PARSHA-PIX Parshat Bamidbar

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Parsha Pix
The fork lift stands for the work of the Gershon and mostly the Merari families of Leviyim. Only Kehat might have had a problem using a forklift, since they must carry the sacred vessels on their shoulders. Gershon and Merari were given wagons to help in their tasks. A forklift would prbably be acceptable, and Merari would definitely have put one to the best use.
The calculator is for counting the Leviyim.
The Do Not Enter signs are for the three types of ritually defiled individuals who may not enter one camp of another - The Camp of the Sh'china, i.e. the Mishkan and its courtyard, the Camp of the Leviyim which surrounded the Mishkan area on four sides, three each for the family units of Levi and one side (east) for Moshe, Aharon and family.
The grapes, wine, and shaver are Xed out for the Nazir. Not shown: Becoming Tamei, but it too is forbidden to a Nazir.
The SOTA bottle holds the potion for the Sota to drink. The liquid is brown because of the ink and dust of the Mikdash floor that is mixed in.
The animals and golden spoon with Ketoret that are around the opened gift box are part of the gifts of the N'si'im .
Then there is the kohen gadol, here representing all kohanim. What he is wearing on his CHOSHEN is a visual TTriddle (or two).

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 (BAMIDBAR) TTriddles:
[1] His name and camp are opposite each other
[2] The Kohein's blessings are in the same place
[3] In the beginning, these leaders are like their tribes; at the end, this one
[4] Yissachar's leader's namesake's famous brother
[5] plus an unexplained piece of the ParshaPix
[6] and a "hidden" TTriddle, of sorts.

And the envelope, please...
[1] The Levite family of K'hat camped to the south of the Mishkan. Their leader was ELITZAFAN b. Uziel, which sounds like he should be in the north - ELI-TZAFAN, TZAFON.
[2] Misleading TTriddle. On purpose. But the misdirection probably is responsible for no one getting this one. The Kohein's blessings refer here NOT to Birkat Kohanim, but rather the brachot before and after the Kohein's Aliya to the Torah for Bamidbar. MIDBAR SINAI is the venue of the first and last p'sukim in that Aliya, so his brachot are in the same place.
[3] In the beginning, means the first letter of the name. Shimon's leader was Shlumiel b. Tzurishadai - leader and tribe begin with SHIN. Efrayim's leader was Elishama b. Amihud, ALEF. In the end (last letter), Binyamin and its leader Avidan b. Gid'oni both end with a NUN.
[4] This one was a give-away (almost). Yissachar's leader was Netanel b. Tzu'ar. Another Netanel in Tanach was one of the sons of YISHAI. His famous brother, of course, was David HaMelech.
[5] Probably because of the offer of a prize just for this one, and the challenge to Steinhart, we got solutions already on Thursday and Friday. That was quick work. And a CD will be given to each correct solver. The visual clue was SHELL - YAD (Torah pointer). Shel Yad, as in T'filin, as in the practice, when winding the strap around the middle finger, to say the p'sukim at the end of the haftara of Bamidbar. (One wonders whether the "pasuk of the week" made this one too easy.) As of this writing (Motza'ei Shabbat - we've got Shavuot this week cutting in to our regular production schedule), the following people sent in solutions. Let me know if you'll pick up your CD from the Center or if we should mail it. MM/Bklyn, whose solution arrived by email on Thursday. MK/Yerushalayim - a new solver. So far. Okay, we flushed Steinhart out of retirement. He got it too. It is worth the CD to hear from him again. He got David HaMelech's brother too. We are expecting more solutions...
[6] Won't give this one away yet, unless someone gets it.

This week's TTriddles:
[1] He did it to Shabbat & he did it to the Mishkan
[2] 236 + one thru twelve
[3] take, send, say, say, give
[4] Aramaically appropriate to follow Shavuot
[5] The two who were specially blessed
[6] Two in the sedra with a drink restriction
[7] A is a subset of C B is a subset of C A-B=20
plus the Kohein Gadol's modified breastplate (that's two more)

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