We highly recommend using the ParshaPix on page 3 to go over Parshat HaShavua with your children and Shabbat guests. You can pass the picture around the table - youngest gets first crack - and ask about specific elements in the PP.

ATEM NITZAVIM... You are all standing here today... That's represented by the family in the picture. And that specific graphic also represents the mitzva of HAK-HEL from VAYEILECH. The Torah emphasizes that men, women, and children are included. Why? (Just a suggestion of a question to throw out at your Shabbat table.)

From your wood cutters to your water drawers. Top of the picture is a lumberjack sawing a tree trunk. Next to it is the symbol for Aquarius, the water drawer. What's the Hebrew word for Aquarius? (D'LI, bucket.)

The symbol in the upper-right is for ACID RAIN - pretty close to FIRE and BRIMSTONE, GOFRIT VAMELACH, etc.

The Torah emphatically states that IT, the great mitzva (either T'shuva or a general reference to the whole Torah) is not in the Heavens, LO BASHAMAYIM HEE. Upper-left is "not in the skies".

The question mark represents the choices G-d gives us - Good or Bad, Life or Death. The roadsign is pointing in opposite directions - that's our choice.

The quill is for fulfilling the mitzva of writing a Torah. See the Torah. But the mitzva includes the aquiring of a Judaica library. We learn from books, and that's the idea behind the mitzva.