PARSHA-PIX - Miketz

ParshaPix
This week's ParshaPix combines the sedra and the Chanuka and Rosh Chodesh aspects of the Shabbat as well. And for good measure, there are a few PPPs left unexplained, for you to solve.

Top rows are obvious. [But remember that the obvious stuff works well with younger children in encouraging them to go over the sedra with you.] You find 7 happy, contented cows, followed by 7 emaciated cows. So too, 7 healthy, full stalks of grain and 7 withered ones. 
20% was Yosef's suggestion for the famine tax during the years of plenty. 
The scarab ring was given by Par'o to Yosef. 
10+1+? was the brothers' answer to Yosef's question about their family. We are 10 brothers, son of one man. One other brother is at home and the other's whereabouts is unknown.
Botnim (now peanuts but originally pistachio) were part of Yaakov's gift package.
The cup is Yosef's used to frame Binyamin. 
The double sacks is the double portion of money the brothers found returned to their sacks.
In the lower-left is the emblem of the State of Israel, insopired by the prophecy of Zecharya in the Haftara. 
The Menora is an obvious reference to Chanuka, although it is instructive to show this picture to the young ones and have them contrast it to their Chanukiya. Some people (and not just youngsters) have an image of the Menora in the Beit HaMikdash looking like our Chanukiya.
The thin crescent is an obvious link to Rosh Chodesh, but the arrangement in the lower-right corner is one of the aforementioned PPPs. So is what is above the State emblem, and so is that which is to its right.. Together with the TTriddles in this week's issue, the PPPs will keep you busy.

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

Last week's (VAYEISHEV) TTriddles:
[1] Par'o, Moshe x 3, G-d, Naaman, Elisha, and [?] very much
[2] vixen gray, mare brown, tabby white, and [?]
[3] Yosef, Manna, M'raglim (sort of)
[4] If it's Tuesday, it must be [?] but cannot be [?]
[5] VW's for sale; flip side, track one

And the envelope please...
[1] VAYIKTZOF, and he got angry... Par'o is the one from Vayeishev. He got angry at the Wine Steward and the Baker and jailed them both. Moshe Rabeinu got angry at those who left over from the Manna, contrary to G-d's command. He got angry at Elazar and Itamar for not eating the meat of the korbanot on the day that Nadav and Avihu died. And he got angry at the army officers of the battle against Midyan for leaving the adult females alive. G-d got angry (so to speak) at the panicked generation of the Wilderness for their reaction to the report of the Meraglim. Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Aram was angry that Elisha HaNavi did not miraculously cure him of TZORA'AT. Elisha got angry with YO'ASH, king of Israel, for not striking the ground with his arrows more than the three times he did so, at Elisha's command. The one who got exceedingly angry was Achashveirosh, at Vashti's refusal to come before him on the seventh day of the party. Several solvers got this one.
[2] No one got this one. I knew it would be a stretch, but I was hoping... Female animal and its color. Vixen (fox) grey, mare (horse) brown, tabby (cat) white, DOE (female deer) TAN, as in DOTAN, where Yosef met up with his brothers. 
[3] This one was also solved by some of the solvers, despite the typo in Meraglim. The answer is VAYOM'RU ISH EL ACHIV. That phrase is used three times with Yosef's brothers. When the Manna fell, people commented to each other about it. The phrase is used again to describe the panic of the people in response to the report of the Meraglim. Let us select a leader to take us back to Egypt.
[4] If it's Tuesday, this must be Belgium is the title of a '69 comedy/adventure movie. If it's Tuesday, it cannot be the first (or last) day of Chanuka. The fact was mentioned a couple of times in TT and is remarkable because most dates on the Jewish calendar are in the LO ADU style of being able to occur on four days of the week but not on the other three days. Because of the variability of Cheshvan and Kislev, each having 29 or 30 days, a smaller number of dates, including the first days of Chanuka, can occur on six of the seven days of the week. 
[5] This was a fairly simple TTriddle for any solver who decided to track it down. In the hard copy of TT it was presented in Hebrew. VW's popular car is known as the BEETLE. Here it refers to the BEATLES, specifically, their album Beatles for Sale. The first song on the second side of that album is Eight Days a Week. That's Chanuka (sort of).

This weeks TTRIDDLES:
[1] Tally the animals we read about this Shabbat
[2] Who had mandatory Thursday night learning?
[3] Yosef accused; Moshe, Yehoshua, David, Avshalom sent
[4] Fifth is first, second, & third, but never eighth
[5] Who his face? Who whom? Who the innards? Who himself?
[6] gimmel-lamed-bet-chet-alef - that's six in a row!?
[7] A good morning reply source
[8] veggie, carnivore, cannibal - not really
[9] two of his noms de plume in the sedra
[10] Some people say Hallel on Yom HaAtzma'ut and some say Tachanun. On what day do we all sometimes say Hallel and sometimes say Tachanun?

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