PARSHA-PIX Parshat P'kudei
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Parsha Pix
The adding machine would no doubt have come in handy in the tallying of
the gold, silver, and copper.
Upper-left are Betzalel and his chief assistant, Aholiav, looking over
some of the plans for the Mishkan.
The Kohein Gadol - a Davka Judaica Graphic Clip - has shown up on several
ParshaPixes. In P'kudei we find a full description of the KG's garments.
The shirt with a 6 is a play on the phrase KOTNOT SHEISH. SHEISH means
linen as well as six.
There is a pomegranate with a bell in it. The Torah speaks of the bells
from the hem of the ME'IL being inside the RIMONIM. There are different
opinions as to what it means, but the picture depicts one of those
opinions.
The forklift would also have been handy to use for the moving of some of
the heavier components of the Mishkan. The ADANIM were heavy, as were the
K'RACHIM, the wall-boards, pictured on the fork.
The double square stands for the description of the CHOSHEN before it was
folded and attached to the EIFOD.
The Cloud is blocking the whole Mishkan, as in the final p'sukim of
P'kudei. Don't see it as just a cloud; try to imagine all that it
concealed from Moshe and the People until it finally lifted.
Lower-left stands for Rosh Chodesh, which shares the honors this Shabbat
with Shabbat and with Sh'kalim.
And speaking of Sh'kalim, between the KG's head and the pomegtranate-bell
is the obverse side of the old half-shekel coin. Not only does it
represent a half-shekel, but because it is not of today's coinage, it
reminds us that the half-shekel the Torah talks about is the old one - far
older than the one in the ParshaPix.
There are some good elements in this week's PP (and all of them, really)
to challenge your kids and guests. PP is a good way to talk over the sedra.
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 (VAYAK-HEL) TTriddles:
[1] 70 + 2 + 10 = 11?
[2] Who is almost a Lubavitcher?
[3] 29S + 7 ACE
[4] plus 6 elements from the Parsha Pix
Slim pickings this time, for regular TTriddles. It happens. OTOH (on the
other hand), six new elements in the ParshaPix are more than usual.
Feel free to use numbers instead of the Rashi letters we're started to use
for TTriddle numbering
And the envelope, please...
[1] ASHTEI ASAR, which means 11, is made up on an AYIN (70) prefixed to
SHTEI (2), followed by ASAR (10). Hence, 70 + 2 + 10 =11.
[2] BETZALEL, the Torah tells us, was imbued with CHOCHMA, T'VUNA, and
DA'AT. That's very close to CHOCHMA, BINA, and DAAT, the signature of
Lubavitcher chassidus (CHABAD).
[3 ] Sh'mot 35:11-20 lists all the components of the Mishkan. Beginning
with ET HAMISHKAN, each item is preceded by the word ET or V'ET. The ALEF
is voweled with a SEGOL (ET) or a TZEIREI (EIT). Many a Baal Korei have
nightmares with all the ETs and EITs. Usually, ET does not have its own
TROP mark and EIT does. That makes remembering what-is-what easier, but it
is still hard to get them straight. For this TTriddle, we went for the
Ashkenazis pronunciation. So we have 29 times ES (29S) and 7 times EIS,
represented by the symbol one would find on the ACES of a deck of cards.
The rest are elements from the ParshaPix.
[1] Pomegranate for RIMONIM, a decorative element in the Beit HaMikdash,
mentioned in the haftara. Without mention of the haftara, you cannot claim
full credit for this one, since RIMONIM, as part of the Kohein Gadol's
ME'IL, are mentioned in T'tzaveh and P'kudei - not in Vayak-hel.
[2] Notebook. In Hebrew - MACHBERET. Word is used for the main sections of
the Mishkan and Ohel coverings.
[3 ] Cabbages in lower left and right corners are for the K'RUVIM. Full
credit only if you also pointed out that there is K'RUV ECHAD MIKATZA
MIZEH UCHRUV ECHAD MIKATZA MIZEH. One "cabbage" at this end and one at the
other end of the KAPORET.
[4 ] The jar of gefilte fish is Rokeach's. The Incense is described as
MAASEH ROKEI'ACH, the work of an apothocary. There is also ROKEI'ACH
M'MULACH (in Ki Tisa), as opposed to salt-free gefilte fish?
[5 ] The two sailboats, are SIROT, like SIROT (pots) in the haftara, among
the copper vessels for the Mizbei'ach.
[6 ] The boy is DVIR MOSHE (my grandson). DVIR is in the haftatra and
MOSHE is in the sedra.
This week's TTriddles:
[1] The plowing-carpentry connection
[2] Seven among the seven of the seventh
[3] B'reishit, Sh'mot, Vayikra, Bamidbar, Melachim - which is odd man out
this Shabbat?
[4] Yaz was the most recent
[5] PI ESRONIM ROSH
[6] Mitzva version of Wisk's old complaint
[7] Vertical s'chach?
[8] Off-beat REMEZ to Longfellow's midnight rider
[9] 15 times in the haftara; only 3 times in the Torah reading
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