Oct 26, 20232 min read

Parshas Lech Lecha

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Another great Parsha with many ideas for your Parsha Party.

Parsha Overview (Feel free to skip straight to the Party below - simply click the arrow next to this text and the overview will disappear.)

LECH LECHA

The Parsha begins with Hashem telling Avram:

“Go from your land, from your birthplace, from your father’s house to the land which I will show you.” He promises to make Avram into a great nation and tells him

“I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you”.

Avram listens and travels with his wife Sarai and his nephew Lot and they reach Eretz Canaan. Avram builds a mizbeach and continues to spread the knowledge about Hashem.

A famine comes to the land of Canaan and Avram and Sarai go to Mitzrayim. According to meforshim, Avram tries to hide Sarai in a box because he is afraid that they will see how beautiful she is and will kill him and take her as a wife for Paraoh.

The officers find Sarai anyway and when they see that she is beautiful they take her to Paraoh. Avram tells her to tell them that he is her brother so they don’t kill him to marry her.

Paraoh gives Avram presents and wants to marry Sarai. Hashem brings a plague of boils on Paraoh and his household so he can’t marry her and Paraoh returns her to Avram when she reveals to him that really he is her husband and he sends them on the way with presents.

They return to Canaan. Lot is still with them but Avram decides to part ways with Lot to avoid a fight between them. Lot’s shepherds were not careful to muzzle their sheep on other people’s property and Avram and his shepherds do not want to have any possibility of gezel – stealing. Lot moves to Sedom where really bad and immoral people lived.

Hashem tells Avraham the land of Canaan will belong to him and his children will multiply to be many in number like the dust of the earth. There is a war that breaks out between 4 kings and 5 kings and the city of Sedom is captured. Lot is taken captive and someone informs Avraham. Avraham goes to save him and wins the kings. But Lot falls captive to four kings that conquered Sedom. Avraham goes to save Lot and wins over the 4 kings. He is blessed by Malki Tzedek the king of Shalem. The King of Sedom tells him to take the spoils of the war but Avraham promises that he will not take the wealth – nothing from a thread to a shoe strap will he take.

Hashem makes a Bris with Avram. He shows him the stars in the sky and tells him to count them. Just as he cannot count the stars, his children will be so many he cannot count them. He tells him about the future Galus of his children and that he will be given Eretz Yisrael as their homeland.

Avram and Sarai do not have children. Sarai tells Avram to marry her maidservant Hagar so that he can bear children. He marries her and Hagar becomes pregnant. She begins acting nasty to Sarai and then Sarai in return makes her work very hard and she flees from the house. A Malach convinces Hagar to return. She has a son name Yishmael when Avram is 86 years old.

At 99, Hashem changes Avram’s name to Avraham and Sarai’s name to Sarah and promises them that they will have a son named Yitzchok who will become a great nation. He says you will be fruitful and many nations and kings will come from you. Avraham falls on his face in joy that he will have a son at 100 and Sarah at age 90. Avraham is told to give himself and his descendants a bris milah as a sign between Hashem and Avraham. A bris for babies born at 8 days. And Avraham gives himself a bris at 99 and to Yishmael who is 13 and to everyone else that is part of the household. (Adapted partially from In a Nutshell by Chabad.org)

And now for the fun part

PARSHA PARTY

SNACKS LIST

Fruit by the foot
GoGo candies or applesauce
3 N Go candy boards
Must Candy (Must Go leave your home)
Suitcase shaped desserts (a brownie bar with a handle – can be like a sour stick, licorice, etc)
Lip candies
Candy brix or lego candy
Box drinks (fruit punch, apple juice, etc)
Lipstick candy
Cherry sours
Choco NoNos
FruZip candies
Marshmallow “sheep” (use mini marshmallows to form a blob that resembles a sheep and you can add pretzel sticks cut in half to make legs)
Fizz candies
Sandwich cookies
Stella Doro Swiss Fudge cookies (look like crowns)
Beet chips
Shoelace candies
Laffy taffy rope
Lasso / Lace rope candy
Pull and Peel
Twizzlers
Star candies
Big dippers candy
Sour stars
Star cookies
Star pretzels
Bamba stars
Zillions
Fizzy candy canes (or any candy canes)
Baby bites
Pacifier candies
Wowzers
Whole Fruit ices
Fruit candy
Fruit bites
Fruit snacks
Lox

THE PARSHA PARTY ANSWER LIST!

Avram is told to travel:

Fruit by the foot
GoGo candies or applesauce
3 N Go candy boards
Must Candy (Must Go leave your home)
Suitcase shaped desserts (a brownie bar with a handle – can be like a sour stick, licorice, etc)

Those who bless you will be blessed:

Lip candies

Avram builds a Mizbeach:

Candy brix or lego candy

Sarai is hidden in a box when they go to Mitzrayim:

Box drinks (fruit punch, apple juice, etc)

Paraoh sees that Sarai is beautiful:

Lipstick candy

Paraoh and his household are hit with a plague of boils:

Cherry sours

Lot’s Shepherds are not muzzling their sheep:

Choco NoNos
FruZip candies
Marshmallow “sheep” (use mini marshmallows to form a blob that resembles a sheep and you can add pretzel sticks cut in half to make legs)

The children of Avraham will be so many like the dust/sand of the earth:

Fizz candies
Sandwich cookies

War of the kings and Avram beats them and refuses to take anything from a thread to a shoestrap:

Stella Doro Swiss Fudge cookies (look like crowns)
Beet chips
Shoelace candies
Laffy taffy rope
Lasso / Lace rope candy
Pull and Peel
Twizzlers

Avram is promised his children will be so many like the stars in the sky:

Star candies
Big dippers candy
Sour stars
Star cookies
Star pretzels
Bamba stars
Zillions

At 99 Avram becomes Avraham and is told he will have children:

Fizzy candy canes (or any candy canes)
Baby bites
Pacifier candies
Wowzers (Because it’s Wow that he would have children when he was so old without any children yet!)

Avraham is told he will be fruitful and nations and many kings will come from him: