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!

Articles by Martin Bodek

Cufflink for the Chag

Hi! Last week’s cufflinks represented the leavened bread offering that one may have overlooked in the flurry of korbanot that were discussed in the parsha,

Parshat Tzav

Hi! Last week’s cufflinks were the hands in the precise formation of the “yolo” or “shaka” symbol. Interestingly enough, it is the same as the

Parshat Vayikra

Hi! Last week’s cufflinks were the paper clips, which, funnily enough, people think are a makeshift way to keep my sleeves together after the original

Parshiot Vayakhel-Pekudei

Last week’s cufflinks were the classic theater masks, representing: 1) The Israelites went from the high of matan Torah to the low of the chet

Parshat Ki Tisa

Hi! There’s really no fooling you folks, is there? There I was being all clever and all with the 2×2 Rubik’s Cube, but you got

Parshat Tetzaveh

Hi! Last week’s cufflinks were the tightly-woven blue wool knots, which covered a whole bunch of the Mishkan’s donations. I’m impressed that so many of

Parshat Terumah

Hi! Did you easily “chap” last week’s cufflinks? Did “eye for an eye” come to mind immediately? Yeah, the consensus was that it was a

Mishpatim

Last week’s cufflinks seemed to have been stumpers. They were the Gryffindor crests. I was going for three levels of meaning: 1) A griffin has

Yitro

Thank you to everyone who played over Shabbat! Everywhere I went, people offered answers, even though I was bundled up and unrecognizable in that arctic

Beshalach

Hi! Last week’s cufflinks were Batman symbols, and many of you got real creative. I was going for 1) Batman is The Dark Knight. Get

Parshat Bo

Last week’s cufflink froggies were a bit of a softball, which you deserved after several weeks of brain-teasing headaches. Consider it a break well-earned. Now

Shemot

Hi! Last week’s cufflinks were eyeballs, and everybody who played won! How so? Because all players cited one, two, three references to eyes, seeing, sight,