Skip to main content

Short Parsha Riddles: Beshalach / בְּשַׁלַּח

שְׁמוֹת / Shemos / Exodus 13:17-17:16

Click for printable PDF version.  And don’t forget to read last year’s poem!

Copywork and parsha activities – something for every week of the year! 


[1]

When b’nei Yisrael left Egypt for home,
They didn’t forget that wherever they’d roam,
To carry the __________ of Yosef they cared,
And so at the edge of the sea they were spared!

image[2]

The sea was in front and the Mitzriym behind,
So you can’t pretend that the Jews didn’t mind;
They wanted to leave but were scared to proceed,
Till _______ ben _______ jumped right in to lead!

[3]

[Note: in Hebrew, the word for “manna” is מָן / “man” and  it’s pronounced, depending on where you’re from, either to rhyme with “fun” or “swan.”  Almost any pronunciation except the English word “man” is fine!]

What was the man?  Well, we may never know!
There’s nothing left now that we still have to show,
But we do know it came every day except one,
And that day was __________, and then there was none!

[4]

When Amalek struck in the desert so dry,
B’nei Yisrael just felt ready to cry.
Their strength was depleted, but they won, it would seem,
Because Moshe’s __________ were held up by his team!

image

STUMPED?? Here are the answers: 
[ 1 ] Bones.  A midrash on Tehillim 114:3 – “הַיָּם רָאָה, וַיָּנֹס,” the sea saw it and fled – asks what the sea “saw” to make it flee?  One answer says this refers to the aron, the casket bearing Yosef’s bones.
[ 2 ] Nachshon ben Aminadav.
[ 3 ] Shabbos/Shabbat.
[4 ] either arms or hands is correct.

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

לימודי קודש/Limudei Kodesh Copywork & Activity Printables

Welcome to my Limudei Kodesh / Jewish Studies copywork and activity printables page.  As of June 2013, I am slowly but surely moving all my printables over to 4shared because Google Docs / Drive is just too flaky for me. What you’ll find here: Weekly Parsha Copywork More Parsha Activities More Chumash / Tanach Activities Yom Tov Copywork & Activities Tefillah Copywork Pirkei Avos / Pirkei Avot Jewish Preschool Resources Other printables! For General Studies printables and activities, including Hebrew-English science resources and more, click here . For Miscellaneous homeschool helps and printables, click here . If you use any of my worksheets, activities or printables, please leave a comment or email me at Jay3fer “at” gmail “dot” com, to link to your blog, to tell me what you’re doing with it, or just to say hi!  If you want to use them in a school, camp or co-op setting, please email me (remove the X’s) for rates. If you just want to say Thank You, here’s a

Hebrew/ עברית & English General Studies Printables

For Jewish Studies, including weekly parsha resources and copywork, click here . If you use any of my worksheets, activities or printables, please leave a comment or email me at Jay3fer “at” gmail “dot” com, to link to your blog, to tell me what you’re doing with it, or just to say hi!  If you want to use them in a school, camp or co-op setting, please email me (remove the X’s) for rates. If you enjoy these resources, please consider buying my weekly parsha book, The Family Torah :  the story of the Torah, written to be read aloud – or any of my other wonderful Jewish books for kids and families . English Worksheets & Printables: (For Hebrew, click here ) Science :  Plants, Animals, Human Body Math   Ambleside :  Composers, Artists History Geography Language & Literature     Science General Poems for Elemental Science .  Original Poems written by ME, because the ones that came with Elemental Science were so awful.  Three pages are included:  one page with two po

It's Heart Month: 3 days left to save lives!

Dear Friends & Family: Hi, everybody! Sorry I can’t stop by in person... you're a bit out of my area.  :-) We’re out walking up and down on our street on this beautiful afternoon to raise money for Heart & Stroke.  This cause is important to me (I won't say it's close to my heart , because that would be tacky!).  I hope you'll join me by donating online. Growing up, I watched as every single one of my grandparents' lives were shortened by heart disease and strokes, and my father had a defibrillator that saved his life on more than one occasion.  Heart disease and stroke kill 1 in 3 Canadians and are the #1 killer of women. Please click this link to be redirected to my main page at the Heart & Stroke website: http://tinyurl.com/AtlasHeart Thus ends my personal appeal.  Official information follows.  :-))) ----- Heart disease and stroke is the #1 killer of women - taking more women's lives than all forms of cancer combined. But no one is immune. Th