Riddles of the Week
(For answers see above)
1) The Baal HaTurim writes (1:1) that the first pasuk in Parshas Shemos hints to the mitzvah of shnayim mikra [reviewing the weekly Torah portion], as the letters in the word שמות can be expanded to read רגם תאחד וקרא מניים ש - reading the Torah portion twice and the Targum (Aramaic translation) once. Is a blind man included in this mitzvah and required to fulfill his obligation by listening to another person read שניים מקרא ואחד תרגום aloud via the principle of שומע כעונה (a person who listens is legally considered to have said it himself)?
2) Rashi writes (2:7) that Moshe refused to nurse from an Egyptian because he was unwilling to drink milk from a non-Jew with the same mouth that was destined to speak to Hashem. If a non-Jewish woman only eats kosher food, does nursing from her still cause impurity?
3) The daughter of Pharaoh went down to wash by the river, and she saw a box, and she opened it up and saw the child (Moshe), and “behold the child was crying” (Shemos 2:6). Who was crying? And in general, what is the purpose of children crying?
4) The pasuk says: ויאמר ה' אל אהרן לך לקראת משה המדברה וילך ויפגשהו בהר האלקים וישק לו - “Hashem said to Aharon, go meet Moshe in the dessert, and he went and encountered him at the mountain of G-d, and he kissed him.” (Shemos 4:27). The Seforno writes: “He kissed him – like one kisses a holy item”. The question is, how does the Seforno know that Aharon kissed Moshe because he was a holy item, perhaps he kissed him out of love, as they were brothers?
