PARSHA-PIX - Parshat Chayei Sara

Parsha Pix
Top-left: 400 silver pieces was the price that Avraham handed over to EFRON (represented here by the pencil - IPARON) for the cave and the field of MACHPEILA.
Avraham came to eulogize Sarah and to cry. The word V’LIVKOTAH is written in a Sefer Torah with a small KAF. There it is, under the pencil - a small kaf.
G-d blessed Avraham BAKOL, with everything. There is an opinion that this blessing included a precious gem that had miraculous curative powers. That’s it under the B”H.
Eliezer’s search is represented in several elements in the ParshaPix. First the speech-bubble with the chain in it. This was a PPP last year. It stands for VAYOMAR, and he (Eliezer) said, which is read with a SHALSHELET (chain), the most elaborate of TROP notes.
Then, of course, is Dakva’s scene of Rivka at the well (sping) watering Eliezer’s camels. To the right of the camels is one of the gold rings Eliezer gave to Rivka.
The Xed out turkey platter represents Eliezer’s refusal to eat before he had completed “business”. Good thing, too, because Lavan had poisoned the food (see poison symbol). This was Lavan’s first attempt to eradicate the not-yet nation to come from Avraham through Yitzchak.
The CHUPA at the top is for Yitzchak’s marriage to Rivka (and also Avraham’s marriage to Ketura.
The gift box can be the gifts that Eliezer gave Rivka and her family, as well as the gifts Avraham gave to the children of the “PILAGSHIM”.
The word TEREM appears eight times in the Torah, twice in Chayei Sara. That’s the Terem logo next to the skull & crossbones (in case Eliezer would have consumed the poison. Actually, Betuel did, and died.)
The bottle of NEVIOT water is for the sound-alike of the first born of Yishma’el.
The three animals can be a PPP. Not hard, but needs explaining.

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 alsopresentedfor 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 (VAYEIRA) TTriddles:
[1] Same result, different recipe - she and they
[2] 9 in a warm holiday, Living Torah (L.T.)heard thus
[3] Avraham thrice? What? And who 4 times?
[4] Early in the morning, after many days, inthe wee hours of the night - what and who?
[5] Plus 2 items in the Parsha Pix

And the envelope please...
[1] The answer is UGOT. The word appears only two times in Tanach. Sara made them with flour. And Bnei Yisrael used manna (Bamidbar 11:8). Same results, different recipes (so to speak).
[2] 9 is the letter TET. In a warm holiday is B’CHAG CHAM. Living Torah in Hebrew is TORAT CHAYIM, abbreviated TAV-CHET (the hint was that Living Torah was abbreviated in the TTriddle). Heard thus is SHAMA KO. Spelled out (and properly grouped), you get TET-BET-CHET, GIMMEL-CHET-MEM, TAV- CHET-SHIN, and MEM-AYIN-KAF-HEI. That spells Tevach, Gacham, Tachash, and Maacha, the four sons of Nachor from his pilegesh Re’uma.
[3] VAYASHKEIM... BABOKER, and he arose early in the morning. Avraham did it three times. Moshe and David twice each. Several others once each. But it was Yehoshua that rose early (with these words) four times.
[4] The answer this time is VAYASHKEIF, and he “looked out over” or something like that. The word in this form appears only four times in Tanach. This TTriddle relates to the three occurrences in the Chumash. Avraham arose early in the morning and surveyed to scene of the destroyed S’dom. After many days (of Yitzchak and Rivka staying in the territory of Avimelech) Avimelech looks through their window and figures out that they are not brother and sister, but rather husband and wife. And in the wee hours of the night (ASHMORET HABOKER), HaShem looks out over the emcamped Egyptians who were in pursuit of the recently Exodus-ed Bnei Yisrael.
This leaves us with two (related) items in the ParshaPix on page 3. They were not easily identified, but one solver managed them both. The bottle was of Chivas Regal, which is whiskey, a.k.a. BOOZE, the name of one of Nachor’s sons. The animal pictured in the ParshaPix is a DUGONG, an herbivorous marine mammal native to tropical coastal waters of the Indian Ocean, Red Sea, and southwest Pacific Ocean and having flipperlike forelimbs and a deeply notched tail fin. In Hebrew (modern Hebrew, that is - we’re not sure of the identity of the Biblical one), that’s TACHASH, a half brother of BUZ.
DC, nice try; not as easy as you thought, eh?

This week's TTriddles:
[1] Today, we “all” say it. Only 5 said it (or close enough) in the Chumash. Who?
[2] Avraham and Yishma’el, Levi, Kehat, and Amram + who else and with what difference?
[3] Egypt, Efron, Eisav
[4] How much? What's my name?
[5] Sara, D'vora, Rachel, Miriam and ? (but different)
[6] The three animals in the PP - easy, but requires comment

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