This week's TTriddles Silly rabbit, don't you know that TTriddles are for everyone! Whether you solve them or not, whether you try to solve them or not, 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 that you can share with family and friends and Shabbat guests (even if you have to go back to the previous Parshat HaShavua to do it. Last week's (D'varim) TTriddles: [1] Let's say that the SARIM were included in the number they were in charge of. How many SARIM per 1000 people? (page 6, column 2) [2] Have you skied the Tur Talga? (10:2) [3] The laws of the 8th leper and the tribes of the things are still missing one more to be properly compensated. (18:2) [4] Originally, one of the heads (22:2) [5] Don't you recognize Oliver Wendell Holmes? (22:2) [6] carry - become - sit (23:1) and are real live PPP TTriddle: [7] And if they are not? (26:2) And the answers, please... [1] The Torah tells us that there were SAREI ALAFIM, captains of thousands, SAREI MEI'OT, of hundreds, SAREI CHAMISHIM, of fifties, SAREI ASAROT, of tens. Assuming that the leader of a group of ten was one of the ten (which is one opinion among commentators), then every 1000 people will include 100 SAREI ASARA, 20 SAREI CHAMISHIM, 10 SAREI MEI'A, and ONE SAR ELEF, for a total of 131 SARIM per 1000 people. It is possible though, that one in five SAREI ASARA was not only in charge of his group of ten, but also was in charge of the five groups, namely, he was also a SAR CHAMISHIM. So too for the captains of 100 and 1000 (maybe). This would mean that there would be a few as 100 SARIM per 1000 people. Or somewhere between 100 and 131, depending upon who "doubles up", if anyone. [2] TUR TALGA means "snowy mountain" and it is the TARGUM (Onkeles) of S'NIR. S'nir is the name that the Emori people gave to the HERMON. (The Tzidonites, by the way, called the Hermon, SIRYON.) So the question was, have you skied the Hermon?, and the correct answer is YES or NO, depending... [3] This issue has been presented in TT before, but not as a TTriddle. There are five sedras whose names have dropped the HEI HA'Y'DI'A, the definite article, THE. Parshat Mishpatim sh/b (V'eileh) HaMishpatim. So too, (Va'y'hi bayom) HaShmini, (Zot t'h'yeh Torat) HaM'tzora, (Rashei) HaMatot, and (Eileh) HaD'varim. The TTriddle as worded, "compensates" four of the five sedras — THE laws (Mishpatim), THE 8th (Shmini), THE tribes (Matot), and THE things (D'varim). Leper is the one uncompensated. [4] N'HAR P'RAT is mentioned in the description of the boundaries of Eretz Yisrael. Originally (in the book of B'reishit, that is), it was one of the four heads of the river that flowed from Eden. [5] Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr. that is — Sr. was a doctore) was a famous jurist. The question about recognizing him is an allusion to the prohibition of LO TAKIRU PANIM BAMISHPAT, do not favor one party when rendering judgment. Literally, sort of, it can mean not to recognize judicial people. [6] In the Torah, Moshe asks, EICHA ESA... how can I CARRY the burden... The Navi Yeshayahu asks, EICHA HA'Y'TA... how has (Jerusalem) BECOME... And in Eicha, Yirmiyahu asks, EICHA YASH'VA... How did it happen that the city SITS alone? [7] This question is a continuation of TTriddle #1. If the SARIM are not counted as part of their groups, if a SAR of ASARA has 10 people in his unit, not including himself, then how many SARIM are there per 1000 people. Again, assuming no SAR carried more than one position, there would be 131 SARIM for 1000 people. Not the same as before though, because that would make 131 SARIM for 1131 people (including themselves). That averages to 115.8 SARIM per 1000 people. If the SARIM double up, then there could be as few as 100 for 1000 people. That's 100 among 1100 people, or an average of 90.9 SARIM per 1000 people. RHM solved some, but she also worked very hard on the ones she didn't match the "official" solution. Kol HaKavod. ZVI ROTH did a good job on many of this week's TTriddles, too. Top honors, however, this week (and prizes) go to the RBS Gorens. Not only was their sol'n set the best, but they also called my attention to two other EICHAs that were not included in the TTriddle, and the Jr. I missed from OWH's name. The senior OWH was a doctor and writer. (RHM knew about the other OWH too.) This week's (Va'etchanan) TTriddles, scattered throughout the hard copy of TT, collected here for the electronic versions. [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
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