PARSHA-PIX - T'rumah

PARSHA-PIX

Across the top are bags full of gold, silver, and copper, representing the generous gifts of the people to the building of the Mishkan. 

So too, are the gem, olive oil, wood, and different threads part of these donations. 

You can see the gold rings, which are mentioned a few different times. 

Column is a column. 

The decorations of the Menora are there - cup, button, and flower. 

Sewing machine for the work.

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 (MISHPATIM) TTriddles:

[1] This would result from having a study group in the Israel Center's Beit Midrash and another one in the 2nd floor conference room at the same time.

[2] Flood, brothers, witness

[3] HaShem, Adam, plus 21, plus 4, flocks and bread

[4] Status-changing time-frame for those who go on 2 or 4

And the envelope please...

[1] There are a few possibilities for this one, all using the same idea. The intended solution was to take a study group as a CHABURA, giving CHABURA TACHAT CHABURA, since the 2nd floor conference room is directly above the first floor Beit Midrash. Several people got this solution. One solver suggested that if the people in each group were positioned properly (or at least one in each group), then we would also have AYIN TACHAT AYIN (translated as an eye for an eye, but literally, an eye under an eye, etc.), and so too for SHEIN, YAD, and REGEL.

[2] The answer is CHAMAS, a word meaning violent iniquity and other bad things. The word is used by G-d to describe the generation of the Flood. Yaakov Avinu used it in reference to what Shimon and Levi had done. And it is used by the Torah to describe a corrupt witness. The word appears 5 times in Chumash and 37 more times in the rest of Tanach.

[3] Starting with Adam, if you count 21 generations you get to Yaakov Avinu. Add 4 generations from Yaakov and you get to Moshe. So we are looking for something in common with Adam, Yaakov, Moshe and flocks and bread. The answer is the word L’VADO, alone. G-d said that it was not good that Adam should be L’VADO. Yaakov found himself L’VADO when he was attacked by the guardian angel of Eisav. Yaakov had given instructions that the different groups of animals in the gift to Eisav should be L’VADO. In Mishpatim it says that we may not sacrifice to gods, only to HaShem L’VADO. At the end of Mishpatim, the Torah tells us that Moshe approached the top of Har Sinai L’VADO. And in Eikev, the Torah tells us that man does not live by bread L’VADO. Binyamin might have been on this list too, but the list in the TTriddle was restricted to those mentioned by name followed by the word L’VADO.

[4] Those who go on two are humans. Those who go on four are animals. A person who kills another may have done the deed with intent to kill or not. One of the factors that might indicate a change in status from a SHOGEG (inadvertent) killer to a murderer is whether the victim and the perpetrator had a history of enmity, MITMOL SHILSHOM, from yesterday and the day before. The same time-frame term is used for an animal as to whether its owner is held partially or completely responsible for damage caused by the animal. Did the animal have a record of violent behavior MITMOL SHILSHOM.

This week's TTriddles:

[1] 2 x French bread with...

[2] Its Aramaic name tells us one of its main uses

[3] Vague at first; not at last

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