Shelach Perek 15

Question 1

List the four types of capital punishments that a Beis Din can use?

Answer 1

1. סקילה, stoning
2. שריפה, burning
3. הרג, beheading by sword
4. חנק, strangulation

Question 2

Give 2 opinions as to what the mekoshesh did wrong?

Answer 2

He was either gathering or carrying outside of the eiruv.

Question 3

What does Rashi learn from the fact that the Torah repeats that the man was collecting sticks? What Halacha do we learn from this?

Answer 3

The people who found him warned him to stop, and he continued. From here we learn the halacha that in order to give the death penalty, the person committing the crime needs to have been warned first.

Question 4

What did Bnei Yisrael know about someone who broke Shabbat and what did they not know?

Answer 4

They knew that someone who broke Shabbat deserved the death penalty, they just did not know which type of death to administer.

Question 5

Where are tzitzit placed on a garment?

Answer 5

On the 4 corners

Question 6

What is the name of the colored thread?

Answer 6

Techeilet

Question 7

Which 2 organs in the body can potentially lead a person to sin?

Answer 7

Eyes and heart

Question 8

Where does techelet come from?

Answer 8

The glands of the Chilazon snail. (Murex trunculus)

Question 9

Give 2 opinions as to what color techelet is and prove your answer?

Answer 9

1. Blue-green (from the Gemorah that the color reminds us of the sea, sky, and kisay hakavod.)
2. Purple-blue (the color of the sky as it becomes night-time to remind us of the night of makkat bechorot.)

Question 10

Explain in detail how the Mitzvah of tzitzit helps us to remember the 613 mitzvot?

Answer 10

1. gemattria of tzitzit is 600
2. 8 strings
3. 5 knots

Question 11

How many positive mitzvot are in the Torah?

Answer 11

248

Question 12

How many negative mitzvot in the Torah?

Answer 12

365

Question 13

What word in the passuk discussing tzitzit links to the first part of Parshat Shelach?

Answer 13

תתורו to wander

links to the spies at the beginning of the parsha who went לתור to explore (spy) the land.

Question 14

Explain how, according to Rashi, the heart and eyes lead a person astray?

Answer 14

The heart and eyes are the spies for the body. They are its agents for sinning: the eye sees, the heart desires and the body commits the aveirah.

Question 15

What is the connection between tzitzit and Shabbat?

Answer 15

One who keeps either its as if he kept the whole Torah.

Question 16

Describe three different aspects as to how the mitzvah of tzitzit reminds a person of Yetziat Mitzraim?

Answer 16

1. We wear tzitzit on the corner of our garments (כנפות) to remind us how Hashem took us out on the wings of eagles. ( כנפי)
2. Four garments to correspond to the four languages of geulah.
3. 8 strings to remind us of the 8 days from when we left Egypt to the splitting of the sea.
4. The colour of techelet reminds us of makkat bechorot.

Question 17

What are the four languages of redemption (leshonot geulah)?

Answer 17

1. והוצאתי
2. והצלתי
3. וגאלתי
4. ולקחתי

Question 18

Which of the 10 plagues is connected to the mitzvah of tzitzit?

Answer 18

Makkat Bechorot