ParshaPix

Upper-left is the Davka Graphics piece with Yosef and his dreams. 
Bread and wine is for the other two dreams in the sedra - Wine-steward and the Baker.

Snake and scorpion are from Yosef's pit. No water there!
Goat - major player in the sedra. Its blood used to deceive Yaakov (as he had deceived his father Yitzchak with goat meat and skin). Yehuda was asked for a goat by Tamar, disguised as a prostitute. Goat becomes the major animal of KORBAN CHATAT.

Emblem of the State of Israel is from the Haftara for Shabbat Chanuka.

TTriddles
These were last week's (VAYISHLACH) TTriddles:
[1] Aqua Regia can make her zeida
[2] An extra mitzva for Babylonian Jews?
[3] He followed Ben Prachya's advice?
[4] Kigel for supper, kugel for breakfast, and a porterhouse for lunch
[5] Go chase the fourth. Which is it?

Solution set...
[1] Aqua Regia (Latin for royal water) is a corrosive, fuming yellow liquid prepared by mixing one volume of concentrated nitric acid with three to four volumes of concentrated hydrochloric acid. Also known as nitrohydrochloric acid, it dissolves gold (and platinum, the "royal metals"), which do not dissolve in nitric and hydrochloric acid alone. If one did do this with gold, the result would be "gold water" or MEI ZAHAV, maternal (not a common YICHUS in the Torah) grandfather (or zeida) of M'HEITAV'EL, wife of Hadad of Pa'u, and daughter of Mat-reid.
[2] Yaakov Avinu tells the messengers to Eisav to tell him that Yaakov had been delayed because he's been living with Lavan all these years. IM LAVAN GARTI... One of the most well-known Rashis of the whole Chumash finishes the phrase with a play on words (an anagram), V'TARYAG MITZVOT SHAMARTI, and I have observed all of the mitzvot in the Torah. The letters of GARTI - I have lived, rearrange to TARYAG, 613, as in mitzvot. Targum Onkeles, representing Babylonian Jewry, translates the phrase as IM LAVAN DARIT, dalet-reish-yud-tav, which would rearrange, Rashi-stlye, to TARYAD, 614 mitzvot, an extra mitzva for Babylonian Jewry.
[3] Yehoshua ben Praychya, in the first chapter of Pirkei Avot, recommends (among other things) that one should establish for himself a Rav. ASEI L'CHA RAV. Eisav proclaims YEISH LI RAV (lit. I have much, but the words say, I have a Rav). The TTriddle ends in a question mark which (with the right inflection) comes out to seriously whether Eisav indeed did follow ben Prachya's advice. goto p.26 (maybe)
[4] We've had a similar TTriddle for M'CHUYA'EL andf M'CHIYA'EL. Here it refers to a place. At night, Yaakov calls it P'NI'EIL, the pronunciation of which seems to say KIGEL. After the sun rises, the place is called P'NU'EIL, matching KUGEL. That's supper and breakfast respectively, so far. Then comes the mitzva of GID HANASHE, the removal of which results in hind-quarter cuts of beef, including Porterhouse steak, which by now is for lunch.
[5] Notice (from the hard-copy) that the Which is it? is in smaller print. That was a clue to the word KATONTI. In some Chumashim, the word has an AZLA-GEIREISH trup-mark on it. Rough translation of the name of the trup is GO CHASE. Other Chumashim have a R'VI'I. So, which is it - go chase or the fourth?
The KIGEL-KUGEL TTriddle was also used as a riddle on Torah Tidbits Audio last Thursday night, Arutz-7, 98.7FM, 1539AM, and on the radio's website... 
www.israelnationalnews.com

It was solved on the air by NC of BB and Jerusalem. Several solvers of the printed TTriddle also got it, including RHM, who solved three out of the five.
By the way, not that I'm trying to bribe anyone, but...

There are frequent prizes for top-notch solutions (not always, but sometimes). The prizes are CD or cassette albums from Noam Productions, located on Malchei Yisrael in Geula - they're the ones across the street from the bigger music store - it's simply a case of QUALITY over quantity. They have a store in the Rav Shefa Mall too.

Prizes are also furnished by BIG DEAL, also on Malchei Yisrael as well as on Rehov Lunz, right off the Ben Yehuda Midrachov. It is not only useful to shop at Big Deal - it's a lot of fun, because you never know what new items they'll have. On the other hand, you never know what items they won't have anymore. More than once, I've been in the store, see an item, think I'll get it next time, and then discover that it is gone by next time. 

So, get to work on the TTriddles. Maybe you'll win fame (mention in TT) and fortune (a CD from Noam Productions and/or a gift from Big Deal). TTriddles can be found on the last line of several columns in TT - the lines that usually don't make any sense.

This week's TTriddles, collected from different locations in the hard copy and put all together for the convenience of electronic TT readers.

[1] Caph, Mira, Saiph, Avior, Hadar, Spica, Shaula, Sadr, Wezen, Dubhe, Nunki
[2] Joforjackson
[3] Her two were, some say, less than her two
[4] ...which made it 1919, if we don't count the first two years as Bais Sefer Yeshiva.
[5] The initial connection between Chanuka and Purim
[6] Namesakes with their high-ranking officers.

and there is one real PPP. 

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