PARSHA-PIX Parshat Korach
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Parsha Pix
Upper left: split-ground earthquake scene. Next to fire. Korach and his
gang meet their end in one or the other (some say Korach got both).
Upper right is a guard at his post - Leviyim.
5 coins are for Pidyon HaBen.
In the center of the PIX are the barren staffs of the tribes surrounding
the flowering staff of Aharon (of the tribe of Levi).
Top-middle is a gift, representing the gifts of the Kohen and Levi as
found in the sedra.
Below the guard is an example of one of the MATNOT K'HUNA. It stands for
the tenth part of the tenth part that the Levi must give to a kohen from
the Maaser he receives (from Yisra'eilim).
Lower right: lamb in a baby carriage, B'CHOR B'HEIMA T'HORA.
Earth with a mouth - PI HA'ARETZ.
Cow and bee are for the Land flowing with milk & honey.
Negated donkey is from Moshe’s statement (and Shmuel’s statement - but not
this year; it is found in the regular haftara of Koracvh.)
That leaves the PPP (visual TTriddle) in the lower left corner of the
ParshaPix..
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 (SH'LACH) TTriddles:
[1] Band one vote
[2] His father's memory is a little fuzzy
[3] Efrayim's temporary replacement
[4] No one knows his father
[5] the missing champ from the Big 10 dropped the ball
[6] one visual riddle from the Parsha Pix Puzzle
And the envelope, please...
[1] Each of "band" and "one vote" are preceded by the words "one man",
giving ISH ECHAD ISH ECHAD, a phrase that appears in SH'LACH and 3 times
in Yehoshua.
[2] SHAMU'A, the scout from Reuven. His father's memory, not the memory of
his father, by his father is "memory a little fuzzy", viz. ZACHUR.
[3] Yosef's first two two sons, as tribes, are almost always presented in
the Torah one after the other and as Yosef's children. The list of the
Meraglim is a notable exception, with only Menashe identified with Yosef.
SDT in last week's TT explained that DIBA RA'AH connected Yosef and
Menashe, but Efrayim's Yehoshua bin Nun was kept apart. Temporarily taking
his place as one of Yosef's sons was the scout from Yissachar, Yig'al ben
Yosef.
[4] Zevulun's scout Gadi'el. His father was SODI (secret).
[5] All right, this one is more convoluted than usual. Champion is ALUF,
same root as the letter ALEF. The last word in B'midbar 15:24 is missing
an ALEF. The Big Ten is the large YUD in 14:17. And the dropped ball is
the MAPIK (dot) missing from the HEI in 15:28 (and another in 15:31).
[6] The earth-moving machine (what we used to call a steam shovel) refers
to what spying out the land is called in the haftara, viz. LACHPOR ET
HAARETZ, to dig the Land.
In the OU's web-publication Shabbat Shalom, there was a question
(submitted weekly by the TT editor) about SENDEE, SENDEE; SENDEE, SENDER.
Reference is to KALEV and YEHOSHUA, who, in Parshat Sh'lach were both
SENDEEs to spy out the Land, and in the haftara, KALEV was one of the two
SENDEEs and YEHOSHUA was the SENDER.
MetFanMac, an on-and-off TTriddles solver, is due for some TTriddles
prizes. Please be in touch.
This week's TTriddles:
[1] 2+2+(2+1+7+1) = 14+1
[2] She said, he sat, he said, he came What did he find when he got there?
[3] not exactly the Good Humor man
[4] He nets 8.82%
[5] Rivka, Chana, and the Earth
[6] Yaakov's gift; Aharon's what?
[7] Also of Eisav and Eli
[8] plus one element from the ParshaPixPuzzle
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