Parsha Pix The abacus on the top is for counting the seven years of each Shmita cycle and the seven Shmita cycles of Yovel. The Shofar is blown on the Yom Kippur of Yovel. The Liberty Bell (of Philadelphia and the park near the Inbal Hotel - hey, did you realize that INBAL is a bell clapper and the Liberty Bell in the park by the same name does not have its own. Do you think?) is inscribed with the partial pasuk: AND PROCLAIM LIBERTY THROUGHOUT THE LAND TO ALL ITS INHABITANTS. The adding machine is to calculate the fair price of land, depending upon how many years remain until Yovel. The NOT FOR SALE sign is a reminder of the prohibition in the parsha which has two very different definitions. See MITZVA WATCH in the Sedra Summary. Upper-right is a fellow lending money at the Torah-approved interest rate for personal loans between Jew and Jew - 0%. What Shabbat in the last pasuk referring to? That’s why the pair of Shabbat candles has a question mark between them. The price tag in the middle of the
ParshaPix indicates that the regular price of the item is 100, and it is
being sold for 117. That mark-up exceeds the halachic limit of 1/6 and so
there would be a violation of ONA’AH. [2] UKRATEM, and you shall call (or proclaim). The word appears only four times in Tanach. In EMOR, the Torah says that on the very same day that the MINCHA CHADASHA, the Two Loaves” Offering was brought, the day shall be a YOM TOV. Shavuot, to be exact. The word following UKRATEM is B’ETZEM, in bone (using, of course, a different meaning for ETZEM). Similarly, in B’har, we find the Yovel command to “Proclaim liberty throughout the land...” - the word following UKRATEM is D’ROR, which also means sparrow. In Melachim Alef and Yirmiyahu, the word UKRATEM is followed by B’SHEIM and respectively, “in the name of” and “Me” referring to G-d. [3] Okay, so this one was a little obscure. Some- times a phrase in the sedra jumps out and says, “Make a TTriddle out of me”. The answer is HAMOTZI in the case of LECHEM it’s from the generic ARETZ. But in the sedra, it is HAMOTZI ETCHEM (you) from the specific land - MEI-ERETZ MITZRAYIM. [4] The word ACH (but, however) appears 158 times in Tanach, including 41 times in the Torah, three of which are in Parshat Emor. The first time it is used concerning the various blemishes that invalidate an animal from being a korban (blind, et al). It appears also with Yom Kippur and Sukkot (with Sukkot, it is after the first presentation of the Chag, as part of the lead-in to the mitzvot of the Four Species and Sukka. [5] The key word for this TTriddle is ETZEM, meaning both BONE and in the phrase B’ETZEM HAYOM HAZEH, on this very same day. Broadening the word to include BONE made the TTriddle a little trickier, but... that’s how TTriddles are sometimes. Let’s first look at the B’ETZEM HAYOM HAZEH phrase. On that very day, the Torah tells us, No’ach and his wife and his sons and their wives, went into the TEIVA. Reference is to the same day as the Flood started, which is the 17th of Cheshvan (according to the more popular tradition. The next two occurrences of the phrase were skipped over, but one of the solvers pointed out that a date could be given for them too, since they are mentioned in connection to Avraham’s Brit Mila. Tradition tells us that G-d visited Avraham on the third day. During that visit, the angels came to Avraham and we date that traditionally as Pesach. So B’ETZEM HAYOM HAZEH refers to 13 Nissan, twice. Pesach (the day of Y’tzi’at Mitzrayim) has three B’ETZEMs. Shavuot has one (in Parshat Emor). Yom Kippur has three. And the day of Moshe’s death, 7 Adar, has one. If we open the count to other ETZEM, which was done for the TTriddles, then we find two more for Pesach (including the prohibition of breaking a bone in the K.P.) and one more for Shavu’ot (in reference to part of the description of Matan Torah). And one more for the prohibition of breaking a bone in Pesach Sheni. Not counting the two for Avraham’s Mila, there are 13 ETZEMs. The comment of being 195 fewer than in the body is based on the notion that there are 208 bones in the body. The source of this (if there is one) has not been found as of the typing of these words. Nonetheless, the TTriddle was solved by a few solvers. [6] The correct answer is SHLOMIT. In Parshat Emor, she is named as the mother of the son of an Egyptian man and an Israelite woman. In Divrei HaYamim, SHLOMIT is the chief among Yitzhar’s sons. A second reference to him in Divrei HaYamim is also male. The third reference could be either male or female. [7] The haftara for Parshat Emor begins with the word V’HAKOHANIM. The last word is HAKOHANIM. The one letter that differentiates the start (of the Haftara) from the end is the letter VAV. MM/Bklyn and his brother DM have teamed up this week for a fine solution set. YYW called in a masterful solution set as well. We’ll call it a draw between them - prizes for both. Honorable mention to EB. After the TTriddles Report was printed,
but still within acceptable deadlines for submission of solution sets, the
TTriddles department received another fine set of solutions from the
Gersten Gang, who are hereby awarded shared possession of first place this
week... and prizes. [The Parshat
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