Packet 3: Bonus 18

Description acceptable. One halachic (“ha-LAH-khick”) method for this action involves turning and reciting the words of Psalm 28:9. For 10 points each:
[10h] Identify this practice that the book of Hosea forbids because B’nai Israel (“buh-NAY Israel”) “shall be as the sand of the sea.” King David brought a plague upon his people by ordering a form of this action.
ANSWER: counting Jews [or counting Jewish people; accept Israel or yehudim in place of “Jews”; accept conducting a census or mifkad; prompt on counting or equivalents by asking “counting what?”; prompt on counting people; prompt on saphar or sephorah or sfirat or lispor or limnot or manah or lifkod; prompt on, but DO NOT REVEAL, minyan]
[10e] Psalm 28:9 is read as an alternative to direct counting because it has this many words. This number of Jewish adults is required for a minyan, or quorum.
ANSWER: 10
[10m] Nachmanides (“nock-MAH-nid-eez”), a scholar born in this modern-day country, argued that the half-shekel census in the Book of Numbers was permissible because it honored each Jew as an individual. A defense of Judaism called the Kuzari was written in this modern-day country by Judah Halevi.
ANSWER: Spain [or España; or Kingdom of Spain; prompt on Catalonia or Andalusia or Navarre or Castile]
<Virginia, Religion> | C. Prelims 3 - Cambridge + UCLA + Stanford B + Virginia

HeardPPBE %M %H %
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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
Columbia ANorth Carolina0101020EM
Columbia BIndiana010010E
GeorgetownTexas001010M
Georgia Tech AChicago A001010M
Georgia Tech BVirginia Tech0000
HarvardSwarthmore0101020EM
Johns HopkinsVanderbilt0101020EM
MITMaryland A0000
NYU ABrown0101020EM
NYU BPittsburgh010010E
Northwestern AIllinois B0000
UC Berkeley ABritish Columbia10101030HEM
WashUOhio State0101020EM

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TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
Main Site2026-04-17✓1313.0862%62%8%