פרשה וארא I

Parsha Questions

1) וָאֵרָא אֶל־אַבְרָהָם אֶל־יִצְחָק וְאֶל־יַעֲקֹב בְּקל שַׁקי וּשְׁמִי יקוק לֹא נוֹדַעְתִּי לָהֶם:. What did Hashem mean when He described the different names by which He appeared to the אבות and to משה?

(רש"י שמות ו:ג)

2) What are the four expressions of גאולה (redemption) that Hashem used? (שמות ו:ו-ח)

3) Explain what each refers to. (רש"י, ספורנו, ומדרש שמות ו:ו-ח)

4) Why did the בני ישראל not listen to the words of משה? (רש"י שמות ו:ט)

5) Why did Hashem tell משה and אהרון to go and tell פערה to release the בני ישראל from מצרים?

(רש"י שמות ו:יג)

6) Why does the תורה list only the children of ראובן, שמעון and לוי? (רש"י שמות ו:יד)

7) How old were משה and אהרון when they went to פרעה? (שמות ז:ז)

8) Why was דם the first מכה? (רש"י שמות ז:יז)

9) Why did אהרון have to bring the מכה of דם? (רש"י שמות ז:יט)

10) Describe how מכת צפרדע began? (רש"י שמות ח:ב)

11) Why do you think that פערה wanted the frogs to leave only tomorrow and not right away? (See שמות ח:ו)

12)  Why didn’t משה strike the dust to initiate the מכה of lice? (רש"י שמות ח:יב)

13) Why could the חרטמים not recreate the lice? (רש"י שמות ח:יד)

14) What did the חרטמים say about the lice? (שמות ח:טו)

15) Explain why the מכות were done in this order? (רש"י שמות ז:יז)

16) What was the מכה of דבר? What did it show about the belongings of the בני ישראל?

(שמות ט:א-ז)

17) How did the מכה of שחין begin? (שמות ט:ח-ט)

18) Explain what שחין was? (רש"י שמות ט:ט)

19) How could the animals of the מצרים get שחין, were they not dead from דבר? (רש"י שמות ט:י)

20) What warning did משה give to the people of מצרים before bringing ברד? (שמות ט:כ-כא)

21) Describe the נס of ברד? (רש"י שמות ט:כד)

  

Torah Math

The name of this week’s Parsha is Va’era, meaning and I appeared (to Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov). We are taught that the exodus from Egypt was in the merit of Yitzchak. This is because Yitzchak, even during a hunger, never left the land of Israel. In doing so, he acquired (help on to) the right for us to return there after the slavery in Egypt. Therefore, in his merit, we were able to be taken out and brought up to Israel. The story of the exodus begins in this Parsha. 

Coincidentally, the numeric value of the word וארא is the same as! יצחק  Nifty!!!  

Super Stumper Question:

This a question to ask others and discuss the answers.

Answer to last week’s question: We do not say Tachanun at Mincha on the following fast days: Yom Kippur, 9 Tevet when on a Friday, the fast of Esther when Purim is that night, Tisha B’Av.

Question of the week: What begins on Rosh Chodesh Shevat and continues until around Shavuot????

  

 FOOD Section!

Can you guess what this recipe connects to this week’s Parsha?

Rabbi Pepper’s Secret Lava Cake!

4 oz. baking or bittersweet chocolate or chocolate chips

4 oz. cupcake pan

1 stick of margarine

3 eggs

3/4 cup sugar

1/4 cup flour

A sprinkle of cinnamon (Sh.... this is the secret part). 

From preparation to eating

1) Preheat oven to 400. Grease cupcake pan or use wax paper. (Makes 4 lava cakes.)

2) Whip eggs, sugar, and flour together.

3) Melt chocolate and margarine

4) Mix hot chocolate into eggs and margarine SLOWLY so as not to make scrambled eggs.

5) Pour into cups equally

6) Bake for about 10 minutes, just enough that the top looks crusted. DO NOT OVERBAKE.

7) Sprinkle bakes sugar over

8) AH! This is LIFE!

The Bracha is Mezonot! :)