PARSHA CHALLENGE

You Gotta Be Kidding Me!

Moishele walks into his boss’s office.“Sir, I’ll be straight with you, I know the company is struggling, but I have over three companies after me, and I would like to respectfully ask for a raise.” After a few minutes of haggling, the boss finally agrees to a 5% raise, and Sam happily gets up to leave.

“By the way,” asks the boss as Moishele is almost out the door, “which three companies are after you?”

“The electric company, water company, and phone company,” he answers.

Riddle Me This

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Chidush on Colored Shirts

There are many subtle differences in the Yeshiva world. Many times we do not understand why certain differences came to be. Some of these differences can be quite small but are big enough to categorize them into groups and give them their own name.

In the Litvish world, there are two big groups called Lakewood’ers and Chofetz Chaim’ers. Although very similar, these groups have a difference in their style of learning and Hashkafa.

One very striking difference between these two groups is that Lakewood’ers only wear white shirts while Chofetz Chaim’ers wear colored shirts too. Some don’t understand how this difference came to be, including me. Although the reason isn’t so clear to me, I came up with a Remez. If you take the gematria of Lakewood you get 166. When you add all of those numbers together you get 13 (1+6+6). If you take Rak Lavan, which means “only white” in Hebrew, you get 382. When you add those numbers you also get 13 (3+8+2). Meaning, Lakewood = only white. This is a hint as to why Lakewood’ers do and will only wear white shirts.

To know why Chofetz Chaim’ers wear colored shirts there is a separate Remez. Chofetz Chaim’s Gematria equals 246. If you add those numbers together you get 12 (2+4+6). The Gematria of shachor ad lavan equals 570. Those numbers added together also equal 12 (5+7+0). Shachor ad lavan means from black to white. Meaning, Chofetz Chaim = black to white.

Chofetz Chaim’ers wear any colored shirts from any color of the spectrum which is from black to white. Now when you ever hear the phrase, “The name says a lot,” you will understand what that means on a new level. Not only does a name carry the characteristics of the word itself.

Hints from a name can also carry meaning.

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Money Man Mahomes

I have many keys, but no locks. I have space, but no rooms. You may enter, but you may not go outside. What am I?

Answer: A Keyboard

When he was a child, Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes was nicknamed “showtime” because he was so athletic and incredible at sports.

Mahome’s father played in the MBL for 11 seasons.

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Mahomes was drafted as a pitcher for the Detroit Tigers

In July 2020, Patrick Mahomes signed a $503 million, 12-year contract, which remains the biggest contract in all of U.S. sports.

During the throwing drills at the 2017 NFL Combine, Mahomes’ passes clocked at 60 mph, tied for the fastest pass ever recorded at the NFL Combine.

Mahomes is a part owner of the Kansas City Royals.

Mahomes holds the record for the most-double digit come- back wins by any quarterback in a season in NFL history.

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