PARSHA-PIX - Achari-K'doshim

Parsha Pix

Top row from the right is from Acharei, the Kohen Gadol and the two identical goats, over which lots are drawn (coin flip). The pairs of numbers are the counting of the blood-sprinkles on Yom Kippur. We should be familiar with that from Yom Kippur Musaf repetition. 

On the top-left is a house on fire. A potential life-threatening situation allows making a phone call (or other act that would ordinarily not be allowed on Shabbat - note the proximity to the Shabbat candles) on Shabbat. 

Back to the Shabbat candlesticks for the reminder to keep the Shabbat, which is attached to Reverence for parents and to Reverence for the Mikdash, in K'doshim. 

The B'samim is for Havdala, not from Shabbat to Chol but between kosher and non-kosher animals and between us and other nations - both mentioned at the end of the sedra. 

Next to the B'samim is a pair of hands and a crystal ball. This represents the prohibitions of divination, omens, and other "black arts". 

The heart in the Torah is a pictogram for Love thy fellow being a great Torah rule. 

The lifesaver is for the mitzva not to stand by idly while someone is in danger. 

The grapes and the wheat refer to many agricultural mitzvot in the sedra - PE'AH, LEKET, and others. 

The thief is various prohibitions related to theft. 

The camel with the monkey-head is a reminder of the prohibition to cross breed animals. 

The scales of justice knocked over are for the prohibitions related to perverting and distorting justice. 

The scale is weighing a 1 kilo weight, but reads less than one. Either the weight is off or the scale is. Whichever, that would be ASUR, to use false weights and measures or even to possess them. 

Razor blade for the prohibition of shaving with one. 

The trees with fruit stand for the first three years - ORLA, then the fourth year being special, the fruit is KADOSH. And the 5th year's fruit tree is on a plate with a knife and fork, indicating that from the 5th year on, the food is ours to eat (after T'ruma, Maaser, etc.)



TTRIDDLES... are Torah Tidbits-style riddles on Parshat HaShavua (sometimes on the calendar). They are found in the hard-copy of TT scattered throughout, usually at the bottom of different columns. In the electronic versions of TT, they are found all together at the end of the ParshaPix-TTriddles section. Some TTriddles are also presentedfor call-in solution on Torah Tidbits Audio (Arutz-7, Thursday night). The best solution set submitted each week (there isnt always a best) wins a double prize a CD from Noam Productions and/or a gift (game, puzzle, book, etc.) from Big Deal 



This week's TTriddles:

[1] What? No drumming the fingers?

[2] Here's a riddle (but don't ask it this week because knowing the Sedra will give it away): Usually we read a weekly sedra on Shabbat morning and later that day (at Mincha) we read the beginning of the following week's sedra. When do we read at Mincha from the same weekly Sedra that we read from earlier that morning? [omyay ipperkay]

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