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Moshe Rabeinu calls upon the heavens and the earth to hear his words. This is represented by the listening ears in the sky and on the ground.

The musical note represents the SHIRA, both Haazinu in particular and the whole Torah in general.

The cloud giving rain is analogous to the teachings of Torah as Moshe describes them. 

The eagle fierce protection of its young is used to describe the way G-d protects His People.

In the center of the PIX is a son asking his father questions and his father answering him. This is the method of transmission of Torah and Tradition. 

Lower right is milk and butter as in the pasuk that describes part of the prosperity that can often lead to unfaithfulness to G-d. CHEM'AT BAKAR in modern Hebrew might mean the butter of cattle (from cow's milk), but according to Rav Aryeh Kaplan z"l in The Living Torah, it means cheese in Biblical Hebrew, or possibly meat. Chalev Tzon is the milk of sheep. 
And then there is the wine with the negation circle. This is a possible double: A reference to the indulgence in wine which can lead to our turning away from G-d. It also stands for the prohibition of YAYIN NESECH, wine consecrated to a foreign worship. Rambam counts this prohibition among the Taryag mitzvot. Sefer HaChinuch does not count it here, but includes it in the prohibition of "offerings to Avoda Zara". This is the only mitzva that Rambam counts that the Chinuch does not. The only one.

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