ParshaPix

Pillar of Cloud and Pillar of Fire. 
Flat tire is for the wheels of the Egyptian chariots which fell off when bogged down in the mud of the seabed 
Of course, there is the graphic (Davka) of Moshe raising his hand (with the MATEH) over the Sea and its splitting. 
The brick pattern is how AZ YASHIR is written in the Torah (and Shirat Dvora in the Navi).
Water coming from the rock that Moshe hit (as instructed). 
Quail, as in S'LAV. 
Two challot represent the double portion of Manna that fell on Friday, in honor of Shabbat. 
Three facets of the battle against Amalek: Moshe's upraised hands, Yehoshua's sword, and the pen with which the account of the battle was written down. 
Lower right is the representations of the Haftara. The singing bee is Dvora. Thunderbolt = BARAK, Devorah's associate. Milk that Yael gave to Sisra to make him drowsy, and the tent peg with which she killed him.

TTRIDDLES
Okay, so you want it as a challenge? The best solution set submitted for Parshat BO’s TTriddles will receive two prizes: “SHLOMO DANCE” CD from Noam Productions (8 Malchei Yisrael and Rav Shefa Mall) and a RUBIK’S INFINITY GAME from BIG DEAL (15 Malchei Yisrael, 3 Lunz, and 64 Rabbi Akiva in Bnei Braq). I have personally tested both gifts and highly recommend them.
And if you really don’t want to wrack and warp your brains in this endeavor, we still recommend that you read the weekly TTriddles report. They are fun and also provide a SDT once in a while. And a lot of trivia.
Last week’s (BO) TTriddles and their solutions:
[1] Adlai's comment about ER would not have worked this time.
[2] Read in its reverse's counterpart
[3] Just the dip is missing from the original 4
[4] 215 times the previous one
[5]Month that gives a double meaning to the command
[6] Avraham, Par'o, Machla et al, Mateh Bnei Yosef
[7] Seder Amirat K.P. (double-entendre)

And here are the solutions...
[1] The Adlai is Adlai Ewing Stevenson, twice unsuccessful opponent of Dwight David Eisenhower for the presidency in ‘52 and ‘56 (19-, that is). His grandfather, with the same name was vice president under Grover Cleveland. Anyway, the ER is Eleanor Roosevelt. AES said of ER that she would rather light a candle than curse the darkness. Nice, but it would have been totally ineffective in the supernatural darkness of Plague #9 - CHOSHECH.
[2] The reverse of BO (BET-ALEF) is AV, the month. As the fifth month from Nisan, its counterpart would be SH’VAT, the 5th month from Tishrei. BO is always read in Sh’vat, its reverse’s counterpart.
[3] This TTriddle refers to the original version of the MA NISHTANA, the 4 questions, as recorded in the Mishna in P’sachim. The questions are about matza, maror, roasted meat, and dipping. Shmot 12:8 com- mands us to eat the meat of the Korban Pesach BA- LAILA HAZEH (a Ma Nishtana phrase), roasted (that’s one), and (with) matza and maror (that’s two and three). Only the dip is missing.
[4] The answer is VA’Y’HI MIKEITZ. This time, in BO, it is after 430 years. Last time the phrase was used, in the opening words of Parshat Mikeitz, it was 2 years. 430 = 215 x 2.
[5] In retrospect, this was too hard. (I really believe that most TTriddles are solvable.) The command intended here is KAZEH R’EI V’KADEISH. G-d showed Moshe the form of the first visiblitiy of the lunar crescent and told him, “when you see it like this, sanctify the month”. The month that gives a double meaning to the command is ELUL, the Rosh Chodesh of which can be on Shabbat Parshat R’EI.
[6] This one was solved by several solvers. The common factor is KEIN (yes) and some form of DIBEIR. The angels said to Avraham that YES, they would do as he had spoken. In Parshat BO, Moshe says to Par’o, that YES, it shall be as you have spoken – you will not see my face again. It was of Machla et al that Moshe said, YES, the daughters of Tzelafchad speak correctly. And a bit later, he said words to that effect to the members of the tribe of Menashe who raised a problem with giving the daughters of Tzelafchad their father’s and grandfather’s share of land in Eretz Yisrael.
[7] The solution to this TTriddle is found in Targum Onkeles, where the word for lamb is I’M’RA, a word very similar to AMIRA. Hence the double-entendre in the phrase Seder Amirat K.P. 
RHM did another nice job on solving this week’s TTriddles. Some solutions were “on the nose” and others were nice tries. And RHM solved another non-TTriddle — ACHAR HA’D’VARIM HA’EILEH was not a TTriddle, but a private Happy Birthday to the filling in our sandwich. But nicely done. Top honors this week, however, go to MM/Bklyn who submitted a powerful solution set. Let me know how to get the prizes to you. Several others submitted “modest” solution attempts. And the rest of you...?

This Week's TTriddles
[1] After Yam Suf, NO DOUBT
[2] sweetbread at 8:00pm sweet bread at 8:00am
[3] Maftir is a third for some and a third of maftir for others
[4] Business for G-d fearing Egyptians
[5] Before Torah and what?
[6] First 8 of 17 reversed in prayer
[7] Spoils spoils the streak
[8] For Moshe, once day & night, once all night. For whom at sunrise?

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