Last Week's ParshaPix Puzzle
TT332 (Ki Teitzei)
TT332PPP Ki Teiztei
[1] Let's start with the Big Dipper, used a few weeks ago to
represent the "multitude of heavenly stars". This time, reference is to the spe
cific asterism (remember that the Big Dipper is only part of the con stellation Ursa
Major, the Great Bear). And not the American name for this most famous group of stars, nor
the Hebrew - AGALA - which is based loosely on the British name - Charles' Wain (wagon).
The 7-star group is known in Europe as the Plow (Plough). In the picture above, the Plow
is made up of CHET, SHIN, MEM, 2 REISHes, and 2 VAVs. Those are the letters of SHOR and
CHAMOR, mixed in the Plow. This would be aPPP-violation of the prohibition of plowing with
an ox and a donkey together.
[2] The pair of eyes - not interested
in either the brows or the lids. But count the lashes. There are 18 of them. Multiply by
2.222... and you'll get 40. These are the 40-less-one lashes in the punishment of MAKOT.
[3] OT-0 is zero from OT or EFES
MEI'OTI... as in the Haftara, specifically, Yishayahu 54:15.
[4] Two soaring birds with wings outstretched. The wings are labeled (I know it was hard
to make it out) S,M,L,XL, i.e. sizes, to fulfill the command of G'DILIM (G'DEILIM) TA'ASEH
LACH AL ARBA KANFOT...
[5] Then there is the frog whose speech-bubble is Xed out. Frogs say REE-BIT, REE-BIT,
which, of course, is forbidden on personal loans between Jews.
[6] Lower-right is the Hebrew letter ZAYIN with a spade on it. Another meaning of spade is
a digging tool, YATEID, in Hebrew. The Torah tells the Jewish soldier: V'YATEID T'H'YEH AL
EIZANECHA, and you shall have a digging tool (spade) on (among) your weapons. Weapons are
KLEI ZAYIN or just ZAYIN in Aramaic.
[7] So what about the weathervane on the cow? Rooster in Hebrew is GEVER. The weathervane
is an instrument with a rooster, of a KLI GEVER. In B'reishit 7:2; Noa'ach is told to take
7 pairs of kosher farm animals into the Ark, each pair of male and female being referred
to as ISH V'ISHTO. Hence, the cow here is an ISHA. We have the prohibition of KLI GEVER AL
ISHA.
[8] And finally, there is the covered wagon of the old Wild West and a lock. It was
pioneers rode in those wagons, and practically lived in them on their long journeys,
giving us BEIT CHALUTZ HANA'AL.
Which brings us to the radio riddles from Torah Tidbits Audio on Arutz-7 last night (I'm
typing these words on Erev Shabbat Ki Teitzei). One was the music to the song Memory,
which was meant to stand for the three different things the Torah commands us to remember,
in Ki Teitzei: What happened to Miriam, that G-d took us out of Egypt (it says that
twice), and what Amalek did to us on our way out of Egypt.
The other radio riddle was:
Ferdinand should not work at the Democratic National Headquarters.
I'll answer this one at the end of the PPP report to give you some time to work on it.
Havdala Harati began the week with a good partial. DYANEC had a good partial plus. Zvi, a
small partial. E.S. - a partial (incl. 7) plus some good nice tries. Yehuda Tz'fat had
many "alternates". Benjietc - partial and some way-out tries. MM Bklyn, good
partial and others. David M also had a good partial AA-chem had a solid partial. Steinhart
- good partial plus. Very good partial from the Ofra Shelnitzes, and the best set of
solutions this week came from the Ramot Lerners.
In summary, six of 8 was the best single set of submitted solutions; all elements of the
PPP were solved by someone.
The answer to the second TTARR (Torah
Tidbits Audio - Radio Riddle) is: Ferdinand is/was a bull. The sym bol of the Democratic
party is the donkey. Based on the prohibition of a SHOR and a CHAMOR working together
pulling a plow, we also apply the prohibition to other things, therefore, Ferdinand should
not work together with Democrats.
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