Parashat Emor
The Kohen Gadol is featured in the first part of the sedra. The foot with the cast represents a defect or blemish that invalidates a kohen from active service in the Beit HaMikdash. The sheep and its lamb are for the prohibition of slaughtering OTO V'ET B'NO. This prohibition applies not only to a single person who owns both animals, but even to two different people. If you own a cow whose calf was slaughtered this morning, then you are forbidden to slaughter the cow anytime today. At the upper left is a negation circle over three different MELACHOT - building, sewing, writing - that are forbidden on Shabbat AND Yom Tov. This, then, is a reference to the prohibitions of the Festivals Portion in the sedra. The Lulav & Etrog and the Seder Plate stand for the positive mitzvot related to the Chagim.
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