January 8, 2025

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Martin Bodek

For years now, Martin Bodek has been wearing cuff links themed to the week’s parsha, to stimulate conversation around the Shabbat table. Naturally, it begged for a wider audience, and The Jewish Link seems like a perfect home—especially in name. Every week, we’ll present the cuff links, and you tell us how it ties in to the parsha of the week. E-mail your guesses, educated and otherwise, to [email protected] and we’ll publish the best and most creative answers a week later. Have fun!

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Tzav

Hi! Last week’s cufflinks were the “Shaka” hand gesture, correctly identified by everyone in person, and over email via #1 Fan Amanda Jenks, as the

Vayikra

Hi! Last week’s cuff links were the clouds, which appeared aaaaaaall the way at the end of the parsha, after the Mishkan was put together

Pekudei

Last week’s pun-barrage cufflinks were the paper clips, because that’s what I picture the connecty-thingies looked like that held the curtains of the Mishkan together.

Vayakhel

Hi! Last week’s cufflinks were the comedy/tragedy masks, representing 1. The mask (or veil) that Moshe needed to wear after his encounter with Hashem. 2.

Ki Tisa

Hi! Did you get last week’s cufflinks? The Rubik’s Cubes? For some, it was confounding, for others, it was quite simple. For both, the answer

Tetzaveh

Hi! Last week’s cufflinks were the blue knots, and the parsha spends a lot of time talking about blue wool and various knots, both used

Terumah

Hi! Last week’s cufflinks were the eyeballs, which weirded some folks out, but had to be used because of their multiple meanings, pretty much all

Mishpatim

Last week’s cufflinks were the Gryffindor emblems, from “Harry Potter,” because A) the word “house” appears thrice in the parsha, plus tent, which equals four.

Yitro

Hi! Last week’s cuff links game was Angry Birds, because, as many of you mentioned, the Israelites received plump quail in the desert for sustenance,

BeShalach

Hi! No need for me to explain the answers to last week’s Cuff Links (the Batman logo) because Harry Glazer and Daniel Davis wrote in

Parshat Bo

Hi! Last week’s cufflinks were the froggies, which I was glad to pull out of storage for their annual polishing. If you couldn’t link them