New questions (mostly)weekly. This one is big so you get until September 17th! Submit your answers by Shabbat evening on Fridays.
Most of the Torah’s parshayot hashavu’a — portions of the week — have a one word name. How many have 2-word names? And which are they, in order of appearance?
4-Part Bonus!
It is widely assumed that the names of most of the Torah’s parshayot hashavu’a are the first word of the parasha. Not so!
- How many are the first word, and which ones are they?
- How many are not the first word, and which ones are those?
- How many, of the ones that aren’t the first word, don’t even come from the first verse of the portion? And which are those?
- Which parasha names are not precisely the exact word as it appears in the parasha after which it is named?
