PARSHA-PIX - Nitzavim-Vayeilech

Parsha Pix
Remember: Even if a picture is obvious to you, it still can be used effectively with children and guests as springboards to discussions on Parshat HaShavua.

Upper-left. The men, women, and children who are all standing (NITZAVIM) before HaShem this day. They can also represent HAK’HEL from Parshat Vayeilech.

Middle-top is a lumberjack, and in the upper-right is Aquarius, the water drawer. Both are mentioned in the pasuk describing KU-L’CHEM, all of you.
The sky scene, stars, moon, planets, is Xed out, because T’SHUVA is LO BASHAMAYIM HI.

The feather quill represents the mitzva of writing a Sefer Torah (in Parshat Vayeilech) and the open sefer at the bottom is to remind us that the mitzva includes the writing and buying of sifrei kodesh, so that we will have ample texts for learning Torah and teaching it.

The skull with the acid rain falling past it stands for the description of sulfur and brimstone and fire, as in the warning of destruction if the people turn away from G-d.

The young king (with the crown) is reading from the Torah, as the king does on the occasion of Hak’hel (also from Vayeilech).

Lower-left are the choices we are offered - which way shall we choose? Life and Good... or the opposite.

Something was left out of these descriptions of the elements of the ParshaPix. That makes it a PPP, ParshaPixPuzzle.

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 TAVO) TTriddles:
[1] Under the tiger, an Indian head;plus a PPP in the same box
[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

And the envelope please...
[1] The tiger in the TTriddle is Tiger Wood, the famous golfing superstar. Indian Head refers to an old penny that was used in the United States before the Lincoln penny (1859 to 1909). The Indian Head, as well as its successor, was made of copper. So the TTriddle translates as Under the Woods, copper. This is mentioned in the Haftara (Yeshayahu 60:17). Several solvers got this one.
So too, the PPP in the same box. Unfortunately, the graphic didn’t print well. It is the logo of the Rolling Stones. Under it is a golf club, specifically, one of the irons. So you have Under the stones, iron, which comes from the same pasuk. Note, of course, the connection between Tiger Woods and the golf club.
[2] This one was also solved by a couple of solvers. It is a series of G’MATRIYAs. The major clue was the vs. which lead people to look in the direction of Har G’rizim and Har Eival, and the brachot and k’lalot. Sure enough, that’s what it is. The names of the tribes that were to stand on Har G’rizim add up to 1680. G’rizim itself add up to 260, and the word BARUCH = 228. vs. the other mountain. The tribes total 1486, ARUR = 407 and EIVAL = 112
[3] This one was also well-solved, the answer being REISHIT. Running a search in the Chumash finds that the word is associated with (in the order of the Chumash): Nimrod, Bikurim (Kohen’s gift), Menachot (offerings), the Barley (Omer) offering, Challa, Amalek, T’ruma, first shearing of sheep, Bikurim again, and finally (Chumash-wise), the tribe of Gad.
[4] This one is in memory of Victor Borge and one of his famous comedy routines. ATE. If you couldn’t spell, and meant EIGHT, then EIGHT more than TWO-na is TEN-na, the basket you need for your grapes or other Bikurim that you are bringing to the Beit HaMikdash. A couple of guys got this one too, but not the way it was meant. They just came to TENE as a variation of TUNA.
And finally, in the ParshaPix, there was one unex- plained item, namely the caravan of camels. This was a give away to anyone who looked into the Haftara and found reference to SHI-F’AT G’MALIM (not SHIF-AT, but that’s for a different column). Nothing tricky with this one. Just there in the open.

This week's TTriddles:
[1] The deal with NIZAL
[2] 5 storks, working overtime, delivered him.
Used wagon wheels for buttons.
40 bowls of porridge whetted his appetite.
Worked with 7 large men all named Elmer.
[3] A Query and Retrieval Information User System
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[4] d, 40d, 10y, 430y, 40d, 40d, 7y, 7y

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