PARSHA-PIX - Parshat Vayikra

Parsha Pix
Pelephone in upper left could be how G-d called to Moshe – but, of course, it wasn't.
Cow, goat, sheep, and dove are all represented. As is the Mizbei'ach for the Korbanot - much larger than the Golden Mizbei'ach, filled with earth (according to some opinions) each time the people camped. Plated with copper. A.k.a. External Altar.
The salt shaker is for salting all korbanot and for the custom that came from that mitzva - namely, salting our HaMotzi.
The hand with pinky sticking up and thumb pointing out is the Kohen's K'MITZA.
In his palm, within the curl of the three middle fingers is the quantity of the Mincha dough that was burned on the Mizbei'ach, and the amount of L'VONA that was added to the Mincha.
The kidney in the lower left is referred to several times in the sedra.
Flour and oil are the main ingredients of Minachot and the frying pan and oven are two methods of preparing the Mincha. Side point: When kohanim ate the various types of Minachot - crackers, matzot, wafers, cakes, etc. they could eat then with other foods. Humus, tuna fish salad, peanut butter, etc. One can imagine that the kohen's wife packs a lunch of all but meat and matzot. And - almost forgot - the finger with the string tied around it so that we will remember Amalek and never forget.

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 (P’KUDEI) 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

And the envelope please...
[1] "There is a mouth" in Hebrew is YEISH PEH. This two-word phrase results from SPLITting the name of the FINAL gemstone for the CHOSHEN mentioned, namely YASHFEI, YUD SHIN PEI HEI.
[2] Grape skin(s) is/are ZAG(im). In Targum Onkeles, the word for BELL, PA'AMON, is ZAGA. With find them with another of the Seven - Species, that is - namely, RIMONIM, on the bottom of both the front and back of the ME'IL.
[3] "Format, Style" in DavkaWriter, and "Format, font, effect" in Word, allows you to fix a specific style for the letters you are typing. One possible style is "engraved", as in PITUCHEI CHOTAM. This term is used for three things among the garments of the Kohein Gadol - AVNEI SHOHAM, the shoulder stones of the EIFOD, upon which were engraved the names of the sons of Yaakov, six per stone; the twelve stones of the CHOSHEN, upon which were engraved the names of the sons of Yaakov and the names of the three Avot plus SHIVTEI YESHURUN; and the TZITZ, the gold forehead plate upon which was engraved the words KODESH LASHEM.
[4] Group 11, a.k.a. group 1B refers to one of the column in the Periodic Table of Elements. That group of transition metals consists of Copper (Cu, #29), Silver (Ag, #47), and Gold (Au, #79) - the three precious metals used in the Mishkan. There is a newcomer to this group of elements. It was discovered in 1994 and only a few atoms of it have ever bben produced. To quote one internet source on the elements - an observable quantity of this element has never been achieved, and may well never be. It is made through a nuclear reaction involving the fusion of an isotope of Bismuth and an isotope of nickel. This element, not used in the Mishkan, is element #111 and is called unununium (believe it or not!) and its symbol is Uuu. (Maybe, some time in the future, it will get a "proper" element name that will make it seem that it belongs in the Periodic Table.
[5] This is a nice, neat TTriddle and it comes from the Baal HaTurim, who points out that the G'matriya of the word MISHKAN (40+300+20+50) is 410, the longevity in years of the Mishkan's successor - namely, the first Beit HaMikdash.
[6] All right, this one isn't as neat as the last one. But here goes. The first hurdle of this TTriddle is the word CLOSER, not more close, but pronounced CLOZER and meaning that which closes something. The reference here is to the closing pasuk of the Book of Sh'mot, the last pasuk of P'kudei. The phrase L'EINEI CHOL BEIT YISRA'EL reminds one of L'EINEI KOL YISRAEL, the last words of the Torah, the "bigger closer". The "sort of" reminder of a different but equal closer is the last word in P'kudei - MAS'EIHEM, a reminder of the closing sedra of Bamidbar, MAS'EI.
[7] The term often used in the Torah for the Mishkan is OHEL MOED. In the Targum, it is rendered as MASHKAN ZIMNA, a sound-similar to Z'MANI, temporary.
Winners • Top honors (and twin prizes) this week go to the G-Gang. Aside from several solutions that matched the “official” ones, they had two good alternative solutions for [1] and [4], both of which work well for their respective TTriddles. Kol HaKovod.

This week's TTriddles:
[1] with this, the orders are opposite Motza"Sh's
[2] Mordechai didn't and did these homophones
[3] All same size, but one missing
[4] This Shabbat, we layn it and sing it
[5] This we will say, layn, and sing
[6] See if you can decipher this TT fragment:
Taanit Esther is (almost) the only fast that we don't...
except when...
The only other fast...
when...
[7] The 2 or 3 dot issue a 4th time this Shabbat
[8] Dual leaders of naval class sacrifice all
Plus the MegilaMix from Megila Morsels

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