PARSHA-PIX - Parshat P'kudei

Parsha Pix
Adding machine is for the tallies of the donations of the materials to the building of the Mishkan.
Kohein Gadol is for the description of the fashioning of the special garments.
The linen turban carries the number 6 as a pun, since SHEISH means 6 and linen.
The Shulchan won the raffle to see which part of the Mishkan would be in this ParshaPix, representing all the other parts.
Water faucet is for the KIYOR, and the fact that the sedra contains a restatement of the command to the kohanim of washing their hands and feet before doing Avoda.
The oil can was for anointing the kohanim and all the vessels.
The cloud with the do not enter sign is from the end of the sedra.
The fire is mentioned as the nighttime guard and guide.

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 (VAYAKHEL) TTriddles:
[1] In a fortnight plus, his grandfather's head gets big
[2] Looks like the carpenter was deaf
[3] Moshe - Shabbat & Mishkan; Similarly who - what?
[4] Route 652, named for him and his father

And the envelope please...
Modest selection of TTriddles this week, and kind of easy-ish, compared to some of the TTriddles of recent past.
[1] A fortnight is two-week’s time. I use words like that to mollify some of the TT readers of non-American, albeit Anglo origin, who complain about the Americanisms - especially baseball references - that appear from time to time. A fort- night plus is, of course, a reference to Purim. The answer to the TTriddle is Bezalel, whose grandfather was CHUR. The word, not the name, appears in the Megila with a big CHET (which is the head of the word CHUR). It is considered as a REMEZ to the eight garments of the Kohein Gadol that Achashvei- rosh arrogantly wore to mock G-d and the people of Israel.
[2] CHARASH, meaning woodwork, whose root CHET-REISH-SHIN, is the same root as DEAF, as in CHEIREISH. Targum Onkeles on CHARASH is NAGAR, Hebrew for carpenter. So it looks like the carpenter is deaf.
[3] The word VAYAKHEL occurs only one other time in the Torah, besides the gathering of the people by Moshe to hear about the building of the Mishkan, preceded by the reminder of the supremacy of Shabbat. Moshe gathered KOL ADAT BNEI YISRAEL. Korach gathered the EIDA in his challenge of the authority of G-d and Moshe. The word appears several more times in the rest of Tanach with Rechavam, Yirmiyahu, and David HaMelech, but they who were gathered were the house of Yehuda, Shevet Binyamin, the Nation, all of Israel, and the leaders of the people. Moshe and Korach both gathered the EIDA, albeit for different purposes. And they are the only two associated with the word Vayakhel in the Torah.
[4] Route 652 connects Zichron Yaakov with Binyamina. The former was sponsored and developed by Baron Edmond de Rothschild. It was named in memory of the baron’s father. Binyamina was named for Rothschild himself. He is buried near Zichron in what is known as Ramat HaNadiv, which contain magnificent gardens. The baron was known as the NADIV - a term that recurs in Vayakhel.
We had several three-out-of-four solution sets, but honors (and prizes) this week go to DM, who came out of his slump with a 4-for-4 game.

This week's TTriddles:
[1] Final split - there is a mouth
[2] Grape skins with another of the Seven
[3] “Format, Style” or “Format, font, effect” for three things
[4] Group 11, a.k.a. group 1B except for... what?
[5] Indicates its successor’s longevity
[6] Reminds us a lot of a bigger closer, with a small reminder of a different but equal closer - sort of.
[7] Can be read as acknowledgement that the Mishkan was only temporary

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