PARSHA-PIX - Parshat Ha'azinu

Parsha Pix
We’ll start with the upper-left picture, the classic on with the listening ears for both the sky and the ground, as in HAAZINU HASHAMAYIM... V’TISHMA HAARETZ, let both Heaven and Earth listen to what I (says Moshe) am going to say.
The musical note represents the general name for the bulk of Haazinu - namely, SHIRA.
The cloud with rain is one of the analogies to the lessons of Torah.
Like an eagle protecting its nest and its young... that is how protective G-d is of His people.
The pupil of the eye, sometimes referred to as the apple of the eye, refers to our status as G-d’s favored nation (we should only earn it and be deserving of it).
Ask your father and he will answer you, your elders (grandparents?) and they will tell you.
There’s a Megila again. Just like last week. Both this week and last week’s (two weeks ago) sedras mention HESTEIR PANIM, G-d’s withdrawal to the background, so to speak, behind the scenes. The name of ESTHER is a play on HESTER PANIM and the story of Esther is a prime example of G-d’s hidden hand in history.
Skip to the bottom of the ParshaPix. The negation circle on the wine is for the prohibition of Yayin Nesech.
The milk and butter (lower-right) refers to the description of the prosperity that Israel will enjoy, then over-indulge in, and then be the cause of our turning away from HaShem.
Middle picture at the bottom is the logo of YESHURUN Synagogue, a nickname of ISRAEL that appears in Haazinu (and in V’zot HaBracha twice).
That leaves us with the two elements of the PP that relate to the Haftara. The exchange of bulls and lips is for the Hoshea part of the Haftara and the Shofar blowing in Zion is for the Yoel.

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 (Rosh HaShana) TTriddles:
[1] What Arpachshad has in common with one of the Avot
[2] Bnei Yisrael, Beit Yehuda, His Nation - what and whom else?

And the envelope please...
Slim pickings this week, as they say.
[1] Arpachshad was the grandson of No’ach, the son of SHEIM. B’reishit 11:10 tells us that SHEIM was 100 years old when he had Arpachshad, two years after the MABUL (Flood). That gives him something in common with his great-great-great- great-great-great-great-grandson Yitzchak Avinu, who was born to Avraham and Sara when Avraham was 100 years old. Why was this a TTriddle for Rosh haShana? Simply because the Torah reading of the first day tells us of the birth of Yitzchak. RHM got this one. MM/Bklyn had an interesting try at this one which got him the correct answer, but the wrong way. Arpachshad’s son was SHELACH. And Yitzchak SHALACH, sent, his son. Nice try, but no cigar.
[2] The what is KI PAKAD HASHEM, For G-d “remembered”. This phrase appears only four times in Tanach, referring to Bnei Yisrael, Beit Yehuda, and AMO, His nation (same thing, different term). Aside from these three terms that refer to the people of Israel, the phrase is used in the Haftara of the first day of Rosh HaShana, and the whom in question is CHANA. If we drop the KI, reverse the two words left and add a VAV to HASHEM, then we get another Rosh HaShthe Those four times are all If we reverse the two words (and add a VAV) we get VAHASHEM PAKAD ET SARA.

This week's TTriddles:
[1] The paradox between what its called and how long it seems to take
[2] His name on Friday night, Chanuka, and in Ha'azinu
[3] On Yom Kippur, we daven one and the other is forbidden

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