Re-Counting the Prophets - Rabbi Pinchas Frankel

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Haftarah of Parshat Vayikra-Zachor - 5760

Instructions:

Select the item from Column 2 that best fits the word(s) in Column 1. Indicate your answer by using the drop-down box in the middle.

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Column 1 Answer Column 2
1.  “Zachor” means ...

a)  Charge!
b)  Remember!
c)  Forget!

2.  Amalek hated most ...

a)  Shaul
b)  the People of Israel
c)  the G-d of Israel

3.  The two main characters in the Haftarah are ...

a)  David and Shaul
b)  Shmuel and David
c)  Shaul and Shmuel

4.  Shaul was anointed by ...

a)  Shmuel
b)  Achiyah HaShiloni
c)  Eliyahu HaNavi

5.  The King of Amalek was ...

a)  Gog
b)  Magog
c)  Agag

6.  Commentators mentioned in the Dvar Torah on the Haftarah are ...

a)  RASHI, RAMBAN and RADAK       
b)  RASHI, RAMBAM and
RADAK
c)  RASHI, RAMBAN and RABBEINU SHMUEL

7.  Who were warned to separate themselves from Amalek?

a)  Descendants of Haman
b)  Descendants of Yitro
c)  Descendants of Baal

8.  At the time of the Haftarah, the Mishkan was located in ...

a)  the desert of Sinai
b)  Shiloh
c)  Gilgal

9.  To Hashem it is most important to ...

a)  receive fat sacrifices
b)  have a fancy Temple
c)  be obeyed

10.  Who was small in his own eyes?

a)  Galyat
b)  Haman
c)  Shaul

11.  Hashem rejected Shaul because ...

a)  Shaul rejected Hashem’s command
b)  Haman rejected Hashem’s
command
c)  Agag rejected Hashem’s command

12.  Who was a very tragic figure in the Bible?

a.  David
b.  Eliyahu
c.  Shaul

13.  Shmuel was the last and the greatest of the ...

a.  Judges
b.  Prophets
c.  Kings

14.  The sons of Shmuel  ...

a)  were known as “Sons of Sam”
b)  were greater than their
father
c)  did not follow in Shmuel’s
righteous ways

15.  The three things the Jewish People were commanded to do when they entered the Land of Israel were ...

a)  cross the Jordan, build a Temple and appoint a King
b)  build a Temple, wipe out
Amalek and capture the Golan
Heights
c)  appoint a king, wipe out Amalek and build a Temple

16.  Why were Hashem and Shmuel angry when the People of Israel requested a King?

 

 

a)  The People asked for the wrong reason.
b)  The People asked for the
right reason.
c)  The People didn’t need a King.

17.  To which Tribe did Yaakov Avinu promise the Kingship?

a)  Reuven
b)  Shimon
c)  Yehudah

18.  Shaul’s tragic flaw was that ...

a)  He had no flaw.
b)  He gave dowries to needy
brides.
c)  He had a “skeleton in his closet.”

19.  According to the Midrash, the statement “Shaul was one year old in his Kingship” means ...

a)  he rose to the throne at a tender age
b)  he had no sins
c)  he was a very immature king

20.  According to the Midrash, when Shaul would hear a good Dvar Torah, he would ...

a)  kiss the one who said it
b)  would find a “skeleton in
that person’s closet”
c)  provide a dowry for needy brides

21.  According to the Midrash, Shaul’s rule could not last because he had ...

a)  many “skeletons in his closet”
b)  many needy “skeletons in
his closet”
c)  no “skeleton in his closet”

22.  Who mixed up the nations?

a)  Achashverosh
b)  Sancheriv
c)  Haman

23.  What was the “lishkat hagazit?”

a)  the office of the Sanhedrin
b)  the main office in the King’s
palace
c)  the largest stone wall in
Jerusalem

24.  Whose descendant was a member of the Sanhedrin?

a)  Shaul
b)  Shmuel
c)  Haman 

25.  Who “cut the corner?”

 

a)  Shaul
b)  Shmuel
c)  David
d)  all of the above, according to different opinions, at different times, at different places

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