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TTriddles - Parashat Vaychi

Last issue’s (VAYIGASH) TTriddles:

[1] The pillars of Vayigash & Ruth
Melachim Alef 7:15-22 - For he (Chiram from Tyre) cast two pillars of bronze, of eighteen cubits high apiece; and a line of twelve cubits measured the circle around each of them. And he made two capitals of molten bronze, to set upon the tops of the pillars; the height of one capital was five cubits, and the height of the other capital was five cubits; And nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the capitals which were upon the top of the pillars; seven for the one capital, and seven for the other capital. And he made the pillars, and two rows around upon the one network, to cover the capitals that were upon the top, with pomegranates; and so did he for the other capital. And the capitals that were upon the top of the pillars were of lily work in the vestibule, four cubits. And there were capitals upon the two pillars also above, over against the protuberance which was by the network; and the pomegranates were two hundred in rows around upon the other capital. And he set up the pillars in the vestibule of the temple; and he set up the right pillar, and called its name YACHIN; and he set up the left pillar, and called its name BO’AZ. And upon the top of the pillars was lily work; so was the work of the pillars finished. YACHIN was also the fourth son of Shimon, first mentioned in Vayigash. BOAZ, of course, we know from Megilat Ruth.

[2] round pre-heifer wagons
Wagon is AGALA. Wagons are AGALOT. Mentioned several times in Vayigash as having been sent by Yosef
(and Par’o) to bring Yaakov and family down to Egypt. CALF is EIGEL. CALVES are AGALIM. Female calf (which we wanted to force, so we called them pre-heifers) is EGLA. Plural: EGLOT. Round is AGOL. Female plural is AGULOT. So, round pre-heifer wagons are AGALOT EGLOT AGULOT. In Hebrew, the three words are all spelled the same way - just with different vowels. ,AGALOT, EGLOT, AGULOT The similarity
between wagons and calves is significant in Vayigash. Commentaries teach us that the wagons were a coded message from Yosef to his father to remind him of the last Torah topic they had studied together before MECHIRAT YOSEF, the sale of Yosef. One cannot help but notice that in that topic of EGLA ARUFA, there
is a statement by the elders of the town closest to a murdered corpse, that “Our hands have not shed this blood, nor have our eyes seen it.” Significant because of the issue as to whom guilt can be assigned in the whole episode of Yoesf and his brothers.

[3] A comune (township) with 1234 inhabitants in the province of Verona.
Simple for anyone who took the time to search the web. The answer is PALU, also the name of Reuven’s second son.

[4]City on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi… population ~270,000
Similarly, the city in question is PALU.

[5] So different! The other things that are tied
The word K’SHURA, tied together, is found in Parshat Vayigash in Yehuda’s plea to Yosef to let Binyamin return to his father. Yehuda describes the relationship between Yaakov and Binyamin as V’NAFSHO K’SHURA V’NAFSHO. And his soul is tied to his soul. The only other occurrence of the word in Tanach is in Mishlei, 22:15 to be specific, where it says IVELET K’SHURA V’LEIV NA’AR… “Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; (but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him).” So different!

[6] First, half a small group; then all of a large group
This TTriddle is about another word that occurs only a small number of times in Tanach. By the way, when a word only occurs 2-5 times or so, they make good TTriddles. More significantly, the Baal HaTurim often remarks about these kind of rarish words. The word is LIF-LEITA. It occurs twice in the Torah and two other times in the rest of Tanach. This TTriddle relates only to the two Torah occurrences. The first time, back in Parshat Vayishlach, was used when Yaakov divided his household into two camps, so that if Eisav were to attack one, the remaining camp would be LIF-LEITA, it would survive. In Vayigash, Yosef speaks of his being sent into Egypt to engineer a great deliverence, LIF-LEITA G’DOLA. He seems to be referring to the deliverance of the whole family, which, of course, grows to a great national size before the deliverance.

This week’s TTriddles:

[1] According to this, an element of the PP is in error
[2] The 12 sons of Yaakov from Gad to Yissachar
[3] K’vish Rashi #60
[4] straight beats a flush
[5] Preditory Teddy
[6] 2^4 * 3^2 * 37 * 101 * 229
[7] In Torah: Yaakov twice, Yosef, and Edom
[8] In the beginning, Yehuda are coming are capital

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