Torah Teasers

Parshas VaYechi

1. Yaakov lived in Egypt for 17 years. Where else in the book of Genesis is 17 years referred to?
2. What similar ailment occurs to both Yitzhak and to Yaakov?
3. Where is a bed mentioned in this parsha? (4 answers)
4. Which two pairs of brothers are mentioned in the same verse?
5. Where in this parsha does one person place his hand upon the head of another? Where else in the Torah does it say explicitly that one person places his hand on another? (2 answers)
6. In what context are fish mentioned in this parsha?
7. Where in this parsha is the same person mentioned twice in a verse, but referred to by different names?
8. Which animals appear in the blessings to the sons of Yaakov? (10 answers)
9. Which beverages are referred to in Yaakov's blessings to his sons? (3 answers)
10. What location appears in this parsha and is not mentioned anywhere else in Tanach?
11. Which people appear in this parsha who are not descendants of Avraham? (3 answers)