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2 sisters. They look EXACTLY alike. They were born same year, same day to the same parents but are not twins.
Anyone got the answer?
They are part of a set of triplets, quadruplets or higher multiple birth.
Many years ago I was walking with two of my sisters when someone stopped us and said, “are the three of you twins?”.
One sister said, “No, triplets”.
ames: Females are allowed into the riddle thread. (At least if it isn’t too hard. Remember the Barbie doll that feminists had a cow about since when you pulled its string one of the things it said was “Math is hard” ? [They apparently had no objections to its other random sayings like “Will we ever have enough clothes?” and “I love shopping!”]
Second Brain Teaser:
Give me a 9 letter English word that you can take off one letter and it will still be a word then another and another one at a time, each time making sense, till the very last letter…
Ha Ha Dr Pepper gotcha this time…well,any suggestions???
Wow, noitallmr believes he got Dr. Pepper stumped before squeak had a chance to!
please post the answer also
i got that in an email a while ago. Too bad I can’t find it!
Josephf asked that many months ago.
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Meoal Dont bother. It was sent to you courtesy of [website link removed]. I got an email from that site, with a different riddle, but the answer to this one is on that site as well.
Got it! Anyone wanna try to guess before I give my (cheated) answer?
jphone, the email i got had the startling one.
Sleeping on the job?
He was sleeping on the job.
Perhaps he was smoking something he should not have been and was hallucinating? 🙂
nameless – I know the answer – I’ll tell you later!
You’re female.
I personally knew of a case like this. The boy thought because his father was a kohen he was. However, his mother is a goy and the boy ended up having a geyrus.
He still thought he’d become a kohen after that.
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Did his father marry a divorcee?
What about my reply? The Kohen married a non-Jewish woman.
Unless the answer you are looking for is a biblical character known as Pinchas, who despite having a father and grandfather who were kohanim, he was not (initially) a kohen.
A cholol is not a cohen. Just ask the Azoulais.
1. A Kohain (priest) who has children with a divorcee or any other women who is forbidden creates challalim. They are not Kohanim (priests).
2. Just because my father’s name is Cohen, and my grandfather’s name is Cohen, does not stop me from legally changing my name to Smith.
3. Pinchas was not a Kohain (priest) until after the ma’aseh with Zimri. So until that point, he was not a Kohain (priest) even though his father (Elazar) and grandfather (Aharon) both were.
With the constantly added factors, the answer keeps narrowing…
You married someone with the last name Bernstein. Your father and grandfathers are both Cohen’s but your now a Bernstien.
Child could be a mamzer if the father married someone with an issur erva.
How about. Your”e the reform rabbi in chicago who felt bad that he couldnt earn the income from doing funerals so he renounced his kehuna (i was told such an ad appeared in a chicago paper in the 50s or 60s by a rabbi a cohen who wanted in on “performing funerals” and the income he could get from it).
shems son missed kahuna but noach and shem were both kohanim
>>If your name is KATZ(Kohen Tzedek) then you are DEFINTELY a Kohen.<<
Not true.
Generations ago in numerous Eastern European countries, Jews were not allowed to get married. So they got married al pi chuppa v’kiddushin, but the local government did not recognize the union. Therefore any children born to the couple were given the surname of the mother. That is one major reason why we have Cohen, Levy, Katz etc. who do not resemble their surname.
For the record I once met a Rabbi Katz who was a Yisroel
Pinchas, given as an answer by two posters, should also be acknowledged as not only a correct answer but the answer to the question asked, without semantic trickery.
to have a son who would grow up to be a world famous (and thus wealthy) eye surgeon who would restore his mothers eyesight and give much of his wealth to his father
nameless-
A saltshaker (although they’re really cubes).
nameless
how about a large roll of toilet paper
to defend my answer i looked up a report on consumer reports
although most tp rolls have between 200-500 sheets
a few brands make a 1000 sheet roll
so i think my answer beats icot for accuracy (cubes vs squares)
judges?
feivel-
No need to disturb the judges – I like your answer better, too.
ICOT, how does a saltshaker become 1000 squares? dont mind me, its late. :/
kapusta: i’ll fill in for ICOT! the grains of salt being squares!
still not connecting… I think theres a loose wire someplace. 😉
but that makes more sense anyway. thanx, Jax.
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