S/o Jewish riddles!

↑ keym ↓

Tue, Oct 26 2021, 5:07 pm

b.chadash wrote:

What was the name of Aharon's wife?

Elisheva

↑ LiLIsraeli ↓

Tue, Oct 26 2021, 6:20 pm

Saralle wrote:

I can't believe I didn't see this thread till now! I just read through 50-some pages, and here are a couple that weren't asked yet:

What is the shortest word in the Torah?

Where in the Torah do you have 5 words in a row, all starting with an aleph?

The shortest word in the Torah is just the letter hey - Ha! LaHashem tigmilu zos, in Parshas Haazinu

amother

↑ OP ↓

Tue, Oct 26 2021, 6:20 pm

keym wrote:

Elisheva

Correct.
I actually meant to ask who was the wife of Levi. It's not in the Torah, but it's brought down in other places.

↑ Laiya ↓

Tue, Oct 26 2021, 7:21 pm

b.chadash wrote:

Palti ben Layish. Because he was forced to marry the daughter of Shaul who had been promised to Dovid.

Yup!

↑ Laiya ↓

Tue, Oct 26 2021, 7:22 pm

Who was criticized for crying for no reason?

↑ Laiya ↓

Tue, Oct 26 2021, 7:23 pm

amother [ OP ] wrote:

Correct.
I actually meant to ask who was the wife of Levi. It's not in the Torah, but it's brought down in other places.

The baby name thread said Adina?

↑ b.chadash ↓

Tue, Oct 26 2021, 7:32 pm

Laiya wrote:

Who was criticized for crying for no reason?

All the Jews in the midbar (besides for the women!)

↑ b.chadash ↓

Tue, Oct 26 2021, 7:34 pm

Laiya wrote:

The baby name thread said Adina?

Yup! Ever since I discovered that, I have loved the name and hoped to have an Adina one day.

↑ Laiya ↓

Tue, Oct 26 2021, 7:36 pm

b.chadash wrote:

All the Jews in the midbar (besides for the women!)

Yes!

↑ Laiya

Tue, Oct 26 2021, 7:37 pm

b.chadash wrote:

Yup! Ever since I discovered that, I have loved the name and hoped to have an Adina one day.

Also love the name.

↑ b.chadash ↓

Tue, Oct 26 2021, 7:41 pm

Who fashioned golden mice and for what purpose?

↑ b.chadash ↓

Tue, Oct 26 2021, 7:41 pm

I don't know if this question was asked already, but who had the same name as his mechutan?

↑ b.chadash ↓

Tue, Oct 26 2021, 7:42 pm

Who was the first person in the Torah who was named after his grandfather?

(I don't know if this is a real thing, but a teacher of mine once pointed this out.)

↑ b.chadash ↓

Tue, Oct 26 2021, 7:44 pm

Who in Tanach was married first to a Rasha and then to a tzaddik?

↑ salt ↓

Tue, Oct 26 2021, 10:17 pm

cbsp wrote:

You got it!

The ender letters (sofit in Hebrew) are kof/chof, mem, nun, peh, tzadee

Look at the words following the "aleph" word in the sequence you found in musaf

Ah I see it but only in nusach sfard/eidot hamizrach.
Asheknazi nussach is slightly different

↑ keym ↓

Wed, Oct 27 2021, 5:17 am

b.chadash wrote:

Who in Tanach was married first to a Rasha and then to a tzaddik?

Avigayil

↑ b.chadash ↓

Wed, Oct 27 2021, 6:52 am

keym wrote:

Avigayil

Correct!

↑ cbsp ↓

Wed, Oct 27 2021, 9:01 am

b.chadash wrote:

Who fashioned golden mice and for what purpose?

The plishtim when they returned the Aron. To show that they recognized that the gruesome plague they were stricken with was from Hashem, as a punishment for taking the Aron.

↑ cbsp ↓

Wed, Oct 27 2021, 9:03 am

salt wrote:

Ah I see it but only in nusach sfard/eidot hamizrach.
Asheknazi nussach is slightly different

So sorry, I had no idea there was a difference in nusach for that!

I heard about it at a Rabbi Reisman Navi Shiur years ago...

↑ b.chadash ↓

Wed, Oct 27 2021, 9:27 am

cbsp wrote:

The plishtim when they returned the Aron. To show that they recognized that the gruesome plague they were stricken with was from Hashem, as a punishment for taking the Aron.

Correct!