PARSHA-PIX Parshat Tzav

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Parsha Pix
Fire (upper-left) represents the fire of the Mizbei’ach that was to always remain lit. If the Menora ever went out, it was relit from the Mizvei’ach’s fire. Ner Tamid in shuls commemorates both the eternal lights of the Menorah and the fire of the Mizbei’ach.
The prohibition on the other side of the Fire Always coin is represented by the negation circle over the fire extinguisher (lower-right). It is forbidden to extinguish the fire of the Mizbei'ach. An example among many of a positive command and a prohibition addressing the same issue from both sides.
Yes, matza; no, chametz is not just a Pesach rule. It is the rule for most Menachot, as stated in the sedra.
Ear, thumb, big toe - application of some bloods and some oils in various rituals in the Mikdash.
Oven and frying pan - two of several methods of preparing Menachot.
Turtle with poor spelling - in Hebrew, TZAV (TZADI-VET), a misspelling of Parshat TZAV.
Who knows five? Not only the books of the Torah, but the 5 ZOT TORAT... in the sedra.
The piece of chain is for the rare TROP-note, SHALSHELET, appearing 3 times in B'reishit (Vayeira, Chayei Sara, Vayeishev) and this one time in Vayikra (Tzav).
All the rest are pictures for Purim, some alone and some belong together with others. So too, the ear in the upper-right has 2 Purim significances.

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 (VAYIKRa-ZACHOR) TTriddles:
[1] necessary addition can last
[2] Spies Sarah, Aharon, Avshalom founded it
[3] x = (P + x) / 5
[4] Two little letters missing from the first two words - where?
[5] Most people leave after afternoon services. Who's left?
[6] plus one element from the Parsha Pix

And the envelope, please...
[1] The NECESSARY ADDITION to every korban is salt. One of salt's qualities, which commentaries use in their explanation of this mitzva, is that it does not spoil - it CAN LAST. Several solvers got it up until this point. What they missed is what makes it a TTriddle - look at the initial letters of the words in the TTriddle. NaCl, which is salt.
[2] NILI was the name of a Jewish ring of spies helping the British fight the Ottoman Empire during WWI. The name NILI is an acronym based on a phrase in the Hebrew Bible which says, "The God of Israel does not lie." (Which is in the haftara of Zachor and Purim, and which is why we are sharing this entry from Wikiopedia - an internet encyclopedia - with you.) Sarah Aaronsohn, her brother Aaron, and their friend Avshalom Feinberg formed and directed NILI...
[3] This is the algebraic equation to use to find how much a CHOMESH is, for payment of various fines according to Torah law. The example from Vayikra is one who swears falsely that he has not stolen, or does not have something which belongs to someone else in his possession... he must make restitution AND add a penalty of ONE FIFTH. However, we do not calculate the fifth by taking 20% of the principal. Rather, a CHOMESH is that amount that when added to the principal amount becomes one fifth of the total to be paid, i.e. principal and penalty. If P in the equation represents the value of a found object worth, let's say, 100NIS, and a person denies under oath that he has the object, and then wants to repent, he must pay 100NIS +25NIS for a total of 125NIS. The 25NIS penalty he paid is one fifth of the 125NIS he pays in total.
[4] Targum Onkeles for the opening words of the sedra and book of Vayikra - VAYIKRA EL MOSHE are UKRA L'MOSHE. Comparing the Hebrew and the Aramaic we find that two little letters are missing in the Targum, YUD (which is always little) and an ALEF (which in the case of the first word of VAYIKRA is little).
[5] The TTriddle is based on the words V'HANOTERET MIN HAMINCHA, and the leftovers of the Mincha. Actually referring to the flour & oil offering, it also refers, TTriddle-wise, to those who remain after most people leave shul after davening Mincha.
[6] The one unexplained item in the ParshaPix was a domino-like piece with two dots in one square and three dots in the other. This represents the two possible vowels for the ZAYIN of ZEICHER (ZECHER) in Parshat Zachor. Many have the custom of rereading the phrase or (proferably) the whole pasuk, once with each vowel. The reason for such a measure to maximize the probability of getting it right is unique to Parshat Zachor, because it is considered to be the fulfillment of a Torah command, in contrast to all other Torah reading, which is D'RABANAN.

Last week, TT #660, the footer of many of the pages either had Say Hey or NY24SF or 24. As TTriddles Grand Master GR correctly figured out, these were references to Willie Mays, who played for the NY Giants, SF Giants, and NY Mets, and wore the number 24 on his jersey. His was known as the Say Hey kid. The connection? He hit 660 home runs in his career and we have just reached that number of issues of Torah Tidbits. Special mention of Shalom Dinerstein who has been diligently and enthusiastically counting down (or up) to the 660 milestone. He congratulated us on an aMAYSing accomplishment. And this week, as Barry Bonds has, we hereby pass Willie with TT 661.
In many previous issues of TT, there have been other things written in parentheses in the footers of many of the pages. Although this was done many, many times, there was a common factor in them all, which we consider to be the long-running hidden TTriddle. As mentioned last week, GR finally cracked to code. We'll give other TTriddlers a chance. Just go back to issues of the last couple of months and see what you can do. In a future issue of TT, we'll review the whole thing in more detail.
If we were still doing the same thing, this week's footers would have Bakersfield, Chol HaMoed Sukkot, Sparks of Holiness, and most appropriately - Esther. All TTriddlers and other interested readers - including GR - are invited to solve this TTriddle (completely).

This week's TTriddles:
[1] 12 times in the Megila? V'HANORA B'NORATECHA
[2] medians connect vertices to these
[3] 2847 miles • 4581 km
[4] Sort of fulfills 429:1
[5] 12 ALEF, 6 YUD, REISH, TAF, 3 VAV, 2 SHIN, SAMECH, NUN, LAMED 1 MEM, ZAYIN
[6] Fiji in 1970 and Achashveirosh
[7] Just this once; the other five are Bnei Yisrael
[8] several elements from the Parsha Pix

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