PARSHA-PIX - Sukkot
Parsha Pix
This week’s ParshaPix is straightforward and simple. Still, it can be used
effectively with your family and guests.
The three animals at the top are the ones mentioned in the beginning of
the Torah reading for the first day of Sukkot (second day also in Chutz
LaAretz, and the second day of Pesach for us all).
The rest of the Pix is made up of symbols of the cycle of Chagim - the
subject of the bulk of the Torah reading.
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 (Haazinu-Shuva & YK) 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
And the envelope please...
[1] Interesting pair of wrong (well, not wrong, just not what was
intended) answers — one taking the TTriddle seriously (which is not the
best way to take TTriddles) and the other flippantly in line with many
(but not all) TTriddles. DM suggested the answer was T’SHUVA, which can be
accomplished in the twinkling of an eye, yet is a lifelong “project” of
each of us. True. Nice. But not this TTriddle. DM’s brother, MM/Bklyn,
suggested a more typical TTriddle solution, but a groaner, if you know
what I mean. His answer was DRUSHA, as in Shabbat Shuva Drasha, which
seems to take a very long time despite the word RUSH between the opening
and closing letters of the word. Too cute. And wrong. But nice try, both
of you. Another solver tried MACHZOR KATAN which sounds small but is
really 19 years long. The “correct” solution was submitted by veteran
TTriddler YYW. FAST, sounds like it should be fast, but when you are
fasting, it seems to paradoxically take a long time. (This year, more than
an hour longer than last year, daytime portion, of course).
[2] Many people got this one. Didn’t seem to give anyone a hard time.
(sort of hurts the TTriddle reputation to have an easy one, but...) One of
G-d’s many KINUYIM (nicknames) is TZUR, Rock. We are familiar with that
name from the well-known Friday night TZUR MISHELO. So too from MA’OZ TZUR
on Chanuka. The reason for this TTriddle was the use of that name in
Parshat Haazinu (and nowhere else in the Torah).
[3] Here too there were some other answers that fit, besides the
originally intended one. For example, AVODA. Two solvers submitted this
answer. AVODA is one of the central themes of Yom Kippur, referring to the
service of the Kohein Gadol in the Mikdash. Yet AVODA in the sense of
MELACHA is forbidden on YK. Good answer. MM/Bklyn hit the solution with
NE’ILA. We daven Ne’ila, but the other Ne’ila - NE’ILAT HA-SANDAL is one
of the prohibitions of YK.
This week's TTriddles:
[1] Backward chloride just hanging around
[2] Not for 7; yes for 7
[3] Let us like a very energetic, true reality of goodness here and down
anywhere someone is milling around. Really all very obvious though.
[4] The lawyer was wearing his ligation parka
[5] 11 Buckeyes, 12 Mourning Cloaks, 12 Monarchs
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