Last Week's PPP (Vaetchanan)

TT377PPP - VaEtchanan

Same idea as last week, but even more energetic. Meaning, a single coordinated solution set. (Don't look for this every week; they are not easy to make.) The overall answer is THE ASERET HADIBROT. ("I knew it!", "I told you so!", etc.) Upper-left, a vertical two-sided arrow. Forget the arrowheads; just think vertical, whichis ANACHI in Hebrew, similar to the opening word of the first Commandment. Next to it is a crooked line - in Hebrew, AKUM. With a different spelling and a " in the right place, you get the AKU"M that means OVEID KOCHAVIM U'MAZALOT, meaning a worshiper of the stars and constellations, or generally, an idolator. Commandment#2. Next goes the stange calendar line, with Sunday, Friday, and Shabbat marked in their Hebrew letters and the rest of the week in English 3-letter abbreviations. Reading the Hebrew letters from left to right gives a SHAVUA SHAV, Comm. #3. Next comes the two Aramaic words, D'CHIR and TAR. Each is Targum Onkeles for ZACHORand SHAMOR respectively. The words are merged into a single unit, as in Commandment #4. Next go to the bowl of fruit, the potato chips, the cake, and the soda. Together we have a KIBUD. The KIBUD is flanked by two ants, that is a PAIR-ANTS. Hence, Commandment #5. This was not an easy PPP to do. Some elements came easy;others did not. But once the decision waas made, there was no turning back until all ten were there. With that interlude, let's get back to the second Tablet. Upper-right, negation of a cain. Actually of what Cain (KAYIN) did - murder. As in "Thou shalt not". B&B refers to the soap opera - here meaning all soaps - on whichadultery is fairly common. The squiggly before the B&B is also a negation symbol. That's number 7. The STEEL girder with the X mark (also a negation symbol) is for not stealing, Commandment #8. Inside the bear's speak bubble is an upside down letter T, the symol of FALSE. Bearing false (witness) is the point of Commandment#9. And finally, we come to the thermometer at the bottom of the PPP. It is broken in half and the halves are reversed. Let's try that with the Hebrew word for thermometer. MAD-CHOM becomes CHOMMAD and revoweled a bit becomes CHAMOD, the prohibition of Commandment #10. Sorry if the elements are not all of high-quality,but the overall presentation of the PPP is pleasing. Now we wait for solutions to trickle in.

Well, it seems that I overdid the level of difficulty (or level of far-fetchedness, as others would prefer to see it) for this week's PPP. Without mentioning names, a couple of people got the NO STEEL, someone got the BEAR FALSE (witness), and one even got the CHAM-MOD. A couple of sol'n attempters that the first arrow referred to the two sets of TRUP, upper and lower. There were several references to other ideas in the Parsha, and at least one solver who just knew everything had to do with the Aseret HaDibrot, but couldn't figure most of the components. (Also, it's nice to know that some see B&B and think Bed & Breakfast instead ofa soap opera.)

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