PARSHA-PIX Parshat Acharei-K'doshim

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Parsha Pix
From Acharei...
Kohen Gadol and two identical goats, over which lots are drawn (coin flip).
The pairs of numbers are the counting of the blood-sprinkles on Yom Kippur. Familiar from Yom Kippur Musaf repetition.
The rest is from K'doshim...
House on fire. Potential life-threatening situation allows making a phone call (etc. on Shabbat - note the Shabbat candles nearby).
Shabbat candles also reminder to keep the Shabbat, which is attached to Reverence for parents and to Reverence for the Mikdash.
B'samim is for Havdala, not from Shabbat to Chol but between kosher and non-kosher animals and between us and other nations - mentioned at the end of the sedra.
Hands and crystal ball represent the prohibitions of divination, omens, and other "black arts".
The heart in the Torah is a pictogram for Love thy fellow being a great Torah rule.
Lifesaver is for the mitzva not to stand by idly while someone is in danger.
Grapes and wheat refer to many agricultural mitzvot in the sedra - PE'AH, LEKET, and others.
Thief is various prohibitions related to theft.
The camel with the monkey-head is a reminder of the prohibition of cross breeding animals.
Scales of justice knocked over are for the prohibitions related to perverting justice.
The scale is weighing a 1 kilo weight, but reads less than one. Either the weight is off or the scale is. Whichever, that would be ASUR, to use false weights and measures or even to possess them.
Razor blade for the prohibition of shaving one's face with one.
The trees with fruit stand for ORLA, then fourth year being special, the fruit is KADOSH. 5th year's fruit is to eat.

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 (Tazri’a-M’tzora) TTriddles:
[1] Enterprise's speed & Britain's dogfish
The Enterprise is a space ship from the Star Trek television series. It referred to its extremely rapid speed as WARP speed. That’s the word this TTriddle is looking for. Although the term warp speed originates with Star Trek, it has entered informal English to describe the rapid speed of some animals, for example. Several species of small sharks are called dogfish. They are among the most common of sharks worldwide. In British English (especially in northern England), the dogfish is called a WOOF. That too is a word this TTriddle is looking for. WARP is defined as “The threads that run lengthwise in a woven fabric, crossed at right angles to the woof.” Which already tells you that the WOOF (or weft) is ”The horizontal threads interlaced through the warp in a woven fabric. In Hebrew, the warp and woof are SH’TI and EIREV (not necessarily in that order). These words are paired nine times in Tanach - all in Vayikra 13, towards the end of Parshat Tazri’a, all within 12 p’sukim, in the context of NIG’EI BEGED, “afflictions of the garment.
[2] They're in the sedras, but on vacation after that
The answer is/are M’TZORA’IM, people afflicted with TZORAAT. They are in both Tazri’a and M’tzora, and are the theme of the regular haftara of M’tzora. This past Shabbat they took a vacation for Rosh Chodesh, when they were pre-empted by the Shabbat-Rosh Chodesh haftara.
[3] 2 in 1x and 1 in 2y. What are x & y?
x = st and y = nd. Now redo the TTriddle and get 2 in the first and one in the second. This, of course, refers to the Torah reading this past Shabbat. We read two portions (Tazri’a and M’tzora) in the first Torah, and the Shabbat & Rosh Chodesh portion in the second Torah.
[4] The big camel had a narrow escape - Prize for this TTriddle on its own
Another term for narrow escape is “close shave”. This is something the one afflicted with certain skin blemishes had to have done around the NETEK (patch) itself. Take a close shave. The word V’HITGALACH is written with a big GIMEL. GIMEL, GAMAL, CAMEL. The one word answer to this TTriddle is V’HITGALACH.
[5] All 14 occurrences are in this week’s reading; 8 different TROP pairs!
V’RA’A HAKOHEN, and the kohen saw... That’s the two word phrase that exists nowhere else in Tanach but Tazri’a and M’tzora. 14 times total. (Not counting V’RA’AHU HAKOHEN - another 5 times in Tazria, and nowhere else, and other variations.) What makes the phrase(s) become the nightmare of a Bar Mitzva boy with T&M as his sedra, is the 8 different TROP pairs (and three different ones for V’RAAHU. Experienced BKs (Baal Korei) might not be unanimous, but there sees to be a consensus that Tazri’a-M’tzora is the most difficult LAYNING of all.
[6] The Mazal TTriddle
The Mazal of Iyar is the SHOR, the BULL, Taurus. BULL is a slang term for policeman or detective. The picture in the Word of the Month box is actor Peter Falk (no relation that we know of to the founders of the Israel Center, George & Ilse Falk) who has played the part of Lieutenant Columbo (no known first name), a homicide detective for the LAPD, for many, many years.
[7] A 3-letter hidden TTriddle
On BackPage C, in the box announcing the video to be shown at 12:30pm on Monday, May 1st, there appear the letters SOS at the end of the date line. SOS is a Morse code call for help, standing for Save Our Ship or Save Our Souls. The radio-telephone signal word for distress, by aircraft or ships, is mayday. May 1st is also called May Day, a holiday in socialist countries in honor of labor and labor organizations.

NachKwestion of the Week
What is forbidden on Yom Tov and permitted on Shabbat?
This was an open-ended question, with one answer in mind, but with the assumption that other answers exist and that TTreaders would supply us with some of them.
Section 512 of Shulchan Aruch Orech Chayim states that one may not invite a non-Jew to a meal on Yom Tov, lest one purposely cook extra food for him. (Interestingly, if a non-Jew pops by your house on Yom Tov at lunchtime, you can invite him to stay; it is only an advance invitation that is banned. Further- more, if one has a non-Jew in his household, he may even add extra food to the same pot that he is cooking for his family.) One may invite a non-Jew for a meal on Shabbat. Since cooking is forbidden, no similar ban was necessary.
Several people submitted that answer.
Here’s another answer submitted by TTreader EG. It concerns the Melacha of BOREIR, selecting. Without going into the whole topic, let’s look at an interesting difference between Shabbat and Yom Tov. You are having company come over on Shabbat afternoon. Among the different snacks you are preparing is shelled walnut pieces. When you finish shelling the nuts, the bowl into which you have put them has lots of tasty nut pieces and a few stray pieces of the hard membrane between sections of the nut. The permitted way to separate the nuts from the waste is to pick out the OCHEL (food) from the P’SOLET (chaff), even though this entails extra work. As easy as it would be to pick through and remove the few pieces you want to discard, on Shabbat one is permitted to take OCHEL from P’SOLET only. (And specifically by hand, and for immediate - or soon - use.) On Yom Tov, in the above situation, it would be forbidden to take the OCHEL from the P’SOLET, as is not only permitted on Shabbat, but is the only way to accomplish your goal. The reason is that it involves extra TIRCHA (bother). On Yom Tov, you would take out the few offending pieces and move on to the fruit platter. Not the greatest answer, but technically correct. It is too situation-specific.
If other answers come in, we’ll share them with you.

This week's TTriddles:
[1] 5 doubles (out of 20), 4 singles of >1000
[2] They are at 10 Belilius Street
[3] This week's haftara & next week's Torah reading
[4] K'doshim, Iyov, Mishlei, Yechezkeil, 1 First Street NE
[5] Anagrams: on it and in front of it
[6] Spring & Katy
[7] The woman gossips with them
[8] Yearly on Yom Kippur; who took the first pair on a Pesach long before?

NachKwestion of the Week:
Two items - one is permitted to eat and the other is forbidden to eat.
When combined, it is forbidden to eat them.
When separated again, the one that was forbidden is now permitted and the one that was permitted is now forbidden.

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