of the כהנים’s clothing are given, The sin of the עגל הזהב, Moshe begs ה' to forgive the Jewish people, The second לוחות are given to the Jewish people The משכן is built, ה'’s presence dwells in the משכן
500
According to רמב"ן why does ספר שמות not conclude with יציאת מצרים?
Because they were free, but weren't back to their spiritual level, they were in a land that wasn't theirs.
500
What is the reason that the new names were given to the Jewish months, what names did they have at first?
To remember the new exodus, the one from babylon, at first they were counting the months from the Exodus of Egypt
500
How are each of the questions of the נתיבת שלום resolved?
Hashem took them out in a longer route so they could have another opportunity to fight their יצר הרע. The reason פרעה felt that he sent Bnei Israel was so that he'd feel safe to attack them again, giving them that opportunity. It was through sorrow, because only that way, they grew.
500
What do the following words mean: הראהו פשוטו מנין אומות חשבונם בבנין הענין מתחילה צפון
He showed him Literal translation Counting Nations Their math In the building The issue From the start North