Last Week's TTriddles Okay, we're on a role. Last week's TTriddles (B'ha'a'lo't'cha) were: Everyone except Reuven and K'hat Mixed up daughter on the twenty Armstrong & Alpert, l'havdil First on 21.1 and 20.2 Papa can be your father or grandfather. Mama can be your mother or grandmother. Who set the precedent? He was going to two out of three places that he was coming from. Who & who? He showed him M&M, Who? Whom? What? If you've been following things these past weeks, you will have noticed that most (but not all - there's a hidden TTriddle somewhere other than the bottom of a column) TTriddles are to be found at the bottom of a column. If you take a look at the p'sukim dealing with the traveling procedures, you will see that all Shvatim and the family groups of Levi are identified as BNEI so-and-so. Bnei Yehuda, Bnei Gad, Bnei Gershon, etc. EXCEPT for Reuven and K'hat. DEGEL MACHANEI REUVEN. Different from his 11 co-Sh'vatim. HA-K'HATIM, the Kehat-people. Compare it with his 2 brothers. Korach came from Kehat. Datan and Aviram came from Reuven. Can that have anything to do with the missing BNEI? Any other ideas? Daughter is BAT (BET-TAV), on is AL (AYIN-LAMED), the 20 is HA-KAF (HEI, KAF). Mix the letters up and they spell B'HA'A'LO'T'CHA. Louis Armstrong and Herb Alpert were famous for their trumpet playing. L'havdil, that reminds us of the mitzva of the CHATZOTROT. The next TTriddle had a mistake. The date should have been 20.2, not 20.3. A fuller statement of this TTriddle could have been:First on 21.1.48, 1.1.49, 20.2.49 The correct answer is NACHSHON b. Aminadav. He was the first into the Sea on the 21st of Nissan, in the year 2448. A year later, he was the first of the N'SI'IM to bring his gifts to the dedication of the Mishkan. Tradition tells us that he came on Rosh Chodesh Nissan, 1.1.49. And on the 20th of Iyar (20.2.49), he was the leader of the lead tribe in the traveling formation. The correct answer to the PAPA & MAMA question is TZIPORA and her sisters. Rashi asks why Re'u'el is identified here as the father of Chovav (who is Yitro) when in Parshat Sh'mot it says that "they (Yitro's daughters) came to Re'u'el their father..." Rashi's answer is that it is the way of children to call their grandparents by the names they call their parents. When Moshe asked Yitro to stay with Bnei Yisrael, he said that he was returning to his Land and his Birthplace. This is two of the three places that Avra(ha)m left (Lech L'cha, the third "place" was "his father's house", not mentioned here with Yitro). G-d showed Moshe the Moon and the Menora (and other things) when Moshe was having difficulty knowing exactly what was involved in the mitzvot of Kiddush HaChodesh and Menora. Zvi Roth and Zvi Stone, Mike-Bklyn and WMEISNER@shaalvim were the strong solvers this week. Each solved some, but not all. And each had some variations on the "official" solutions. But the best response the the TTriddles came from Zvi Roth who asked, "What's better - PPPs or TTriddles? And his answer came from last week's sedra, when G-d was castigating Miriam and Aharon, He described Moshe's form of prophecy: ...U'MAR'EH V'LO V'CHIDOT, with an image (or picture) and not with riddles... Thank you Zvi and thanks to the other solvers. Someone still has to wake up Steinhart and Klavan and other veteran PPP solvers and alert them to the TTriddles Challenge.
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