🐝 Parsha Basics
- How many pesukim are in Parshas Vayakhel?
Answer: 122 - What is the siman for Vayakhel?
Answer: סנואה - What Haftorah is read for Vayakhel (book + reference)?
Answer: Melachim I 7:13–26 - How many mitzvos are in the parsha?
Answer: 1 - Are there any positive mitzvos in Vayakhel?
Answer: No (0) - What is the one negative mitzvah listed?
Answer: Not to adjudicate capital punishments on Shabbos - Who gathered the entire Jewish people to speak to them?
Answer: Moshe - How many days a week may one work, according to the opening of the parsha?
Answer: Six - What is the seventh day called in the parsha description you gave?
Answer: A complete day of rest for Hashem - What specific action related to fire is prohibited in the opening section?
Answer: Not to light a fire in all dwelling places on Shabbos
🐝 Shabbos & the Mishkan
- After teaching Shabbos, what major command does Moshe give next?
Answer: To donate materials and build the Mishkan and its vessels - Who is invited to donate?
Answer: Every person of generous heart - Who is invited to build?
Answer: Every skilled individual - Name two items listed under “The Mishkan” category (structure parts).
Answer (examples): hooks, beams, bars, pillars, sockets - What food-related item is explicitly mentioned as part of the Shulchan’s purpose?
Answer: Lechem Hapanim - Which altar is specifically called the “Ketores altar”?
Answer: The incense altar - What is the washing vessel called?
Answer: Kiyor - What general area surrounds the Mishkan and has curtains and a gate screen?
Answer: The courtyard (Chatzer) - What did Bnei Yisrael do after hearing Moshe’s commands?
Answer: They left Moshe’s presence - True or False: Only men donated materials.
Answer: False (men and women donated)
🐝 Donations
- Name any 3 metals donated.
Answer: Gold, silver, copper - Name any 2 colored wools donated.
Answer: Techeiles (turquoise), Argamon (purple), scarlet - What fabric is mentioned besides the wools?
Answer: Linen - What animal product was donated as a material besides skins?
Answer: Goat hair - Which two types of skins are listed as donations?
Answer: Red-dyed ram skins and Tachash skins - What wood was donated for building?
Answer: Shittim (acacia) wood - Name one donation used for “lighting.”
Answer: Oil for lighting - Name two things spices were used for.
Answer: Anointing oil and Ketores incense - Which leaders’ donation is highlighted?
Answer: Precious stones (Shoham stones and filling stones for the Eiphod and Choshen), plus spices and oil - What special activity did the women do with wool?
Answer: They spun yarn of the different types of wool
🐝 Leadership & Oversupply
- Who was appointed to lead the building work?
Answer: Betzalel son of Uri (tribe of Yehuda) - Which tribe was Betzalel from?
Answer: Yehuda - Who was appointed to work with Betzalel?
Answer: Ohaliav son of Achisamach - Which tribe was Ohaliav from?
Answer: Dan - What special “gifts” did Hashem fill Betzalel with (as described)?
Answer: Wisdom and understanding - When did people keep bringing more donations?
Answer: Each morning - What did the workers report to Moshe about the materials?
Answer: Too much material had been collected - What announcement did Moshe make in response?
Answer: People should stop bringing donation material - Did they end up with enough or not enough?
Answer: Enough — and a surplus
🐝 Numbers & Measurements
- How many linen/wool tapestries were made for the Mishkan?
Answer: 10 - What were the dimensions of each tapestry?
Answer: 28 amos long, 4 amos wide - How were the 10 tapestries grouped before being joined?
Answer: Two groups of five - How many loops were on the ends of the tapestry groups?
Answer: 50 - How many hooks were made to connect them, and what material were they?
Answer: 50 gold hooks - How many goat-hair panels were made?
Answer: 11 - What were the dimensions of each goat-hair panel?
Answer: 30 amos long, 4 amos wide - How were the 11 panels grouped?
Answer: One group of five and one group of six - How many hooks connected the goat-hair panels, and what material were they?
Answer: 50 copper hooks - Name the two coverings placed above the goat-hair layer.
Answer: Red-dyed ram skin covering; Tachash skin covering
🐝 Kerashim (Beams), Sockets, Poles
- What wood were the beams made from?
