Nachum's Pesach Questions

Nachum's Passover Quiz

1. Who actually spoke to Pharoah to ask that Jew be freed a. Miriam, b. Moses, c. Aaron, d. Chur. e. G-d ?

2. How many years were the Jews in Egypt?

3. How many people left Egypt?

כתוב בדברים 16:2 "וזבחת פסח לה' א-לה'ך צאן ובקר..." האם מותר להביא בקר כקורבן פסח? .4

ואם לא, למה הפסוק מתיחס?

5. What familial relation exists between Moses and Pharoah?

6. At what time of day do we sacrifice the korban pesach?

7. At what time of day did we leave Egypt?

8. Why do we not break to bones of the Korban Pesach?

9. With what did they paint blood on the door posts and lintel?

10. How many times does the Torah tell us to speak of yeziat mitzraim to our children?

11. Why is Pesach called pesach?

12. Why should we roast the sacrifice?

13. Where is the story of "arami oved avi .." taken from?

14. What are the 4 languages of geula? (Why do we drink 4 cups of wine?)

15. What did Miriam take?

. mean? נמוגו 16. What does

mean? ימינך ה נאדרי בכח 17. What does

18. What language did the Egyptians love so much they could die for it?

(shmot 12:27) mean? ויקוד 19. What does

20. What lead the Jews by day?

21. What lead the Jews by night?

22. Where are totafot first mentioned?

23. How many frogs actually came out of the Nile?

24. Why couldn't the Egyptian magicians stand before Moses?

25. In what activity was moses engaged when G-d interrupted him to tell him to take his people out of Egypt?

. mean (shmot 3:2)?אסורה נא 26. What does

? של נעליך מעל רגליך 27. Who said

28. Who took Joseph's bones out of Egypt?

29. What does the following verse mean according to Rashi? shmot 15:25

שם שם לו חוק ומשפט ושם נסהו (שמות טו:כה)

30. What does this verse mean אם-נשך הנחש את-איש והביט אל נחש הנחשת וחי

31. The following 4 verbs appear in one verse. What is their significance?

…… וישמע ... ויזכור ... וירא...וידע. ...

32. What was put in the bricks the Jews made?

33. What cities did the Jews build?

mean in verses shmot 5:17 and 5:8 ? נרפים34. What does

35. What are the names of the Jewish midwives מילדות?

36. Why does the Torah give them different names?

37. Who were the שוטרים and נוגשים in verse shmot 5:6 (according to Rashi)?

38. Which plagues happened without Moses first warning Pharoah?

39. From what time is it forbidden to eat matzah?

40. From what time is it forbidden to eat hametz?

41. Why do the Rabbis want to count more plagues at Red Sea ( 50, 200, 250)?

42. What 3 types of water did Aharon cause to bring forth frogs?

43. What was the first מופתthat Moses and Aaron did to the Egyptians?

44. Which plagues did the Egyptian magicians recreate with their tricks?

45. What is the difference between להטיהםwith the letter ה and without it?

46. What happened to Pharaoh when he got old?

47. Becasue of which plague were the wizards not able appear before Pharoah?

48. For which plagues did Pharoah aggree to send the Israelites out?

49. After which plague does Moses request a 3 day's journey?

50. Why didn't G-d kill Pharoah right away?

51. Why did G-d take the Israelites out of Egypt?

52. When the Egyptains started to kill the Israelites, what did the Israelites do?

53. How old was Moshe when he stood before Pharaoh to ask "Let my people go."

54. How old was Aharon?

? תבאש55. What cause the land of Egypt to stink

56. Which plague did the magicians admit it was G-d's finger?

mean in the story?פדות57. What does

58. What was inside the hail?

Answers:

1. Answer c is best

2. 430 is best (shmot 12:40) but 400 is what Abraham was told, and 210 is the calculated time by rashi.

כשש מאות אלף רגלי הגברים לבד מטף. (שמ' 12:37) .3

4. No , the verse refers to Korban Hagigah to make sure people are "full"

5. Adoptive Grandfather

6. Bein Arbaim (Shmot 12 :6 ) but Devarim 16:6 says we should do it:

"בערב כבוא השמש מועד צאתך ממצרים"

and since we left either at midnight or in the morning this verse may contradict Shmot 12:6.

7. Night. Shmot 12:42. Also 12:29 says Pharaoh told them to go in the middle of the night.

ויהי בחצי הלילה

Shmot 12:41 Written beetzem hayom hazeh I think means at midday, noon, when the sun is at its strength. If we add Devarim 16:6 which says it was kavo hashemesh (dusk ) we have three times: midnight, noon, dusk. This teaches that it took a long time!

