PARSHA-PIX - Parshat No'ach

Parsha Pix
One of our classic ParshaPix, with a new twist. Top row is based on an old joke about the worm coming in an apple, but all the other animals coming in pears (pairs). Then there is the famous dove with olive branch, cloud with rainbow and cloud with rain. There is a fish that survived the Mabul well, not in the Teiva, but under it. The grapes and wine flask are references to No’ach post-Flood. The people figures represent the proliferation of human beings after the Flood. The Tower of Babel is accompanied by words of many languages. What and which?

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 (B’reishit) 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 the end of the season, D’VEIKUT B’MITZVOT.

And the envelope please...
[1] Pasuk 1:4 tells us that G-d distinguished between light and darkness. He did that “havdala” on the first day of Creation, Sunday. For Him, it was a L’CHATCHILA. For us, with the mitzva of havdala on Motza’ei Shabbat, if for some reason we were not able to “do” havdala then, we may do it on Sunday. Our distinguishing between light and darkness on Sunday is a B’DI-EVED act.
[2] Ultimately refers to the ultimate (last) pasuk of Parshat B’reishit which says that NO’ACH found favor in G-d’s eyes. With the use of the word NO’ACH, the ultimate pasuk of B’reishit is a preview of the coming sedra, No’ach.
[3] This TTriddle is based on a comment attributed to the CHATAM SOFER on the Gemara in Brachot which states that any parsha that was beloved by David HaMelech, he began and ended with ASHREI. The Chatam Sofer pointed out that the whole Torah begins with ASHREI (whose ltters are contained inside the word B’REISHIT) and ends with ASHREI (whose letters are also in the word YISRAEL).
[4] The raw form of this TTriddle came to me and when I tried to flesh it out, I had problems. So the TTriddle itself is a bit klutzy, but it sort of works. There is a minor league baseball player (on the Gulf Coast Expos) named Isaiah Wright. I’d be surprised if his number is 42, but for the purpose of the TTriddle it is. This refers to Yeshayahu chapter 42, from which the regular haftara of B’reishit comes. Because Shabbat B’reishit was Erev Rosh Chodesh, the regular haftara was preempted by the Machar Chodesh haftara. Samuel (Sosa) no. 20 (that is, chapter 20 of Shmuel Alef) pinch hit for the regular haftara.
[5] And to make matters worse, we have this riddle which isn’t a TTriddle and did not even appear in the hard copy of TT (just in the email version and on the website). At the end of baseball’s regular season, Barry Bonds (D’veikus) reached a total of 613 HRs.

This week's TTriddles:
[1] (from the Parsha Pix) 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

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