PARSHA-PIX - Parshat B'reishit

Parsha Pix
This is a classic ParshaPix with graphic elements representing each of the 7 days of Creation.

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 isn't 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 (Sukkot) TTriddles:
[1] Backward chloride just hanging around
[2] Not for 7; yes for 7
[3] Let us like a very energetic, true reality of goodness here and down anywhere someone is milling around. Really all very obvious though.
[4] The lawyer was wearing his ligation parka
[5] 11 Buckeyes, 12 Mourning Cloaks, 12 Monarchs

And the envelope please...
[1] I thought for sure someone would get this one. No one did. Some interesting attempts, but no one got it. Chloride is an ION that results from a Chlorine atom that picks up an extra electron. A backwards ION is NOI, which is the term for the decorations of the Sukka (among other things) which are just hanging around. Not too hard, was it? Honorable mention to BZW for taking 17, the atomic number of chlorine, reversing it to 71 and tying it to Sukkot as the number of PARIm (bulls) of all 8 days.

[2] This one was vague enough to be solved in different ways by different people. The intended solution is based on the Torah reading of the first day of Sukkot. In the first portion, we are taught that an animal must not be taken from its mother during its first seven days of life in order to be offered on the Mizbei’ach as a Korban. The rest of the reading (and especially the Maftir) dealt with the animals that WERE brought as Korbanot during the seven days of Chag. Not for 7 days; yes for 7 days.

[3] Some solvers got this one; others were perplexed and stymied by it. However close the words came to making a little bit of sense, they are all irrelevant to the TTriddle. The only thing that is important to the TTriddle are the initial letters of each word, which spell out LULAV, ETROG, HADASIM, and ARAVOT.

[4] This one was a groaner. But some solvers got it. The lawyer’s litigation parka is his SUE-COAT. BZW had a creative attempt for this one too.

[5] This one was solved by several solvers. It’s a nice one, and a variation on TTriddles we’ve had in the past. Buckeye, Mourning Coat, and Monarch are three kinds of butterflies. The numbers add up to 35, making 35 PAR-PAR or 70 PAR, as in the seventy bulls that were offered in the Beit HaMikdash during the seven days of Sukkot. That’s 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, and 7 on the seven days of Sukkot respectively.

This week's TTriddles:
[1] G-d l’chatchila and we b’di’eved on the same day
[2] Ultimately, it's a preview
[3] 29 in T’hilim, 11 in rest of Tanach, hidden and mixed up withinthe Five’s first and last
[4] Pinch hitting for #42 Wright of the Gulf Coast Expos, #20 Sosa of the Chicago Cubs
[5] At season's end, D'VEIKUS B'MITZVOS

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