- HaShem gave Avraham one commandment with several parts at the beginning of the parasha. What was it?
Leave your country, your kindred, and your father's house, and go to the land that I will show you.
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HaShem then told Avraham that He would do six things when Avraham obeyed this commandment. Name four.
- Make of thee a great nation
- Bless thee
- Make thy name great
- Bless them that bless thee
- Curse them that curse thee
- In Avraham, all the families of the earth will be blessed
- Avraham left Haran and went to Canaan. Where did he first make camp and build an altar to HaShem in the land?
Shechem
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Why were Lot and Avraham unable to live together after they returned from Egypt?
They were so well-off that there was not enough room for both of them, with their large flocks, in the same area
- Where did Lot settle, and where did Avraham settle?
Lot in the plain of Jordan; Avraham in Canaan
- Near what city did Lot settle?
Sodom
- What was Avraham's reaction when HaShem told him that Sarah would bear him a son?
He fell on his face and laughed (for joy)
- In last week's parasha, we were told that the rainbow was a sign of the covenant between HaShem and the people. Name three signs of the covenant between HaShem and the Jewish people.
Tefillin, circumcision, and Shabbat
- How many years passed between the time Avraham left Haran and Yitzhak's birth?
25; Avraham was 75 when he left Haran and 100 when Yitzhak was born
- In this week's parasha, HaShem tells Avraham that his descendents will be like what two things? What is another metaphor used for Avraham's descendents?
Stars in the heavens and dust of the earth; sand of the seashore
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