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Last Week's PPP (Ki Tavo)

First and foremost, let us wish a hearty PPP Mazal Tov to two PPP solvers - Yechiel Goldblum and Shifra Klavan - upon their engagement. May their families derive much nachas from the new couple, and they from their families.

Just a few weeks ago, each won a CD for correct PPP solutions. From now on, dear engaged couple, your solutions are accepted as one.

And sure enough, Shifra and Yehiel submitted a joint solution (partial) for the PPP of Ki Tavo. But first, the solution.

[1] The arrow points into CHACHA (pronounced as in Chanuka, not the Latin dance). So the arrow points to TOCH-CHACHA, as in the longest single aliya in the Torah, the 63-pasuk Shishi of Ki Tavo. (That's more than half of Ki Tavo, and is almost as long as this week's double of Nitzavim-Vayeilech.)

[2] The Rambam lived in Egypt and wrote the Mishna Torah, a.k.a. Yad HaChazaka. 26:8 says MI'MITZRAYIM B'YAD CHAZAKA - the Rambam.

[3] The 30 dots, which reminded some potential solvers of Chinese Checkers, is actually 10 sets of 3 dots each, forming the Hebrew vowel, SEGOL. Pronounced EH, we have 10 EH or TENE, the Bikurim basket.

[4] 14 lbs. is the British weight called a stone. 504 lbs. is 36 stone. Rashi notes that there were 12 stones placed in the Jordan, 12 in Gilgal, and 12 on Har Eival. That's 36 stones. (Actually, one set of 12 was moved to another place, so there might have been only 24 stones, but reading Rashi simply yields 36 stonesor 504 lbs. (Let the British PPP solvers note that there are no baseball references this week and that they had a decisive advantage with the lbs. question.)

[5] Mick Jagger is a Rolling Stone. The drivers among a set of golf clubs are the WOODS, while a niblick is a 9 iron. Win, place, and show are the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners of a horse race. In sports that award medals, win, place, and show would be gold, silver, and copper (bronze is an alloy with a lot of copperin it.) So we have copper under wood and gold under copper on the left, and iron under stone and silver under iron on the right. All that comes from the Haftara.

[6] ARI (lion) TEI (Hebrew for tea) OWL - sounds close to ARI TEI-OOL, Aramaic for KI TAVO.

The new Greenblum-Klavan team, obviously with other things on their minds and with much more important things to do, nonetheless came through with [1] and [2], including the Egypt part, which fits nicely, but - I must admit - was not part of the original plan.

E.S. hit [1,2] and then [5,6]. Nice job. Then there is RHM of BV who is one of the few phone solvers. (Most TT solvers are emailers; some are faxers.) RHM hit [1,2,6]. That's about it for solvers this week. I guess after the couple of weeks without PPPs, some solvers were out of practice.

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