Sheva Kolos Seven Questions and Answers for Seven Aliyos

SHEVA KOLOS
Seven Questions for Seven Aliyos
Parshas VaYeira

Intended for use prior to each Aliyah so that a child (or anyone) would pay attention

1. First Aliyah: What Hebrew word has dots (nekudos) on top of the word?
2. Second Aliyah: Avrohom talked to HaShem in counts of 10 Tzadikim. What number was not a “ten” number?
3. Third Aliyah: The Shalshelet (Hebrew: שַׁלְשֶֶׁ֓ לֶת) is a cantillation mark found in the Torah. It is one of the rarest used, occurring just four times in the entire Torah. What word in this Parsha has this mark?
4. Fourth Aliyah: What Hebrew word for the type of Pillar that Lot’s wife became?
5. Fifth Aliyah: HaShem heard the cry of whom?
6. Sixth Aliyah: How did the city of Beer-Sheva get its name? If “Beer” means well, what does “sheva” mean?
7. Seventh Aliyah: What kind of animal did Avrohom ride?

PARSHA QUESTION BEFORE MAFTIR?
List the five angels mentioned in this Parsha?

Answers

1. First Aliyah: אליו dots on the Alef, Yud, and Tes
2. Second Aliyah: 45 (fifty the lack five)
3. Third Aliyah: ויתמהמה and he lingered
4. Fourth Aliyah: מלח Salt
5. Fifth Aliyah: Heard the cry of the youth, Yishmael
6. Sixth Aliyah: The two of them, Avram and Avimelch took an oath
7. Seventh Aliyah: Chamor - donkey

PARSHA ANSWER BEFORE MAFTIR?
1) Three מלאכים came to visit אברהם and turn over סדום.
2) A מלאך guided הגר and ישמעאל
3) A מלאך stopped אברהם by the עקידה and benchted him