PARSHA-PIX Parshat Sh'lach

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Parsha Pix
Some straightforward items and some wordplays.
Mad Magazine's Spy vs. Spy, which we can apply to the 10 black Meraglim vs. the 2 white ones. They are carrying a bomb.
Short jump to grenade and from there to RIMON, one of the fruits that the Meraglim brought back.
The author of Spy vs. Spy always signed his name in Morse code. Here we have Kalev’s call in Morse - ALO NA'ALEH.
The compass represents the directions that Moshe sent the Meraglim to explore.
The grapes refer to the timing: "...And the days were the days of the ripening of the grapes." (B'midbar 13:20).
The tree with the eye is a play on words: See if the Land has trees IM AYIN, or not. Switch the initial ALEFs of IM AYIN to AYINs and the question becomes: Is there a tree with an eye?
Towards the upper-right are the spies with the grapes as they appear in the emblem of the Ministry of Tourism and the logo of Carmel-Mizrachi Wines. Interesting how both industries took the same emblem.
Among the names of the Meraglim (including fathers’ names) are three related to animal names: Gadi b. Susi and (Amiel b.) G'mali. Flour (flower), Olive Oyl, and wine are for the MENACHOT and N’SACHIM presented in the sedra.
The Challah stands for the mitzva of CHALLAH.
Tzitzit, obvious.
To Olive Oyl's left is Murex Trunculus, possible (probable) source T'cheilet, used by many people today for that aspect of the mitzva.
The heart with the eyes combine the two warnings of not to follow the evil temptations of your heart and your eyes.
Lower-left is the wood gathered on Shabbat and the stone used to execute the Shabbat desecrater.
The window with a red ribbon hanging from it is the sign for Yehosha's army to spare the lives of Rachav and her family.
Between the tzitzit and the heart is the emblem of Jewish Scouts, sort of a description of the Meraglim.
And 1 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 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 (B'HA-ALO-T'CHA) TTriddles:
[1] Machanayim, Gilgal, and...?
[2] Thrice in the sedra - mineral; twice in Navi - animal
[3] He did it for the 13 and the 70
[4] The T'midim, 4KP, and what?
[5] Technically, it's 7057
[6] three, four, six, seven, eight, nine, eleven, twelve, and the teens
[7] The single bond of Pesach Sheni and Menachot & Nesachim
[8] [9] & [10] Three elements from the Parsha Pix

And the envelope, please...
Solid and many responses this week.
[1] "And he called the name of the place..." VAYIKRA SHEIM HAMAKOM HAHU... Yaakov named the place where the angels gathered MACHANAYIM. Moshe (in B'ha-alo-t'cha) named the place TAV'EIRA because G-d's fire burned there. Yehoshua named the place of the mass circumcision GILGAL. (Two others belong to this TTriddle, with VAYIKRA ET SHEIM... Yaakov naming BEIT EL and another place in B'ha-a'lo-t'cha was named KIVROT HATAAVA.) Many solvers.
[2] Only one solver, but it shows it was solvable. U'T'KA'TEM, and you shall sound the... Thrice in B'ha-a'lo-t'cha, it is the silver trumpets that are to be blown. MINERAL. But in Sho-f'tim and Melachim Alef, it is the SHOFAR that is to be blown - ANIMAL.
[3] Many solvers for this one. And G-d descended in a cloud... to give us the 13 Divine Attributes and to give the 70 elders the power of prophecy.
[4] B'MO-ADO, in its time. The word is used for the daily korbanot (T'MIDIM), four times for Korban Pesach (including in B'ha-alo-t'cha), and in Hoshea 2:11, "my TIROSH" (yield of grapes). The word B'MO-ADO is spelled with and without a VAV.
[5] If you checked the Sedra Stats on page 3 in TT, you saw the total number of letters in the sedra was 7055. However, there are two backwards NUNs that are not part of that count.
[6] Based on B'midbar 11:19. Not 1 (day), not 2, not 5, not 10, not 20. From 1-20, that leaves 3,4,6, 7,8,9,11,12 and the teens, 13-19.
[7] The TTriddle contained part of the answer. Single - CHUKA ACHAT, one law for the born Jew and the convert... appears twice - B'midbar 9:14 & 15:15.
[8] TIDE is for Yehoshua Kohein Gadol - haftara - dirty clothes. Yes, also for Leviyim washing their clothes.
[9] Xed out soldier is LO B'CHAYIL... (also haftara).
[10] See Rashi on 11:17. Moshe is like candle...

This week's 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

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