8. Rambam (Moreh Nevuchim) says it is to show that we are in haste, others say to show our freedom and wealth.

אזוב שמ' 12:22 .9

10. Four. Shmot 12:26 , 13:8, 13:14 Devarim 6:20

11. 12:27 asher pasach

12. rambam, hastes, others wealth.

13. Bikurim Devarim 26:5

14. shmot 6: 6-8

הוצאתי, והצלתי, וגאלתי, לקחתי

And the fifth (on which we pour but do not drink the cup of Eliayhu) is

והבאתי

. ותיקח ...את-התף (שמ' 15:20) .15

16. Shmot 15:15 melt from fear

17. G-d is very strong.

. מת על שפת הים (שמ' 15:30) 18. Sea language

19. bow down

20. Shmot 13:21 says Hashem lead them by day in a column of clouds

21. Shmot 13:21 says Hashem lead them by night in day in a column of fire

22. Shmot 13:16 mentions them regarding the sacrifice of the first born animals and the redeeming of the first born Jews.

23. One. The verse Shmot 8:2 says:

ותעל הצפרדע.....

24. Verse shmot 9:11 says because they suffered from shachin

25. Verse 3:1 says he was shepherding.

26. I will turn aside

27. Verse 3:5 hashem

28. Moses 13: 19

29. Rashi explains the verse 15:25 to mean Moses gave them shabbos laws חוק and civil laws משפטים .

30. This verse in Numbers 21:9 means that to be healed from a snake bite you should look at the copper snake.

31. They appear in verse shmot 2:24. show hashems intent to do something to save the Jews.

32. Straw says Rashi on verse 5:7 but the verse says תבן לעם ללבון הלבניםwhich could mean the straw was burnt to make a fire to dry the bricks, though ancient bricks do contain straw. Note also the word for straw teven is similar to the work lilvon to fire and lvnot to build.

33. Shmot verse 1:11 says we built Ramsees and Pithom ערי מסכנות tax cities or cities built by taxes or (joke) decrepit cities (miskenot)

34. Free. The work was loose in their hands, no big deal.

. פועה ושפרה 35.

36. Puah was Miriam and was called that because she could quiet the babies by singing to them. Shifra was Yocheved (Miriam's mother) and she was called this because she cleaned the babies up.

37. The shotrim were the Jewish bosses over the slave Jews. The nogshim were the Egyptian bosses over the Jewish bosses (Rashi).

38. The third (lice), sixth (shchin - boils), ninth(darkness) and the first born. It seems that the principle of hazaka is in play here since always the third plague is without warning. And then the third of the three.

39. It is forbidden by Jewish custom to eat matzah from 30 days before Pesach , i.e. Purim.

40. It is forbidden to eat hametz according to Torah law from noon on Pesach eve. But rabbinically it is forbidden two hours before that.

41. Because it is written in Shmot 15:26 (right after Red Sea crossing) that all the illnesses of Egypt G-d will save the Israelites from. So, the more illnesses there were, the more we will be saved from!

42. verse 8:1 naharot , y'orim, and agamim. the plague of blood was on (verse 7:19)mayim, naharot, y'orim, agamim, and mikveh mayim.

43. Verse 7:9 calls the staff to snake trick a mofet.

44. The miracle of the staffs turning to snakes was done with their lahatehem (with a heh), the plague of blood (1) was recreated (without a heh), frogs (2) (without heh), and they tried to recreate the lice (3) (without a heh) but failed.

45. Rashi Brings that with a ה (7:11) it means "with their wispers" and without a ה (7:22) it means "with a wisper done secretly". Rashi also quotes Sanhedrin 67 that without a ה means using is מעשי שדים and with a ה it means מעשי כשפים.

46. He went seNile

47. Because of the shchin the wizards could not appear before Pharoah. verse 9:11

48. (2) Frogs, 8:4, (4) Orev verse 8:21, (7) Barad verse 9:28, before the (8) Arbeh 10:8 (but eventually changes his mind), and after the Darkness (but also rescinds) verse 10:24

49. After the plague of orev Moses asked to be let go for a 3 day journey. Verse 8:23

50. L'maan saper shmi bekol haAretz. Verse 9:17 Or: l'maan shiti ototai ele bekirbo ul'maan saper beoznai ben u ben bincha et asher hitalalti bamitzraim. 10:1-2

51. "In order for G-d to dwell among them" (leshochni betocham). [shmot 29:46] or "To be for them a G-d" [bamidbar 15:41 (from the sh'ma)]

52. They went into deNile.

53. 80 years old

54. 83

55. 8:10 Burning frogs

56. 8:15 Lice

57. 8:18 Differentiation

58. Fire. 9:24