PARSHA-PIX - Pinchas
Parsha Pix
The Brit Shalom is the Kehuna, symbolized by the CHOSHEN in the upper-left
of the Pix.
The two bowling pins and the C in the upper-center of the Pix is a PPP.
The calculator stands for the counting of the people.
The lambs represent the two daily T'MIDIM, or the Musaf of Shabbat - both
of which are mitzvot from this week's sedra. That is the meaning of 2+2=
Shabbat. 2 T'midim and 2 more lambs for Musaf.
Skip to the bottom. The binoculars are for Moshe Rabeinu to look out over
the Land...
There is a collection of symbols representing Shabbat (candle sticks),
Pesach (3 matzot), Shavuot (Har Sinai with the Luchot), Rosh HaShana
(apple and honey - the shofar is extra), Yom Kippur (the scales), Sukkot
(the sukka, sort of).
The SHOFAR is also one of the mitzvot from Parshat Pinchas. Parents who
are using ParshaPix to go over the sedra with their children can ask them
to find the command to blow the Shofar. If they are the right age, this is
a good exercise, because nowhere does it say anything like "And you shall
blow (or hear) the Shofar". It does say YOM T'RU'A Y'H'YEH LACHEM. We are
taught in the Oral Law that the command is to hear the Shofar on Rosh
HaShana. See MITZVA WATCH in the Sedra Summary for further comment.
And now we are ready for the nastalgic part of this ParshaPix. We are
talking about one of the earliest and greatest PPPs. This time, we will
not leave you in suspense for a week. And parents (or children - depends
who is reading these words and who will be on the receiving end of the
Pictorial Question), depending upon the ages and interests of your
children, you can have them work on all or some of this Pictogram. It
reads from left to right. First is a candy CANE inside a musical NOTE.
Which gives us KEIN B'NOT... Next is a sniper, TZALAF in Hebrew. Combined
with the 1 gives us TZELAF-CHAD. The bear is a DOV and the piece of the
multiplication table reminds us of the method by which many of us had to
learn it - namely, by ROTE. All together, we have G-d's answer through
Moshe to Machla, No'a, Chogla, Milka, and Tirtza: KEIN B'NOT TZELAFCHAD
DO'V'ROT...
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 (BALAK) TTriddles:
[1] 502-633-6807, 770-920-3963, 850-626-0331...
[2] Bil’am said, "A barrel of lion”?
[3] Donald O'Connor, Alan Young, and...
[4] What Bil'am and the Shunamit did in common
Plus a PPP in the ParshaPix and a separate PPP
And the envelope please...
[1] Many attempted (and some successful) solutions this week; none
(successful) for this TTriddle. I thought this would be easily solved. Ob-
viously, these are US telephone numbers. A reverse lookup on The Ultimate
White Pages (or other similar website, where you can put in a phone number
and get a name and address) reveals that these three numbers (and 58
others) belong to people named William Nation. Translated TTriddle-style
and you get Bill (informal) Am (Hebrew for nation), as in Bil’am.
[2] Several solvers got this one. A look through Onkeles (which everyone
does when doing SH’NAYIM MIKRA V’ECHAD TARGUM) reveals that Bil’am
admitted to the angel that he had sinned, with the word CHAVIT (barrel in
Hebrew, I have sinned in Aramaic), followed by the word KI, because, AREI
in Aramaic - sounds a bit like ARYEH, or ARI, lion.
[3] Several got this one too. Donald O’Connor starred in an old 1950 army
movie called Francis the Talking Mule. Alan Young was the TV owner of
Mister Ed, (a talking horse). And... Bil’am, of course.
[4] Bil’am and the Shunamit both saddled their donkey (female donkey, that
is, ATON). In fact, the word HA-ATON appears 10 times in Tanach: 9 times
in Parshat Balak and once with the Shunamit on her way to Elisha the
Prophet, in Melachim Bet 4:24.
The PPP in the ParshaPix was the building at the bottom. Some solvers
recognized the building; others inferred it from the sedra. It is Fort
Knox, the main U.S. repository of gold bullion, representing Bil’am’s
statement to Balak that even if he gave him a house full of gold (and
silver), he would not be able to say anything other than what G-d puts in
his mouth.
The other PPP was VAYAR (telescope) BALAK (ball + lock) BEN (as in Big
Ben) TZIPOR (the bird) EIT (pen) KOL ASHER (cola + Cher)... Several got
this one too.
Winners this week are the Ws. Be in touch for your prizes. Honorable
mention to RHM, DM, MM/Bklyn, and the Havdala Haratis, who emerged from
deep slumber to solve both PPPs (they don’t trifle with TTriddles). Noam
Prod. CDs to the Honorables too.
This week's TTriddles:
[1] He came in third
[2] There is a ParshaPixPuzzle at the top of the ParshaPix
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