PARSHA-PIX Parshat Chayei Sara
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ParshaPix
400 silver pieces that Avraham handed over to EFRON (pencil = IPARON,
spelled the same as EFRON).
Avraham came to eulogize Sarah and to cry. V’LIVKOTAH is written with a
small KAF. There it is, under the pencil - a small kaf, a.k.a. a demitasse
spoon.
G-d blessed Avraham BAKOL. There is an opinion that this blessing included a
precious gem that had miraculous curative powers. That’s it under the B”H.
There's a speech-bubble with a chain in it, standing for VAYOMAR, and he
(Eliezer) said, which is read with a SHALSHELET (chain). BARUCH HASHEM was
said by Eliezer.
Dakva’s scene of Rivka at the well (spring) watering Eliezer’s camels.
There is one of the gold rings Eliezer gave to Rivka.
The Xed out turkey platter is Eliezer’s refusal to eat before he had
completed “business”.
Good thing, too, because Lavan had poisoned the food (poison symbol).
CHUPA is for Yitzchak’s marriage to Rivka (also Avraham’s to Ketura).
Gift for Rivka and her family, as well as the gifts Avraham gave to the
children of the “PILAGSHIM”.
The word TEREM appears eight times in the Torah, twice in Chayei Sara.
That’s the Terem logo on the right side of the Pix.
The bottle of NEVIOT water is for the sound-alike of the first born of
Yishma’el.
There are two dots forming a SH'VA - this is a sound-alike for a grandson of
Avraham's via Ketura.
The animals are mentioned in the haftara.
So is the question as to who will sit on David's throne after his death.
That leaves the Zodiac TTriddle and two unexplained elements, which are
visual TTriddles. The one in the lower-left of the PP is a special TTriddle
- first correct answer wins a T-shirt from Not Just T's, Rechov HaHistadrut,
off Ben Yehuda. Whether or not you get this TTriddle, it's K'DAI to check
out Not Just T's. Tell them Torah Tidbits sent you.
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 (VAYEIRA) TTriddles:
[1] If Utz is Oz then who might have been the wizard?
[2] Former first lady, originally a second one
[3] Just beginning to say too much, sirs, for me found the city
[4] Avraham and Yaakov too, but Yehuda was the headliner
[5] Avraham, Yishmael, Yosef, Par'o, Moshe, David, Sha'ul, Shim'i, and a
what?
[6] The peace is questioned more than twice as often as it is definite
[7] Leah four times referring to Yaakov, the oil lady and the Tekoan
[8] plus one element from the ParshaPix
And the envelope, please...
[1] The book of Iyov begins: There was a man in the land of Utz, Iyov was
his name. Daat Z'keinim miBaalei HaTos'fot says that the Midrash says that
Utz was Iyov. Either way, he'd be a likely candidate for the Wizard of Utz.
Utz is what Oz is called in the Hebrew translations of the Wizard of Oz.
[2] One of Israel's former first ladies is
Reuma Weizmann, wife of the late Ezer Weizmann. The original Reuma was the
pilegesh (second lady) of Nachor, brother of Avraham. His "main" wife was
Milka. Nachor and Milka were the grandparents of Rivka Imeinu.
[3] HINEI NA, a phrase that jumped out as a
possible TTriddle, returned 26 results from a search of Tanach. Too many for
a TTriddle. But only 9 occurrences in the Chumash. All 9 are in B'reshit,
and 6 of those are in Vayeira. That's good TTriddle potential. The words of
the TTriddle are the ones that follow the HINEI NAsin Vayeira. HO'IL
L'DABEIR (twice in Avraham's plea to save Sedom), ADONAI, my sirs (Lot to
the angels), LI, for me (Lot again, about his two unmarried daughters),
MATZA AVD'CHA CHEIN, your servant finds favor in your eyes (Lot to the
angels), HA'IR, the city (the following pasuk, Lot still asking the angels
for a favor). Interesting that the two earlier HINEI NAs were said by
Avra(ha)m and Sara(i) in Lech L'cha. That's 8 of the 9 HINEI NAs coming from
Avraham, Sara, and Lot. The 9th one in Chumash was said by Yitzchak. It's
like the HINEI NAs in the Torah are tightly clustered.
[4] The first person to "approach", as in
VAYIGASH, was Avraham, who approached G-d, so to speak, to plea for Sedom.
The next for VAYIGASHes are Yaakov. But the following VAYIGASH is the
headliner - i.e. the name of a sedra, as in VAYIGASH EILAV YEHUDA...
[5] Again, here is how a certain type of TTriddle comes about. VAIMAHEIR,
and he hurried. Not a common word. Twice in Vayeira. Good start.
Only 9 times in Tanach. Okay - who hurried
in Tanach? Avraham and Yishmael in Vayeira. Yosef, Par'o, and Moshe. That's
it for the Chumash.
David, Shaul, and Shim'i in Shmuel Alef and
Bet. And the ninth? A prophet who disguised himself (Melachim Alef 20:41).
On the female side, by the way, VAT'MAHEIR, we find Rivka hurrying three
times, Mano'ach's wife (Shimshon's mother), Avigayil twice, and "the woman"
with Sha'ul in Shmuel Alef 28.
[6] This refers to the word HASHALOM. It
appears 18 times in Tanach, including 3 times in one pasuk from the haftara
of Vayeita (which is why it became a TTriddle for last week's issue). In
this context, the HEI is the questioning HEI, voweled with a CHATAF-PATACH,
rather than the HEI HAYEDI'A, the "THE" HEI, that has a PATACH and puts a
DAGESH CHAZAK in the SHIN. Only 6 of 20 HASHALOMs in Tanach are the
definitive kind. The other 14 have the questioning HEI.
[7] LEAH referred to YAAKOV as ISHI, my
husband (4 times). The word only appears in Tanach 8 times, including once
in Vayeira's haftara. That was the widowed woman who appealed to the prophet
Elisha for help. The other is the woman from Teko'a that Yoav set up to go
to the king and pose as a widow with a sob story... (Shmuel Bet 14).
[8] This really isn't a TTriddle - it's a
straightforward matter of reading Braille. It started several years ago in a
ParshaPixPuzzle. The people of Sedom gathered at Lot's house in angry
protest of the fact that he had welcomed guest into his home and was
protecting them. The angels afflicted the people with blindness. This
prompted on of them (in the warped world of TTriddles) to write on Lot's
door (in Braille, of course) an expression of his anger at Lot. This Braille
graffiti has changed each year. This time it is the Sedom insult - GUEST
LOVER.
MM/Bklyn submitted a near-perfect solution
set. He has been given another chance on the one he did not get, since his
answer would fit the TTriddle reasonably well. (The first lady one.)
TTriddles honors to YYW, multiple Sherers
This week's TTriddles:
[1] Avraham : Sara : : Ido : whom?
[2] Among many others, only these... Ada, Hagar, Sara (twice), Bilha, Zilpa,
Rachel, Ada, Maacha
[3] Nine extroverts in the beginning
[4] Avraham, Yehoshua, David
[5] At least twenty million
[6] That leaves the Zodiac TTriddle
[7] Two unexplained elements in the ParshaPix
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