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This is the new Tanach Trivia thread to replace the other one. PLEASE DO NOT MAKE UP ANSWER!!! The person who has the right answer can ask a new one.
Here’s the first question!
(It requires a little background so I’m copying and pasting from a website off google)
The Talmud (Sanhedrin 102b) relates how Rav Ashei told his students that they were going to study the following day about the three kings of the Jewish people who do not have a share in the world to come due to their great sins. He referred to these kings in a slightly disrespectful way by calling them “our colleagues”. The following night, King Menashe came to him in a dream and asked him a halachic question that he could not answer. He reproved him by saying, “You call us your colleagues. You cannot even answer this simple question”. Rav Ashei asked him, “If you are such a great scholar, how could you go and serve idols?” To this Menashe said, “If you had been in our times, you would have lifted up your garments and run after me to serve the idols.” As it says in Pirkei Avos (2:5) “Do not judge your fellow until you have reached his place.”
So my question is,
What was the halachic question that Menashe asked him? And what was the right answer?
He asked him which part of the loaf you make hamotzi from. (what does that have to do with tanach?)
Ok.
Who is the 58th person in Malchus beis Dovid? (As in, shlomo is 1, rechavam is 2, etc.)
The real question is why we Pasken like that. It’s from a dream and a source that should be questionable at best.
Ok, now let’s go back to the old thread.
Sam2
“The real question is why we Pasken like that.”
Menasheh taught him that the Berachah is to be recited upon the first place that the bread becomes baked.
I have no idea. I was hoping it would be further than anybody would know, but I guess I should have picked a higher number.
AYC: My point was why do we Pasken like Menashe, not what the Halacha was.
Sam2
For a more detailed explanation, see the following:
Shmaya (Melachim aleph, 12:22)
The navi who told Rechavam is Shemayah.
I have three questions for everyone: 1) Which different people had the following nicknames:Yerubal; Ish Haemtzaey; Bedan?
2) Which two people in Tanach said “I didn’t take anyones donkey”?
3) Who in Neviim Rishonim is called “Man of hair/Ish Baal Saer” and who is called bald?
Sorry the second name for question number 1 should be Ish Habaynaim
good luck:)
love these puzzles!
OK, I won’t hog them b”n!, I’ll just do one! (unless I can’t control myself….)
2. Which two people in Tanach said “I didn’t take anyones donkey”?
-Moshe (Bamidbar 16:15)
-Shmuel (Shmuel aleph 12:3)
Interesting that Shmuel says that a king WILL take others’ donkeys (Shmuel aleph 8:16)
3. Ish Baal Saer-(Melachim bais 1:8)
bald- (Melachim bais 2:23)
just some sources; left out the actual answers (see, I controlled myself somewhat!)
Which of the shoftim served for less than a year? Now they make funerals on that street. Coincidence?
bekitzur
I suggest you include the correct answers in the other thread
TIA
Sam2-
Tosfos in Chullin (top 44a) implies that we do not hold l’halacha of the opinion that ???? ?? ????? ??? (obviously I am referring to the colloquial usage).
Yitay: Interesting. Tosafos elsewhere seems to say otherwise and I believe that Tosafos in Bava Metzia (114b maybe) explicitly says Lo Bashamayim He that we don’t Pasken like Eliyahu Hanavi.
What two-word phrase is repeated three times in a row in Nach?
What was Avraham’s mother’s name? (I know, famous question)
Who was the mother of Yoshiyahu?
Name five wives of Dovid Hamelech BESIDES Batsheva.
What was Sarah’s previous name?
Avrahams mother was Amaslui bas karnivui
Sarah – Sarai (also known as Yiscah)
Question: WHO WAS THE SISTER OF DOVID HAMELECH??
I meant Yiscah when I asked the question.
I’m kind of obsessed with that name, as it’s the name of a friend’s sister so thought of this question with it and I’m writing a story with it.
Who/what was Meroz?
Who was the mother of Menashe? What did this have to do with one particular thing he did during his rule which was especially horrible because of this? Yes, you need her name.
Who was the daughter of Avraham, according to some? You say her name in Hallel on R”C and in bentching.
B’kol. Who fell of their chair and died?
Meroz was a town whose inhabitants were cursed in shiras devorah for not sending troops to help in the battle against sisrah.
Ok.
Who were they planning to make king when they asked shmuel for a king?
(And take note. Popa knows more tanach than the whole hadar and half of BJJ combined.)
Eli. For the chair one.
I’ve actually heard other answers for the Meroz question. Basically, unless you say you have no idea, it’s hard to get that one wrong. I think I know of two others, in fact.
Who was called Avigdor?
Meroz quoted in moed katan was banned he was a person or star,i think some get the idea of aleins from there.
Pba: are you talking about Shmuel himself who ruled for 10 years and one with saul?
sam: No, I was making up questions again. Because we can’t make up answers in this tanach thread.
I’ve actually heard other answers for the Meroz question. Basically, unless you say you have no idea, it’s hard to get that one wrong. I think I know of two others, in fact.
Uhh. Do you mean there was more than one thing called meroz, or that there are different interpretations what devorah was referring to?
The latter.
Who was Tov ,and who was Uzzah?
Oh my. See, I thought meroz was a place. But the gemara Moed koton 16a says it was either a person, or sisra’s star.
See how that is. I knew the tanach, but it was worthless because I didn’t know the gemara.
At least I didn’t waste any time learning it wrong. I just remembered it from 20 or so years ago when my sister was learning some song in school for shiras devorah.
Avigdor = Moshe
Tov: one of the guys Rus needed to marry or get chalitzah from.
Uzzah: one of the people who hosted the aron?
Who was Abed-nego?
What was Meseg-Ha’ama?
Gat (Pelishti capital).
Who is the most often mentioned woman in Nevi’im?
Tseruya, David’s sister (Yoav’s mother)is the most often mentioned woman.
Can someone please answer: Names of Dovid haMelech’ wives (besides Avigayil, Michal, Chagis)
2-word phrases repeated 3x in Nach?
grandfather of Og?
Abed-Nego was Azarya; Yoshiyahu’s mother was Atalya; Dovid’s other sister was Avigayil.
squeak- Shamgar ruled for less than a year.. and theres funerals on that street..
what was chiram melech tzur origionally known as?
Eglah
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