Sheva Kolos Seven Answers for Seven Aliyos

SHEVA KOLOS
Seven Answers for Seven Aliyos
Parshas VaYikra

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

1. First Aliyah
   What letter in which word is written smaller in the Sefer Torah?
   The letter Aleph in the first word VaYikra (1,1)
2. Second Aliyah
   What action usually makes a living thing assur to eat but makes a korban permitted to eat?
   Doing melichah (slitting a bird by the back of the neck); not permitted to eat, except in the Bais haMikdash, only this procedure makes the bird permitted (1,15)
3. Third Aliyah
   Which two items cannot be placed onto a meal offering?
   Honey and levening (2,11)
4. Fourth Aliyah
   Which part of the offering is the “heaviest?”
   The heaviest part must be the liverכבד (3,4), since the Hebrew word for live is “kaved” also means “heavy” in Hebrew.
5. Fifth Aliyah
   Which is the third unusual case of sin-offering (after the Kohen Gadol and the Sanhedrin)?
   The Nasi (leader of the people)
6. Sixth Aliyah
   Which pasuk has one two-letter word repeated four times?
   The word או (or) in 5,2.
7. Seventh Aliyah
   Which of the “nedukos” (vowels) are also an avodah (service) in the Bais haMikdash?
   A Kamutz vowel also refers to the three-handed fistful scooped out by the Kohen.

PARSHA QUESTION BEFORE MAFTIR?
In this Parsha, what animal is spelled two different ways, using the same three letters?
A sheep is sometimes called a kesev (3:7), and sometimes called a keves (4,32)