PARSHA-PIX Parshat B'har-B'chukotai

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Parsha Pix

Upper-right: Har Sinai, with a pair of Luchot at the top. Top-center: A negation circle over someone planting a sapling. Question mark between them. - represents the famous question from the beginning of the sedra - namely, MA INYAN SHMITA EITZEL HAR SINAI?
The abacus (below the Liberty Bell) is for counting the seven years of each Shmita cycle and the seven Shmita cycles of Yovel. Also, to calculate the fair price of land, depending upon how many years remain until Yovel.
The Shofar is blown on the Yom Kippur of Yovel.
The Liberty Bell (of Philadelphia and the park near the Inbal Hotel - hey, did you realize that INBAL is a bell clapper and the Liberty Bell in the park by the same name does not have its own. ) is inscribed with the partial pasuk: AND PROCLAIM LIBERTY THROUGHOUT THE LAND TO ALL ITS INHABITANTS.
The NOT FOR SALE sign is a reminder of the prohibition in the parsha which has two very different definitions. See Sedra Summary.
Below Har Sinai is a fellow lending money at the Torah-approved interest rate for personal loans between Jew and Jew - 0%.
IM B'CHUKOTAI TEILEICHU - If you follow G-d's laws... then we will receive our rain in the proper time (cloud with rain and a clock under it)
And 5 will be able to repel 100 (of our enemies) and 100 will push away 10,000.
And we will have peace (dove with olive branch)

Nine new-born lambs are counted off - the tenth on to pass "under the staff" is sacred - MAASER B'HEIMA.
Family in silhouette with their ERECHIN - 50 adult male, 20 adult female, 20 boy, baby is 3 or 5 (cannot tell its sex).
One item left unexplained - visual TTriddle.

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 alsopresentedforcall-insolutiononTorahTidbitsAudio(Arutz-7,Thursdaynight).Thebest 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 (EMOR) TTriddles:
[1] Y's buyer, M's victim, D's informant
[2] fast rise from water siege & burn
[3] 2, 3, and 4 are still here, but .30103, .47712, and .69897 are missing.
[4] 3-letter word plus an E or a B give you a pair of 3-letter heterophones from the sedra
[5] Bring with a precom in the first (4th)
[6] and [7] are two visual TTriddles from the Parsha Pix

And the envelope, please...
[1] This might have been easier had the TTriddle been Yosef’s buyer, Moshe’s victim, and David HaMelech’s informant. The answer is ISH MITZRI, an Egyptian man. Potifar, who bought Yosef from the Yishma’elim is called ISH MITZRI (B’reishit 39:1). Moshe killed an ISH MITZRI who was beating an ISH IVRI from among his (Moshe’s)brethren (Sh’mot 2:11). Moshe himself was called an ISH MITZRI by Yitro’s daughters, but he wasn’t, so he’s not on that side of the TTriddle. In Shmuel Alef (30:11 and following), an ISH MITZRI was found wandering around, fed, and brought to David HaMelech. The connection to Emor is that the blasphemer is described asthe son of a Jewish woman from Dan and the son of an ISH MITZRI, whom, we are told, is the same ISH MITZRI that Moshe killed.
[2] BE-ASOR LACHODESH... on the tenth of the month. Yom Kippur (fast), the day (in Nissan) that Bnei Yisrael “rose from the Jordan”. Siege and burn refer to 10 Tevet and 10 Av, the day the major part of the Beit HaMikdash burned.
[3] Those decimal numbers are the logs of 2, 3, and 4. They went missing to feed a LOG BA’OMER fire (pun definitely intended).
[4] LAM (to escape, as from prison). Add E to get LAME (in Hebrew, PISEI’ACH); add B to get LAMB, used for Korban PESACH. Both words appear in Emor and both are spelled the same (PEI-SAMACH-CHET) and pronounced differently. That’s what heterophones are. (lead, as is done to followers and lead as in the soft metal are heterophones.)
[5] Bring is TAVI’U (Vayikra 23:17) has a very rare dot (pre-com, that which comes before com in internet addresses) in the first letter of the Alef-Bet (the ALEF), which is the 4th letter of the word TAVI’U.
[6] The arrow is pointing to the moose’s nose, that’s AF in Hebrew, so we have MUSAF, as in several mitzvot from Emor’s parshat HaMoadim.
[7] Wine Y/N. The YES is kiddush, the Yom Tov p’sukim of daytime kiddush come from Emor. The NO is the prohibition of a kohen serving while under the influence, as mentioned in the haftara of Emor.

This week's TTriddles:
[1] Firstborns, Shofar, inheritance, and what?
[2] 60 T's and dashes throughout Tanach - just one high dot in this week's reading
[3] It's both the what & when
[4] The Land, the People, their firstborns
[5] The freed & purified sparrow sang on Shabbat

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