English Insights and Questions on Parshas Beshalach
יש לתמוה | February 06, 2025
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English Insights and Questions on Parshas Beshalach

יש לתמוה | June 27, 2025

1. Rashi (in tractate Ta’anis, 24a) states that it is forbidden to benefit from material which appears miraculously. If so, one may wonder: How were the Jewish people allowed to eat the mann Hashem gave them in the desert? (שדי חמד. תפארת ישראל. יד דוד)

2. Which 3 primary principles of the Torah were introduced by women? (רבינו בחיי על בשלח טו, כ)

3. How many and which mitzvos were the Jewish people instructed to perform before Matan Torah, in Mara? (סנהדרין נו, ב)

4. In which way did Moshe Rabbeinu honor Basya, the daughter of Pharaoh, after her death? (חמדת ימים. מדרש)

5. How many and which parshas of the Torah mention the command to keep Shabbos? And what does this number hint to? (ערוך השולחן סימן רמ"ב סעיף ב)

6. “And Amalek came and waged war with Israel,” (17:8). One may wonder: How were they able to do so if the clouds of glory covered and protected the Jewish people from catapult stones and arrows? (תיב"ע עה"פ)

7. What did the Mann taste like for a non-Jew who tasted it? (מדרש רבה פרשה ה, ט. מדרש תנחומא כה. ילקוט שמעוני)

8. How many times did seas and rivers split for the Jewish people?

9. Who came up with set times for eating, as opposed to eating whenever? (יומא עה, ב)

10. There are two pessukim in the Torah which include all of the alef-beis. One of them is in our parsha - Bashalach. Which passuk is it? (מכילתא. בעל הטורים)

1. Rashi (in tractate Ta’anis, 24a) states that it is forbidden to benefit from material which appears miraculously. If so, one may wonder: How were the Jewish people allowed to eat the mann Hashem gave them in the desert? (שדי חמד. תפארת ישראל. יד דוד)

2. Which 3 primary principles of the Torah were introduced by women? (רבינו בחיי על בשלח טו, כ)

3. How many and which mitzvos were the Jewish people instructed to perform before Matan Torah, in Mara? (סנהדרין נו, ב)

4. In which way did Moshe Rabbeinu honor Basya, the daughter of Pharaoh, after her death? (חמדת ימים. מדרש)

5. How many and which parshas of the Torah mention the command to keep Shabbos? And what does this number hint to? (ערוך השולחן סימן רמ"ב סעיף ב)

6. “And Amalek came and waged war with Israel,” (17:8). One may wonder: How were they able to do so if the clouds of glory covered and protected the Jewish people from catapult stones and arrows? (תיב"ע עה"פ)

7. What did the Mann taste like for a non-Jew who tasted it? (מדרש רבה פרשה ה, ט. מדרש תנחומא כה. ילקוט שמעוני)

8. How many times did seas and rivers split for the Jewish people?

9. Who came up with set times for eating, as opposed to eating whenever? (יומא עה, ב)

10. There are two pessukim in the Torah which include all of the alef-beis. One of them is in our parsha - Bashalach. Which passuk is it? (מכילתא. בעל הטורים)

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