Answer: Shittim (acacia) wood - What were the beam dimensions?
Answer: 10 amos long, 1.5 amos wide - How many beams were made for the south side?
Answer: 20 - How many beams were made for the north side?
Answer: 20 - How many beams were on the west side including corner beams?
Answer: 8 (6 + 2 corner beams) - How many silver sockets supported the south side beams?
Answer: 40 (two per beam × 20) - How many silver sockets supported the north side beams?
Answer: 40 - How many silver sockets supported the west side beams?
Answer: 16 (two per beam × 8) - How many poles were made total (as described)?
Answer: 15 (five for each of three sides) - Which pole is described as extending from one end to the other?
Answer: The middle pole - What were the beams coated with?
Answer: Gold
🐝 Paroches & Masach
- What materials made up the Paroches?
Answer: Techeiles, Argamon, scarlet wool, twisted linen - How many pillars held the Paroches?
Answer: Four - What were those pillars coated with?
Answer: Gold - What kind of sockets did the Paroches pillars have?
Answer: Silver sockets (four) - How many pillars were for the entrance screen (Masach)?
Answer: Five - What kind of sockets did the Masach pillars have?
Answer: Copper sockets (five)
🐝 Keilim (Vessels): Aron, Shulchan, Menorah, Altars
- What were the Aron’s dimensions?
Answer: 2.5 × 1.5 × 1.5 amos (L×W×H) - Was the Aron covered with gold on the inside, outside, or both?
Answer: Both - How many rings were made for the Aron, and where?
Answer: Four rings, two on each side - What were the poles made from and coated with (Aron)?
Answer: Acacia wood coated with gold - What were the Kapores dimensions?
Answer: 2.5 amos long, 1.5 amos wide - How many Keruvim were made, and where were they placed?
Answer: Two; on opposite ends of the Kapores - What were the Shulchan’s dimensions?
Answer: 2 × 1 × 1.5 amos (L×W×H) - How many gold rings were on the Shulchan?
Answer: Four (one by each corner) - What special measurement is given about the Shulchan’s frame?
Answer: One tefach frame around its circumference - From what was the Menorah made?
Answer: Pure gold (from one kikar of gold) - How many branches did the Menorah have?
Answer: Six branches (three on each side), plus the central stem (seven lamps total) - How many candles/lamps did it have?
Answer: Seven - What were the incense altar dimensions?
Answer: 1 × 1 ammah square; 2 amos high - What were the incense altar poles coated with?
Answer: Gold - What were the Olah altar dimensions?
Answer: 5 × 5 amos; 3 amos high - What material covered the Olah altar?
Answer: Copper - What unusual material was used to make the Kiyor?
Answer: The mirrors of the women who congregated at the entrance of the Ohel Moed
🐝 Courtyard (Chatzer)
- How long were the north and south courtyard curtains?
Answer: 100 amos each side - How long were the west side curtains?
Answer: 50 amos - How long were the east side curtains at each end?
Answer: 15 amos each end - How many pillars were on the north side?
Answer: 20 - How many pillars were on the south side?
Answer: 20 - How many pillars were on the west side?
Answer: 10 - How many pillars were on the east side total (as described)?
Answer: 6 (three for each end) - What were the courtyard sockets made of?
Answer: Copper - What were the hooks and belts made of?
Answer: Silver - What were the tops of the pillars coated with?
Answer: Silver - What were the gate screen dimensions?
Answer: 20 amos long; 5 amos high - How many pillars held the gate screen?
Answer: Four
⚡ Lightning Bonus
- Name any 5 of the 15 donation categories listed.
Answer (examples): gold, silver, copper, techeiles, argamon, scarlet wool, linen, goat hair, red ram skins, tachash skins, acacia wood, oil, spices, shoham stones, filling stones - Name any 4 items commanded to be made (big categories).
Answer (examples): Mishkan, Aron, Shulchan, Menorah, Ketores altar, Olah altar, Kiyor, courtyard, priestly garments - What happened when Moshe told them to stop donating?
Answer: They ceased - Did they have a shortage or surplus at the end?
Answer: Surplus - What’s the central theme you can say in one phrase?
Answer (suggestion based on your outline): Shabbos + building the Mishkan through generous donations and skilled craftsmanship
