TTriddles "Report"

TTriddles

Last issue’s (Sh’mot) TTriddles:
Slim pickings, this week - as the expression goes.
[1] The bush contained a miracle
The bush is HAS’NEH, as in the bush that was burning but not being consumed. The word HAS’NEH in Hebrew has a SAMACH and a NUN in it, between the two flanking HEIs. Switching the letters around we find NEIS (miracle) in the bush - which it actually contained.
[2] most common long ending
Of the twelve sons of Yaakov, mentioned again in the beginning of Parshat Sh’mot, we find five of their names end with a NUN SOFIT, a.k.a. NUN P’SHUTA, a straight NUN, which is long - the most common long ending among the names.
[3] Final score: NIR 9 - THE PAGE 3
This TTriddle follows [2] with another look at the final letter of each name of Yaakov’s twelve sons. As mentioned in [2], five names end in NUN. Two others end with a YUD and two more end with a REISH. If we combine these three letters to spell NIR, we give it 9 points for the letters that end more than one name. This leaves three more names, each of which ends in a different letter - HEI for Yehuda, DALET for Dan and PEI for Yosef. These three letters spell the word HADAF, and in this TTriddle, THE PAGE gets 3 points.
Here’s a challenge you can give your children and Shabbat guests at the table (but don’t offer a prize to avoid potential jealousy among your children or grandchildren). The sons of Yaakov want to divide into two equal teams by different criteria. 1) Names with an without a NUN (anywhere in the name) - name the teams and who should be captain of the NUN team? (Don’t send us answers - just have fun at the Shabbat table. 2) Now redivide the teams by names with and without a YUD. See if you can come up with other criteria that would allow the brothers to split into two even teams. (Sons of Leah vs. the others works - we had that a number of weeks ago. And we had the VAV team vs. the without VAV.)

This week’s TTriddles:
[1] Yitzchak, Pinchas, Hagar, wine vinegar, locust and the well
[2] Last week, one of the third set; this week, one of the second set.
[3] Where should the Kahati Mishnayot be printed?
[4] He, his wife, son, and great-grandson, and his son and grandson
[5] ...and all the water that was in the river changed… (Sh’mot 7:20) Why do we single it out?
[6] Uziel’s Psalm in the gold
[7] The link between Shauvot, Yom Kippur, and Purim on the one hand and TU BiShvat on the other
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Kup’s Korner
Besides Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov, there are many names from Tanach that can be found in the weekday Mincha Amida - directly or otherwise. How many can you find?
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Rabbi Atik z"l used to ask…
Who was an ancestor to every king of Malchei Yehuda and to every Kohen Gadol except one?
Taken from a new book: Rabbi Atik’s Torah Teasers by Rabbi Moshe Erlbaum

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