PARSHA-PIX Parshat Sh'lach

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Parsha Pix
Last year’s PP, modified and added to. Mad Magazine's Spy vs. Spy. They are carrying a bomb.
Short jump to grenade and from there to RIMON, one of the fruits that the Meraglim brought back.
The author of Spy vs. Spy always signed his name in Morse code. Here we have Kalev’s call in Morse - ALO NA'ALEH.
The compass represents the directions that Moshe sent the Meraglim to explore.
The grapes refer to the timing: And the days were the days of the ripening of the grapes.
The tree with the eye is a play on words: See if the Land has trees IM AYIN, or not. Switch the initial ALEFs of IM
AYIN to AYINs and the question becomes: Is there a tree with an eye?
Towards the upper-right are the spies with the grapes as they appear in the emblem of the Ministry of Tourism and
the logo of Carmel-Mizrachi Wines.
Among the names of the Meraglim (including fathers’ names) are three related to animal names: Gadi b. Susi and
(Amiel b.) G'mali. Flour (flower), Olive Oyl, and wine are for the MENACHOT and N’SACHIM presented in the sedra.
The Challah stands for the mitzva of CHALLAH.
Tzitzit, obvious.
At the bottom right is Murex Trunculus, possible (probable) source T'cheilet, used by many people today for that
aspect of the mitzva.
The heart with the eyes combine the two warnings of not to follow the evil temptations of your heart and your eyes.
Lower-left is the wood gathered on Shabbat and the stone used to execute the Shabbat desecrater.
Two remaining items are ParshaPixPuzzles.

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 issue’s (B’HA-A’LO-T’CHA) TTriddles:
[1] If Paul Revere and Dizzy Gillespie were Jewish, and from the same time (and a few other things), what might
they have had in common?
[2] N'GID 79 & 47
[3] 28 back and 27 forward
[4] Said thrice, twice, or once on Shabbat, it carries a Shabbat instruction to some weekdays too.
[5] It's a simple matter of crossing Six Days - when?

And the envelope please...
[1] Aside from the famous midnight ride to warn of the coming British, Paul Revere had a life. He was a
silversmith. Dizzy Gillespie was one of the all-time great trumpet players. If both were Jewish and both lived at
the same time in the time of the Beit HaMikdash, and if Dizzy were a kohein, then they might have had the
CHATZOTZROT in common. Paul Revere might have made them and Dizzy G. might have blown one of them.
One of the TTriddle solvers added that since the Chatzotzrot were blown in time of war, and that Paul Revere is
famous for his warning in a war situation, that that is another connection to the Chatzotzrot and DG, if...
[2] N’gid is Aramaic (as in Targum Onkeles) for MIK-SHA, which means fashioned from one piece, not welded or
soldered together from pieces. There are two things mentioned in the sedra that were MIKSHA. The Menora, made of
gold, atomic number 79 and the Chatzotzrot made of siver, atomic number 47.
[3] From Shabbat Parshat B’ha-a’lo-t’cha, if you count 28 Shabbatot back, you arrive at last Chanuka, specifically,
the first of two Shabbatot Chanuka, when we read the same haftara as B B’ha-a’lo-t’cha. And 27 Shabbatot ahead, it
will be the first of two Shabbatot Chanuka 5764, HA”L (haba aleinu l’tova). Same haftara. Shabbat Parshat
B’ha-a’lo-t’cha was almost exactly midway between Shabbatot when its haftara was/is read. And, we might add, since
the count of 28 back is to the first of two Shabbatot Chanuka last year, then B’HA-A’LO-T’CHA this year is EXACTLY
midway between the most recent Chanuka and the upcoming one, HA”L. This is not so every year, but even if it is
only in this one year-type, it is still noteworthy in general, and TTriddle-worthy in particular.
[4] The phrase V’SHA-M’RU V’NEI YIS-RA-EL... appears just twice in the Torah (and all of Tanach). The better-known
source is Sh’mot 31:16, which we say thrice (that’s three times), twice (you know what that is), or once on
Shabbat. It\s in the Shacharit Amida - everyone says that one. It’s in the daytime kiddush - some people, but not
everyone says it then. And it’s right before the Amida of Maariv on Friday night. Most people say that one, but
people who follow Minhag Yerushalayim do not. So it is said anywhere from one to three times on Shabbat. Next part
of the TTriddle is a bit tougher. It, meaning V’SHA-M’RU V’NEI YIS-RA-EL, carries one of the Shabbat messages -
namely, the prohibition of leaving one’s place (T’chum Shabbat) - to some weekdays too. Because V’SHA-M’RU V’NEI
YIS-RA-EL also appears in B’ha-a’lo-t’cha in the requirement of the people of Israel to stay put (applies to any
day of the week) as long as the Cloud remains in place.
[5] We’ve used this one in some form before. Maybe more than once before. It’s a Ramot Eshkol TTriddle. To go from
(Rechov) Midbar Sinai to (Rechov) Paran, one simply crosses Rechov Sheishet haYamim (Six Days). Midbar Sinai and
Paran are continuations of each other, depending upon which way you are walking. When? That is a question from the
sedra. When did B’nei Yisrael go from Midbar Sinai to (Midbar) Paran? On the 20th of Iyar, 2449.

This week's TTriddles:
[1] Chatat & Asham like local & stranger. How?
[2] 12 (twice) and 12,001
[3] For the Book of Bamidbar: Korach, Balak, and Pinchas don't count. Bamidbar is almost. Only Shlach is the same.
[4] Move them to more "appropriate" tribes. From Reuven, Shimon, Yissachar, Zevulun, Menashe - to where?

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