1. The Yerushalmi in Brachos 1:1 says that the description of malachim having רגל ישרה also means their legs have no joints.
Bring Raya.
18:4, Avraham told them השענו תחת העץ, lean. Apparently he saw they could not sit down like normal people.
2. In 18:3 Avraham says
ויאמר אדני אם נא מצאתי חן בעיניך
and there is a machlokes whether it was a term of honor to the travelers or a request that Hashem allow him to interrupt his Tefilla to take care of his guests.
In 19:2 Lot says
הנה נא אדוני סורו נא
and nobody says it was anything but a term of honor for the travelers.
Why?
Because by Avraham they were described as Anashim, simple travelers, so Adonai is incongruous. By Lot, they were described as malachim, having an awesome appearance, so the term Adonai is fitting in the simple sense of an honorific.
3. Name the 2 sons of Lot, which most people get wrong.
19:37-38, Moav and Ben Ami.
4. The Gemara in Kidd 32 says
אין זקן אלא מי שקנה חכמה.
Two times in our parsha that it just means old, and definitely not wise.
The men of Sdom, and Lot, as described by his daughters.
5. Find a repudiation of the concept of secular humanism in the parsha.
20:11,
רק אין יראת אלוקים במקום הזה והרגוני על דבר אשתי.
6. Show that a father can call his son a naar even if he's 37 years old and wise.
22:5, ואני והנער נלכה עד כה.
Sarah was a בת תשעים when she had Yitzchak, and died at 127 at the time of the Akeida.
7. Two times a malach prevented a death and gave a bracha to the person he saved.
Yishmoel in 21:18, Yitzchok in 22:12 & 17.
8. A person not named once in the parsha, but referred to 15 times. Give three examples.
Yishmael. Once where Avraham told him to prepare the meat, one when he was expelled, and once by the Akeida.
9. Where did two go up but only one came down.
2 went up, 22:5, ואני והנער נלכה.
1 came down, 22:19, וישב אברהם אל נעריו.
10. Four times someone woke early.
19:27 Avraham to daven Shachris and to see the fate of Sedom
20:8 Avimelech to tell his people about his dream
21:14 Avraham to send Hagar away
22:3 Avraham to go to the Akeida.
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