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TTriddles - Parashat Lech L'cha

Last issue’s (No’ach) TTriddles:

[1] go out and see - what?
The answer is: The Haftara of Parshat No’ach. It consists of the haftara of KI TEITZEI (go out) and that of R’EI (see). This is a unique situation, that a sedras haftara should be the combined haftarot of two other sedras. Related is the fact that on either Vayeishev or Mikeitz, whichever is Shabbat Chanuka (or the first, if there are two) we read as the haftara the exact haftara reading of B’haalot’cha. And technically, that is not unique because when Rosh Chodesh Av is Shabbat, which is Parshat R’ei, we read the haftara for Shabbat Rosh Chodesh. Then, two weeks later, for Parshat Ki Teitzei, the haftara is its own plus the one for R’ei, which is continuous with it in Yeshayahu. That means that in those years (11.5% of the time - same years as Trippple Purim and Erev Pesach on Shabbat), No’ach and Ki Teitzei get the identical haftarot, as do Vayeishev or Mikeitz (either is possible in that kind of year) and B’haalot’cha. And here’s one more TTriddle on the same topic, while we’re at it: What does No’ach and Seuda HaMafseket have in common?
[2] This time, read it the way it is
This refers to the pasuk from the haftara of No’ach (and R’ei): V’CHOL BANAYICH LIMUDEI HASHEM, V’RAV SHALOM BANAYICH. On Friday night (Nusach Ashkenaz) at the end of BAMEH MADLIKIN, we say, “Read not BANAYICH (your children), but rather BONAYICH (your builders). We say this piece of gemara (B’rachot 64a) again after the Musaf Amida at the end of Pitum HaK’toret. This gemara notwithstanding, when we read it in the haftara, we should not change the word BANAYICH, but read it the way it is.
[3] GF/GS namesakes
Of course, this would have been easier if the initialisms were written out fully: Gradfather and grandson namesakes. The answer: NACHOR, which is the name of Terach’s father and the name of one of his sons.
[4] What No’ach found can be found where?
The last pasuk in B’reishit is: V’NO’ACH MATZA CHEIN B’EINEI HASHEM, And No’ach found CHEIN (perhaps, favor) in HaShem’s eyes. Besides finding CHEIN in HaShem’s eyes, we read in Yirmiyahu (haftara of the second day of Rosh HaShana), So said HaShem: MATZA CHEIN BAMIDBAR. The Midbar is the place in which to find what No’ach found - CHEIN.
[5] No’ach can say that his sons are, “from my family” in more ways than one. Count them.
Well one way to understand such a statement by No’ach is the straight understanding of any of several p’sukim that tell us that No’ach’s sons were SHEIM, CHAM, and YEFET. But - and the hint was “count them” - if you take the gimatriya of SHEIM (340), CHAM (48) and YEFET (490) and add them together, you get 868, which is the same gimatriya as MIMISHPACHTI, from my family.
[6] He started with the end and ended with callo
YEFET. He started with the end, meaning that his first son is GOMER (as in finish), and ended with TIRAS, his seventh named son.
[7] The TEIVA and two in the TEIVA
G-d said to No’ach: Make yourself an Ark of gopher wood… In addition to the TEIVA being GOPHER, there were two GOPHERs in the TEIVA as well.
[8] 7th gen worked with 10th & 2nd
ADAM, KAYIN, CHANOCH, IRAD (no connection to A-ROD), M’CHUYA’EIL (a.k.a. M’CHIYA’EIL), M’TU- SHA’EIL, LEMECH, TUVAL-KAYIN who was the seventh generation from KAYIN, was he who “sharpened all cutting implements of copper and iron”. He worked with copper, NECHOSHET, which is spelled NUN-CHET (No’ach, 10th generation from ADAM) SHIN-TAV (Sheit, 2nd generation from ADAM)
[9] Adam, Mahalaleil, Avraham, Yaakov
This was a TTriddle in the Shabbat B’reishit issue and became a special challenge in the No’ach issue. Disappointingly, no one got it yet, so we will reword this challenge by going down one generation for each name mentioned: KAYIN, YERED, MIDYAN, REUVEN. That’s the new challenge, if you can call it that. So we are not answering this one yet again and will give CDs to the first correct solutions.
[10] Street on which the Nigerian Institute of Management is located
The Nigerian Institute of Management was established in 1961 when a general meeting of top managers in Commerce, Industry and Government was convened to discuss the formation of a management Institute in Nigeria… It is known by the acronym NIM, and its Management House is located at Plot 22, Idowu Taylor Street, Victoria Island, Lagos. But for TTriddle purposes, it is located on NIM Road.
Apologies for there not having been ParshaPix explanations of late. We have had packed issues and that column has paid the price more than once. Here’s an abridged version of last week’s ParshaPix explanations. Worms come in apples, but all the other animals came in pears (pairs). A fish to remind us that fish were not taken on the Teiva, but survived the Mabul in a column of water under the Teiva that did not have the destructive forces of the rest of the floodwaters. Triceratops, a rhinoceros- like dinosaur did not survive. Dove with olive branch… cloud with rainbow… cloud with rain. Grapes and wine flask are references to No’ach post-Flood occupation. People figures represent the proliferation of human beings after the Flood. Tower of Babel is accompanied by words of many languages. The words all mean WATER, the main theme of the first part of the sedra. languages are: Luxembourgish, Zulu, Chinese, Swedish, Tamil, Gaelic, Italian, Carib, Finnish, Welsh, Hungarian, Albanian, Bengali, Korean, Indonesian. TIRAS, KUSH ball; GOMER Pyle; an OVAL, SH’VA, 12” ruler is for PUT, as in U’FOOT. KAFTORIM, CHAVILA The RAF plane called the NIMROD MR2. Rank-insignia of a major in the IDF. RAV SEREN, abbreviated RESEN.

This week’s TTriddles:

[1] Yerachmiel and Chetzron
[2] Let him decide: BaOmer or LaOmer
[3] Where did the G"G promise come to fruition?
[4] The father bumped into the coffee table hard. What got hurt?

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