PARSHA-PIX - Parshat R'ei

Parsha Pix

A classic ParshaPix.
There's Har Grizim in the upper left blessed with full green foliage. Next to it is Har Eival with a dead tree representing its curse-role.
At the upper right is an eraser with the negation circle. It is forbidden to erase the seven special names of G-d.
Top-center is the negation circle on a plus or minus, standing for the two prohibitions of adding or diminishing from the Torah.
The Tzedaka box is for the mitzva of giving Tzedaka, which is counted from this sedra. Lending to a fellow Jew is an important mitzva, especially as the Shmita year approaches and then draws to a close. After Shmita year, personal loans are canceled; it would be very tempting simply not to lend, in order to protect oneself.Comes the Torah and gives us a special mitzva not to be afraid to lend close to the Shmita year.
The stalk of wheat is a reminder of the mitzvot of Maaser Sheni and Maaser Ani as well as the prohibition of eating MaaserSheni (and several other sacred foods) outside Yerushalayim (or their specific venue). The wheat standing straight up looks like the number 1. The dot to its left is the decimal point that turns the wheat into 1/10 - Maaser.
The burning trees in the lower right stands for the destruction of AVODA ZARA from Eretz Yisrael.
The sword is the method of dealing with a bona fide IR HANIDACHAT.
The third negation circle is on the camel, a non-kosher animal. The mountain goat, on the other hand, gets two thumbs up - one for cud-chewing and one for split hooves.
The steak on the plate ready to eat points out that even though sacred meat was a topic of several mitzvot in the sedra, so is BASAR TA'AVA, meat that we may eat.
And in the lower left is a representation of the Three Pilgimage Festivals, the topic of the last portion of the sedra. Busy sedra. Enjoy it.

TTRIDDLES...
are Torah Tidbits - style riddles on Parshat HaShavua (sometimes on the calendar events of the week). The best solution set submitted each week (there isn’t always a best) wins a double prize — a CD from...Noam Productions and/or a gift (game, puzzle, book, etc.) from...Big Deal A fun place to shop
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 (EIKEV) TTriddles:
[1] This week's with all your heart
[2] SH'CHITA KNIFE
[3] Hearken (last week); What (this week)
[4] Last week's double opener continues, sort of
[5] THE COEUR-NUQUE CONNECTION
[6] That was during the years of wandering. But now you might need...Which one of TT sponsors (a.k.a. advertisers) can use that line in his ad? (does not appear every week)
[7] Red ball in English, Kadur Adom in Hebrew. What Hebrew phrase works like the English?

And the envelope please...
[1] A little tricky; most (attempted) solvers took the question in the opposite direction. Last week (Va’etchanan), the phrase V’AHAVTA ET HASHEM ELOKECHA was followed by B’CHOL L’VAV”CHA, with all your heart... This week (Eikev) the same phrase is followed by V’SHAMARTA MISHMARTO. That, then is this week’s “with all yourheart”.
[2] I think we might have had this one last year. A sh’chita knofe is called a CHALAF. That is the Targum for the word EIKEV.
[3] This was similar in style to the first TTriddle. In Va’etchanan, V’ATA YISRA’EL, and now, Israel, is followed by SH’MA, hearken (or harken, both are correct). In Eikev it says, V’ATA YISRA’EL MA... (what does G-d waask of you...). These are the only two times the phrase V’ATA YISRA’EL appears in Tanach.
[4] Last week’s double opener refers to the Haftara of NACHAMU NACHAMU. In Eikev, in the final pasuk of the Haftara, we have NICHAM twice. This sort of continues the double opener from the previous week.
[5] Coeur is heart, in French. Nuque is the nape of the neck, also in French. Why French? You have to ask? Anything goes in a TTriddle. D’varim 10:16 tells us to circumcise (remove the barriers from) our hearts and your necks (back thereof - nape) shall not remain hard (stubborn). So, if the hip bone’s connected to theleg bone, then the heart is connected to the nape.
[6] Don’t know if I really expected anyone to get this one (believe it or not, most of the other TTriddles were solved), but sometimes these things just pop up and don’t go away. One of the miracles of the 40 year wandering period that Moshe mentions to the people is V’RAGL’CHA LO VATZEIKA, literally, your feet did notswell up like dough (from constant walking). After that miraculous time, the services of Dr. Hillel Gluch might be needed. (See his ad someplace in this issue of Torah Tidbits.)
[7] This one seems to have more solutions that I thought of at the time. The intended solution is ZEIT SHEMEN, olive oil, rather than the Hebrew, SHEMEN ZAYIT. It really isn’t a good anser, because ZEIT SHEMEN does not mean olive oil, but rather olives that give oil. RHM’s submissions included reference to the descriptionof Yishma’el (albeit, not from this week’s sedra) as PERE ADAM, a wild(?) man, rather than ADAM PARU’A or something like that. Anyway, Russian is worse, adjective and noun in either order.

This week's TTriddles:
[1] High ranking kosher animal
[2] Yehoshua was told twice, so he'd be a strong leader. Why were we told?
[3] Beware the Zebra and the Cross