Parashat Aharei Mot: Scavenger Hunt
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Parashah Scavenger Hunt שְׁאֵלוֹת הַשָּׁבוּעַ

Welcome to Devash's Parashah Scavenger Hunt for Parashat Aharei Mot!
The answers to the first seven questions can be found in the matching numbered aliyah in the Torah reading. The answers to the last three are harder and can come from anywhere in the parashah.
  1. How does Aharon pick which of the two goats is for God and which is for Azazel? Look for the answer in Aliyah #1 (Vayikra 16:1-17)
  2. What does Aharon do to the goat for Azazel before sending it off to the desert? Look for the answer in Aliyah #2 (Vayikra 16:18-24)
  3. What date each year is set aside for forgiving all of the people’s sins? Look for the answer in Aliyah #3 (Vayikra 16:25-34)
  4. Benei Yisrael were told not to offer sacrifices to beings other than God. What were they called? Look for the answer in Aliyah #4 (Vayikra 17:1-7)
  5. Which part of an animal’s body does the Torah say contains its נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh, soul or life force)? Look for the answer in Aliyah #5 (Vayikra 17:8-18:5)
  6. What idolatrous god is spelled with the same letters as the Hebrew word for king? Look for the answer in Aliyah #6 (Vayikra 18:6-21)
  7. What two groups of people are expected to follow all the rules at the end of our parashah? Look for the answer in Aliyah #7 (Vayikra 18:22-30)
  8. What does the Torah call the person who takes the goat out to the desert?
  9. There is a word that appears only four times in our parashah, but all four times are in one verse. What is it?
  10. What will the land do to the people, if they follow the ways of the nations around them?
Scroll down to see the answers!
Answers: 
  1. By a גּוֹרָל (goral, lottery) (16:8-9)
  2. He puts his hands on its head and confesses the people’s sins (16:21)
  3. The 10th day of the 7th month (we know it as Yom Kippur!) (16:29-30)
  4. שְׂעִירִים (se’irim), the same word that means “goats” (17:7)
  5. The blood (17:11, 14)
  6. מֹלֶךְ (Molekh) (18:21), spelled with the same letters as מֶלֶךְ (melekh, king)
  7. הָאֶזְרָח וְהַגֵּר (the ezrah/native-born member of Benei Yisrael, and the ger/non-Israelite who lives with them) (18:26)
  8. אִישׁ עִתִּי (ish itti, an appointed person; 16:21)
  9. בַּד (bad, linen; 16:4)
  10. Vomit them (18:25, 28)