PARSHA-PIX Parshat B'shalach

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Parsha Pix
Upper-left are the Pillar of Cloud by day and the Pillar of Fire by night.
Below them is the Davka Judaica Clipart scene of the splitting of the sea.
The tambourine in the middle is TOF MIRIAM.
The tire with a blowout represents the wheels of the Egyptian chariots that fell off and caused the chariots to become bogged down in the sea bed. Part of the destruction of Egypt took place when their supreme arrogance turned to shock and panic at that moment. Soon thereafter, the waters of the Sea drowned them, but the demoralizing effect of the wheel-losing was part of their punishment.
Upper-right is the water coming from a rock that Moshe struck with the Staff.
The bird under the stream of water is a quail, as in quail - S’LAV, that preceded the MN (i.e. manna).
The two challot to the left of the quail is LECHEM MISHNEH, which commemorates the double portion of MN that fell on Friday in order to provide for Shabbat. We not only use double challot on Shabbat to remember the MN, but we cover them top and bottom to remind us of the two layers of dew that protected the MN. The MN was our introduction to Shabbat. See the candle sticks top-center.
The worm ate the leftover MN - there should not have been any.
Three facets of the battle against Amalek (bottom-left & center): Moshe's upraised hands, Yehoshua's sword, and the pen with which the account of the battle was written down.
Lower right is the representations of the Haftara. The singing bee is Dvora. Thunderbolt = BARAK, Devorah's associate. Milk that Yael gave to Sisra, and the tent peg with which she killed him when he fell asleep.
The piece of a brick wall represents the brick pattern of words in the Torah for AZ YASHIR.
The upside-down heart refers to the phrase VAYEIHAFEICH L'VAV... Par'o had a change of heart... again.
The stop sign with the word Shabbat is found at the limit of one's T'chum Shabbat, Shabbat boundary.

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

New format for TTriddles. Let us know if you like it this way or the "And the envelope please" old way

Last issue’s (BO) TTriddles:
[1] 1956 jazz album by Miles Davis
This is an example of a type of TTriddle common among TTriddles - the work back from the answer TTriddle. This one started with KACHATZOT HALAILA, Moshe says that G-d will "visit" Egypt "Round About Midnight", which is the title of the 1956 Jazz album by Miles Davis. Simple when you start with the answer. A little bit harder to solve. One would search through the Miles Davis sites and MAYBE this particular album title would jump out and give the searcher the solution.
[2] Brother [sic], want a festive omelet?
A festive omelet is one made on Yom Tov day itself. You can't really make an omelet on Erev Yom Tov and enjoy it on the following day. That making an omelet (or cooking other foods) is permitted on Yom Tov is learned from a pasuk in Parshat Bo, Sh'mot 12:16 to be specific. And on the first day... no Melacha may be done on them ACH = except that which is for food, only that may be done. (Weak, incomplete translation - don't rely on it except for TTriddle solution.) ACH in a different spelling means BROTHER. [sic] is what you put after a word in a quote when the word is spelled wrong and you want to leave the misspelling as is.
[3] 2nd question, answered 8 times after the 4th
The second question (of the Four Children of the Hagada) is MA HAAVODA HAZOT LACHEM? What is this work for you? The Torah's response in Parshat Bo is in Sh'mot 12:27 - VAAMARTEM ZEVACH PESACH... These words are the refrain of one of the poems recited at the Seder table as part of the last piece of the Seder - NIRTZEH. The phrase appears 8 times, and being in NIRTZEH, they are said after the fourth cup of wine is consumed.
[4] E&M/M&E, everyone/adults, prophets/Moshe, wizards/prophet
E&M are Efrayim and Menashe. When Yaakov put his right hand on Efrayim and his left hand on Menashe for Yosef's bracha, Yosef objected with the words LO CHEIN, not so (my father). When Moshe (in Parshat Bo) said that everyone was intending to go into the Midbar, Par'o said LO CHEIN, not so, take the adults only. When G-d was talking to Aharon and Miriam about Moshe, He distinguished between the way all other prophets receive their prophecy and the way He (G-d) speaks to Moshe. G-d said, LO CHEIN... The Torah tells us that other nations have wizards, astrologers, and other practitioners of the occult arts. LO CHEIN the people of Israel, we have prophets.
[5] Par'o's question in my bread and water
My bread and my water is LACHMI UMEIMAI, which is a phrase that appears in Hoshea (2:7). The context there is totally irrelevant to the TTriddle. What counts is the fact that contained within the words LACHMI UMEIMAI is the words MI VAMI, which was Par'o's question, as in MI VAMI HAHOL'CHIM, who did you, Moshe, have in mind would be going on this junket in the Midbar.
[6] part of envy
This was not a "regular" TTriddle (are any TTriddles regular?) but rather one referring to the issue number of the particular Torah Tidbits. You can tell that is so by its appearance in the footer on a page or pages. To solve, let's respell envy as NV, which is the official postal service 2-letter abbreviation for the state of Nevada. Part of Nevada (including Las Vegas) has an area code of 702.

The NachKay Jewish Trivia Question (NKJTQ) was:
Find a pasuk in the Torah which contains a five-word phrase repeated three times verbatim
Truth is, if you heard this one before, it was easy. If you haven't, it probably wouldn't be feasible to do. Many people submitted the correct p'sukim (there are two) and the winner will be selected from among them and be notified of his/her prize.
Both Sh'mot 25:35 and Sh'mot 37:21 are correct answers to the question. The p'sukim are almost identical, both in the description of the Menora (one from T'ruma and the other from Vayaqhel).
V'KAFTOR TACHAT SHNEI HAKANIM MIMENA V'KAFTOR TACHAT SHNEI HAKANIM MIMENA V'KAFTOR TACHAT SHNEI HAKANIM MIMENA LASHESHET HAKANIM HAYOTZIM MIN HAMENORA:
The only difference between the p'sukim is in the last part, which is not the repeated phrase. In Vayaqhel, this is how the pasuk ends:
LASHESHET HAKANIM HAYOTZIM MIMENA:
Elsewhere, this week's NKJTQ is posed. Be creative in your answers.
Speaking of NachKay Jewish Trivia Questions... readers are invited to submit questions.If we use them, the submitter wins a CD too.

This week's TTriddles:
[1] XLXXLXXLXXLXXLV
[2] Lavan, Nevayot, Nachshon, Aharon What and who else in NACH?
[3] G-d/Chava, kings/Avraham, Yaakov/Lavan, people/Moshe
[4] Torah is not the only thing it precedes [l'havdil]

NachKay Jewish Trivia Question: Prizes for the best lists of Brachot that are said only once a year

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