פרשת מטות-מסעי

Summer Torah for פרשת מטות-מסעי

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Questions from this week’s Parsha:

1) What did שבט ראובן and שבט גד have too much of? (לב:א)

2) What land did they want to inherit? (לב:א-ה)

3) Who did the Jewish people capture this land from? (רש"י לב:ג)

4) Under what conditions would the שבט ראובן and שבט גד be granted their request? (לב:כ-כד)

5) What other שבט joined on the other side of the Jordan River? (לב:לט-מב)

6) According to רש"י, why does the תורה need to remind us of all of the places that the בני ישראל camped out during the 40 years in the desert? (רש"י לג:א)

7) How many places in total did the בני ישראל camp out during the 40 years in the desert?

8) How would the land be divided once entering Israel? (לג:נד)

9) What is a ער מקלט? When is it used? (לה:יא-יב)

10) How many such cities where there? (לה:יג-יד)

Bonus Questions:

1) In the beginning of the Parsha, Moshe tells the Jewish people that all spoils of war are to be split almost the Jewish people. Who else in Tanach had to establish a Halacha about spoils of war? (2 answers)

2) Based on your knowledge of Chumash, why were שבט ראובן and שבט גד concerned about their animals living in the land of Israel? (Hint: think Avraham and Lot - See מדרש הגדה)

3) Besides for accidental murderers, who lived in a ער מקלט regularly?