PARSHA-PIX Parshat B'har-B'chukotai

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Har Sinai, with a pair of Luchot at the top.
Negation circle over someone planting a sapling. Question mark between them. - represents the famous question MA INYAN SHMITA EITZEL HAR SINAI?
The abacus is for counting the seven years of each Shmita cycle and the seven Shmita cycles to Yovel. Also, to calculate the fair price of land, depending upon how many years remain until Yovel.
The Shofar is blown on the Yom Kippur of Yovel.
The Liberty Bell is inscribed with the partial pasuk: AND PROCLAIM LIBERTY THROUGHOUT THE LAND TO ALL ITS INHABITANTS. NOT FOR SALE sign is a reminder of the prohibition in the parsha which has two very different definitions. See Sedra Summary.
There's a fellow lending money at the Torah- approved interest rate for personal loans between Jew and Jew - 0%.
If you follow G-d's laws... then we will receive our rain in the proper time... and 5 will be able to repel 100 (of our enemies) and 100 will push away 10,000...
And we will have peace (dove with olive branch).
Anatot is from the haftara of B'har which we don't read this year. Ignore it please.
Silhouette family is for ARACHIN with the baby's amt. unclear because we can't tell if it's a boy or girl.
Price tag stands for Ona'a because mark up is more than a sixth.
Steel pen point is in the haftara.Maaser B'heima, the 10th sheep under the rod. O DODO O BEN DODO.

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 (EMOR) TTriddles:
[1] 7 different ones; 2 female (1 in Emor), 5 male
At the end of Emor is the episode of the son of a Jewish mother and Egyptian father who "blessed" G-d's name. His mother is identified as SH'LOMIT b. DIVRI of Dan. The name Sh'lomit appears in Tanach for six other people: one other female and 5 men. In Divrei HaYamim, there is a Shlomit, daughter of Zerubavel, sister ofM'shulam and Chananya. In Ezra, Shlomit is the son of Yosifya. He returned from Bavel to Eretz Yisrael leading a group of 160 men. The other 4 male Shlomits are also found in Divrei HaYamim - we leave it for you to check them out.

[2] Who actually carried this title? (Aharon did not)
The chief among the kohanim, of course, is the Kohen HaGadol. We are introduced to the term in Emor. Aharon, of course, was the first Kohein Gadol. But he is never identified as such in Torah or the rest of Tanach. He is called Aharon HaKohen. (The phrase appears 24 times in Tanach.) Aside from Emor, there are 17 other occurrences of the words HaKohein HaGadol in Tanach. Only three people are identified with that title. Yehoshua b. Y'hotzadak, Chilkiya(hu), and Elyashiv.

[3] OJO/KIJKER
OJO is EYE in Spanish. KIJKER is EYE in Dutch. The slash here is like in a fraction. A half, 1/2, is read as one over two. That means that two is under one would be the same thing. Anyway, here it comes together as AYIN TACHAT AYIN, literally an eye under an eye, as in "an eye for an eye", found in Parshat Emor (as wellas in Mishpatim).

[4] Most immediate compliance - 31
Although we have been counting the Omer since the second night of Pesach, it is in Parshat Emor that we read of the command to count the Omer. The most immediate compliance with that command, after hearing it on Shabbat morning, took place on Motza'ei Shabbat, when we counted 31.

[5] Don't work new blood and fat on Yom Kippur
Let's break this apart correctly into three pieces: Don't work on Yom Kippur. New (grain, that is, as in CHADASH). Blood and Fat. Only three times in the Torah do we find the description of a mitzva as CHUKAT OLAM L'DOROTEICHEM B'CHOL MOSHVO- TEICHEM, an eternal law for all generations wherever you live. Twice, the phrase is found in Emor (for the prohibitions of CHADASH and MELACHA on Yom Kippur). Earlier in Vayikra, in Parshat Vayikra to be specific, we find the phrase used for the prohibition of eating DAM and CHEILEV.

[6] Washington Melville, NY3, Tishrei (separate)
These were Footer TTriddles, referring to the issue number, rather than the weekly sedra. The first two are culturally biased to favor American sports fans with warped minds. Washington is George Washington and Melville of Moby Dick fame is Herman. George Herman Ruth, nicknamed Babe Ruth, hit 714 homeruns in his MLB career.Hence these two footer TTriddles for TT issue 714. Tishrei (for which a separate prize was offered) was really tough. The other name for Tishrei is HaChodesh HaSh'vi'i, the seventh month. The numeric value of that phrase is 5+8+4+300 + 5+300 +2+10+70+10 = 714. Sorry.

[7] 2 visual TTriddles from the ParshaPix
These were kind of easy. At least the dreidel (sivivon) was. Right after Parshat HaMoadim (Vayikra 23), we have the command to light the Menora in the Mikdash with pure olive oil. This is seen as a REMEZ, hint to Chanuka from the Torah. (One of several REMAZIM.)
The numeral 1 was intended to refer to the haftara, where reference is made to Bikurim, T'ruma, Challa, and other gifts of the FIRSTs to the kohanim.

Not a TTriddle; a CHALLENGE (with prize):Sum of all numbers uttered in fulfillment
This referred to the fulfillment of the mitzva of counting the Omer. Anyone who makes it all the way through will have counted 1 through 49, which add up to 1225. In addition, from day 7-13, one week was also counted, as well as the number of days to the next number of weeks. 7 days, which are 1 week and 1 day... Etc. That's7 each of 1-6 for the weeks, which is 7 x 21 = 147 and another 7 for the 49th day (7 weeks). That's 154 for weeks. Each of 6 weeks (all but the first) had another 1-6 days counted. That's another 126. Add them up and you get the total of 1505 for the sum of all numbers uttered in the fulfillment of the mitzva.

NachKwestion of the Week
Women in Tanach:
Name 3 beautiful sisters
3 women who dismounted animals
The wife of which Navi is referred to as a prophetess?
Several people got this one, all parts. In the end of the book of Iyov, we are told of what Iyov was blessed with after his whole ordeal. 14,000 sheep, 6000 camels, 1000 yokes of oxen, and 1000 donkeys. He also had 7 sons and 3 daughters, which he named Yemima, K'tzi'a, and Keren Hapuch. They are described as the most beautiful girls in the land. (And Iyov gave them property as well, among their brothers. Beauty and land made for attractive shiduchim (details of which, we do not have).)
In addition to the above, HC found three other beauties, unrelated to each other, but each identified as someone's sister. Rivka, Rachel, Tamar. A valid solution to this part of the NachKwestion.
Rivka (donkey), Achsa (b. Kalev, also donkey), and Avigayil (camel).
Yeshayahu's wife is referred to as a NEVI'A.

This week's TTriddles:
[1] Proportionally, 5 times stronger than 5
[2] Why would we hesitate buying a used car at the Osaka Nissan Auto Auction?
[3] Can be asked about korbanot, e.g. Tamid
[4] 5 times throughout Shabbat (incl. Motza"Sh), and an extra time this Shabbat
[5] The mixed up producr of my fields
[6] Equals its g'matriya's digit sum
[7] Eicha, Rice Lake
[8] plus an unexplained object from the ParshaPix

NachKwestion of the Week:
What is the most common pasuk in T'hilim? What is the second most common, and what is particularly interesting about it? [EB]

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