PARSHA-PIX - Sukkot

TTRIDDLES...
are Torah Tidbits-style riddles on Parshat HaShavua (sometimes on the calendar). They are found in the hard-copy of TT scattered throughout, usually at the bottom of different columns. In the electronic versions of TT, they are found all together at the end of the ParshaPix-TTriddles section. Some TTriddles are also presented for call-in solution on Torah Tidbits Audio (Arutz-7, Thursday night). The best solution set submitted each week (there isn’t always a best) wins a double prize — a CD from Noam Productions and/or a gift (game, puzzle, book, etc.) from Big Deal 

Last week's (Nitzavim, etc.) TTriddles:
[1] Lessons in the winter; sayings in the summer?
[2] HaShem, Avram, Avraham, Yitzchak, Eisav, Reuven, Yosef, Bil'am, Moshe
[3] The one of the 6 that might have been there anyway
[4] Mostly to Yehoshua, but also to whom?
[5] The word and the name that connect Shabbat Shuva with Purim

And the envelope please...
[1] MATAR, rain, is associated with the winter, rainy season. At the beginning of Haazinu, we find YAAROF KAMATAR LIK'CHI, let my lessons fall like rain. Then it says, my saying shall flow down like dew. TAL is associated with the summer (even though we ask for TAL U'MATAR, we do (dew) find MORID HATAL for the summer season). Lessons in the winter, sayings in the summer.
[2] This one was kind of obvious. The answer is VAYEILECH. Searching (with the help of computer) for VAYEILECH in just the Torah, and counting only those VAYEILECHs followed by a name, the list in the TTriddle resulted.
[3] This one wasn't so easy. It was the only TTriddle that RHM failed to get. RHM is the winner again this week. Please be in touch concerning the prizes we owe you. B'KA SH'MO, BET-YUD-HEI-SHIN-MEM-VAV, is the mnemonic for the six letters/words that by Scribal Tradition, are at the head of a column in a Sefer Torah. The BET is for B'reishit, which is obviously at the top of a column. The HEI is in HABA'IM, which tops the SHIRAT HAYAM column in B'shalach. The MEM is from MA TOVU in Balak. The VAV is from V'A'IDA, the column-topper of the other SHIRA, namely HAAZINU. Since most Torah's today have VAV at the top of practically all the columns (this too is a sofer's tradition, but not of the same "requiredness" as B'KA SH'MO), V'A'IDA (as opposed to the other five) might have been at the top of a column anyway.
[4] A computer search throughout Tanach will reveal that the blessing CHAZAK V'EMATZ, be strong and courageous, is given to Yehoshua many times. Most of the time, he is the recipient of that blessing. Some suggest that the person to lead the people after Moshe Rabeinu, and the one to take the people into Eretz Yisrael needs that encouragement more than most people. Also to whom? Shlomo HaMelech is the answer. So is Bnei Yisrael. And there is one more answer in Yeshayahu 28.
[5] The name - that was the easy part - is ESTHER, as in G-d's prophecy/threat to "hide his face". The word is HAMELECH, as in HaMelech HaKadosh for Shabbat Shuva and all of Aseret Y'mei T'shuva, and the many occurrences of HaMelech in the Megila.

This week's TTriddles:
[1] 16.7 - Here 1, there - all of them
[2] The Torah, the Mitzva, the Blessing to Yehuda
[3] the fourth is often the child's first