PARSHA-PIX Parshat Korach
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Parsha Pix
Upper left: split-ground earthquake scene.
Next to fire. Korach and his gang meet their end in one or the other (some
say Korach got both).
Upper right is a guard at his post - Leviyim.
Top-middle is a gift, representing the gifts of the Kohen and Levi as
found in the sedra.
5 coins are for Pidyon HaBen.
Largest part of the ParshaPix are the barren staffs of the tribes
surrounding the flowering staff of Aharon.
Below the guard is a lamb in a baby carriage, B'CHOR B'HEIMA T'HORA.
Lower right: Earth with a mouth - PI HA'ARETZ.
To its left is a percent sign standing for the tenth of a tenth the Levi
gives to a kohein.
Cow and bee are for the Land flowing with milk & honey.
Negated Eeyore (donkey) is from Moshe’s and Shmuel's statements.
That leaves the PPP (visual TTriddle) in the lower left (2 elements).
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 (SH'LACH) TTriddles:
[1] Three groups: Dan, Asher, Gad - Z'vulun - the other tribes. On what
basis?
[2] France's record holder at 4810.2 meters
[3] Today, it takes you past Beth Jacob and Pardes school in Ramot Eshkol
[4] This anomoly can help a famous Rosh HaShana-time g'matriya fit better
[5] OTOH, there is a different g'matriya problem in Maftir
[6] When 007 becomes M
[7] The third is first
[8] and [9] 2 visual TTriddles from the ParshaPix
And the envelope, please...
[1] Check the name of each tribe's scout and the name of the tribe. For
Dan, Asher, and Gad, the name of the scout is longer than the name of the
tribe. Zevulun's scout was Gadiel, whose name is the same length as that
of his tribe. For the other 8 tribes, the scout's names are shorter than
the names of their tribes. (He likes a hammer but not a screwdriver, an
apple but not an orange...)
[2] France's tallest mountain is Mont Blanc. Mont Blanc is a famous
fountain pen company. Torah Tidbits became a fountain pen last Shabbat.
[3] The Meraglim went from Paran to Nachal Eshkol. You can do that today
in Ramot Eshkol by walking from Rechov Paran down to the wadi, known as
Nachal Eshkol. The walk takes you past the Beth Jacob shul and the
elementary school named for Rav Pardes.
[4] In Bamidbar 15:24 is the word L'CHATAT, spelled without an ALEF. This
is unusual and warrants an asterisk in a Chumash and a note mentioning the
missing ALEF. There is a tradition not to eat nuts on Rosh HaShana. One
"reason" given is that the g'matriya of EGOZ is 17 and that of CHEIT (sin)
is 17. CHEIT is spelled CHET-TET-ALEF, which totals 18. But if the ALEF
can be dropped (as it is from L'CHATAT), then the g'matriya would work
out.
[5] OTOH means, on the other hand. That was part of the TTriddle. (Just
kidding.) The famous g'matriya from the maftir, which is the portion of
Tzitzit, is a numeric explanation as to why Tzitzit reminds us of all the
mitzvot. G'matriya of Tzitzit is 600 (90+10+ 90+10+400), then add the 5
(double) knots and 8 strings to get 613, the number of "all the mitzvot of
HaShem". Problem is, Tzitzit is spelled in the Torah without the second
YUD, so its Torah g'matriya is only 590.
[6] 007 is James Bond, a famous spy of fiction. M is the head of MI6,
Bond's British Military Intelligence employer. So when 007 becomes M is
analogous to when a spy becomes the one who sends spies out, referring to
Yehoshua being a scout in the sedra and the one who sent spies out to
Yericho.
[7] The third passage of the SH'MA is the first of the three in where in
the Torah they are found.
[8] Under the arm of the steam shovel (that's what we use to call the
earth mover in the lower-right corner of the ParshaPix) is the emblem of
the NFL's New York Giants (football America'i). On the simplest level,
they represent the giants that the Meraglim reported that inhabited the
Land. On the next level, since the NY Giants play in New Jersey (and no
longer in NY), the NY symbol represents a false report of Giants.
[9] Below the spies in the upper-left, is a skeleton key. this has been
known as an EFES (zero) key, since it often served as a master for locks
that had their own specific keys of the same type. Also the part of the
key that people hold on to looks like the numeral zero. EFES KEY... are
the opening words of Bamidbar 13:28.
This week's TTriddles:
[1] Referred to by his "newer" name in the haftara
[2] We'll hear it on Shabbat but it will remind us of Wednesday [2]
[3] It's 6971km, airport to airport, from somewhere in India to somewhere
in Papua New Guinea, to go from last week's sedra to this week's
[4] He didn't join his brothers
[5] Aharon's staff and one of his eight
[6] 6 pair in Korach plus 3 others
[7] Those of the 54 that terminate with termination
[8] plus one visual TTriddle (2 elements) from the ParshaPix
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