PARSHA-PIX - Shavuot/Naso

ParshaPix

Fork lift stands for the work of the Gershon and mostly the Merari family.
The Abacus is for counting the Leviyim.
Stop signs are for T'MEI'IM - 3 different kinds of Do Not Enter.
The grapes, wine, and shaver are Xed out for the Nazir.
The potion of the Sota is under the abacus.
The animals and golden spoon with Ketoret are part of the gifts of the N'si'im.

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 (BAMIDBAR) TTriddle:
[1] Take away the first from the second and you are left too confused to sing
[2] After the mount, desert law
[3] He is doubly initially first
[4] 51, 68, 79, 102, 116, 122, 125, 128, 135, 137, 147
[5] Part of Machane Yehuda's total can answer a FAQ about the Molad times

And the envelope please...
[1] This is one of those cryptic crossword puzzle types of TTriddles. The answer is YOM YERUSHALA- YIM. Write it out in Hebrew and take the letters of the first word away from the letters of the second word. That is, remove a YUD, VAV, and MEM from Yerushalayim and you are left with letters REISH, SHIN, LAMED, YUD which can be rearranged to spell LASHIR. Hence, confused (mixed up letters) to sing (LASHIR).
[2] This is a list of four sedras: ACHAREI (after), B’HAR (the mount), BAMIDBAR (desert), CHUKAT (law). These 4 sedras begin with the same words, VAIDABEIR HASHEM EL MOSHE, and the next word is not LEIMOR. I did not want to include in this TTriddle the sedras whose first pasuk is V.H.E.M.Leimor - that would have been 10 more sedras: T’RUMA, KI TISA, TZAV, TAZRI’A, M’TZORA, K’DOSHIM, NASO, B’HA’A’LO’T’CHA, SHLACH, PINCHAS. Nor VA’EIRA that begins VAIDABEIR ELOKIM EL MOSHE... nor BO and EMOR, VAYOMER HASHEM EL MOSHE...
[3] REUVEN is the first tribe listed in the list of tribal leaders. If you take the initials of REUVEN: ELITZUR ben SH’DEI’UR, you get ROSH. So Reuven is doubly initially the first.
[4] The list of numbers indicate the 11 chapters of T’hilim in which the name YERUSHALAYIM appear. This TTriddle and [1] obviously are not for Bamidbar, but were in honor of Yom Yerushalayim.
[5] I like this one. Warped. FAQ is an internet term for frequently asked questions. One of the FAQ about the Molad announcement is about CHALAKIM. If one were to ask, how many CHALAKIM in an hour?, the answer would be 1080. ELEF U’SH’MONIM. The total count of DEGEL MACHANE YEHUDA is given in Bamidbar 2:9 as M’AT [ELEF U’SH’MONIM] ELEF V’SHEISHET ALAFIM V’ARBA MEI’OT, 186,400.
Then there was one of the elements of the ParshaPix on page 3 that was not explained on page 8. A spring with the question “whose is it?” The answer is NACHSHON, leader of Yehuda. It is K’FITZAT (spring and jump) NACHSHON, Nachshon’s jump into the Sea which facilitated its splitting. The term has entered modern Hebrew and means taking a bold initiative, as did Nachshon at Yam Suf.

This week's TTriddles:
[1] Florida city that alludes to possible infidelity of Jessica Parker (this is just a TTriddle, not real gossip)

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