PARSHA-PIX Parshat VaYikra

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Parsha Pix
Pelephone represents G-d's calling to Moshe (after the Cloud lifted, Moshe had K'LITA).
Cow, goat, sheep, and dove are all represented.
As is the Mizbei'ach for the Korbanot.
Salt shaker is for salting all korbanot.
Hand with pinky sticking up and thumb pointing out is the Kohen's K'MITZA.
In his palm, within the curl of the three middle fingers is the quantity of the Mincha dough that was burned on the Mizbei'ach, and the amount of L'VONA that was added to the Mincha.
Kidney is referred to several times in the sedra.
Flour and oil are the main ingredients of Minachot and the frying pan and oven are two methods of preparing the Mincha.
Upper right is branch of the Boswellia Thurifera tree, from whose resin comes L'VONA.
Elephant with knotted trunk is for ZACHOR and LO TISHKACH. (Tying a knot is to remember something and elephants never forget.
That leaves one visual TTriddle.

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 (P'KUDEI) 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

And the envelope, please...
[1] Among the skills listed for Aholiav b. Achisamach of Dan (chief assistant to Betzalel), was that he was a CHARASH, defined by Targum Onkeles as NAGAR, carpenter. CHOREISH is to plow. Same root.
[2] Seven (animals mentioned) among the seven (p'sukim) of the seventh (Aliya) refers to the lambs of the Rosh Chodesh Musaf (which we read as Sh'vi'i this past Shabbat.
[3] The books of Tanach from which we read this past Shabbat are Sh'mot (weekly sedra and maftir of Sh'kalim), Vayikra (at Mincha), Bamidbar (the Sh'vi'i for Rosh Chodesh), and Melachim (the haftara of Sh'kalim). The odd man out is B'reishit, the one book of the five listed from which we d id NOT read.
[4] With apologies to EB and other non-American TT readers, this was a baseball-based TTriddle. Yaz is Carl Yastrzemski, Boston Red Sox left fielder (1961-1983), who was the last player to win the Triple Crown (league leader in batting average, home runs, and RBIs) in 1967. L'havdil (but not so in TTriddle terms), the three Torah's of this past Shabbat were adorned (in some shuls) by three crowns.
[5 ] These are the 9th words in each of the readings in the three Torahs of this past Shabbat. What's the significance in the 9th word? None. Just kept going until a trio of words sounded good.
[6 ] For this TTriddle, one had to remember Wisk's old complaint, which was: "Ring around the collar". The mitzva version of that in P'kudei (and T'tzaveh) is the specially re-enforced collar of the ME'IL, to prevent it from tearing, and thereby violating the prohibition.
[7 ] After the Luchot were put into the Aron and the poles were inserted into their rings, and the KAPORET was placed atop the Aron, the Aron was placed into the Mishkan and the PAROCHET was hung to section off the Holy of Holies. VAYASECH AL ARON HA-EIDUT, it (the PAROCHET) shielded the Aron. The word VAYASECH connotes S'CHACH, usually horizontal, but in this case, vertical.
[8] The tally of silver given in the opening portion of P'kudei was 100 KIKAR (talents) and 1775 shekels. The famous colonial American silversmith (we can say that he had a TALENT with SILVER), Paul Revere, made his famous ride - immortalized by H.W. Longfellow's poem) in on April 18, 1775.
[9] The word KESEF (silver) occurs twice in P'kudei, once in Parshat Sh'kalim, and 15 times in the haftara of Sh'kalim.
[10] The answer to the 10th TTriddle, had there been a tenth one, is SHISHI-CHAZAK. GR sent in this solution, undaunted by the fact that there wasn't a TTriddle to fit, feeling that there should have been. We agree. And we leave it to you (some of you) to make up a suitable TTriddle which can be used the next time P'kudei is a 3TSh (3-Torah Shabbat), which is scheduled for three years from now and then 44 years after that.
Speaking of GR, he is hereby elevated to the rank of Grand-Master TTriddler. This for his solving the longest-running hidden TTriddle in Torah Tidbits history. Details to follow.

This week's TTriddles:
[1] necessary addition can last
[2] Spies Sarah, Aharon, and 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

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