Parsha
Tu B'Shvat
Seven Species
Name the rabbi
Shovavim
100
This weeks Parsha
What is Yitro?
100
The date of Tu B'Shvat
What is 15 Shvat?
100
When we talk about milk and honey, the honey comes from this fruit
What is a date?
100
Who is Rabbi Schneerson (Lubavitcher rebbe)
100
This Kabbalist is buried in Tzfat near the Mikvah that bears his name.
Who is the Ar'i?
200
Yitro is from this place
What is Midyan?
200
All seven species
What is wheat, barley, grape, fig, pomegranates, olive, and date.
200
This tree can live over 1500 years. It’s fruits are not so sweet, but we use it some other ways like to anoint kings
What are olives?
200
Who is Rav Soloveitchik?
200
This prophet warned Bnai Yisrael that the first Beit Hamikdash would be destroyed if they didn't do Teshuva
Who is Jeremiah?
300
The reason, according to Rashi, why it says that Bnei Yisrael camped in singular- וַיִּחַן שָׁם יִשְׂרָאֵל נֶגֶד הָהָר
What is they were like one person with one heart?
300
According to Beit Shammai the date of Tu B'Shvat
What is Shvat 1?
300
This is sweet. We use this to sanctify certain days of the year. Sometimes it has seeds that are edible, sometimes they are not
What are grapes?
300
Written by his son, the sefer Yalkut Yosef details the halachic rulings of this rabbi
Who is Rav Ovadia Yosef?
300
While the "gates of prayer are sometimes open and sometimes closed", the gates of this are never closed
What are the gates of Teshuva? (Devarim Rabbah 2:11)
400
According to Rashi, these are 5 of Yitro's names
?רעואל, יתר, יתרו, חובב, חבר, קיני, פוטיא Who are
400
The point of having a "birthday" for the trees
What is to calculate the agricultural cycle of taking tithes from the produce of the trees?
400
This fruit has edible seeds. It’s leaves were used to cover up specific people in the Chumash
What is a fig?
400
Who is Rav Moshe Feinstein?
400
A custom that some have on Tisha B'Av and Yom Kippur, and an alternative type of voluntary fast
What is a Taanis Dibbur?
500
This is the last place Bnai Yisrael camped before they came to Midbar Sinai and received the Torah
What is Rephidim?
500
This group started a fruit-eating ceremony in the 1600s for Tu B'Shvat
Who are the kabbalists?
500
This fruit “hangs” at the bottom of the kohen’s clothing. It has a thick shell
What is a pomegranate?
500
Best known for his Torah Temimah commentary. He died in a fire that the Nazis set to the hospital he was in
Who is Rabbi Baruch Epstein?
500
Shovavim is comprised of these Parshiot
What are Shemot, Va'eira, Bo, Beshalach, Yitro, Mishpatim?