This week's TTriddles TTriddles What are TTriddles? They are Torah Tidbits riddles, mostly on Parshat HaShavua, that can be found at the bottom of many columns of each issue of TT. Once in a while, you will find a straightforward question, but most often they are riddles that require you to be mentally flexible in the extreme in order to solve them. Even if you don't do too well in the solving department, you might enjoy reading the answers to the previous week's TTriddles. They are fun to share with others. Here are last week's TTriddles (Va'etchanan): [1] Intro and end of part one [2] The 7th because of the 7th and the 7th [3] It can be done with 5300300 [4] This Shabbat numerically matches the whole Torah conversely. [5] Only before Kalev and His voice [6] Moshe's personal 5-parsha T'filin [7] Moshe's lookout then; (02) 642-1111 now [8] Now switch the first two [9] From great-great-grandfather to great-great-grandson, E went from #2 to #4 [10] Borrowed from the parsha by NS every time and by NA twice a year The envelope please... [1] When the gabbai calls the Kohen to the Torah, he concludes with what we can say is the pasuk that introduces every Torah reading, Dvarim 4:4, V'ATEM HA-D'VEIKIM. For Parshat Va'etchanan, this pasuk is not only an intro to the first part (Aliya), but its end as well. The pasuk ends the first Aliya of Va'etchanan. [2] The 7th is Shabbat. The Torah gives us two reasons for Shabbat. The first, from Parshat Yitro, is G-d's Creation of the world, which (according to one major opinion) took place in Tishrei, the 7th month. In the Aseret HaDibrot in Va'etchanan, the reason for Shabbat is Yetzi'at Mitzrayim, the Exodus, which took place in Nissan, the 7th month of the calendar year (although it is officially the first of the months of the year). [3] This is the first of two telephone number TTriddles. 530-0300 is the phone number of Lev Yerushalayim Hotel on King George St. What can be done if one calls that number is what it says in the second pasuk of the Haftara for Shabbat Nachamu ù DAB'RU AL (el) LEV YERUSHALAYIM... [4] NACHAMU = NUN-CHET & MEM-VAV. That's 58 & 46. Not 104 by adding them, but 5846, by juxtaposing them. This numerically matches the whole Torah, which has 5846 p'sukim. CON- is a form of COM-, a prefix meaning WITH. VERSE is pasuk. [5] The word ZULATI occurs in the Torah only before KALEV and the word KOL. [6] A five-parsha T'filin would be pasul (invalid), as well as a violation of the Torah's prohibition to add to the Torah, BAL TOSIF. Moshe's private version of this prohibition is G-d's telling him, AL TOSEF DABEIR EILAI OD BADAVAR HAZEH, do not continue to speak to Me on this issue (Moshe's not being allowed into Eretz Yisrael). [7] Here's the other telephone TTriddle. Moshe's lookout was ROSH HAPISGA. That was then. Now, a phone call to 642-1111 will get you the taxi stand at the top of HaPisga Street in Bayit Vegan. [8] NOW is (V')ATA. If you switch the first two words of the SH'MA around, you get, V'ATA YISRAEL, SH'MA, as in D'varim 4:1. [9] The great-great-grandfather is YAAKOV AVINU. His great-great-grandson (Levi, K'hat, Amram, Moshe) is Moshe Rabeinu. Yakov was told, U'FARATZTA YAMA VAKEIDMA V'TZAFONA VANEGBA, you shall spread out to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south. Moshe was told to lift his eyes to the west and the north and the south and the east. E (that's east) went from position #2 to #4, from Yaakov to Moshe. [10] NS is Nusach S'fard. NA is Nusach Ashkenaz. NS uses Dvarim 4:35 every time (not correct, should have said, on Shabbat and Yom Tov morning) they take out the Torah. NA uses it only on Simchat Torah, night and day. That's twice a year. Danny Kurtz of Beit El sent in a nice partial solution set, as well as the correction for [10]. Good job. Unfortunately, I deleted his email while attempting to print it out. Give me a call to coordinate the transfer of your prize from my hands to yours. Zvi Roth also sent in a nice partial set. The top solver this week, however, is RHM, who obviously worked hard on her fine set of solutions. They didn't always match "the" answers, but they were well done nonetheless. Special mention to her solution of [4]. VA'ETCHANAN is numerically 515. So is the word SHIRA, which not only means SONG, but is also considered a "nickname" for the whole Torah. Since 515 is a palindrome, it reads the same conversely. Nice going. Please be in touch concerning your prize. That's it for the TTriddle report for Shabbat Nachamu. I finish with an open challenge to the veteran PPP solvers who should be having a good time while they solve the TTriddles.
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