PARSHA-PIX - Parshat Lech Lecha

Parsha Pix
A souped up version of last year’s PP. Arrows. From the east towards Eretz Yisrael - that’s the Lech L’cha arrow. From E. Yisrael to the south-west and back again is the round trip to & from Egypt. 
The compass on the outline of the map is G-d’s instructions to Avraham to walk the Land, its length and breadth, and in all directions. 
The arrows branching in opposite directions was Avraham’s choice to Lot when they separated. 
Then there is an arrow from the spool of thread to the shoe lace, as in Avraham’s oath before the king of S’dom. 
The observatory stands for G-d’s promise to Avraham that his descendants will be as countless as the stars of the heavens. 
On the right in the lower half of the Pix are crowns representing the war of the five kings against the four. 
The father with his little son represents Brit Mila. 
On the left side, lower half, is a representation of Brit Bein HaB’tarim, with each split animal branded with a triangle, standing for the adjective 
M’SHULASH/M’SHULESHET. See the Sedra Summary for details. 
There is a .1 towards the middle which stands for the tithe that was given to Malki- Zedek after the success in battling the kings and saving Lot. 
That leaves two other items which are two ParshaPixPuzzles. Add those to the TTriddles sprikled around Torah Tidbits and see what you can come up with. 

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 (No’ach) TTriddles:
[1] (from the ParshaPix) The Tower of Babel is accompanied by words of many languages. What and which?
[2] A picture is worth a thousand words. A word (play on “word”) is 450,000 what?
[3] Only G-d (so to speak) and Yitzchak did this
[4] Between the ellipse & the silent one
[5] Of all the animals to choose from for Parshat No’ach, why choose the gopher? 
[6] Also towards Assupim
[7] The longest two-letter word

And the envelope please...
[1] The “what” is the word for “thank you”. The “which” refers to which languages are represented. Here’s the list of “thank you”s and the languages they represent. Special thanks to those solvers who took the trouble to search the web and find the same (or similar) site that I found to make up the list. Their efforts are received by us as acknowledgment of the effort that went into making the list in the first place. 
Faleminderit is thank you in Albanian. Dziekujeis Polish. Maketai is Achuar (a tribal dialect in Ecuador and Peru). Arigato is Japanese. Kiitos is Finnish. Maraba is thank you in the language of the Bura tribe of Nigeria. Kongoi is from the Kipsigis people of Kenya. Mahalo is Hawaiian. Ashoge is Apache Indian. Achiu is Lithuanian. Takk is Norwegian and Icelandic (among others). And Ta is Australian.
[2] The TEIVA is 450,000 cubic amot in volume, based on the measurements given in the beginning of the sedra: “300 amot, the length of the TEIVA, 50 amot, its width, and 30 amot, its height”. 
[3] The Torah tells us (B’reishit 8:21) VAYARECH HASHEM... and G-d smelled (so to speak) the fragrance of the korbanot that No’ach brought. The only other time the Torah (all of Tanach, for that matter) uses that word is with Yitzchak, when he smelled the garment of Eisav that Yaakov was wear- ing when he presented himself to Yitzchak for the bracha (B’reishit 27:27). [A computer search for VAV-YUD-REISH-CHET produces more than two results, but none of the others have to do with smell.]
[4] In the list of the descendants of No’ach, specifically of Sheim, via Arpachshad, to Eiver, to Yaktan. Thirteen sons of Yaktan are listed, including (in B’reishit 10:28), OVAL (closely related to the ellipse), AVIMA’EL (which is the answer to this TTriddle), and SH’VA (a sound-alike of the SILENT vowel).
[5] This was an obvious one - though some solvers actually missed it - solved by many. Any animal would have qualified for the MRMHKBAMHK column, but gopher seemed most appropriate, since the TEIVA was made of GOFER wood.
[6] Here again, a computer search for SH’MAYIM SH’NAYIM revealed this “pair of twos” in Tanach in only one other context. It’s in Divrei HaYamim Alef 26:17, having to do with the watchposts of the Leviyim in the Beit HaMikdash area, specifically, (possibly) four Leviyim, “two two”, meaning two on each side of Assupim (maybe a storehouse of some sort).
[7] The longest two-letter word. This one drew some interesting responses. Some said the word ET, ALEF-TAV, since it spans the whole alef-bet, from Alef to Tav, it must be the longest. Someone suggested KEITZ, KUF-TZADI, for a simialr reason: to go from KUF to TZADI, you have to go around the entire alef-bet. Actually, this was the intended answer, but for a different reason. KUF and TZADI SOFIT are both long letters, so they make up the longest two-letter word. Also, said another solver, the word means the end, and that makes it quite long too.
Special mention this week of “the newest kid on the block”, a first-time solver who did a fine job. Even his wrong answers are very nice tries. Kol HaKavod, and a NOAM CD, to DAC/Efrat.
Definite winner this week is the team of YYW and BZW who combined for a near-perfect solution set. Be in touch about prizes.

This week's TTriddles:
[1] Who might confuse S'dom and Tzo'ar
[2] Who in the sedra was the major founder of a famous Jerusalem yeshiva at the suggestion of the Ben Ish Chai?
[3] The Water Judgment, the Land, all the land, his servants, Yaakov
[4] Adam, Avra(ha)m, people
[5] 2 items from the Parsha Pix Puzzle

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