
PARSHA-PIX - Parshat Tazri'a-M'tzora

ParshaPix
At the top are two baby carriages, one is blue and the other pink, the boy's is labeled 7+33 and the girl's is labeled 14+66. These are references to the period of TUM'A and TAHARA of the YOLEDET. The knife is for MILA (of the boy). The lamb and dove represent the KORBANOT of the YOLEDET. All expressed in the opening portion of Tazri'a.
The hand is afflicted with a NEGA. So is the shirt. The NEGA'IM of the body and of certain garments is presented in Tazri'a. The afflicted house further down the PIX is for NIG'EI BAYIT which is discussed in M'TZORA.
The chameleon represents the many examples of changes of coloration of N'GA'IM.
The razor is to shave the METZORA at the conclusion of his period of ritual impurity, including his eyebrows, as depicted by the pair of eyes and the one missing brow.
The two doves, the hyssop, and the EREZ tree are all part of the purification of the METZORA.
The ear, right thumb and right big toe are of the KOHEN for the oil (and blood) of some of the METZORA's offerings.
The mosquito is a PPP - solve it and win a prize.
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 Noam Productions, located at 8 Malchei Yisrael in Geula and at the Rav Shefa mall, and a gift (game, puzzle, book, etc.) from Big Deal, located at 15 Malchei Yisrael in Geula, Rechov Lunz right of the Ben Yehuda midrachov in the center of town, and on Rabbi Akiva Street in Bnei Braq. 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 (Sh’mini) TTriddles:
[1] Sh'mini's Motza"Sh imperative
[2] The atoning endless wagon
[3] Who would identify the FM as R?
[4] Almost milk, mustard, and the donkey-hitter
A modest offering of TTriddles, the solutions of which are hereby presented.
[1] This one was a give-away. Vayikra 10:10 says, U’L’HAVDIL BEIN HAKODESH U’VEIN HACHOL. And you shall differentiate between the sacred and the profane.
[2] This TTriddle uses the language of the good old cryptic crossword puzzles. A wagon in Hebrew is AGALA. An endless wagon means drop the HEI and you get AYIN-GIMMEL-LAMED, EIGEL, calf. The sinning calf, so to speak is the EIGEL HAZAHAV. The atoning calf (endless wagon) is the EIGEL that Aharon brought on the inaugural day of Mishkan function.
[3] The FM, foreign minister, is Shimon Peres. Peres is one on the non-kosher birds mentioned in Parshat Sh’mini. Targum Onkeles for Peser is AR, ayin-reish. So who might identify the FM as R? Yemenites and others who speak Aramaic.
[4] Almost milk is almost CHALAV, namely CHAGAV. Almost mustard is almost CHARDAL, viz.y CHARGOL. The donkey hitter is BIL’AM, a one-letter switch gives you SAL’AM. These are three of the four type of locust and grasshoppers that are permitted to be eaten. (Pickling and sun-drying seem to be two popular ways of preparing locust for eating. I also came across a few recipes on the web for locust stew. For those of us without the Tridition necessary to allow eating of locust today, look what we have to look forward to in the time of Sanhedrin.)
This week’s winner is ZviR, who has become to TTriddles what Steinhart was to PPP. People who get even one of the TTriddles are encouraged to be in touch with the TTriddles solution submission department, so that we can gauge how people are or are not handling
TTriddles.
This week's TTriddles:
[1] What happens to a jacket that gets a bit angry or envious?
[2] South America's Big Bird relocates in Hobart and is called ------
[3] The joy, happiness, bride & groom of the Haftara
[4] bitrimot
[5] Spin and win big
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