PARSHA-PIX Parshat Vayishlach

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Parsha Pix
Silhouettes of the animals Yaakov sent as gifts to Eisav. Each animal has the number of males and females sent.
The second 30 on the camel is not mentioned in the text, but is based on Rashi, that there were an equal number of males that accompanied the "nursing camels".
The ribbon bow among the silhouettes represents the gift aspect of the animals.
The two ancient-looking jugs are the small vessels that Yaakov went back for after he brought his family across the YABOK river.
Notice between the SOLD sign and the tree is the emblem of the WWF. We do not know if Yaakov and/or the Sar shel Eisav were members, but see if your kids can identify the emblem and make the connection.
The SOLD sign over the FOR SALE sign is for the purchase of the land in the Sh'chem area by Yaakov Avinu for 100 K'sita.
D'vora (the bee) was buried under the crying tree.
The baby carriage is for Binyamin.
Kever Rachel is Kever Rachel.
The sword was used by Shimon and Levi to avenge what happened to Dina.
That leaves the die with six dots, for the six dots over VAYISHAKEINU.

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 (VAYEITZEI) TTriddles:
[1] Mentioned here 5 times.Avot was referring to a different one
[2] Adam & Chava, Lavan & Yaakov
[3] How long is a white quail?
[4] Yaakov was the 6th (sh/b 7th) of 13 individuals in the Torah. Who were the first and the last?
[5] An oak pillar in Sh'chem, mound of a siege,and what?
[6] She's confused panic
[7] plus 3 unexplained elements in the Parsha Pix puzzle: the three playing cards;
[8] the sine curve on the oscilloscope; and
[9] the Torah Tidbits logo

And the envelope, please...
[1] The mishna in the fifth perek of Avot lists ten things (and then adds a few more) that were created by G-d at the instant before the very first Shabbat. Among the things is PI HAB’EIR, the mouth of the well, the well that accompanied the people throughout most of the forty years of wandering in the wilderness. This miracle is considered to be in the merit of Miriam, who stood watch over Moshe when he was floated in the river. A computer search throughout all of Tanach resulted in five occurrences of the words PI HAB’EIR. All five are from Parshat Vayeitzei and all five refer to the well in the field in the Bnei Kedem land where Lavan’s flocks were tended. The well with the large rock over its opening. The one the shepherds would gather so that they could lift off; the one that Yaakov lift off on his own when he saw Rachel coming with the sheep.
[2] When G-d formed Chava and “presented” her to Adam, he exclaimed: bone from my bones and flesh from my flesh... The only other place that phrasing is used is when Lavan says to Yaakov: You are my bone and flesh...
[3] This one was good and it was the only one not solved correctly. The answer is CHODESH YAMIM, a month of days (or something like that). The phrase appears only three in Tanach - once in Vayeitzei, in the same pasuk with Lavan’s comment about the bone and flesh. After Lavan welcomes Yaakov, the Torah tells us that Yaakov stayed with Lavan for a month. After that came the arrangements for employment and marriage, etc. The other two occurrences are in Bamidbar 11 in the description of the duration of the quail-fest. How long is a white (Lavan) quail? Chodesh Yamim, a month.
[4] All right, this was vague (most TTriddles are) and EB did a fair job on an alternate solution. But even he will admit that the “real” solution is more appropriate for a Vayeitzei TTriddle. Because that is the answer. VAYEITZEI. The word (actually, the letters VAV-YUD-TZADI-ALEF, with other ways of reading it besides Vayeitzei) occurs 194 times in Tanach. Restricting the TTriddle to only the 55 times in the Torah, eliminating V’YATZA and other non-Vayeitzei pronunciations, eliminating all duplicates of individuals who VAYEITZEI-ed, all non-people and all groups of people, and even eliminating anyone who is not mentioned immediately after the word VAYEITZEI, we find 13 people who appear with the word VAYEITZEI. Obviously, the focus on last week’s sedra is VAYEITZEI YAAKOV. Yaakov is the 6th of the 13. The others, in order of appearance in the Torah are: KAYIN, he was the first; NO’ACH; the king of Sedom; LOT; YITZCHAK; “the first”, referring to EISAV, YAAKOV (okay, he was the seventh); CHAMOR, father of Sh’chem; YOSEF; MOSHE; the son of a Jewish woman and an Egyptian man; OG, king of Bashan; SICHON, king of Cheshbon, the 13th so-and-so of VAYEITZEI SO-AND-SO.
[5] In Shoftim, it has to do with pillars of oak; in Yeshayahu, it is part of a description of a siege. In Vayeitzei, it describes the ladder being planted on the ground. The common word - MUTZAV.
[6] Confused is usually a hint to an anagram, a scramble of letters. Panic is BEHALA. BET-HEI -LAMED-HEI. Rearrange the letters a bit to spell BILHA. She is confused panic.
[7] If after getting a QUEEN and a FIVE in Blackjack, you then get a 7, your total becomes 22 and you LOSE, LUZ, the original name of BEIT EL. LUZ is also one of the types of trees from which Yaakov took branches to place before the pregnant sheep and goats of Lavan’s flocks. LUZ is usually translated as the hazel tree.
[8] The sine curve on an oscilliscope is also called the sine wave. Wave in Hebrew is GAL. In Biblical it means mound (of rocks). HAGAL appears only six times in all of Tanach - all six in the end of VAYEITZEI, referring to the same pile of rocks made by Lavan and company. GAL, without the HEI, occurs 10 times in Tanach, only one of which is in the Torah - in the same portion at the end of Vayeitzei.
[9] And finally, we come to the Torah Tidbits logo, which stands for the favorable comment made about Torah Tidbits by Lavan: VAYOMER LAVAN TOV T.T.
Best solution this week was submitted by EB; his prizes await him at the Israel Center.

This week's TTriddles:
[1] Was Ray Bolger a descendent of Eisav?
[2] Its S"T reminds some of Campell's
[3] The second word of the following pasuk seems to be its first violation
[4] His great-grandson and great-great-great-grandson have the same name

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