Jewish Trivia

[Jeremiah]

Pretty cool how you set that up. Took me a whole Friday night last year to figure it out. How did you cheat? I tried googling the answer and nothing came up

[YitzyS]

Pretty cool how you set that up. Took me a whole Friday night last year to figure it out. How did you cheat? I tried googling the answer and nothing came up

I googled "four words in a row with same shoresh bamidbar" and this was one of the first results:

https://ohr.edu/ask/ask228.htm#:~:text=What%20verse%20in%20the%20Torah%20contains%20the%20same%20shoresh%20(root)%20four%20times%20in%20a%20row%3F

[yuneeq]

I googled "four words in a row with same shoresh bamidbar" and this was one of the first results:

https://ohr.edu/ask/ask228.htm#:~:text=What%20verse%20in%20the%20Torah%20contains%20the%20same%20shoresh%20(root)%20four%20times%20in%20a%20row%3F

The "shoresh" or root of a word in Hebrew is its base set of letters that convey a core idea. For the book of Bamidbar (Numbers) in the Torah, the shoresh or root is "דבר" (Dalet-Bet-Resh), which means "to speak" or "word".

Here is an example of four words in a row with the same shoresh from Bamidbar (Numbers) 7:89:

"וּבְבֹאֹו מֹשֶׁה אֶל אֹהֶל מוֹעֵד לְדַבֵּר אִתּוֹ"

Translation: "And when Moses went into the Tent of Meeting to speak with Him"

The four words in a row with the same shoresh are: "לְדַבֵּר אִתּוֹ" (to speak with Him)

This phrase might not be the exact answer you were looking for, as only two words in a row share the same shoresh. It can be difficult to find four consecutive words with the same root in the Torah, given the precision and complexity of its language.

Sincerely,
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[yelped]

In which famous sets of Bnei Plugtah, was one older than And outlived the other one?

Rebi Yochanon and Resh Lakisha, iirc.

[mevinyavin]

How many rules / cases are there that sometimes or always cause a food to be shehakol?
1. Obviously, if it doesn't grow from the ground.

Machloksim are eligible. (ie "According to Rema, X.")
Should be at least ten more.

Anybody?

[YitzyS]

How many rules / cases are there that sometimes or always cause a food to be shehakol?
1. Obviously, if it doesn't grow from the ground.

Machloksim are eligible. (ie "According to Rema, X.")
Should be at least ten more.

If it's not derech achilaso

[YitzyS]

What is a name found in the Torah that three different people have, one a Yid, one a Ger, and one a Goy? (All in Chamisha Chumshai Torah)

[skyguy918]

What is a name found in the Torah that three different people have, one a Yid, one a Ger, and one a Goy? (All in Chamisha Chumshai Torah)

Shaul

[YitzyS]

Shaul

Maybe in תנ"ך, but my question was specifically in תורה. Is Shaul found 3 times in the תורה?

[Dawie]

What is a name found in the Torah that three different people have, one a Yid, one a Ger, and one a Goy? (All in Chamisha Chumshai Torah)

Reuel?

[dasmo801]

What is a name found in the Torah that three different people have, one a Yid, one a Ger, and one a Goy? (All in Chamisha Chumshai Torah)

So what are the rules for answering these riddles? Do I have to figure out the answer now or can I answer even if I heard the riddle and answer years ago?

Either was, the answer that you're looking for is רעואל
1. A son of Esav
2. Yisro
3. A Nosi

[YitzyS]

Yup.

From a Rabbi Reisman shiur last year:

Who do you find that is a name of a Jew, someone else who is a non-Jew and a third person who is a Ger? All three are in the Chamisha Chumshei Torah. This is a good riddle for the Pesach Seder.
The answer is the name (רעואל). (רעואל) is mentioned as one of Yisro’s names in Shemos 2:18. He is a Ger. In Bamidbar 2:14 (אליסף בן-רעואל). One of the Nesiim’s father was (רעואל) who was a Jew. If you look back at the Nesiim of Eisav you will find a (רעואל) there too in Beraishis 36:4. So this is a name that you find for a Jew, a non-Jew and a Ger.

[yuneeq]

So what are the rules for answering these riddles? Do I have to figure out the answer now or can I answer even if I heard the riddle and answer years ago?

If you heard the answer to the riddle what’s the fun in answering? Leave it to those who have to to figure it out.

[YitzyS]

BTW, for someone who enjoys these type of questions, there is a good book with a bunch of them. I picked it up at the register of Judaica Plaza in Lakewood (IIRC for about $11), and my kids and I all like it. It's a small, soft-cover book, mostly with questions about Torah. There are easy questions and more challenging ones.

For example: Which two sets of twins are mentioned in the Torah? What are five places where the Torah talks about milk? Which three people in the Torah said "Boruch Hashem"?

https://www.artscroll.com/Books/9781422623688.html

[imayid2]

Yup.

From a Rabbi Reisman shiur last year:

Who do you find that is a name of a Jew, someone else who is a non-Jew and a third person who is a Ger? All three are in the Chamisha Chumshei Torah. This is a good riddle for the Pesach Seder.
The answer is the name (רעואל). (רעואל) is mentioned as one of Yisro’s names in Shemos 2:18. He is a Ger. In Bamidbar 2:14 (אליסף בן-רעואל). One of the Nesiim’s father was (רעואל) who was a Jew. If you look back at the Nesiim of Eisav you will find a (רעואל) there too in Beraishis 36:4. So this is a name that you find for a Jew, a non-Jew and a Ger.

See the אור החיים in bamidbar 10, 30 who says that there are differences of opinions if he actually was megayir.

[av83]

Which common Taam Hamikra/Trup will not be in any Pasuk more then once (Not Soif Passuk)?

[yelped]

Which common Taam Hamikra/Trup will not be in any Pasuk more then once (Not Soif Passuk)?

Esnachta.

[yungermanchik]

How were the Sha"ch and the Pischei Tshuvah related?

[imayid2]

How were the Sha"ch and the Pischei Tshuvah related?

The  Pischei Tshuvahs great grandfather was the shachs nephew

[yungermanchik]

The  Pischei Tshuvahs great grandfather was the shachs nephew

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