PARSHA-PIX Parshat Sh'lach

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Parsha Pix
Some straightforward items and some wordplays.
Mad Magazine's Spy vs. Spy, which we can apply to the 10 black Meraglim vs. the 2 white ones. They are carrying a bomb... like a grenade, RIMON in Hebrew, one of the fruits that the Meraglim brought back.
The author of Spy vs. Spy always signed his name in Morse code. Here we have Kalev’s call in Morse - ALO NA'ALEH.
The compass represents the directions that Moshe sent the Meraglim to explore.
The grapes refer to the timing: "...And the days were the days of the ripening of the grapes." (B'midbar 13:20).
The tree with the eye is a play on words: See if the Land has trees IM AYIN, or not. Switch the initial ALEFs of IM AYIN to AYINs and the question becomes: Is there a tree with an eye?
Towards the upper-right are the spies with the grapes as they appear in the emblem of the Ministry of Tourism and the logo of Carmel-Mizrachi Wines. Interesting how both industries took the same emblem.
Among the names of the Meraglim (including fathers’ names) are three related to animal names: Gadi b. Susi and (Amiel b.) G'mali.
Flour (flower), Olive Oyl, and wine are for the MENACHOT and N’SACHIM presented in the sedra.
The Challah stands for the mitzva of CHALLAH.
Tzitzit, obvious.
To Olive Oyl's left is Murex Trunculus, possible (probable)source T'cheilet, used by many people today for that aspect of the mitzva.
The heart with the eyes combine the two warnings of not to follow the evil temptations of your heart and your eyes.
Lower-left is the wood gathered on Shabbat and the stone used to execute the Shabbat desecrater.
The window with a red ribbon hanging from it is the sign for Yehosha's army to spare the lives of Rachav and her family.
Between the tzitzit and the heart is the emblem of Jewish Scouts, sort of a description of the Meraglim.
Steam shovel (earth mover) is a play on LACHPOR HAARETZ, to "dig" the land, also to scout it out (as in the haftara).
And 2 new visual TTriddles.

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 (B'HA-ALO-T'CHA) TTriddles:
[1] Speaking of resuscitation
[2] Chananya, Yehoshua, Iyov,and whose son?
[3] For us, same date (sort of) as the first appearance of David and Ricky on the Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet
[4] From Shavuot to Chanuka... twice
[5] 3 forms of the same word within 11 words- What does each form mean?

And the envelope, please...
[1] A nice cryptic crossword type of clue. G-d said to Aharon and Miriam that the way Moshe receives prophecy is different from all other prophets. PEH EL PEH ADABEIR BO. Mouth to mouth I speak to him. Mouth to mouth is a type of resuscitation, and ADABEIR refers to G-d's speaking.
[2] The phrase SH'MA NA, please listen, is found 9 times in Tanach. 3 times, it is followed by a person's name: Yehoshua (in the haftara for B'ha-alo-t'cha from Zecharia), Chananya, and Iyov. Once, it is followed by BEN and the name of a person, that being ACHITUV. Which is the answer to this TTriddle.
[3] David and Ricky made their first appearances on the Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet on February 20th, 1949. That would be written as 2/20/49. Our 2/20/49 could be the 20th of our second month, Iyar, in the year 2449. (Of course, it could have been any of our centuries, but the 25th century fits. On that day, the Torah in B'ha-alo-t'cha tell us, the people of Israel left Har Sinai for the first time.
[4] With Shavuot followed by Shabbat Parshat B'haalot'cha, we have the first obvious "from Shavuot to Chanuka". The other "from Shavuot to Chanuka" is the range of Bikurim. Shavuot begins the Bikurim-bringing season. One who brings Bikurim anytime until Sukkot reads the Bikurim-recital as well. After Sukkot, until Chanuka, Bikurim can be brought, but the passage is not said.
[5] The word is YOM. The 11 word sequence spans p'sukim B'midbar 11:21-22. In describing the encampments of the people based upon the movement (or lack thereof) of the Heavenly Cloud, the Torah says that they might be in one place for a few hours, or...
O' YOMAM V'LAYLA V'NAALA HE'ANAN V'LAS'U: O' YOMAIM O' CHODESH O\' YAMIM:
a day and night - the word YOMAM is half a day, the daytime portion of the day, or YOMAYIM, two days, or a month, or YAMIM, meaning years. Three forms of the word YOM within an 11 word sequence, with three different meanings.

This week's 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, this is a different g'matriya problem in Maftir
[6] When 007 becomes M
[7] The third is first
[8] plus 2 visual TTriddles from the ParshaPix

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