S/o Jewish riddles!

↑ b.chadash ↓

Sat, Dec 02 2023, 9:29 pm

cbsp wrote:

Was Shimshon the one from Navi?

There are a few but Shimshon wasn't one of them.
I think Shimshon's mother was given instructions regarding the baby but she wasn't given a name.

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↑ dena613 ↓

Sat, Dec 02 2023, 9:33 pm

(and I'm like, "how do you know?"
Him: "because the malach said 'you'll have a son and name him yishmael.'
Me: "okay thanks"
Him: "why do you want to know?"
Me: "because it's bchadash's Torah riddle")
😂

↑ dena613 ↓

Sun, Dec 03 2023, 6:59 am

Bumping because curious about the answer about the person in navi named before birth

↑ effess ↓

Mon, Dec 04 2023, 8:59 pm

Vayeishev trivia
Stars:
List all the places in Torah where stars are mentioned.
Midrashim too.

↑ effess ↓

Mon, Dec 04 2023, 9:01 pm

Vayeishev trivia
Name all the ppl in Tanach who was raised by someone other than their mother.

↑ effess ↓

Mon, Dec 04 2023, 9:03 pm

Vayeishev trivia:
Name any men mentioned in Torah (Torah shebaal peh included) who was beautiful looking.

↑ effess ↓

Mon, Dec 04 2023, 9:04 pm

Vayeishev trivia:
Name ppl in Torah started in a lowly position and rose to a much higher position?

↑ b.chadash ↓

Mon, Dec 04 2023, 9:14 pm

dena613 wrote:

Bumping because curious about the answer about the person in navi named before birth

There were st least two.
1. Shlomo Hamelech
2. Yoshiyahu
There may be one more. I can't remember offhand.

↑ b.chadash ↓

Mon, Dec 04 2023, 9:16 pm

effess wrote:

Vayeishev trivia
Stars:
List all the places in Torah where stars are mentioned.
Midrashim too.

1. Hashem told Avraham by the bris bein habesarim that his descendant will be numerous. Like the stars

2. Yosef's dream.

3. There's a rashi in beginning of shemos, iirc, that says that Hashem names each star.

4. Darach Kochav MiYaakov. In the blessings of Billam! Amd that's where Bar Kochva got his title from.

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↑ cbsp ↓

Mon, Dec 04 2023, 9:18 pm

b.chadash wrote:

There were st least two.
1. Shlomo Hamelech
2. Yoshiyahu
There may be one more. I can't remember offhand.

Koresh?

↑ b.chadash ↓

Mon, Dec 04 2023, 9:19 pm

cbsp wrote:

Koresh?

Yes! That's the one. Thank you.

↑ b.chadash ↓

Mon, Dec 04 2023, 9:19 pm

effess wrote:

Vayeishev trivia:
Name ppl in Torah started in a lowly position and rose to a much higher position?

Yosef
Shaul
Dovid Hamelech

Also Tanach?

↑ effess ↓

Mon, Dec 04 2023, 9:20 pm

b.chadash wrote:

Great job!
There are more

↑ b.chadash ↓

Mon, Dec 04 2023, 9:21 pm

effess wrote:

Vayeishev trivia:
Name any men mentioned in Torah (Torah shebaal peh included) who was beautiful looking.

Rav yochanon
Yosef
Dovid
Shaul (the girls couldn't stop looking at him, according to meforshim)

Also: Rav Yishmael ben Elisha the Koheimgadol. He was so beautiful that when the daughter of the Roman emperorheard he was going to be executed, she wanted to preserve his face so she could gaze at him.

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↑ effess ↓

Mon, Dec 04 2023, 9:21 pm

b.chadash wrote:

Yosef
Shaul
Dovid Hamelech

Also Tanach?

Yes nach too
in Sefer breishis there are a few more

↑ cbsp ↓

Mon, Dec 04 2023, 9:28 pm

effess wrote:

Yes nach too
in Sefer breishis there are a few more

Navi:
Gidon?

Ksuvim:
Achashveirosh
Haman

↑ b.chadash ↓

Mon, Dec 04 2023, 9:35 pm

effess wrote:

Great job!
There are more

Ok. I can mainly only think of the Rashis that I taught... Confused

There's a Rashi in Shemos that says that Pharoah's stargazers saw that the savior of the Jews will be born. (Leading Pharoah to say kol haben hayilod...)

Also, Rashi says there is a star that is named Raah. Evil. ( Pharoah saw this star and thought it meant the Jews will die in the mid bar but really ot was the dam mila)

↑ dena613 ↓

Mon, Dec 04 2023, 10:19 pm

Impressive answers for the stars so far! I would have missed tons of those!

Hashem created stars
Moneh mispar lakochavim
Umatzdikei harabim kekochvei hashamayim

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↑ dena613 ↓

Mon, Dec 04 2023, 10:23 pm

effess wrote:

Vayeishev trivia
Name all the ppl in Tanach who was raised by someone other than their mother.

How broad can the term "raised" be?
Nevuchadnezzar (was he the one raised by wolves, or was it someone else?)
Basya to Moshe
Devorah meinekes Rivkah
Bilhah to yosef and Binyomin
Mordechai to Esther
Eli to shmuel