PARSHA-PIX Parshat Chayei Sara

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Parsha Pix
400 silver pieces that Avraham handed over to EFRON (pencil = IPARON, spelled the same as EFRON).
Avraham came to eulogize Sarah and to cry. V’LIVKOTAH is written with a small KAF. There it is, under the pencil - a small kaf, a.k.a. a demitasse spoon.
G-d blessed Avraham BAKOL. There is an opinion that this blessing included a precious gem that had miraculous curative powers. That’s it under the B”H.
Eliezer’s search is represented a couple of times. There's a speech-bubble with a chain in it, standing for VAYOMAR, and he (Eliezer) said, which is read with a SHALSHELET (chain).
BARUCH HASHEM was said by Eliezer.
Then there is Dakva’s scene of Rivka at the well (spring) watering Eliezer’s camels.
There is one of the gold rings Eliezer gave to Rivka.
The Xed out turkey platter is Eliezer’s refusal to eat before he had completed “business”. Good thing, because Lavan had poisoned the food (poison symbol).
CHUPA is for Yitzchak’s marriage to Rivka (also Avraham’s to Ketura).
Gift for Rivka and her family, and Avraham's gifts to the children of the “PILAGSHIM”.
The word TEREM appears 8 times in the Torah, twice in Chayei Sara (Terem logo).
The bottle of NEVIOT water is for the sound-alike of the first born of Yishma’el.
Two dots form a SH'VA - this is a sound-alike for a grandson of Avraham's via Ketura. Animals & chair? are from haftara. +3 PPPs.

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. 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 (Vayeira) TTriddles:
[1] TTriddle connection between Yitzchak and his tonsils
[2] Indicates that the Greek capital is very hot
[3] For sure, the free-loan society of 1948 is like the nation
[4] Avraham, Yaakov, Yehuda - to whom?
[5] Avimelech's grand gesture
[6] Avimelech's household,Yosef's brothers, and who?
[7] He offered it; he asked for it

And the envelope, please...
[1] And the boy (Yitzchak) grew, VAYIGAMEIL, and he was weaned - says Rashi, at 24 months. The word VAYIGAMEIL is unusual enough to prompt a search. One other occurrence of the same spelling but not the same vowels. VAYIGMOL, referring to the staff of Aharon that produced almonds. SH'KEIDIM, Hebrew for almonds, is also the word for tonsils.
[2] In the description of the heat of the destruction of Sedom, the word KIVSHAN (furnace) is used. Targum Onkeles for KIVSHAN is ATUNA, the Hebrew for Athens, Greece's capital.
[3] For sure = BETACH, free-loan society = GEMACH, 1948 = TASHACH (the year 5708), like the nation= K'HAAM. Rearrange the letters of each Hebrew word and you get TEVCH, GACHAM, TACHASH, and MAACHA - the four sons of NACHOR by his pilegesh REUMA.
[4]VAYIGASH, and he approached. Avraham approached G-d, so to speak, to argue on behalf of the people of Sedom. Yaakov approached Yitzchak a couple of times and the well covered with a large stone. Yehuda approached Yosef.
[5] Play on words. 1000 = a grand. His grand gesture was to give Avraham 1000 silver pieces.
[6] VAYIR'U HAANASHIM, and the people were scared. This phrase appears in Tanach only four times. Avimelech's household was scared when Avimelech told them all that happened (G-d's words to him in a dream, etc. ). Yosef's brothers were scared when they found their money in the sacks of food. And Yona's shipmates were scared when Yona told them that he was a Jew and what was happening was G-d's doing. The phrase is repeated when Yona was tossed overboard and the sea calmed. That put the fear of G-d in them.
[7] M'AT MAYIM, a little bit of water. Four times in Tanach; twice in Torah. He (Avraham) offered it to the visitors to wash their feet. Eliezer asked Rivka for it. (So did Sisra ask Yael for a little bit of water, but she gave him milk and he got sleepy - permanently.)
[8] The column of NaCl was unexplained in the ParshaPix. It represents IDIT or IRIS (Lot's wife's name found in two different Midrashim. In Hebrew, the two names look very much alike).

This week's TTriddles:
[1] Gave to the seven year old
[2] His sons are 4,3,5,4,4,4,3,3,4,4,4,4; his nephew's are 5,5,3,5,5,5,2,5,2,3,4,6
[3] If the vowels were different, we could say this is talking about T'filat HaDerech
[4] There are only 5 or 6 others like this one
[5] Only Rivka and Tamar
[6] Avra(ha)m, gifts, Shimon, Efrayim & Menashe

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