PARSHA-PIX - Rosh Hashana

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 isnt 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-VAYEILECH) TTriddles:
[1] The deal with NIZAL
[2] 5 storks, working overtime, delivered him. Used wagon wheels for buttons.40 bowls of porridge whetted his appetite. Worked with 7 large men all named Elmer.
[3] A Query and Retrieval Information User SystemVerseauHome of Sadalmelik, Sadalsuud, and Sadachbia
[4] d, 40d, 10y, 430y, 40d, 40d, 7y, 7y

And the envelope please...
[1] NIZAL is a combination of N”I (NUN-YUD) and Z”L (ZAYIN-LAMED). The former is NEIRO YA’IR and is often placed after the name of someone living. Z”L is ZICHRONO LIVRACHA and is placed after the name of someone who is not alive (in the conventional use of the term). The DEAL made by G-d with the People of Israel is expressly not just for those physically present on this day, but for those who are not there, as well. The implication is that it refers to Jews alive and departed together. No one got this one.
[2] Several people got this one. It is all a description of the quintessential lumberjack, Paul Bunyan. Hence it is a reference to CHOTEIV EITZECHA, your wood- cutters.
[3] Similarly, the three lines in this TTriddle all refer to Aquarius. AQUARIUS is an acronym for the first line. Verseau is French for Aquarius. And the three strange names in the third line are the names of three of the stars in the constellation Aquarius. Therefore, the TTriddle refers to SHO’EIV MEIMECHA, your water drawers.
[4] The d stands for days and the y means years (that was easy). Each of the represented phrases - yamim, 40 days, 10 years, 430 years, and 7 years is preceded in the Torah by the same word: MIKEITZ. One of the Mikeitz 7 years is from Vayeilech, when the Torah presents us with the mitzva of Hak-hel.
In addition to the TTriddles, there was one element in the ParshaPix (from page 3) that was not explained in the section of Explanations of ParshaPix (page 17). And that element is the MEGILA, which reminds us of ESTHER. Where do we find Esther in the Torah, the Gemara asks? And the answer is from Parshat Vayeilech, where G-d says He will hide His face from us, if we turn away from Him. V’ANOCHI HASTEIR ASTIR PANAI... This is more than a play on words. The time of the Purim story was a time of HESTER PANIM, with G-d operated only “behind the scenes”.
Honorable memtion of MM/Bklyn, DM, and RHM for their consistent efforts to seek solutions to the weekly TTriddles, products (as my brother is fond of saying) of my warped mind. Their spirit and that of others, keeps the TTriddles coming. Shana Tova.

This week's TTriddles:
[1] What Arpachshad has in common with one of the Avot
[2] Bnei Yisrael, Beit Yehuda, His Nation - what and whom else?

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