פרשת שמות- Questions and Answers
Questions and answers for the Shabbos table:
1- What is Pharoah worried about?
He’s worries that there are too many Jews and that they’re getting too powerful
2- What does he decide to do with Jews?
He decided to make them slaves
3- What type of labor were they given?
The Jews worked in the fields, they shlepped bricks, and they built cities
4- What were the names of the two Jewish midwives?
Shifrah and Puah
5- What did Pharoah tell the midwives?
when a Jew gives birth and it’s a boy, kill him
6- Why did Pharoah want them to kill all the baby boys?
He knew the next leader of the Jews would be a boy
7- Did the midwives listen?
No
8- When Pharoah found out that they weren’t listening, what was his new decree?
Throw all the baby boys into the Nile River
9- Who was Yocheved?
Moshe’s mother
10- AT FIRST, what does she do with her baby boy to prevent him from getting killed?
She hid him in her house
11- When she gets scared that the Egyptians will find him, what does she do with him?
She made a waterproof cradle and hides it near the edge of the river
12- Who finds him?
Pharoahs daughter
13- Why is she by the river? A little random
She went down to bathe
14- What does she do with the baby?
She keeps the baby and raises him as her own
15- What does she name him?
Moshe
16- As Moshe was growing up, what really bothered him?
The pain and hardships the Jews were going through
17- What did he do when he saw an Egyptian beating up a Jew
He killed the Egyptian
18- Where does he run off to?
Midian
19- Who does he end up marrying?
Tsipporah, daughter of Yitro
20- What job does Moshe have?
He’s a Shepard for his father-in-law
21- What does Moshe find when he runs after the sheep?
A burning bush
22- What’s unique about this bush?
It’s on fire, but not burning
23- What does God tell Moshe at the bush?
He told him to go back to Egypt and take the Jews out of Egypt
24- What's Moshe thinking?
How can I be a messenger to God? And what if they don’t listen to me?
25- What were the three signs God gave Moshe?
#1- Stick tuned into a snake
#2- When he put his hand in his jacket, it turned into all scaly
#3- The Nile River will turn into blood
26- When Moshe explains how he has a stutter, why does God do?
He makes Aharon his spokesperson
27- What is Pharaoh's response when Moshe comes to him about letting the Jews go?
He gets mad at Moshe and tells him to stop interrupt the people from their work
28- What did Pharaoh do as a result of Moshe approaching him?
He made the work harder for the Jews
29- What did Moshe complain to HaShem about?
He cried out asking how he can do this to them. The work got harder ever since he approached Pharoah
30- To end the parsha, what does God promise Moshe?
He promised Moshe that he really will save the Jews