Last Week's PPP (Chayei
Sara)
TT340PPP Chayei Sara [2] The scarecrow reciting the multiplication tables is in S'DEI MACHPEILA. [3] Thumbs down - thumbs up in the speak bubble, the whole thing negated, stands for Breishit 24:50 where Lavan and Betuel say: the matter comes from HaShem, we canNOT SPEAK to you BAD or GOOD. [4] The mathematical phrase (not equation; whoever calls it an equation loses 2 pts.) is greater than or equal to (or in plainer English, at least) 20 million. Lavan's blessing to his sister, echoed to countless Jewish brides through the generations: Our sister, may you be (mother) of thousands of ten-thousands. ALFEI is plural. Minimum plural is two. Two thousand myriad (R'VAVA means a very large number, but it also means 10,000), at least. 2000x10,000 can be written as 2x 10,000,000 or 2 times 10 to the seventh power. [5] The locomotive or steam engine in Hebrew is a KATAR. With the HEI which is forming the door of the cabin in the back, we get something like K'TURA. [6] That leaves us with the two kings and the two aces which identifies the source of the Haftara for Chayei Sara, namely M'LACHIM ALEF, ALEF. KINGS ONE (ace), chapter ONE. A TT reader wrote that he missed the fuller PPP reports and suggested that a smaller font might allow for the less dry reports of the past. We'll try it. M. Ramach hit [2,3,4,5-] and a wild [6] which took the 2 kings as 2K or $2000, his estimate of the present day value of the 400 silver shekels. Not quite.DM hit [1,2,4,5-]and added MAMREI to [2] since Ray Bolger played the Scarecrow in the Wizard of OZ. Thanks for the smile DM. And his [6] was good, even though it wasn't my intention. King-Ace, King-Ace is two pair, as in the two pairs so far in Machpeila - Adam & Chava and Avraham & Sara. Sid G. hit [2,3,4,5-] and saw [6] as what the peopleof CHEIT said to Avraham, in the choicest burial place COVER-ACE (as the kings seem to be doing) MEI'SECHA... A stretch at best. But fun. That's what it's all about. Asher Arbit has this week's first full set of solutions, missing only the HEI on the locomotive. A superlative job. RHM of Bayit Vegan just phoned in a nearperfect set, with an acceptable other solutions for [3] and [6]. And no HEI. Zvi Roth hit [1,2,3-,4,5-]. Good job. A very nice sol'n set from Eli Schmerler & family - [1,2,3+,4,5-,6-]. MM Bklyn had a nice solution set that got deleted from email and erased from this page. A bad combination. I think I lost a few other solutions as well. Sorry. My computer just froze and after rebooting, it came up short. Ramot Lerners just faxed a near perfect set, [1,2,3,4,5-,6-]. That's it so far. All in all, everything was solved, many times over. Only the HEI was missed. Nice job folks. Hope the PPP spectators who read this column but don't submit solutions,also get something out of the PPP reports. The fact of the matter is that there are all kinds of things that get thrown in with the PPP reports, and some of it is even interesting for non-PPP people. So if they don't read it, maybe you can suggest that they take a peek. Thanks. Late PPP solutions: Benji & Esti - good. ChiGoldbergs - good plus. This Week's PPP (To'l'dot)
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