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TTriddles - Parashat Va'Eira

Last issue’s (SH’MOT) TTriddles:

[1] Who had an extra grandfather?
Gershom and Eliezer, sons of Moshe and Tzipora. Their paternal grandfather is Amram. Their maternal grandfather is Yitro, who has several names, including YETER. That means extra.

[2] Mount Sinai and a bush on it
There is a phrase that occurs five times in the Torah (also, in all of Tanach). BO’EIR BA-EISH, burning with fire. Four times in D’varim, when Moshe Rabeinu describes Matan Torah and the Sinai Experience, he uses the phrase BO’EIR BA-EISH. (One time, it is BO’EIR BA-EISH AD LEIV HASHAMAYIM, burning with fire until the heart of the heavens.) Once in Parshat Sh’mot, we find the phrase applied to the S’NEH, the Burning Bush. Our Tradition is that the S’NEH was on Har Sinai.

[3] Pre-Exodus and when, did they do this?
In looking at this TTriddle, we see that the wording is much to vague and can include many different things. That which was intended was women borrowing clothes from their neighbors. This is mentioned in Parshat Sh’mot (3:22) as part of that which G-d tells Moshe at the S’NEH. It is to be one of the things that immediately precedes the Exodus. In a totally different context, it is what the last mishna of Masechet Taanit tells us about TU b’Av - the daughters of Jerusalem would go out in borrowed white garments - (borrowed) so as not to embarrass those who have none…

[4] The one missing from the Seven
The end of the pasuk quoted in the Lead Tidbit (Sh’mot 3:8), refers to Eretz Yisrael as a good and expansive land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and “the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.” These are 6 of the Seven Nations in the future Eretz Yisrael. Who is missing? The GIRGUSHI. Rashi (elsewhere) quotes the Midrash in saying that the Girgashi fled on its own rather than encounter Bnei Yisrael, therefore they are not mentioned in some of the listings of the Seven Nations. GIRGASHI is mentioned at the end of Va’etchanan in the definitive list of the Seven Nations. (In the Brit Bein HaB’tarim, they are mentioned as one of ten nations in the land that G-d promises to Avraham and his descendants.)

[5] Basket, milk node, the earth
VATIFTACH - And she opened… Bat Par’o opened the basket with Moshe in it. The earth opened her mouth (itself) and swallowed Datan and Aviram and Korach… Yael opened the flask (NOD) of milk and gave Sisra some, which made him drowsy. He them received a holey temple, as the old riddle’s punchline goes.

[6] LD1, LD2, YL1, YL2, YB2, YL5, YR2, AY3, Peresh
Bat Par’o names Moshe. VATIKRA SH’MO MOSHE… Others that named sons (we can call Bat Par’o a mother of sorts to Moshe, since the Tanach - in Divrei HaYamim basically does the same) with the exact phrase - VATIKRA SH’MO - are each of Lot’s daughters - in the “code” of the TTriddle, the sons are LD1(that’s a one, not the letter i) and LD2,  for Lot and daughter one and Lot and daughter 2. YL-one is Yaakov’s and Leah’s first son, Reuven, YL2 is Shimon, YL5 is Yissachar. For each of these sons, Leah named them and the Torah uses the words VATIKRA SH’MO. So too for YB2, that would be Naftali, second son of Yaakov and Bilha (named by Rachel), and Rachel’s naming Binyamin (YR2), although her name did not stick; his father called him Binyamin - and so do we. AY3 is the third son of Amram and Yocheved - named, as mentioned above, by Bitya (a.k.a. Bat Par’o). These 8 occurrences of VATIKRA SH’MO are all from the Chumash (7 in B’reishit and one in Sh’mot). There is one more occurrence in Divrei HaYamim. And MAACHA, wife of MACHIR gives birth to a son, VATIKRA SH’MO, and she names him, PERESH…

[7] Unexplained in the ParshaPix
In the lower right-hand corner is a picture of a cross-section of a corn dog, which is “A frankfurter that is encased in corn bread batter before being baked or fried, usually served on a stick.” The closest we have to that in Israel is a hot dog encased in phyllo dough, which is called, in Israeli slang, MOSHE BATEIVA, Moshe in the basket, as in Parshat Sh’mot.

[8] The MazalPic for Sh’vat (we change to the new month’s MazalPic on Shabbat M’vorchim) is the meterological symbol for Cumulonimbus clouds, which is “a type of cloud that is tall, dense, and involved in thunderstorms and other intense weather. Cumulonimbus means “column rain” in Latin.” As a rain cloud it carries water, making it a water carrier, as in Aquarius the water carrier - Zodiac sign of the month of Sh’vat. May our Sh’vat be filled with benefical, blessed rain. The name of the mazal of Sh’vat in Hebrew is D’LI, bucket or pail, which carry water.

This week’s TTriddles:

[1] 1 + 2 + (2+1+7 + 1) +1
[2] Ranidae stolidus
[3] C14-H10-O9 or maybe C76-H52-O46
[4] Kermit thinks that July the 4th is a British king
[5] SEgol vs. kaMATZ 16-1
[6] Redemption, Kehuna, Yechezkeil x 8
[7] More than 50% animals constitutes this

Note: After all the ParshaPix explanations above, one element remains as an Unexplained. Noam Productions CD for the correct solution to it.

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