Tanach Trivia (real!)

4 names of Moshe Rabbeinu:

longarekel- well, that was more than I expected 🙂

speaking of which, at the risk of being personal, do you wear one? (a longarekel, I mean) 🙂 just curious

2) Unless I’m really missing something here, I don’t see how it could be anyone but Shlomo, as it says in the first passuk. If you mean who WROTE IT DOWN, then Chizkiyahu and his students, I believe.

writersoul: No I don’t, out of respect for my father who does not wear one. However I believe it is proper to do so. See my post levush yehudi for further info. You are correct as sam points out. Another question: Why in nevi’im rishonim(and tehillim)is David’s name spelled without a yud, and in Nevi’im achronim and throughout Divrei Hayamim it is spelled with a yud? I have an answer but you might have a better one. Anyway, should make for interesting research 🙂

Thanks sam, but why do we only honor him in divrei hayamim? And why the letter yud? (agav, rashi in divrei hayamim is probably not rashi)

Who can tell me which 4 nissim in mitzraim did not last 7 days?

Matsav were those guesses or do you have a source or a svara? Some of them are correct.

BUMP!!!!! This thread needs revival!

Who was Chushai Ha’Arki and how did he prevent a tzaddik from doing a great sin?

Wasn’t he not supposed to get married?

However, I think I heard somewhere that his wife was Chuldah. Kinda out of thin air.

What was the distinctive physical feature of all kings descended from Dovid Hamelech, used to help determine if they were worthy of being king?

Boaz was Ivtzan

Tzira? Please explain. Who was Nevuchadnetzar’s son, and what did he do? (Only one action of his is mentioned in tanach.)

I think you meant Sira. It is not at all clear that Sira was Yirmiyahu’s wife. I don’t want to elaborate here. Do some more research and you’ll know why. You’re right about evil merodach. What did he do?

Please provide at least two examples in Navi/Kesuvim of people where the pasuk *explicitly* states that they lived longer than 120 years.

The Wolf

Binyamin is compared to a wolf by Yaakov in the brachos in parshas Vayechi because he just like in a wolf he will attack in the morning and save his booty to divide in the evening. Same is with Binyamin, he had Shaul who killed out most of Amalek and then Mordechai much later who also killed out Amalek.

That is what I learned in 4th grade.

Yemima and Ketzia. I see we need to raise the bar a bit. Which sefarim in tanach do not mention the four letter name of Hashem? (There is more than one sefer, and I mean the name Yud and then Hai etc.)

BTW about my question about the way to distinguish the kings of Yehuda, yes, longarekel, you’re right, but followup: where did the crown come from and how did it fit them and not other people?

shir hashirim does not explicitly mention hkb”h’s name either

bekitzur, correct!

And about the second part: what do you mean by the first question? The simple thing for the second one (if it’s indeed two separate things) is that she was a descendant of Sarah who lived 127 years, but that seems too simple…..

Where did Shaul hide when Shmuel announced to the people that he’d be king?

(Let your thoughts flow back to 6th grade…)

writersoul: I don’t know where you are referring(hiddin among the keilim) kever Rachel or Gilgal?

Who did Saul ask before he took the position(to see if he was worthy)?

It is a medrash quoted by Rashi.

yep,a lot of people never heard that pshat. I made a mistake concerning the word loup garu,it is French for werewolf (not Hebrew).

Wow. I did not understand every word but I got most of them. That’s amazing. I did not know that. Thanks Sam for sharing!

lol, Google usually does not translate Torah Hebrew to well.