Friday, May 9, 2014

Alphabetical Parsha Challenge: פרשת בהר

א At the end of the parsha we are told that we are not allowed to make these for ourselves:
ב Hashem promises that if we follow his halachos, we will live in Eretz Yisrael  ______ל.
ג What is the term for a person who buys back land that his relative sold?
ד What are we supposed to proclaim throughout the land, for all who live there, during a yovel year?
(This pasuk is inscribed in English on the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia!)
ה Where was Moshe when he received the laws of shemita?
ו Because some of the halachos in this parsha are dependent on the intention of the person doing them, and are otherwise hidden from sight, we are therefore warned:
ז This is one type of work that we are not allowed to do in Eretz Yisrael during a shemita year:
ח Which (number) year is set aside to be the Yovel year?
ט Although no word beginning with ט appears in this parsha, in what context does the number 9 come up?
י This is the only holiday that is mentioned in this parsha.  (And in what context is it mentioned?)
כ In relating the halachos of shemita, the Torah specifies that it applies to both fields and:
ל Whose cities and fields can always be redeemed (bought back) at any time and never become the permanent acquisition of someone who buys it from them?
מ When one buys a field from his neighbor, according to what should the payment be calculated?
נ If a person borrows money, what are you not allowed to take from him?
ס Although these were not planted, but rather grew on their own, one is not allowed to harvest them during the shemita year:
ע A house in this location may be redeemed for up until a year after it is sold; after that point, it may not be bought back, and isn’t returned even during a yovel year.
פ If a Jew sells himself as a slave to you, you are not allowed to make him do this kind of work:
צ If we keep the halachos of shemita, what will Hashem do for us in the sixth year?
ק This is one type of work that we are not allowed to do in Eretz Yisrael during a shemita year:
ר If a Jew sells himself as a slave to a non-Jew, and then is able to redeem himself through payment, he calculates the payment based on whether there are still ________  ________, or fewer remain.
ש What (number) year is set aside to be a shemita year?  How many shemita cycles happen before a yovel year?
ת We are commanded to sound a ________ on the 10th day of the 7th month of the yovel year.

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