ParshaPix for Parshat Chukat

Explanations of this week's ParshaPix:

Many elements are taken from last year's ParshaPix; new
pictures added.

Upper left (appropriate for Commie) is a red cow, as in
Para Aduma. For those who are looking at the picture in
black & white, the cow is branded with a hammer and sickle, the symbol of Communism, a.k.a. RED.

The faucet with the spider web is the lack of water once
again experienced by Bnei Yisrael in the sedra.

The snake on a stick stands for the N'CHASH N'CHOSHET made by Moshe to help stop the attack of poisonous snakes that started biting and killing people.

There is a rock giving water. Obvious, but a good discussion starter with your children and guests around the
Shabbat table.

Under the faucet and snake-stick is a book with HEI-
shmichik on one page and a tank (hard to make out) on the
facing page. This represents SEFER MILCHAMOT HASHEM, as referred to in the sedra.

The Do Not Enter refers to Edom and Emori, both of whom
barred our way in the Midbar.

The musical bear stands for the Song of the Be'er (well).

3+2 is a Cheshbon, a calculation. A fire results from it, as in V'EISH YATZA MICHESHBON. Pun from the past.

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