S/o Jewish riddles!

amother

Zinnia

Tue, Oct 24 2023, 7:58 pm

b.chadash wrote:

Yarden
Yam suf
Nahar pras?
Chidekel?
Gichon
Shiloach

Mara/mei miriva

↑ dena613 ↓

Tue, Oct 24 2023, 7:58 pm

effess wrote:

Great list
One important one missing

Yam hagadol

↑ dena613 ↓

Tue, Oct 24 2023, 7:59 pm

amother Zinnia wrote:

Mara/mei miriva

Oohh
And the water in navi that was bitter but the people still lived there because chein Hamakom al yoshveha

↑ dena613 ↓

Tue, Oct 24 2023, 8:05 pm

cbsp wrote:

Avrohom /Yaakov, Yisroel
Adam /Enosh

If we want to stretch then also Dovid/Moshiach
And if we include musaf shalosh regalim then also Yitzchak/Levi and Levi/Moshe and Aharon

Love the Adam and enosh!! Wow!!
Moshiach isn't mentioned and that's not a grandson.

↑ GLUE ↓

Tue, Oct 24 2023, 8:10 pm

When Yaakov dreamed the ladder which Malcheim went up also-not the ones who were accompany him.

↑ cbsp ↓

Tue, Oct 24 2023, 8:36 pm

dena613 wrote:

Love the Adam and enosh!! Wow!!
Moshiach isn't mentioned and that's not a grandson.

I said it was a stretch Very Happy

In kedusha
"al yedei Dovid mashiach tzidkecha" (we say mashiach is ben Dovid but not literally, so must be a grandkid)

↑ effess ↓

Tue, Oct 24 2023, 9:15 pm

cbsp wrote:

Nile?

Correct
Ye’or

Many other good ones!

According to the medrash, the well of Miriam created rivers every time they rested.

↑ dena613 ↓

Tue, Oct 24 2023, 9:27 pm

effess wrote:

Correct
Ye’or

Many other good ones!

According to the medrash, the well of Miriam created rivers every time they rested.

Wow!
If I was a morah I'm sure I'd know many more bodies of water. Halevai.

↑ dena613 ↓

Tue, Oct 24 2023, 9:30 pm

I don't even have all the answers, but I can think of a few off the top of my head

Name people in Tanach who shared a name (2 different people with exact same name)

Go! 😃

↑ keym ↓

Tue, Oct 24 2023, 9:32 pm

dena613 wrote:

I don't even have all the answers, but I can think of a few off the top of my head

Name people in Tanach who shared a name (2 different people with exact same name)

Go! 😃

Lemach and Lemach
Kayin and Tuval Kayin

↑ GLUE ↓

Tue, Oct 24 2023, 9:36 pm

In Parsha Chukatz there were about 30,000 kids called Aaron

↑ dena613 ↓

Tue, Oct 24 2023, 9:38 pm

GLUE wrote:

In Parsha Chukatz there were about 30,000 kids called Aaron

What?

↑ dena613 ↓

Tue, Oct 24 2023, 9:38 pm

keym wrote:

Lemach and Lemach
Kayin and Tuval Kayin

Yes! And there are more!!

↑ effess ↓

Tue, Oct 24 2023, 9:39 pm

Nachor and nachor son and father of terach

↑ GLUE ↓

Tue, Oct 24 2023, 9:46 pm

dena613 wrote:

What?

That's the Parsha that Aaron died and it says some were that there were about 30,000 kids who walked behind his Aron called Aaron because Aaron made peace between their parents so that they were born.

I know this is not what you were looking for

↑ dena613 ↓

Tue, Oct 24 2023, 9:57 pm

GLUE wrote:

😃
Never knew that!

I meant straight up pshat.

Come on, everyone, there are even women who shared their name!

↑ cbsp ↓

Tue, Oct 24 2023, 9:59 pm

dena613 wrote:

😃
Never knew that!

I meant straight up pshat.

Come on, everyone, there are even women who shared their name!

Tamar and Tamar

↑ keym ↓

Tue, Oct 24 2023, 10:00 pm

Milka- Rivkas grandmother
Milka- one of Bnos Tzlafchad

↑ b.chadash ↓

Tue, Oct 24 2023, 10:08 pm

Shaul son of Kish
Shaul Ben Haknanis, one of the nesiim

↑ b.chadash ↓

Tue, Oct 24 2023, 10:10 pm

Name a street in Yerushalayim that has the same name as a shofet