TTriddles "Report"

TTriddle for Parashat T'tzaveh

This week’s TTriddles:

[1] Moshe : Bnei Yisrael :: Yehoshua : Kohanim
[2] Reynolds Boys’ Choir
[3] 456 gems
[4] From Yechezel HaNavi to Shimon HaTzadik
[5] Limited to 250.5
[6] Ours have 2; its has one
[7] Fighting Illini, Hoosiers, Hawkeyes, Wolverines, Spartans, Golden Gophers, Wildcats, Buckeyes, Nittany Lions, Boiler Makers, Badgers - and who?

Last issue’s (T’RUMA) TTriddles:

[1] Mr. E. Aries, the T-man

This gentleman’s name can be rendered into TTriddlese (a mix of English, Hebrew, and whatever works) as ADON E. RAM, Aries being the Latin name of the constellation, the Ram. This then becomes ADONIRAM ben AVDA, who is named in the haftara of T’ruma as the one appointed to be in charge of the MAS (tax, of people rather than funds, but…). He was more like a Minister of Labor than a tax man, but for this TTriddle - and using the word MAS, we identified him as a Treasury man, i.e. a T-man.

[2] Aunt Agatha Cutler

The answer to this TTriddle has been the answer to many different TTriddles over the years. For this one, just take the first two letters of each word in the TTriddle and you get Au, Ag, and Cu. These are the chemical symbols for the three metals that were used in the construction of the Mishkan, and which were collected from the people. Gold, Silver, and Copper. The gold and copper were donated in any amounts that a person wanted to give. The silver (or, at least, almost all of it) was collected from the MACHATZIT HASHEKEL, the collection of the silver half-shekel, required of every male from the age of 20 and up.

[3] X-ray man’s elemental family

This TTriddle conveniently has the same answer as the previous one. (We told you that the answer has served many a TTriddle.) The man credited with the discovery of X-rays is Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen (1845-1923). He was the recipient of the first ever Nobel prize for Physics, 1901. His discovery was accidental, the result of observing an unexpected occurrence while conducting experiments on cathode rays. Okay, we’re getting there. Element #111 of the Periodic Table of Elements, which was originally called by the unimaginative name of Unununium, from the Latin for one, one, one (as in 111), has been renamed in honor of Roentgen. It is now known as Roentgenium. It is a man-made heavy metal, classified in the same family (group 11) as Copper, Silver, and Gold.
X-rays, by the way, in Hebrew are known as TZILUMEI RENTGEN.

[4] Is that like detached houses?

Sometimes a word or phrase in the sedra says, Make a TTriddle out of me. Please. Something just hits you a certain way. The rings that were welded to the sides of the SHULCHAN were put there to house the carrying rods. The words used to explain their purpose is to be BATIM L’VADIM. Housings for the rods. But it sort of sounded like alone houses. Unattached.

[5] If Moshzar is 60, what is Y’RI’OT?

Taking four words out of context from the description of the woven panels of fabric that were attached to form the Mishkan, the first covering of the Mishkan (the same term is used for this covering as for the whole thing)...
ESER Y’RI’OT SHEISH MOSHZAR
If we translate SHEISH as 6 rather than as linen, we get ten Y’RI’OT six, 60. Therefore Y’RI’OT must be “times”.

[6] Be’er Sheva & Sana’a
Be’er Sheva is unofficially known as the capital of the Negev. Sana’a is the capital of Yemen. Taken together, they represent the phrase used to describe the south wall of the Mishkan, NEGBA TEIMANA. Each of these words is a synonym for DAROM, south.

[7] Unexplained from the ParshaPix

In the lower-right corner of last week’s PP was an optical illusion that can be seen as a dot either on the outside of a cube or inside it. The ARON was to be covered with gold MIBAYIT UMICHUTZ

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