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Limuday Moshe

Riddles of the Week

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1) On what day of Creation were kangaroos created?

2) In this week’s parsha we learn about the creation of man. Why was man not created with wings like the malochim, surely it would make things so much easier?

3) As we mentioned above, in this week’s parsha we learn about the creation of man. Why did Hashem not make man in a way that his limbs can be taken on and off. This way, if one’s leg would hurt for example, one could simply take off his leg and carry on his life, instead of having to be bedridden just because of a leg?

Additionally, why did Hashem not make it, that instead of having to eat, one could simply open up his stomach, put in the required food, and then close it. It would save so much time, and we would be able to learn so much more Torah?

4) The Ba’al HaTurim writes on the pasuk: ‘היא נתנה לי מן העץ ואוכל׳ – “She gave me from the tree to eat” that “Chavah hit Adam with a stick until he agreed to eat”.

The sefer Oid Yosef Chai (Ben Ish Chai, Parshas Ki Seitzei) writes: ‘Such a thing is a mockery (ליצינות) and there is no way that such a thing came out of the mouth of the Ba’al HaTurim’

However, assuming that the Ba’al HaTurim did say it, why do we find that Adam was punished. Surely, if he was forced to eat he was onus [under duress] and if one sins due to oinus he is exempt?

5) Which bird didn’t eat from the Eitz HaDa’as? And what was it reward?

6) Why do women need to wear perfume and not men?

7) In this week’s parsha we learn that Kayin killed Hevel. Who buried him?

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