PARSHA-PIX - Ki Tavo

Parsha Pix
Upper-right: The Smilie (because one must express his joy upon bringing Bikurim) places the basket at the side of the Mizbei’ach and recites (speech bubble) about going down to Egypt and out and up from there to Eretz Yisrael.
We ask G-d to look down upon us from on high (telescope, upper-left, pointed towards Earth).
If we keep Torah, we will be “heads” and not “tails” (the coins). 12 stones with the words of Torah upon them. The promised heavenly treasure, i.e. plentiful rainfall.
And the unexplained element is a PPP.

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 alsopresentedfor 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

Last week’s (KI TEITZEI) TTriddles:
[1] Who to whom and to whom & who?
[2] Impossible to have kavana for it
[3] Uncle-nephew, no. Father-son, yes. Brother-brother, no. Brothers, yes. Vicuna-chamois, no.
[4] The literal of the figurative from K'doshimis in Ki Teitzei
[5] Piano, Florida, Alan, and...

And the envelope please...
[1] There are two ZACHOR, remember... some- thing... on your way out of Egypt, in Parshat Ki Teitzei. The first is to remember what G-d did to Miriam (i.e. to remember the seriousness of LASHON HARA). G-d is the WHO and Miriam is the TO WHOM. Then we have the command to remember what AMALEK did to us. The pasuk is set up with the TO WHOM first - that’s us, Bnei Yisrael. Then comes the WHO, viz. Amalek.
[2] Several people attempted to solve this one with SHILU’ACH HAKEN, pointing to the pasuk that seems to imply that one “happens upon” the nest, without KAVANA. Not so. True, the bird in question may not be yours; it must be in the wild. But, you certainly can go on a field trip, looking for a bird’s nest with eggs or chicks and a mother bird (kosher) hovering over the nest, in order to fulfill the mitzva. And even if one happens upon the nest without thinking about it, there still is KAVANA when one chases the mother bird away. The answer to this TTriddle is SHICH’CHA. You cannot intend to forget some of the harvest.
[3] The answer to this TTriddle is YACHDAV, together. A word that appears several times in Ki Teitzei, as well as elsewhere in the Torah. Uncle- nephew is Avra(ha)m and Lot. Their YACHDAV did not work out and they split from each other. Avraham and Yitzchak, on the other hand, had three beautiful YACHDAVs. Yaakov and Eisav also were not able to remain YACHDAV. But brothers, as in the mitzva of YIBUM had a successful YACHDAV. Tying a vicuna and a chamois YACHDAV is prohibited.
[4] In K’doshim, we find the prohibition of placing a stumbling block before the blind. There, it is to be understood figuratively. Do not mislead someone, etc. What about literally tripping a blind person? Ki Teitzei’s prohibition of keeping hazards in one’s home and/or injuring a fellow would cover the literal stumbling block before the blind.
[5] This was the most solved one of this week’s quintet. Piano KEYS, Florida KEYS, Alan KEYES (who deserves honorable mention for his outspoken views and support), and the many (48 of them) KIs in KI TEITZEI. As previously mentioned, there are 48 KIs in KI TEITZEI, many of which begin p’sukim.

This week's TTriddles:
[1] Under the tiger, an Indian head;
[2] 1680 (228) [260] vs. 1486 (407) [112]
[3] Some communal offerings and gifts to the kohen, one of the Tribes, and l'havdil, Nimrod and Amalek
[4]If you ate more than tuna and couldn't spell, you'd have something for your grapes

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