PARSHA-PIX Parshat Lech Lecha

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Parsha Pix
Arrow from the birthday stuff into Eretz Yisrael is Lech L'cha... MiMoladt'cha - go from your birthplace to the Land... • Arrows from Eretz Yisrael to the south-west and back again is the round trip to & from Egypt. • The compass on the outline of the map is G-d’s instructions to Avraham to walk the Land, its length and breadth, and in all directions. • The arrows branching in opposite directions was Avraham’s choice to Lot when they separated. If you go left, I'll go right. If you go to the right, I'll go to the left. • Avraham’s oath before the king of S’dom, that he would not even take a thread of a shoelace. • Telescope and stars stand for G-d’s promise to Avraham that his descendants will be as countless as the stars of the heavens. • On the right in the lower half of the Pix are crowns representing the war of the five kings against the four. • The father with his little son represents Brit Mila, the only mitzva of Taryag in the sedra. By the way, BRIT is numerically 612, making it equal to all the other mitzvot (besides itself). • There is the tent that Avraham pitched a few times in the sedra (not really a good representation, because it seems to have only one entrance.) • Center-lower half, is a representation of Brit Bein HaB’tarim, with each split animal accompanied by a triangle, standing for the adjective M’SHULASH or M’SHULESHET. The bird at the top was not cut. See the Sedra Summary for details.

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 (No'ach - Rosh Chodesh) TTriddles:
[1] Pyle Gog Paras Athens Kayin ChochmaJiffy Pop
[2] His father's northern boundary
[3] Rosh Chodesh is his foot
[4] Elokim four times, who else & what?
[5] and [6] Two elements from the ParshaPix

And the envelope, please...
[1] These are all words associated with the names of some of the sons of YEFET (B'reishit 10:2). Pyle, as in GOMER Pyle, misfit US marine of an old (1964-70) TV series starring Jim Nabors. Gog goes with MAGOG. Paras goes with MADAI, as in Megilat Esther. Athens is the capital of Greece, which is YAVAN in Hebrew. Kayin goes with TUVAL, as in Tuval Kayin. MESECH chochma (R' Meir Simcha of Dvinsk, 5603-5681, known as the Ohr Samei'ach. Wrote commentary on Torah called Meshech Chochma). Jiffy Pop was the first popcorn kit, way before microwave ovens. You held it over a fire, started shaking it when you heard first popping, and then watched it expand and expand until it was finished popping. Corn in Hebrew is TIRAS.
[2] TZIDON was son of K'NAAN and the city of TZIDON (Sidon) is the northern boundary of the Land of Canaan.
[3] Rosh Chodesh means the head (letter) of the word Chodesh, which is the letter CHET. It is the foot of NO'ACH. Other answers received were TERACH, with REISH"CHET (for Rosh CHodesh) as the two last letters of Terach, and YERACH, the meaning of which is related to the moon or a month, in addition to also having REISH & CHET as its feet.
[4] VAYIZKOR ELOKIM ET NO'ACH is the first of the 10 p'sukim of ZICHRONOT from the Rosh HaShana Musaf. It comes from Parshat No'ach. A search of Tanach reveals only 5 VAYIZKORs in Chumash (4 more in the rest of Tanach). 4 of the 5 are followed by ELOKIM, Who is remembering. In addition to No'ach, we find Avraham, Rachel, and the covenant with Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov. The only other VAYIZKOR in Torah is Yosef, who remembers his dreams when he sees his brothers in Egypt.
[5] Upper right corner of the ParshaPix is a drawing of Jim Nabors. See [1].
[6] This one did not come out well at all in the hard copy, but in the color version of ParshaPix on the website and receivable by email either as part of the .pdf file version of TT or the attached .gif file of the ParshaPix (or both), it could be made out (as MM/Bklyn) did, as a KUSH ball. KUSH is one of the sons of CHAM and the father of NIMROD.

Winner this week is MM/Bklyn, Runners up are EB and YYW, Contact us or stop by for your prizes

This week's TTriddles:
[1] Source of AM-bracha and Shabbat Day Z'mira
[2] He's the THOU of the well-known threesome
[3] Confused hotel is the sedra's penultimate and count
[4] Targum proves which way he was facing
[5] Except for Avraham and Yosef, no one said it
[6] Last week's twins were identical; this week's aren't
[7] Kalamazoo's starting team divided up for a game that became known as:

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