PARSHA-PIX Parshat Emor

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Kohen Gadol (upper-right). The whole first section of the sedra deals with the sanctity of the kohanim in general, and the Kohen Gadol in particular.
The broken foot is representative of the invalidating defects of a Kohen (some permanent and some transitory).
Look closely at the lamb the foot is pointing to. It's missing an ear. That's a blemish which invalidates the animal for the Mizbei'ach. Note that blemishes that disqualify an animal for the Mizbei'ach do not necessarily make the animal a TREIFA.
In the lower-left are a mother sheep (ewe) and her newborn, which may not be taken from its mother to be used as a korban until it is at least 8 days old. AND, the sheep and lamb also represent OTO V'ET B'NO, the prohibition of slaughtering an animal and its offspring on the same day.
Note that the 8th day rule is specifically for korbanot while the two-generation rule applies to holy animals and to profane animals.
Upper-left is a negation circle, indicating the prohibitions of building, sewing, writing - representative of all forbidden Melacha for Shabbat, Yom Kippur, and Yom Tov.
The counting of the Omer is a mitzva from Parshat Emor.
So too are the mitzvot of dwelling in a Sukka for the seven days of Sukkot, and the taking of the Four Species on Sukkot.
And there are the Two Loaves of Shavuot.
Next we have two items that were visual TTriddles last year, and are being explained this year. The one with the Torah Tidbits who gets to read this column of ParshaPix explanations can still challenge his parents/children/guests with these items and others.
That's the beauty of the ParshaPix - there is something for everyone, without the frustration of having to wait a week for the solutions. TTriddles are meant to frustrate.
TTriddle Winner this week is YYW, with honorable mention to the M-brothers, DM for Israel and MM/Bklyn and to EB. And a kol hakavod to CGF of Argentina for his solutions.
There is a wine bottle with Y/N on the label. Y is for YES, yes have wine on Shabbat and the holidays for Kiddush and havdala. But N is for NO. No, a kohein may not drink wine when he have service to perform in the Beit HaMikdash. No one may enter the Mikdash "under the influence". Nor, may a poseik render a halachic opinion after having drunk wine.
The is a MOOSE with an arrow pointing to his nose, which is AF in Hebrew. So this friend of Bullwinke, Tuke and Rutt represents the MUSAF of each holiday, as commanded by the Torah, partly from Parshat Emor and partly from Parshat Pinchas.
And that leaves one new visual TTriddle for this year.
And don't forget the unidentified, hidden-right- under-your-nose TTriddle. It was in last week's issue and it appears again in this week's issue. Special prize for that one.

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 (PESACH) TTriddles:
[1] The plane, boss, the plane!
[2] parent-child, child-parent mitzvot with two doubles in common
[3] Dining on Tuesday is problematic
[4] Bon appetit & Shishak came
[5] Square each of the first 7 primes...
[6] Fear before and after
[7] plus one visual TTriddle from the Parsha Pix
[8] and one "hidden-in-plain-sight" TTriddle

And the envelope, please...
[1] There was a TV show in the late 70s called Fantasy Island, with a character played by a 3'11" (119cm) tall (short) actor named Hervé Villechaize. His charater's name was TATTOO, thereby representing the prohibition against tattooing.
[2] All right, let's do it. This is a complicated TTriddle. The mitzva called parent-child, is the prohibition against the Molech practice of passing one's child through fire (child sacrifice?). The Torah uses the words ISH ISH, a doubling of the word ISH. The punishment is death, MOT UMAT, another double expression. The other mitzva with ISH ISH and MOT UMAT is a child-parent one, the prohibition of cursing one's parents.
[3] This refers to the eating of the meat of certain korbanot that can be eaten on the day of the offering and the following day. But on the third day (YOM SH'LISHI is also Tuesday), it may not be eaten.
[4] More food. In this case, the first three years of fruits are forbidden as ORLA, the fourth year's fruits are sacred... and the fifth year, they are to be eaten by their owners without restriction (sort of). UVASHA- NA HACHAMISHIT, and in the fifth year...There are only two other BASHANA HACHAMISHIT in Tanach, in identical contexts (in M'lachim Alef and Divrei HaYamim Bet). It refers to the fifth year of the reign of R'chav'am, that SHISHAK, king of Egypt, came to Jerusalem...
[5] First seven prime numbers are 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, and 17. Their squares are 4, 9, 25, 49, 121, 169, and 289. Add up the squares of the first seven primes and you get 666, the number of last week's issue.
[6] The answer is KEEPING SHABBAT. In a pasuk early in the sedra, we find, A person shall fear his mother and father, and My Shabbats shall be observed. Later in K'doshim, we find, My Shabbats you shall preserve and My Mikdash you shall fear. Fear before and after.
[7] The visual TTriddle is a repeat of TTriddle [1]. It is a picture of TATTOO
from Fantasy Island.
[8] There was another TTriddle in last week's issue. It appears again this week -now you can look for it.

This week's TTriddles:
[1] Shabbat, RH, YK, SUK, Shmini Atzeret, and what?
[2] Double him, them, and them - double
[3] 20 times until we see where
[4] Pasuk that contains a Purim self-contradiction
[5] one visual TTriddle in the Parsha Pix

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