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THIS WEEKS RIDDLEHow is it possible that if you change the price, you must relight but if you pay the price, you dont?

ANSWERDuring the week before a few years back, (all names changed to protect privacy)

put out a box with 20 bottles of olive oil to sell in the hallway of the local . He stuck in a sign

advertising the price for a bottle of oil at 19 . Along came and wanted to buy a bottle of oil

but didnt have with him any money. His mind began to work in overdrive. He didnt want to steal itbut he didnt want to pay either. He came up with a clever plan. He made a quick , that if all thebottles of oil are sold, the owner would retrieve 380 as 20 x 19 = 380. Ill make sure that

will get 380 & Ill get a free bottle! He took the sign that had the price on it & turned it over &wrote on it Bottles of for sale, only 20 a bottle. He then took his free bottle &

by the end of the day, 19 people came by & bought out all the oil, each paying 20 = , 19 x 20

380. When came to get his money, he found all of his anticipated 380 waiting for him!On the 1st night of, after he lit the , he proudly told his wife his clever shpiel he

did with the oil as with his brilliant scheme, he ended up with a free bottle of oil while still got

his full 380 ! And as far as the customers, they were all too happy to pay 20 withouthaving to schlep to the store! s wife, whose surpassed her husbands by miles, wasaghast! This is pure ! You must immediately pay every customer back 1 & while youre at it,

find out if you were tonight on such oil! complied with his wifes wishesand went to the . Is he a , does he have to return to everyone a ? And if it is , was he or does he have to light again?

The ' " " " says, if gives a to & tells him, dont sell it for less than$100.00 & went & sold it for $200.00, the extra $100 goes to ! The " explains that the

salesman has a of a that sells for the a , that the extra money goes to the ! We find a similar by a case where a person used a room belonging to who charges

$50 a night & in the end the room he used belonged to who doesnt rent out his room, the )". (' " says that you pay no one! ! See ' " " " . Here too in our

case, is not a of so we apply ! So the extra

wouldnt go to but must be returned to each customer!In regard to being or not, this is if we say by a or not.

The in " " " " says, that a is only the 1st day of, as that day is

". But the rest of one is with a ! However, the " there argues & says thata is all 7 days, even when it is only ! Its a ! So therefore in our case, would have to light again, but with out a new ! See " " " &

" " " . Please note that our was only but the , that was forsure a as ' ." ". This was culled from ' in his

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Of course, if he would have paid for all 20 bottles 380 !, he now can resell them as he wants

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" tells us, ! But what is the , what does one thing have to do with the other? Here is ' s in the .

The :" "' tells us that the reason that it says by the word '' , is to be ! Which means that if one finds an that belongs to a , he may keep it & is not to return it. Asks the , but according to those that hold that is , then why would weneed a of '' to tells us that is , if its to steal from them, then of course onewouldnt have to return their ?

Fregt the " on the s , why dont we say that according to those that hold " is , then we still need the word by to tell us that is to return! Not

you dont have to, you are not allowed to return it!? As from the fact that " is one can onlylearn out that is also ! However, according to the " " is , everyone agreesthat it would be to return an . (Most Pasken that " is .(

Now we can understand the - s . ... , if we returned an, that means we hold that is , (as they thought that was a ), thenwe have to hold that " is ,, if so , we hold that " is !!!

The ." ' says . .

The 1st day we make 3 and the 2nd day & on we make only 2. The then asks ?

Which are we leaving out? The answers , we leave out . The then asks? Leave out ? The answers , there was a everyday! Thequestion is why did the ask , isnt it that we should be the ,? Also

after the says to be , why is the still trying to be ? And lastly, the didnt know that everyday there was a , when they asked the of ?We all know the famous from the " " , why is there a to light

candles for 8 nights, the 1st night was no as there was enough oil for 1 day? We also know thefamous " that answers the s that the oil didnt get used up on the 1

st day, as a needsto be on something. Another way to answer the " s , is with another of the ! Whydont we have 9 days of as there is a in ? The answer would be that really is only 7 days as the 1st day is not a but we keep 8 days because of .

But this last , we would have to say on the 2nd day of too! Just like by &

, when we arent sure if the 1st day of " is really " , so we make that day & the next

day as maybe the 2nd day is really the 1st day " ?With this in mind, we can now understand the of the ! At first, the didnt

know which we should be on the 2nd day, therefore it asked ! The answered ! From this answer we can deduce that the reason " made 8 days of is not because was really only 7 days & the 8th day was added because of , because if so we wouldnot be as we must say on the 2

ndday too! If so, is now shver the s , why is

there 8 days, ! Take off1 day of as there was no on 1 day!? we have to answerlike the " that the was on all 8 days, but even the 1st day there was a that the oil didnt finish!This is the final answer of the . everyday there was a therefore is 8 days!!!

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This weeks Riddle & Answer is from Reb Yitzchok Zilberstein " of Bnei Braq