TTriddles Whether you solve them or don't, whether you try to solve them or don't, we feel that TTriddles can be fun for everyone. The weekly reports on the previous week's TTriddles contain little Divrei Torah sprinkled among the puns, plays-on-words, g'matriyas, and general knowledge tidbits. Last week's (Pinchas) TTriddles: Happy 7th Birthday Nachmi was NOT a TTriddle. Nice try for those who submitted solutions to it. [1] He gets who he is [2] He is therefore she is perpendicular (this TTriddle was printed upside down) [3] She lost half of it. He got it. His is a mini once. Who? x 3 [4] 256 --> --> 308 --> 208 [5] 11/150 tribute to their non-hereditariness [6] Bridged the split of a great-great-grandparent [7] Common to all five [8] 28:3 - How many times max? [9] The longest of the 304,805. [10] The score is 69 to 1, so to speak [11] Whose family tree had one? The answers, please... [1] Among the families of Bnei Yisrael to whom land in Eretz Yisrael would be appor tioned, was one named CHEILEK b. Gil'ad. Gil'ad was the son of Machir b. Menashe. When the Land was assigned, each party received a CHEILEK, so it was he who gets who he is. [2] The mathematical and logic symbol for "and therefore" is three dots arranged in a triangle, one above two. The symbol for per pendicular is an inverted T. Turn both symbols upside down and you get the Hebrew vowel-dots, SEGOL and KAMATZ respectively. He refers to Zimri, who was smitten - MUKEH, with a SEGOL. She is KOZBI, who was MUKAH, with a KAMATZ. He is therefore (upside down) and she is perpendicular (upside down). [3] Sara, who was Sarai first, lost half of a YUD (numeric value 10) when she became Sara with a HEI (=5). She lost half a YUD. Yehoshua was HOSHEA who got a YUD added to his name by Moshe Rabeinu. Pinchas has a YUD in his name which is miniaturized according to scribal tradition in the opening word of the second pasuk of Parshat Pinchas. [4] This is a trio of g'matriyas. 256 is Aharon, whose son was Eliezer, 308, whose son was Pinchas, 208. [5] Korach was wicked and his sons did not follow in his evil ways, as the Torah testifies - And the sons of Korach LO MEITU, they did not die. They displayed marked non- hereditariness. In tribute, there are 11 (out of the 150 chapters of T'hilim) that are... LIVNEI KORACH. [6] SARA IMEINU's name is spelled SIN- REISH-HEI, the HEI has a split on the left side of the letter. SARA's great-great-grand daughter (to Yitzchak to Yaakov to Asher to) SERACH bridged the split because her name is the same as Sara's except for the CHET at the end instead of a HEI. CHET is a HEI with the split bridged. (Sorry I left out a great- in the original TTriddle.) [7] There are many things that the 5 daughters of Tzelafchad had in common. The "correct" answer is the KAMATZ-HEI that each name ends with. [8] Pasuk 23:8 is the pasuk in the Torah reading for Rosh Chodesh that is doubled to allow the reading of the proper number of p'sukim for each Aliya without breaking parshiyot in the wrong way. 28:3 is the most-often read pasuk in the whole Torah. How many times can this pasuk be read in one year, maximum? Let's take this year, 5760, as an example. 13 months. Good start. Cheshvan and Kislev each had 30 days. Even better. Okay, let's count readings of 28:3. Tishrei's Rosh Chodesh is Rosh HaShana. That's out. Twice on each day of Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan and Kislev. That's 8 times. Rosh Chodesh Tevet is during Chanuka when we read from two Torahs, for Rosh Chodesh and for Chanuka, and there is no need to repeat a pasuk. That's only 2 more. 10 so far. Rosh Chodesh Shvat was a Shabbat. Still 10. Add 8 for twice each on the two days Rosh Chodesh of the two Adars. Another 2 fro Rosh Chodesh Nissan. We're up to 20. Iyar adds only 2 because the second day of Rosh Chodesh was Shabbat. 22. 2 for Sivan, 4 for Tammuz, 2 for Av, and 4 for Elul (the Rosh Chodeshes thereof). That makes 30. That's it, except for Shabbat Parshat Pinchas when we read it once. Bamidbar 28:3 was/will be read 31 times this year. I'd say that's the max. [9] There are 304,805 letters in the Torah (not words, so solutions that were words cannot be right). There are several letters that extend below the line, and LAMED which extends above the line. When one of these letters is written extra large, it would qualify as the longest of the 304,805 letters in the Torah. Such a letter is the final NUN of MISHPATAN, as in the case of the daughters of Tzelafchad which Moshe brought before G-d, so to speak. [10] The most common pasuk in the Torah (as opposed to the most often-repeated pasuk, see [8] above) is VAY'DABEIR HASHEM EL MOSHE LEIMOR. Just count ing that wording, and not when G-d spoke to Moshe and Aharon or in a named place, looking at the p'sukim in the Torah that contain these five words only, there are 70. One is not like the others. It is from Parshat Pinchas and it is VAY'DABEIR MOSHE EL HASHEM LEIMOR. The score of HASHEM EL MOSHE to MOSHE EL HASHEM is 69 to 1, so to speak (as in VAY'DABEIR and LEIMOR, speak, so to speak, get it?) The total of HASHEM EL MOSHE occurrences, in case you were wondering, is 164. MOSHE EL HASHEM appears 12 times — 5 VAYOMER, 3 VAYITZ'AK, 2 VAYASHAV, 1 VAYITPALEL, 1 VAY'DABEIR. Com mentaries make a point about the VAY'DABEIR because of its connotation of SPEAKING HARSHLY or STRONGLY. [11] This TTriddle has two answers, depending upon how you read the question. Solvers who got this one, read the question this way: Whose family tree had ONE? The answer is DAN's, whose single branch was CHUSHIM, in Pinchas called SHUCHAM to the family of SHUCHAMI. If you read the question this way: Whose family TREE had one? then the answer is ZEVULUN, one of whose sons was EILON to the family EILONI. EILON is an oak tree, so Zevulun's family tree had a tree. Special mention to RHM and Shalom Miller for their solution sets. Good work. The G'matriya of the first pasuk in Matot is 3324. The G'matriya of the first pasuk in Mas'ei is 3324 [The ParshaPix Index] [The
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