Parashat Kedoshim: Scavenger Hunt
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Parashah Scavenger Hunt שְׁאֵלוֹת הַשָּׁבוּעַ

Welcome to Devash's Parashah Scavenger Hunt for Parashat Kedoshim!
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. To which two groups of people must you give the crops at the corners of your field? Look for the answer in Aliyah #1 (Vayikra 19:1-14)
  2. You must love your neighbor as much as you love whom? Look for the answer in Aliyah #2 (Vayikra 19:15-22)
  3. For how many years is a tree’s fruit forbidden to be eaten? Look for the answer in Aliyah #3 (Vayikra 19:23-32)
  4. Just like last week, there is a word that appears only four times in our parashah, but all four times are in one pasuk. What is it? Look for the answer in Aliyah #4 (Vayikra 19:33-37)
  5. How many times does God’s face get mentioned in this aliyah? Look for the answer in Aliyah #5 (Vayikra 20:1-7)
  6. What seemingly very nice word appears in this aliyah that is otherwise all about punishments? Look for the answer in Aliyah #6 (Vayikra 20:8-22)
  7. What does the Land of Israel flow with? Look for the answer in Aliyah #7 (Vayikra 20:23-27)
  8. How many times is Shabbat mentioned in our parashah? In connection with which other mitzvot?
  9. How do snakes and sorcery connect in our parashah?
  10. How many times does the phrase אֲנִי יהוה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם (ani Adonai Eloheikhem, I am God your Lord) appear in our parashah?
Scroll down to see the answers!
Answers: 
  1. לֶֽעָנִי וְלַגֵּר (le-ani ve-la-ger, to the poor and the stranger) (19:9-10)
  2. Yourself! (19:18)
  3. Three (19:23)
  4. צֶדֶק (tzedek, righteousness) (19:36)
  5. Three (20:3,5,6)
  6. חֶסֶד (hesed) (20:17)—this word usually means “kindness,” but here it almost certainly means something like “disgrace,” like here: צְדָקָה תְרוֹמֵם־גּוֹי וְחֶסֶד לְאֻמִּים חַטָּאת (righteousness will lift a nation up, but sin is a disgrace [hesed] to any people) (Mishlei 14:34)
  7. חָלָב וּדְבָשׁ (halav u-devash, goat’s milk and date honey) (20:24)
  8. Two (19:3,30)—revering parents and the Temple
  9. לֹא תְנַחֲשׁוּ (lo tenahashu, do not try to predict what will happen in the future through idols and magic)—which uses a word connected to נָחָשׁ (nahash, snake)! (19:26)
  10. Ten! (See if you can find them all!)