PARSHA-PIX - Vayeira

ParshaPix
Once again, this did not make it into the hard copy, due to lack of room, but here it is for the electronic versions.

G-d's visit to Avraham was BIKUR CHOLIM. Right side of the PIX is Dr. Thermometer doing the same thing.

The "ruggies" on the top were the UGOT that Sara baked for the angels. The turkey with all the trimmings represents the sumptuous meal that Avraham prepared for the angels. (Actually, it was tongue with mustard sauce.)

The skull is the symbol of acid-rain, a good description of that which destroyed S'dom.

Wine? Lot was given wine to make him drunk...

The baby in the cradle is for the birth of Yitzchak.

Alarm clock (look at the time) is for Avraham rising early in the morning.
Father & son holding hands, And the two of them walked together...
Bottom is the Akeida scene from Davka's Judaica clipart series.
The Shofar "comes" from the ram caught up in the bramble, the one that replaced Yitzchak on the Mizbei'ach.
That leave us with the dots in the upper-left. They constitute this week's PPP.

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 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 (Lech L'cha) TTriddles:
[1] Avraham & Yosef each said it to a king
[2] Indication that the work of the 15th century scholar R. Yehoshua Boaz b. Shimshon of the house of Baruch was holy
[3] His names (one in No'ach, and the other in Lech L'cha) equal 294 and 351
[4] And here's a preview of next week...
[5] Six in P'sukei D'zimra. Name the other four
[6] Confused lizard, cloud authority, and hospitality pages

And the envelope please...
Almost all of last week's TTriddles were solved by several solvers. We're getting soft! But read on...
[1] In 14:24, Avraham refruses to take any spoils of war from the king of Sedom (BERA). He exclaims, BIL'ADAI (Far from me!), but give something to my allies Aneir, Eshkol, and Mamrei. The word BIL'ADAI is translated differently in several translations. In any event, the word appears only once more in the Chumash, in B'reishit 41:16, when Yosef tells Par'o, BIL'ADAI, not by my power, but it is G-d Who answers the questions raised by dreams. (The word also appears in Yeshayahu and in I'yov.)
[2] The Rishon in question wrote EIN MISHPAT, as well as NER MITZVA, TORAH OR, and MASORET HASHAS (plus commentary on the RI"F and the MORDECHAI). Pasuk 14:7 tells us that the place EIN MISHPAT is KADESH (close to KODESH, holy). Rav Aryeh Kaplan z"l in The Living Torah, brings an opinion that this place is KADEISH BARNEI'A, identified by Targum as REKEM and thought to be (perhaps) today's PETRA. 
[3] In Parshat No'ach, his name is mentioned twice - NIMROD. G'matriya = 294. In Lech L'cha, the King AMRAFEL is identified by Rashi as the same NIMROD. G'matriya of Amrafel is 351. On Torah Tidbits Audio (Arutz-7, Thursday night), the riddle was asked differently: He is introduced to us in Parshat No'ach and appears in Lech L'cha with a totally different name. One caller correctly answered Nimrod, but another called with an equally valid answer: SHEIM and MALKI-TZEDEK.
[4] Solvers submitted two or three good answers, none matching the original intended answer of the TTriddle. But that doesn't matter. A good answer is a good answer. G-d tells Avraham about the birth of Yitzchak. That's a good preview in Lech L'cha for a major event in Vayeira. So too, when S'dom is mentioned, it says that it was before it was destroyed. Another preview of a major event in Vayeira. The original intended solution is from 17:1 - VAYEIRA HASHEM EL AVRAM... Vayeira is a preview of this week's sedra Vayeira. Maybe there are other solutions as well.
[5] Towards the end of P'sukei D'zimra, we quote from Nechemya 9:8 that G-d made a covenant with Avraham promising him the lands of the K'naani, Chiti, Emori, P'rizi, Y'vusi, and Girgashi. Four additional territories are mentioned in the promises in Parshat Lech L'cha - Keini, K'nizi, Kadmoni, and R'fa'im. Those four are the correct solution to the TTriddle.
[6] The answers to this one appear in 15:17, in the description of the BRIT BEIN HA'B'TARIM. The sun set and it was very dark - ALATA. AYIN-LAMED-TET-HEI. Lizard in Hebrew is L'TA'A. Confused lizard is a rearrangement of the letters AND a switch of the ALEF for the AYIN. Then there was a smoky furnace, TANUR ASHAN. Those letters rearrange to spell R'SHUT ANAN, the Cloud Authority. And a flaming torch, LAPID EISH, whose letters rearrange to spell DAPEI EISHEL, hospitality pages. Believe it or not, this TTriddle was solved by more than one solver.
Finally, we come to the hidden (in the printed version) and announced (in the electronic version) PPP, ParshaPixPuzzle. In the upper-left corner of the ParshaPix was a Keep off the grass sign. This was a reference to the ethical dispute between the shepherds of Avra(ha)m and Lot. Avraham's were taught to respect the property of others and avoid GEZEL, theft, by not allowing their sheep to graze on others' land.
Good solutions sets from ZviR, RHM, MM/Bklyn. Any of them might have won this week's prizes, had it not been for the entry of Ari, Nachum & Sally Stone. Theirs was just a bit better, crossing the finish line a proverbial nose ahead of the pack of veterans. Please be in touch concerning your prizes.
Another note to TTriddle observers. Even those of you who do not attempt to submit solutions, might have fun with them a week later when armed with the solutions — especially if other members of the family have not seen the answers yet. Enjoy.

This weeks TTriddles:
[1] Get up & go! Who to whom, here & in come!
[2] His Aramaic logo can be :)
[3] Rotate it 180º, drop the dot, put it on top - and the trup will match the word
[4] Lot's bug was slow to move
[5] In Eilonei Mamrei. Where else and for whom else?

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