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TTriddles - Parashat Sh'mot

Last issue’s (VAYCHI) TTriddles:

1 According to this, an element of the PP is in error
The element of the PP referred to in this TTriddle is KEVER DAVID on Har Zion. According to the haftara of Parshat Vaychi (which comes from the beginning of Melachim Alef), David HaMelech was buried in IR DAVID. So either David HaMelech is not buried on Har Zion or Har Zion is the Biblical location called Ir David. Or something else. In consultation with a knowledgeable (and licensed) tour guide, the place called Kever David on Har Zion is NOT where David HaMelech is buried. That location has been identified as David’s burial place only from Byzantine times. The “word” is - among those who “know” - that the Biblical IR DAVID is the same as the current Ir David and that David HaMelech is buried there, as the p’sukim indicate. In Ir David is a location known as Kivrei Beit David, the burial place of the house of David. This does not necessarily mean that David himself is buried there.
2 The 12 sons of Yaakov from Gad to Yissachar
The 12 sons of Yaakov, in order of birth, are: Reuven, Shimon, Levi, Yehuda, Dan, Naftali, Gad, Asher, Yissachar Zevulun, Yosef, Binyamin. In Hebrew alphabetical order they are: Asher, Binyamin, Gad, Dan, Zevulun, Yehuda, Yosef, Yissachar, Levi, Naftali, Reuven, Shimon. And in numeric value of their names, they list from GAD (7) to YISSACHAR (830). Between these extremes, we find Yehuda (30), Levi (46), Dan (54), Zevulun (95), Yosef (156), Binyamin (162), Reuven (259), Shimon (466), Asher (501), Naftali (570). Average Gimatriya of the 12 sons of Yaakov is 264L.. The middle of the list is neatly held by Rachel’s two sons - Yosef and Binyamin.
3 K’vish Rashi #60
No, not Rashi’s road. A K’vish Rashi is a principal road. #60 is the main road from Jerusalem to Efrat. It is DERECH EFRAT (“which is Beit Lechem”), as in the location of Rachel’s burial place. Yaakov told Yosef about it towards the beginning of Vaychi.
4 straight beats a flush
This TTriddle requires a little knowledge of poker, which, having just past Nittel Nacht, is not such an off thing to discuss. Without going into the whole game, the relative value of different hands is crucial to knowing who wins and loses. For example, four-of-a-kind beats a full house and three-of-a-kind beats two pairs. And a flush (5 cards of the same suit) beats a straight (a consecutive sequence of 5 cards, irrespective of suit). But the TTriddle says that a straight beats a flush. The hands have been switched around. As Yaakov did with his hands, placing his right hand on Efrayim and his left on Menashe. SIKEIL ET YADAV.
5 Preditory Teddy
Teddy is a pet form of the names Edward or Theodor(e). Let’s take Theodor, as in Theodor Herzl. His Hebrew name was Binyamin Ze’ev. Yaakov’s bracha to Binyamin begins: BINYAMIN Z’EIV YITROF, loosely translated (very loosely) - Preidtory Teddy.
6 2^4 * 3^2 * 37 * 101 * 229
What you see in the TTriddle is the prime factorization of a number. 2 to the fourth power is 16. 3 squared is 9. If you now multiply 16 x 9 x 37 x 101 x 229 you get 123,231,312 (if you multiplied correctly). This was the original TTriddle until we decided to make it more… fun. To solve, you have to not see this as 123 million, 231 thousand, 312. Rather, it must be seen as three groups of three numbers each: 123 and 231 and 312. 123 will represent the three words of a special pasuk in Vaychi: LISHU-AT’CHA KIVITI HASHEM. In the kabbalistic presentation of this pasuk in K’RI’AT SH’MA AL HAMITA (and other places), the words of the pasuk are recited with each of three starting points. In addition to the was the pasuk occurs in the Torah (123), we say KIVITI HASHEM LISHU- AT’CHA (231) and HASHEM LISHU-AT’- CHA KIVITI (312).
7In Torah: Yaakov twice, Yosef, and Edom
VAYMA-EIN, and he refused… The word occurs 9 times in Tanach, four occurrences of which are in the Torah. Three are in B’reishit: Yaakov refuses to be comforted after Yosef’s disappearance and (wrongly) presumed death. Yosef adamantly refuses the advances of Potifar’s wife (adamant, because of the SHALSHELET above the word). And Yaakov - in Vaychi - refuses to switch his hands back to the way Yosef had expected them to be. In Bamidbar, the nation of Edom refuses to allow Bnei Yisrael to pass through its land.
8 In the beginning, Yehuda are coming are capital
B’reishit, Yehuda, and HaBa’im all head columns in the Torah.

This week’s TTriddles:

1  Who had an extra grandfather?
2 Mount Sinai and a bush on it
3 Pre-Exodus and when, did they do this?
4 The one missing from the Seven
5 Basket, milk node, the earth
6 LD1, LD2, YL1, YL2, YB2, YL5, YR2, AY3, Peresh

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