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Torah IQ: The Great Torah Riddle Book By David Woolf SC/400 pp I was really excited to get a copy of David Woolf’s “Torah IQ: The Great Torah Riddle Book.” David (and Fran!) Woolf have been a leading Toronto name in everything related to tzedakah, chessed, and especially, kiruv, since before I was born. In fact, my first ever time spending Shabbat overnight in a “stranger’s” home as a Jewishly/religiously "exploring" public-high school teenager was at the Woolf home, thanks to their daughter Zahava who had befriended me and had gotten me further interested in Judaism than I had been. So back to the sefer. Torah IQ is a sefer full of riddles and brainteasers. Most of the sefer follows the parshiot of the Torah. For every parsha there are about 20 brain twisting, brain teasing, trivia questions. The answers are given on the next page. Following the parsha section is a section on “General Torah Questions”. Following that there is a section on “Halacha and Minhag” (my favorite!