Last Week's TTriddles Last week's TTriddles were... Its leader was probably a sports enthusiast. The correct answer is REUVEN, whose leader was ELITZUR b. SH'DEI'UR. Elitzur is the name of the religious sports organizations are\ound the country Base on Balls, Jim of the Mask, Robin has a Fever A base on balls is a WALK in baseball. Jim of the Mask is actor CARREY. And it was Robin COOK who wrote the book Fever, among manyb others. WALK, COOK, and CARRY are the three activities that an EIRUV permits. That is EIRUV T'CHUMIN, EIRUV TAVSHILIN, and EIREV CHATZEIROT respectively. From 1736 Franklin to 1980 Gazzara. Ben Franklin was born in 1702. He was 30 years old in 1736. Actor Ben Gazzara was born in 1930, making him 50 in 1980. So we have MIBEN SH'LOSHIM SHANA V'AD BEN CHAMISHIM SHANA, the age range for active service of the Leviyim in the Mishkan. Can a Nazir drink beer? This was not really a riddle, but rather a quiz question testing knowledge of the text and commentaries. In this case, the answer is YES. The word SHEICHAR in the context of NAZIR does not mean any intoxicating beverage, but specifically a hard liquor derived from wine. The NAZIR is only forbidden to the grape and its products. What is a Nazir's crown? His uncut hair. Are baby turtles called calves? Sort of. The term for covered wagons is EGLOT TZAV, which sounds like EGEL, calf and TZAV, turtle. We have a president to play on the words for calf and wagon, back from Yaakov and Yosef. And the word for turtle is used for covered wagon, as inspired by the shape and protective quality of his shell. He alludes daily to his grandfather's grandfather, his grandfather's grandfather's father and his grandfather's grandfather's grandfather This refers to BIRKAT KOHANIM. Commentaries ascribe each of the verbs in the three p'sukim of Birkat Kohanim. See Baal HaTurim. Main solvers this week were MM-Bklyn, Zvi Roth, the other ZVI (I think). In addition, several individuals solved one element or other. The solvers named were multi-solvers.
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