Parashat Ki Teitzei: Scavenger Hunt

Parashah Scavenger Hunt שְׁאֵלוֹת הַשָּׁבוּעַ

Welcome to Devash's Parashah Scavenger Hunt for Parashat Ki Teitzei!

Aliyah #1 (Devarim 21:10-21)
  • According to our parashah, how much inheritance is a first-born supposed to get?
Aliyah #2 (Devarim 21:22-22:7)
  • What is the reward for sending away the mother bird before taking her eggs or chicks?
  • What three animals does the Torah specify must be returned to their owner?
Aliyah #3 (Devarim 22:8-23:7)
  • What did the nations of Ammon and Moav do that was so terrible?
  • What mitzvot relate to your fashion choices?
Aliyah #4 (Devarim 23:8-24)
  • After how many generations can an Edomite or Egyptian enter the קָהָל (kahal, community)?
  • What are you not allowed to do with a runaway slave?
Aliyah #5 (Devarim 23:25-24:4)
  • If you pass through someone’s vineyard, what are the two rules regarding eating the grapes?
  • Are you allowed to eat someone else's grapes without permission?
Aliyah #6 (Devarim 24:5-13)
  • For how long are you free from serving in the army after getting married?
  • What is Benei Yisrael commanded to remember?
Aliyah #7 (Devarim 24:14-25:19)
  • What must you not do if you forget a bundle of grain in the field while harvesting?
  • What has to be done by sunset?
Look anywhere in the parashah to find the answer to these questions!
  • Which mitzvot in our parashah are connected to memory?
  • Two amounts of money are mentioned in our parashah. What are they?
  • Three combinations of things are forbidden in three consecutive verses. What are they?
  • In this parashah, what different things are we told to return to their owner?
  • Which mitzvot in this parashah are connected to יְצִיאַת מִצְרַיִם (yetziat Mitzrayim, the Exodus from Egypt)?
From the Haftarah (Yeshayahu 54:1-10)
  • What does God promise will never occur again?
Scroll down to see the answers!
Answers: 
Aliyah 1
  1. Twice as much as anyone else (21:17)
Aliyah 2
  • A good and long life (22:7)
  • Ox, sheep, and donkey (22:1, 22:3)
Aliyah 3
  • They did not offer food and water to Benei Yisrael when they passed through their territory on the way from Egypt, and they hired Bilam to curse them (23:5)
  • You can't wear wool and linen together, and you have to wear גְּדִלִים (gedilim, another word for tzitzit) on four-cornered garments (22:11-12)
Aliyah 4
Aliyah 5
  • 1) You can eat as much as you want while passing through, 2) you can’t collect them in a container (23:25)
  • Yes! If you're in their field anyhow (Rashi says this is talking about someone who works in the field). But you can only snack on the spot - you can't collect them in a container. (23:25)
Aliyah 6
  • One year (24:5)
  • What happened to Miriam in the wilderness (24:9)
Aliyah 7
  • Go back and get it! It belongs to people in need (24:19)
  • Paying a poor worker (24:15)
From anywhere in the parashah
  • Remembering what happened to Miriam, by following the laws of the skin disease צָרַעַת (tzara’at) (24:8-9); Remembering that we were slaves in Egypt, by being fair to the stranger and the orphan and not seizing the property of widows (24:17-18), and by being sure to leave behind olives and grapes for the poor when harvesting (24:20-22); Remembering what Amalek did to us, and blotting out their memory (25:17-19)
  • 100 pieces of silver (22:19) and 50 pieces of silver (22:29)
  • Planting grain near a vineyard; Plowing with an ox and a donkey at the same time; Wearing fabric that mixes wool and linen (22:9-11)
  • Lost animals (22:1), other lost objects (22:3), a pledge/collateral item that you take from a poor person when you make them a loan (24:13)
  • Not compromising the rights of a stranger or an orphan, not seizing the clothing of a widow (24:17); leaving some of your olives and grapes for strangers, orphans, and widows (24:20-21)
Haftarah
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