ParshaPix

Hard to improve on this one. Fork lift stands for the work of the Gershon and mostly the Merari family.The Abacus is for counting the Leviyim. Stop signs are for T'MEI'IM - 3 different kinds of Do Not Enter. The grapes, wine, and shaver are Xed out for the Nazir. The potion of the Sota is under the abacus. The animals and golden spoon with Ketoret are part of the gifts of the N'si'im.

TTriddles
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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 (Bamidbar-Shavuot) TTriddles:
[1] What's the number of the train from Sanaa?
[2] Who followed Horace Greeley's advice when it was time to for Bnei Yisrael to camp?
[3] Neither father nor son are palindromes, but these are
[4] Almost ending with the end, they end with the beginning
[5] 26,208 GAG

The envelope please...
[1] Sana’a (or San’a or Sanaa) is the capital of the Republic of Yemen. Many Yemenite Jews came on Aliya from there and other cities in Yemen in the early years of the State of Israel. Aramaic is associated the Teimanim. Targum Onkeles for the number 30 is TREIN (the way Hebrew is transliter- ated in Torah Tidbits) or TRAIN, the way that word is pronounced. So the number of the train from Sana’a would be 30.
[2] Horace Greeley’s famous advice was “Go west, young man”. The tribes of Efrayim, Menashe, and Binyamin camped to the west. And the Leviyim from the Gershon family also camped to the west. Full points are awarded only if the solver did not forget Gershon.
[3] This was a Shavuot TTriddle, rather than a Bamidbar one. Megilat Ruth, to be specific. Palindromes are words or phrases (or numbers) that read the same forwards and backwards. The words bib, noon, and civic are palindromes. So are, “Is that a cat I saw?” and “Madam, I am Adam”. And even though neither the word “father” nor the word “son” are palindromes, the names Yishai and David, a father and son, are both palindromes - in Hebrew, that is. 
[4] This too was a Shavuot TTriddle, this time relating to Akdamut. Each of the 90 lines of the poem almost end with the end of the Alef-Bet, the letter TAV. In fact, TAV is the next to the last (penultimate) letter of each line. The ending of each line is the beginning of the Alef-Bet, the letter ALEF.
[5] GAG stands for grams of silver, g for grams and Ag for silver, as in the chemical symbol. Each of the 273 “extra” firstborns (above the number of non-firstborn Leviyim) paid 5 shekel HaKodesh for redemption. According to a book I have, the Shekel HaKodesh was 19.2 grams of pure silver. That means that each B’chor gave the equivalent of 96 grams of silver, for a total of 26,208 grams.
In addition to the TTriddles, there was an good oldtime PPP, ParshaPixPuzzle. It was part of the ParshaPix on page 3 and was announced in the PP explanation on page 23.
There is a beach scene and a diamond ring on the beach. Both refer to the Haftara of Bamidbar. The opening pasuk states that the people of Israel were too numerous to count; they were like the sand of the sea. The final p’sukim speak of the engagement (so to speak) between G-d and the people of Israel. These are the p’sukim we recite when making the turns of the T’filin strap around our fingers.

This week's TTRIDDLES:
[1] He's our Javier Sotomayor, Mike Powell, and Jonathon Edwards
[2] Watch out for Naso, Bo, and Ki Teitzei
[3] The confused children NASHIR TIKRA U'G'MAR
[4] Not FIFO nor LIFO... but FIFI

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