Parashat Ki Tavo: Scavenger Hunt

Parashah Scavenger Hunt שְׁאֵלוֹת הַשָּׁבוּעַ

Aliyah #1 (Devarim 26:1-11)

What number year is said to be שְׁנַת הַמַּעֲשֵׂר (shenat ha-maaser, the year of the tithe)?
From where does God look?

Aliyah #3 (Devarim 26:16-19)

A rare form of a word only appears twice in the whole Tanakh, and both appearances are in this aliyah. What are they?
Where does God put you?

Aliyah #4 (Devarim 27:1-10)

Benei Yisrael were told to set up stones when they entered the land. What material were they supposed to cover them with?
What kind of tool are you not allowed to use on the stones of the altar?

Aliyah #6 (Devarim 28:7-69)

If God punishes the people and makes them return to Egypt, how would they get there?
Which of the plagues from יְצִיאַת מִצְרַיִם (yetziat Mitzrayim, the Exodus from Egypt) appear as potential curses for Benei Yisrael?

Aliyah #7 (Devarim 29:1-8)

Look anywhere in the parashah to find the answer to these questions!

What metal is mentioned three separate times in our parashah?
Which six tribes were responsible for representing the blessings when the people entered the land?
How many words in our parashah are connected to the שֹׁרֶשׁ (shoresh, root) ב.ר.כ, which means to bless?
What are the three times that baskets are mentioned in our parashah?
What did Benei Yisrael not have in the wilderness until Moshe taught them this parashah?

From the Haftarah (Yeshayahu 60:1-22)

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Answers: 

Aliyah 1

טֶנֶא (tene) (26:2,4)
The place where בִּכּוּרִים (bikkurim, first crops) are brought. This ends up being Yerushalayim. (26:2)

Aliyah 2

The third year (26:12). This refers to the tithe for the poor, known later on as מַעֲשֵׂר עָנִי (maaser ani), and it is given in the third and sixth years of the seven-year shemittah cycle.
From God’s holy abode, from Heaven (26:15)

Aliyah 3

הֶאֱמַרְתָּ (he’emarta) and הֶאֱמִירְךָ (he’emirekha) (26:17,18). These are unusual forms of the verb א.מ.ר. (to say); it is not completely clear what the words mean, but they seem to have to do with declaring someone to be very special.
Up high! (16:19)

Aliyah 4

Aliyah 5

Aliyah 6

By boat (28:68)
דֶּבֶר (dever, animal disease) (28:21), שְׁחִין (sh’hin, boils) (28:27, 35), אַרְבֶּה (arbeh, locust) (28:38)

Aliyah 7

From anywhere in the parashah

Iron: it is forbidden to build an altar with stones cut by an iron blade (27:5); iron is a metaphor for earth that won’t grow anything (28:23); the heavy burden that conquering nations will place upon Benei Yisrael is called an “iron yoke” (28:48)
Shimon, Levi, Yehudah, Yissakhar, Yosef, Binyamin (27:12)
11 (26:15, 27:12, 28:3-6, 8, 12)
To hold בִּכּוּרִים (bikkurim, first crops) (26:2), as part of a blessing (28:5), and as part of a curse (28:17)
A heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear (29:3)

Haftarah

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