Parashat R'ei
PARSHA-PIX Six of the Seven Species are represented: Wheat is the one at the upper left. Barley is the stalks between the martini and the grenade. You can't miss the grapes. Figs are not represented. Pomegranate is represented by the hand grenade, known as a RIMON in Hebrew. Rimon is a pomegranate. (Interesting that a granade is nicknamed pineapple in English.) The olive is in the martini glass, and there is a date (the 31st) on the calendar in the upper right corner. The Land is also described as being a land whose rocks are iron (Fe on the piece of rock), and from whose mountains you can extract copper. That's the penny on the hill. It is in Parshat Eikev that Moshe recounts for the people the story of the Golden Calf, the breaking of the Luchot, and the second Luchot. Towards the center is a pair of stone tablets and in the lower left is a sceen of the Golden Calf. The second passage of the Sh'ma is in Eikev. It contains the mitzva of Mezuza and a reminder of the "deal" we have with G-d. If we listen to the Mitzvot (preserve them, keep them, practice them), then we will receive rainfall in its proper time. That's the cloud with drops of rain. But if we don't observe and preserve the mitzvot, then G-d will "lock" the heavens and there will not (G-d forbid) be rainfall, and the ground will not give up its bounty, and we will be lost...
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