PARSHA-PIX - Lech L'cha

ParshaPix
The arrow (top-middle) points roughly FROM Avra(ha)m's birthplace TO Eretz Yisrael, and therefore represents LECH L'CHA. 

The arrows (one leaving E. Yisrael and the other returning) represent the detour to Mitzrayim because of the famine in E.Y.

The compass over the map of Israel stands for G-d's telling Avra(ha)m to look over the whole land, for everything he sees will be given to him...

More arrows. Right side under the spool of thread... Avra(ha)m's choice to Lot, when they were parting company: If you choose the right... 

One more arrow. From the spool of thread (upper-right corner) to the lace of the shoe. Avra(ha)m's oath before the king of S'dom that he will take nothing for himself of the spoils of war, from a thread to a shoe-strap.

Lower-left are the crowns of the five kings vs. the four kings, as in the battle reported in Lech L'cha.

G-d took Avra(ha)m outside and showed him the multitude of stars... so will be your descendants... Represented by the observatory in the middle of the Pix.

Lower-right are the three kinds of animals that were cut in half and the bird that was not cut.

This leaves us with the keep off the grass sign in the upper-left. Let's leave that one unexplained and make it a PPP. Your correct solution (and to TTriddles below) can win you a prize or two.

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 (No'ach) TTriddles:
[1] Jim Nabors, Zorba, Sweet Pop...
[2] In what country did buttons originate?
[3] Go out and see what's read
[4] Children of Rakeffet, Chernofsky, Schoffman, Gispan, Tzadok...

And the envelope please...
[1] This seemed to be an easy TTriddle (for a change), as many solvers solved it correctly. Jim Nabors played obnoxious marine GOMER Pyle in the comedy series of the same (or similar name). Zorba, of course, is a Greek, from YAVAN. Sweet and Pop are two types of corn, in Hebrew, TIRAS. GOMER, YAVAN, and TIRAS, along with MAGOG, MADAI, TUVAL, and MESHECH were the sons of YEFET.
[2] Similarly, KAFTORIM (buttons) descended from MITZRAYIM, Egypt.
[3] Surprised no one sent in a correct solution for this one, especially since I think I've used it before. GO OUT stands for KI TEITZEI and SEE stands for Parshat R'EI. What's read as the Haftara for parshat No'ach is the combined Haftarot of Ki Teitzei and R'ei. And there are years when R'EI is Rosh Chodesh that some communities read the special Haftara of Rosh Chodesh on that Shabbat and double up on Ki Teitzei, which then ends up having the same Haftara as No'ach.
[4] This one was also used in the past, then beginning with the family of Tz'lofchad who had five daughters. The families mentioned in the TTriddle also have only daughters. No sons to the parents and NO'ACH (brother) to any of the many girls referred to in the TTriddle.
And that's it. Slim pickings, as we say. But thank you to the many people who "play" the TTriddles each week. As much satisfaction as there is in making the TTriddles, it is the correct and incorrect solutions of TT readers that really makes it fun. You know the old saying... What's the fun of a TTriddle if no one tries to solve them.

This weeks TTriddles:
[1] Avraham & Yosef each said it to a king
[2] Indication that the work of the 15th century scholar R. Yehoshua Boaz b. Shimshon of the house of Baruch was holy
[3] His names (one in No'ach, and the other in Lech L'cha) equal 294 and 351
[4] And here's a preview of next week...
[5] Six in P'sukei D'zimra. Name the other four
[6] Confused lizard, cloud authority, and hospitality pages

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