CLUE 1 :On Sukkot, we collect the “arba minim” -A number of plants connected to a theme.There’s lulav, etrog, myrtle and willowShake them all before your head hits the pillow.

How many Sukkot species are there? Cross that number off each time it appears on your puzzle board.

In the 1920s, alcohol wasn’t allowed.But on Pesach, perhaps, they could sneak it, heads bowed. Prohibition Jews might have had four full cups(Or at least, we imagine, most of the grown-ups!).Their seder wine came from a particular year -The famed “5660 vintage,” which was known to bring cheer.

If Pesach 2021 will be in the Hebrew 5781, what year was this special wine bottle (with “5660” written on the label) from? Cross that year off from your puzzle board.

CLUE 2 :

Yes, Hillel and Shammai had conflicts galore -When to bless, what to eat, and oh so many more.With Hanukkah lighting, a fight became famed: In what order should how many candles be inflamed? Hillel said that we start with just oneAnd work our way up, night by night, till we’re done.But Shammai believed that night one should have eight And then each night a candle’s reduced, light abates.

Light the number of candles that appear on Hillel and Shammai’s menorahs for each of their first three nights (shamash excluded). Cross off three numbers, in a row, for each of them on your puzzle board.

CLUE 3 :

• C H A T E A U A H A S H V E R O S H •

5660• K E R A M E I S H U S H A N •

CLUE 4 :To end Rosh Hashanah tefillot in the morn,There’s a reminder of when it was the world was born.We imagine not yesterday, nor in any tomorrow,But instead “hayom” is the date that we follow.

There is a DATE that corresponds to the DAY mentioned in the clue. Cross the numbers of that date (MM/DD/YYYY) off on your puzzle board. Note: this puzzle was written for Thursday night, erev Purim.

The Broken Times

 

   

TIME IN UTTER FREEFALL

 

Maybe nothing is relative anymore.  

Newly meaningless   

Another year,  Another birthday?  Wall clocks, waterproo� watches, stopwatches,          timers, microwave displays, alarm clocks, e�            timers, wristwatches, grandfather clocks,        digital clocks, calendars, day planners,          schedules, time zones, sundials, Greenwich,          days o� the week, monthly bill payments,              appointments, SNL, lunch menus, pocket          watches, desk clocks, glow in the dark clocks,                Rolex watches, most Olympic events, Times            S�uare ball drop, weekly check-ins, yearly            doctors’ appointments, daylight savings time,          bus timetables, soberversaries, train schedules,          noon, ETAs, hal�ime shows, seventh inning            stretches, garbage pickup days, hal� birthdays,            all holidays everywhere, hourglasses, the nightly            news, midnight, mortgage terms, overtime pay,            football �uarters, anniversaries, age, yahrzeits,          most dictionary entries for the word “second,”              the length o� a therapy session, voting and                drinking ages, homework deadlines, medicine          dosage schedules, tax days, and tardy notices…..              Have. All. Been. Cancelled.    

   

Currently irrelevant   

The megillah reading must continue,But who knows what verse is arising within you?We remind one another that as it is said,Purim is when everything gets flipped *upside down,* on its head.

The magic spell to bring the building back to the proper time must be a verse from the me-gillah! In the “upside down” spirit of the day, flip your puzzle board upside down. You should see a chapter and verse number (written in the traditional X:Y format, where X is the chapter and Y is the verse). This chapter and verse correspond to a line from the megillah. Try reading that verse outloud (English is ok!), then clicking on the closing video to see if it worked to re-verse the spell.

CRACKING THE MAGIC SPELL :