Parashat Yitro
The ear is AND YITRO HEARD... as well as our hearing at Sinai. Yitro said B"H. He made important suggestions concerning justice (the scales). MCLX are Roman numerals for the groups of 1000, 100, 50, and 10, as Yitro suggested. "Like one person with one heart." The Kiddush cup is for ZACHOR; the negation circle over plowing is for the prohibition of Melacha. The walking Shofar is a play on words. And the prohibition of ascending the Mizbei'ach with steps. Special mention to Zvi Stone (again) and Nisan-Baruch Leibowitz and parents for finding the puzzle last week and solving it. If it is to be all apples and alert alligators... I cannot tell you how good it made me feel that someone got this puzzle. The puzzle sentence is made up of two different things - Five 2-letter words in a row and 5 words in a row that begin with an A. Both of these "word oddities" appear in B'shalach. At the end of the sedra are the words KI YAD AL KEIS KAH, five 2-letter words in a row. And the sequence of AMAR OYEIV ERDOF ASIG ACHALEIK shalal, is 5 words all beginning with an ALEF. Zvi, be in touch about getting the two CD's that are due you. Same for your CD, Nisan-Baruch. Torah Tidbits Audio on Arutz-7 One of the riddles on last week's show was: Although tonight (last Thursday) is the last opportunity of Kiddush L'vana this month, what element of K.L. will continue into this Shabbat? IWC of BB suggested TOVIM M'OROT, said at the end of K.L. and on Shabbat morning in KEIL ADON. SZN of ?? mentioned SHALOM ALEICHEM, common to both K.L. and Leil Shabbat. The "correct" answer was an element of K.L. that is read in the Torah portion of Shabbat Shira (as well as being said every day. TIPOL ALEIHEM EIMATA VAFACHAD... [The ParshaPix Index][The Yitro Homepage]
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