Sunday, December 20, 2015

Kayin and Hevel: Collective Class Chavrutah Q's

  1. What does Kayin say to hevel? in passuk chet there is no convo recorded!
  2. How did the embarrassment so quickly turn to sexual relations?
  3. Why would HaShem put the first birth and the first murder all in the same pessukim? Its a lot in once! And theres no explanation behind their lives, their childhood, it just skips all of it.
  4. Was the pregnancy hard? We just heard about her sin, tell us more! It seems so smooth.
  5. One passuk theyre born and the next theyre adults. What else do we know about them? What assumptions can we make?
  6. What does it mean, “I have acquired a man with HaShem?” Why call him an ish and not a child?
  7. Are they twins or not? It seems repetitive when they’re born. Mila mancha of “brothers”. Foreshadowing?
  8. Does the Torah support incest?  Who are the other people in this word? Who are their wives? Whos the geneology that comes rigth after?
  9. Why is this classic younger child sydrom? Why favor the younger when Kayin was the one to give the first korban!!
  10. What caused Kayin to give a korban in the first place?
  11. Whats Kayins response? Its so rude and and how can he speak to God that way?
  12. What happened to Adam and Chava? Why isn’t he included in births of the children?
  13. Is Yaakov and Eisav and also Moshe and Aharon a reincarnation of Kayon and Hevel?
  14. Is there a connection here between the focus on Adama and Adam?
  15. Why was Hevel a shepheard? And whyu worker of land? Who gave them those jobs and why those lands?
  16. Isn’t being a shepherd working the land? Its the same thing!
  17. Why does Kayin build a city for himself? What was the purpose of a city? Who lived in the city? What is a city?
  18. Where did they get things to build things?
  19. Is na v’nad a hapaxlegomenon and ...what does it mean?
  20. How will Kayin adn Hevel reproduce? Who else is in the world?
  21. You’d expect Kayin to be similar to ADam and follow after his father who also took care of the land?
  22. Is Kayin Jealous of Hevel?
  23. What really caused Kayin to kill Hevel?
  24. Is this story here JUST to show that God brought death into the world? Is it just a sequel to us having desires?
  25. What is God saying to Kayin “the blood of your brother is calling to me from the ground”
  26. What days it “miketz” referring to?
  27. “et” - grammar question? what’s it teaching us?
  28. Was Kayin merely acting on instinct, like the snake, or was it well thought out?
  29. If Adam and Chava suffered so much, why did they have to go through the death of their sin?
  30. WHY are adam and chava missing? Did they teach them poorly? Is this a story about bad parenting?
  31. Did Kayin bury Hevel?
  32. Where does pregnancy of 9 months come from? Why so long?
  33. What was Kayins punishment? Was it a punishment or something else?
  34. Whats the message for mankind today?
  35. Was this experience that Kayin  went through a way for him to gain emet/sheker or something like that?
  36. Why is it that HaShem accepted Hevels gift if Kayin was the first one?
  37. Did Kayin know what he was doing?
  38. Adam sinned by taking fruit and Kayin takes fruit from the land? Is there a connection there?