ParshaPix

Parsha Pix
Top, center & right: The famous, "What does this have to do with the price of tea in China?" Why are Har Sinai & Shmita juxtaposed? On the right is Har Sinai with the Luchot HaBrit and to the left of the question mark is a negation circle with a guy planting a sapling.
The Liberty Bell in the upper left corner is inscribed with the English translation of part of Vayikra 25:10, Proclaim LIBERTY throughout all the Land unto all the inhabitants thereof.
Under the bell is an abacus, for counting the years and Shmita-cycles of Yovel. It can be used for calculating the remaining years to Yovel in order to fairly adjust the price of a piece of land.
That's a shofar under the abacus, to be blown on the Yom Kippur of Yovel year. In the middle of the Pix is a NOT FOR SALE sign. This is a command of the Torah which should be taken seriously today by our government and all the people of Israel. On the right side below Har Sinai, is a fellow taking money out of his wallet to lend to his fellow Jew, at 0% interest.Below the wallet is a rain cloud giving rain in its proper time (hence the clock below the cloud). This is the Torah-stated reward for following G-d's laws and mitzvot.
So too is there a promise of peace in the Land, symbolized by the dove with the olive branch.
And we are promised that if we remain faithful to G-d, we will prevail over our enemies, and five will successfully chace away 100, and 100 will chase away 10,000 of them.
Perek 27 deals with pledges to the Mikdash that are made based on the ERECH of different people. In the silhouette in the lower-left corner are 50 shekel for an adult male, 30 for a female, 20 for a boy between 5-20 years old, and 5 or 3 shekel for a baby from a month old to 5 yrs. Since the sex of the baby in the picture is indeterminable, there is a question mark between the 3 and the 5.
And, bottom center & right is a depiction of MAASER B'HEIMA, where the tenth sheep (cow or goat) that passes under the rod is declared holy. See the sedra summary for more details.

TTRIDDLES
TTriddles are Torah Tidbits-style riddles on Parshat HaShavua (sometimes on the calendar events of the week). The best SOLID solution set submitted each week (there isn’t always one) wins a double prize — a CD from...
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Even if you can’t solve any, they are fun (and sometimes informative) to read about in the weekly TTriddles report (which is what you’re reading now).

Last week's (Emor) TTriddles:
[1] Thirteen with the two
[2] A "proof" to 5:20:19:23-26
[3] Based on a Hebrew-English switch, why would the GR"A say that eye was LNMDX?
[4] Maybe the chatan should circle the kalla?
[5] Buckel a thin sock
[6] Iyar or Nissan or Tevet...
[7] 1+1+3+2=4 on 1 and 7
[8] No'ach, Brit, Exodus, Shavuot, Yom Kippur, Shira

And the solutions...
[1] The TWO are the SH’TEI HALECHEM, the two loaves that were offered on Shavuot, a.k.a. MINCHA CHADASHA LASHEM. The THIRTEEN with them refers to the animals that were the accompanying korbanot to the Two Loaves. 7 lambs, 1 bull, 2 rams, all for korban OLAH. 1 goat for a CHATAT, and 2 lambs as SH’LAMIM. 
[2] 5:20:19:23-26 This one was a bit obscure. 5 is D’varim, 20 is the perek, 19 is the pasuk. 23-26 means the 23rd through the 26th words of that pasuk. Which are: KI HA’ADAM EITZ HASADEH, for the man is like the tree of the field. This pasuk is (one of) the origin(s) of the custom of not cutting a boy’s hair until he is 3 years old, just as the fruit of the tree is not taken for the first three years, because of ORLAH. And just as it is forbidden to “round the corners of the head” (PAYOT), so too is it forbidden to cut the corner of the field (PEI’AH), as is repeated (in addition to the beginning of K’doshim) in Parshat Emor, Vayikra 23:22. That was the intended “proof” of the man=tree statement. (Told you it was obscure.)
[3] Not elegantly worded, but all the clues were there. The Vilna Ga’on pointed out that AYIN TACHAT AYIN, an eye for an eye, contains a REMEZ (hint) to the correct meaning of that phrase. If you take the letters that are TACHAT (under, or following, in this case) each of the letters of AYIN — after AYIN is PEI, after YUD is KAF, after NUN is SAMACH — they rearrange to spell KESEF, money. This is the proper meaning of an eye for an eye. In English, is EYE were spelled LNMDX, then the letters following each of those would spell MONEY.
[4] Of the Kohen Gadol it says, And he, a previously unmarried woman he shall take (as a wife). YIKACH, he shall take, is the term for marriage. Targum Onkeles renders it as YISOV, which in Hebrew means he will encircle. So maybe the chatan should walk around the kalla?
[5] Thin is DAK and sock is GEREV. These are two of the invalidating defects for a kohein. Buckel is German for hunchback, GIBEIN, another MUM.
[6] The MAZALOT (Zodiac symbols) for these months are Taurus, Aries, and Capricorn respectively – hence, they stand for SHOR O’CHESEV O’EIZ KI YIVALEID... from 22:27.
[7] And you shall take to yourself 1 etrog, 1 palm branch, and 3 myrtle brances, and 2 willows... on day 1 of Sukkot, and rejoice before HaShem 7 days. 
[8] For each of these items, the phrase B’ETZEM HAYOM HAZEH, on this very day, is used. Hopefully, you’ll find the solvers report elsewhere in this TT.

This week's TTriddles:
[1] Where Birkat HaMazon and the Amida meet (sort of)
[2]No raphus cucullatus since the time of the Magen Av
[3] The Aramaic self-counting number
[4] Abe>Ben, Ben>Salmon Portland
[5] O is the what, oo is the where (TRA) 

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