PARSHA-PIX - B'reishit

Parsha Pix
The ParshaPix is a classic depiction of the days of Creation. You have the on and off positions of the light switches in the upper-left, representing Day One and the creation of Light and Dark, and the distinction between them. 
Upper-right is the separation of the upper waters (represented by a cloud) and the lower waters. Second day.

The third day is represented by the trees growing on the land.
Fourth day is the sun, moon, and stars which were placed in the Heavens on that day.

Fifth day is represented by the Ladybug, the flying bird, the octopus (lower-left) and fish.

Representing the creations of the sixth day are the kangaroo, cat, beaver, hippo, and the boy and girl.

The candlesticks in the lower-right represent the Seventh day, Shabbat.
Nothing tough here, but the Pix can be used with younger children to draw them into a sedra review.

For older children and adult guests at the Shabbat table, one can raise the question as to on which day was the dolphin created - the fifth day with the fish or the sixth day with the mammals? This is not a pointless question. There are halachic ramifications as to the status of the carcass and blood (for example) of a fish vs. an animal, in the realm of ritual purity and impurity. What's the status of a dolphin? Now it becomes a TACHLIS question.

And what about the bat. Fifth day or sixth? The bat is the only flying mammal. It is on the list of non-kosher birds in Parshat Shmini and R'ei. Rav Aryeh Kaplan, for example, in The Living Torah, translates OF (AYIN-VAV-FEI) as "flying animals", rather than fowl or birds. Food for thought.

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 presented for call-in solution on Torah Tidbits Audio (Arutz-7, Thursday night). 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 

Last week's (Vayeilech, etc.) TTriddles:
[1] 16.7 - Here 1, there - all of them
[2] The Torah, the Mitzva, the Blessing to Yehuda
[3] the fourth is often the child's first

And the envelope please...
[1] I could have presented this one without the big hint at the beginning. 16.7 is a date, a Jewish date. The 16th of the seventh month, 16 Tishrei, the second day of Sukkot. Here, in Israel, the Torah reading deals with one day - the second day of Sukkot. That's it. But there - in Chutz La'Aretz - on the second day, they repeat the reading of the first day, which deals with all of the holy days - Shabbat, Pesach, Shavuot, Rosh HaShana, Yom Kippur, all the days of Sukkot, and Shmini Atzeret.

[2] The answer is V'ZOT. In the book of D'varim, the word appears four times, twice in Parshat V'zot HaBracha. V'zot is followed by HaTorah, HaMitzva, HaBracha, and L'Yehuda - The Torah, the Mitzva, the Blessing, to Yehuda.

[3] The key word missing from this TTriddle is PASUK. Of course, with that word, it wouldn't be much of a TTriddle. The fourth pasuk in V'zot HaBracha is often a child's first pasuk - TORAH TZIVA LANU MOSHE, MORASHA K'HILAT YAAKOV.

Since TT #488 for Sukkot was just available for distribution on the day after Yom Kippur, and since these words are being written (typed) on Motza'ei Shabbat Haazinu, before the expected major distribution of TT, there are no solutions yet submitted. Those who submit correct solutions in the coming week will IY"H B"N be acknowledged in the No'ach issue of TT.

This week's TTriddles:
[1] Which of her great (x11) grandsons had a metallic connection to her brother?
[2] The last two make up the third
[3] Father is 3, but this TLW scores the highest possible score on the psychometric exam
[4] Not only great-great-grandfather, but son too!
[5] Good source for traditional gifts for the 50th; 15th;40th, 55th, 60th aniv.
[6] Relationship of the cleavee and the cleavee
[7] Adam would never harm any animal or bird
[8] Kaddish D'Rabbanan or 3 Brachot