PARSHA-PIX - No'ach
Parsha Pix
It's a fun ParshaPix - share it with your children and Shabbat guests. Top row, old joke - the animals came to No'ach in PEARS (pairs). YONA with the olive branch. Rainbow in the cloud. A rain cloud. Fish survived the MABUL by staying in the water under the TEIVA. Grapes and wine are for No'ach's post-flood activity. The people's proliferation is represented by the figures increasing line by line (generation by generation). The Tower of Babel has the numbers 1 thru 10 next to it... in 10 different languages.
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 (B'reishit) 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-great-grandfather, but son too!
[5] Good source for traditional gifts for the 50th; 15th; 40th, 45th, 55th, 60th anniversary.
[6] Relationship of the cleavee and the cleavee
[7] Adam would never harm any animal or bird
[8] Kaddish D'Rabbanan or 3 Brachot
And the envelope please...
[1] Naama'a great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandsons were the Sh'vatim. Her brother was Tuval-Kayin, son of Lemech and Tzila. Tuval-Kayin is idendified as a maker of all copper and iron implements. This gives him a metallic connection to Asher, whose blessing in V'zot HaBracha includes, "iron and copper are your locks (or treasuries)".
[2] The last two letters of the ALEF-BET make up the name of the thrird son of Adam and Chava, SHEIT (Seth).
[3] This TTriddle is also a play with two-letter words (TLW). Father, AV (ALEF-VET) is equal to 3 (G'matriya). The TLW with the highest possible G'matriya appears in the sedra, TEIT (TAV-TAV) = 800, which is a perfect score on the psychometric exam.
[4] LEMECH killed his great-great-great-grandfather, KAYIN. (One great- was left out of the TTriddle.) Rashi tells us that Lemech was blind. But he still hunted with the help of his son. When he discovered that his son inadvertently pointed him in the direction of Kayin and Lemech's arrow found its mark, Lemech was grief stricken and swung his hands wildly and killed Tuval Kayin, his son.
[5] The traditional gift for a 50th anniversary is gold. The 15th is crystal; 40th, 45th, 55th, 60th are rubies, sapphires, emeralds, and diamonds respectively. The land of CHAVILA, surrounded by the Pishon River is described as being the place where there is "good" gold, B'DOLACH and EVEN SHOHAM. B'DOLACH in modern Hebrew is crystal (in Biblical Hebrew it is a precious stone of some type). SHOHAM is usually defined as ONYX, but in B'reishit, it is rendered by Rav Aryeh Kaplan z"l in the Living Torah as precious stones.
[6] This TTriddle takes advantage of the interesting word-phenomenon CLEAVE, that has two opposite meanings. Cleave means to cause something to separate or divide. But cleave to means to stick to. Applying both meanings of cleave to Breishit 2:24, we find that a man should cleave from his parents and cleave to his wife. The relationship, then, between cleavee and cleavee is daughter-in-law to mother-in-law and father-in-law.
[7] This was sort of a silly TTriddle (but a bona fide TTriddle, nonetheless), based on the well-known (to those who know it well) ditty: Sticks and stones may break my bones but NAMES WILL NEVER HARM me. Since Adam called all the creatures of the world names, it follows that he would never harm any animal or bird.
[8] This TTriddle is from the haftara and is based on the S'faradi stopping place - after the pasuk HaShem Oz L'Amo Yitein... which is followed, as the last pasuk in the haftara by the three brachot following the haftara. When the pasuk is quoted in the oft-quoted Mishna of Rabbi Chananya ben Akashya, it is followed by a Kaddish D'Rabbanan.
[PPP] Veteran PPP solvers, the Havdala Haratis, came out of retirement for this one. (I wish that the oldtime PPP solvers would take the TTriddle-challenges as nicely as that of the PPPs.) Across the top of the PPP are three coats and two doors, giving KOTZ V'DARDAR. The helicopter is there for its rotating "sword-like" blades, as in 3:24, which protected the way to the Tree of Life. The there is a CANE and A BELL, as in Kayin and Hevel (in their English translations). RHM also did a good job on the PPP as well as on several of the TTriddles.
This week's 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...
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