PARSHA-PIX Parshat B'reishit

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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 issue’s (Sukkot) TTriddles:
[1] 29 times, and not once elsewhere!
[2] Her third and her second in its second
[3] L4 and B1 share an appellation
[4] Who should lead the benching?
[5] Vast oval aurora made light
[6] October 11th, April 7th, May 8th
[7] Kaddish/2 or Bracha x 2

And the envelope please...
[1] Shlomo HaMelech uses the expression TACHAT HASHEMESH, under the sun, 29 times in Kohelet. The phrase appears nowhere else in Tanach.
[2] Her refers to Leah. Her third son was Levi. The next her refers to Rachel. Her second son was Binyamin. Its refers to Parshat Vzot HaBracha. Its second Aliya is shared by Levi and Binyamin. With Simchat Torah on Shabbat this year, The Levi-Binyamin portion was read as Shlishi. So the TTriddle could have said: Her thirdand her second in its second or third. That would have been a funner TTriddle. (And don't try to tell me that funner isn't a word - all three of my children used the word throughout their childhoods... and beyond.)
[3] This one is a little similar to the previous TTriddle. But it points to an interesting fact. L4 is Leah's 4th son, Yehuda. B1 is Bilha's first, Dan. If someone were to ask you who is called GUR ARYEH in the Torah, I think the reflex answer would be Yehuda. And, in fact, Yaakov Avinu refers to Yehuda as a GUR ARYEH inhis blessings to his sons in Parshat Vaychi. But in Vzot HaBracha, Moshe Rabeinu uses the term for Dan. One tiny additional observation (haven't checked if the commentaries say anything about this): In Vaychi it's GUR ARYEH YEHUDA. In Vzot HaBracha it's DAN GUR ARYEH. And just for your further information, the words GURARYEH appear in one other place in Tanach - the book(let) of NACHUM. Now you know.
[4] The first three were gotten by TTriddle-solvers; not this one. Torah mitzva to bench is to eat, be satisfied, and bench. If among people who eat together, some are satiated and some are not (thereby having only a rabbinic obligation to bench), somone who is satisfied should lead the benching. This seems to indicatethat Naftali should lead the benching because he S'VA ratzon and (therefore) filled with G-d's blessing.
[5] All right. I was hoping someone would get this one, not necessarily by figuring it out, but by knowing how some TTriddles are formed. Vast oval aurora made light means nothing at all. But its letters rearrange to spell ETROG LULAV HADASIM ARAVOT.
[6] back to an easy one. These three dates (in the secular calendar) are the three times in the year 5764 (that's in the jewish calendar) that we will read SHOR O KESEV O EIZ: First day of Sukkot, second day of Pesach, and Shabbat Parshat Emor. October 12th could be added to internationalize this TTriddle because in ChutzLaAretz, they read this portion on the second day of Sukkot also.
[7] Which brings us to the best of the bunch, with one official TT solution and an equally valid alternate solution proposed by this week's double prizes winner - EB. Kaddish/2 is, of course, CHATZI KADDISH. Bracha x 2 is a pair of brachot, which you will see shortly. VAYDABEIR MOSHE... is the final pasuk in the readingin the first Torah on the first day of Sukkot. It is followed by CHATZI KADDISH. A while later, the pasuk is recited at Kiddush, where it is followed by two brachot - BOREI PRI HAGAFEN and LEISHEIV BASUKA. That was the official solution. EB offered this one: The VAY'CHULU HASHAMAYIM... p'sukim from the end of the CHATANB'REISHIT reading (second Torah on Simchat Torah) is followed by CHATZI KADDISH. On Friday nights at Kiddush, it is followed by BOREI PRI HAGAFEN and M'KADEISH HASHABBAT, or in the case of the Friday night of Simchat Torah, it is followed by HAGAFEN and M'KADEISH HASHABBAT V'YISRA'EL V'HAZMANIM.
EB: Your kind words about the different pages of the Sukkot Pull-Out were very much appreciated. But know that they did not influence the well-deserved first-place status of your solution set.

This week's TTriddles:
[1] Had he known in advance, he might have done commercials for Carmel's Brandy
[2] The Kayin-Yissachar connection in what mitzva?
[3] Sort of supports the Big Bang theory
[4] Taninim, Adam & Chava, Shabbat
[5] Can't resist: Parsha connection to the WS
[6] This time he doesn't back up R' Chananya's words
[7] Whose children were like the pre-tree couple?

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