I'm workin' on it...
In the meantime, let me share my answer to my own riddle that I submitted last week.
This one has two answers.
a) piece of wood
b) group of people
While you're looking for the two Hebrew answers, can you find some English answers that fit as well?
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In addition to the fine answers some people submitted, here are mine:
SHEVET, MATEH
In English, the answers are:
CLUB, STAFF, BOARD, PANEL
(one fellow offered 'CABINET' and 'POST' , but I'm not so keen on those two.)
If anyone can offer some insights into this phenomenon, I'd love to hear it!
i know i'm on the right track, just can't bring it home. i know that the answer will have a heck of a lot of daled's, though.
Well, remember it's only one word...
אודדותיו
i dont see how the quiet works
Nice guess, Tinara - but nope.
is it מנחה ?
1) earliest sanctification - the earliest you can make shabbat is 'plag ha-mincha'
2) quiet thanks - a 'mincha' is a gift-offering. it says thanks quietly, no?
3) i can't figure out what it has to do with encouraging aunts. the word can be vocalized to mean 'leader' or 'guide', but i don't get the 'aunts' thing.
Sorry, but nope. I feel bad - I didn't think it was going to be this hard. But I do appreciate your effort.
Since my initial concept when designing this quiz was a sort of double-clue crossword puzzle, I'll give one more hint - it has 5 letters.
As far as the "aunts" thing - the most I can say is if you look at the previous examples of this game, you should end up in the right direction.
1) todot domemot
2)me'oded dodot
3) ?
Sorry - again, it's one word, five letters.
Remember that one Hebrew word can contain more than one English word by means of prefixes and suffixes.
by the "aunts" comment, are you suggesting that what's important is not his aunts specifically, but the feminine plural? if so, then the word might end in nun. maybe in bet nun or he nun?
Yes, very much so.
i don't have any guesses that aren't wild. but i must make wild guesses, hoping they'll yield more hints, because this puzzle is killing me.
here's my best guess so far. if you give any hints while shooting me down, i'll try to incorporate them in any future wild guesses.
my guess is: bet+qof+resh+bet+nun
i don't know how this fits quiet thanks. but it could be biqer "he criticized (constructively)" + ban "locative + feminine plural".
and i suppose it could be boqer "morning" + qorban "sacrifice", merging the qof resh sequence, and meaning "earliest sanctification".
i should clarify that biqer + ban is supposed to solve "he encouraged his aunts."
Disgruntled Goat -
Very creative, and I think you're on the right path, but that's not it.
As a general hint, I think if anyone tries to come up with as many possible synonyms in Hebrew to "encourage", the answer will seem pretty obvious (knowing what you know about the "aunts".)
I can see how it could be the four-letter word קרבן (similar to what Disgruntled Goat wrote):
1. a קָרְבָּן (sacrifice) is a quiet expression of thanks to Hashem;
2. "he encouraged his aunts" - קֵרְבָן - "he brought them close";
3. a קָרְבָּן (sacrifice) is the earliest expression in the Torah of people sanctifying Hashem's name.
...but you said it was a five-letter word.
That's actually very cool - I like the idea of a קרבן being silent - see Israel Knohl's book "The Sanctuary of Silence". But again, not correct.
Maybe it would help if you knew which sense of "encourage" I meant. There are three meanings here:
http://www.answers.com/
encourage...r=67#Dictionary
for encourage - I'm thinking of the third.
Hmm, how about דרבנן?
Dirbenan -- he encouraged them (f)
The first Kaddish in the morning service is Kaddish DeRabbanan.
No idea about the quiet thanks.
Hey - we have a winner! Great job, Simon!
The verb דרבן means to "encourage, goad, urge".
Kaddish DeRabannan קדיש דרבנן is the "earliest sanctification" - however, I was thinking of the earliest, because it was the first one written.
And before I reveal it, can anyone guess which type of "thanks", that is known as דרבנן - DeRabannan - is silent?
modim d'rabanan, which the k'hal recites quietly
Exactly!
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