PARSHA-PIX Parshat Ha'azinu

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ParshaPix
ParshaPix, regardless of what page(s) they are on are still known as the ParshaPix from page 3. Because that's where they usually are. In this issue, there are ParshaPix on page 4 (Yom Kippur), page 9 (Haazinu), page 10B (Sukkot), and page 46A (B'reishit). [Don't worry too much about this issue; we'll be back to normal, IY"H for TT 689, No'ach.]

The Yom Kippur ParshaPix has three Davka Judaica Graphics - Kol Nidrei (some say that taking out two Torah's to join the Chazan forms a Beit Din for the symbolic nullification of vows that is Kol Nidrei), the Kohein Gadol, and the Yona & the Fish scene.

Then there are two identical goats for the KG to perform a PAYIS on.(Lottery, as in the logo of Mif'al HaPayis.)

Scales weighed down by mitzvot, no wearing leather shoes, a candle that rests over YK for havdala, 5 davenings, 5 prohibitions, and the second set of Luchot which we received on the first YK.

Haazinu has the sky and ground with ears, as in Haazinu HaShamayim and v'tishma HaAretz.
The note is for the Song (Haazinu).
Rain compared to lessons of Torah.
Father answering his son's questions (Ask your father and he will tell you...)
Like an eagle...
Apple of the eye (K'ISHON EINO).
Prohibition of consecrated wine.
Yeshurun (synagogue).
2 unexplained.
Megila for Hester Panim.
Milk and butter, mentioned in the sedra.

Sukkot

OTO V'ET B'NO (from the Torah reading of the first day).
Symbols of the holidays, but the Shofar is Xed out because in Vayikra 23 we find Zichron T'ru'a, which we take to refer to Shabbat RH when we do not blow the Shofar.
The stork is delivering baby cow, goat, and sheep.
Agricultural scene in lower right for reminders of Pe'ah and Leket which are sandwiched between Shavuot and Rosh HaShana.

And that brings us to the B'reishit ParshaPix.
ON and OFF switches are for Light and Dark. Day 1.
Cloud and wave are for the upper and lower waters. Day 2.
The trees on piece of land. Day 3.
Sun, moon, stars. Day 4.
Lady bug, octopus, fish, bird. Day 5.
Beaver, cat, kangaroo, hippo, boy and girl.
Day 6. Shabbat candles.Shabbat.

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 (NITZ·RH·VAYEILECH) TTriddles:
[1] Moshe, Yehoshua, David, Yehu, Baruch, Yirmiyahu, and who?
[2] Dalet, Ayin, Mem - only 3 of 16 (in a 4WS) without what?
[3] Please my tears in their mouths to us
[4] What mood is 6? (backwards 6)
[5] Bottom of the first, they are repeatedly called upon
[6] Opens with important advice for a happy RH
[7] When a piece of myocard replaces the gastrocnemius
[8] Rain on it would produce oil of vitriol

And the envelope, please...
[1] The key word for this TTriddle's solution is VAYICHTOV, and he wrote. Of the 24 times the word occurs in Tanach, it is followed by the name of a person 10 times. The TTriddle narrowed down to these 10 times to produce a list of the "writers" in the Tanach. Moshe's name occurs 4 times, making him the most prolific writer in Tanach. The other names in the TTriddle occur once each, as does the answer to the TTriddle, MORDECHAI. Notable writers not on this list, because their names do not follow the word VAYICHTOV, include G-d, Who wrote the Aseret HaDibrot on the first set of Luchot.
[2] 4WS (four-word sequence) in this TTriddle is LANU ULVANEINU AD OLAM in D'varim 29:28. There are 11 dots written by Sofrim (and printed in Chumashim) above the letters of LANU ULVANEINU and the AYIN of AD. The DALET of AD and the AYIN and MEM (sofit) of OLAM are the only letters of the 16 that don't have dots above them. The VAV of OLAM is a CHOLAM, so it has a dot above it. And the TROP of OLAM is a KATON, which is made of two dots, one above the other (like a colon and a SH'VA), that are above the LAMED of OLAM.
[3] NA (please), DIM'ATI (my tears), B'FIHEM (in their mouths), LANU (to us). B'FIHEM is the one from Parshat Vayeilech. And now, write for yourselves this Song (Torah), and teach it to Bnei Yisrael, SIMA B'FIHEM - place it in their mouths. The word SIMA occurs only four times in Tanach.
[4] In the hard copy of Torah Tidbits, the TTriddle showed a backwards 6, like this: 6. Apologies for the misleading "translation" in the electronic versions. The word SAS, spelled SIN-SIN, looks like a backwards SHEISH, SHIN-SHIN, with the dots on the letters switching from left to right. So the mood of a backward 6 is HAPPY.
[5] Bottom of the first is a baseball term... but not in this TTriddle. Here the term refers to the end of the first pasuk in the Torah - EIT HASHAMAYIM V'EIT HAARETZ, the Heavens and the Earth. They are repeatedly called upon to be witnesses, included in Parshat Nitzavim, with the offering of Choice between Life and Good on the one hand and Death and Evil on the other.
[6] Here's the happy word again, this time SOS. Back in TTriddle [4], it referred to the occurrences in the sedra. Here it focuses on the opening of the haftara of Nitzavim - SOS (with a VAV) ASIS BASHEM... I will rejoice in G-d... Certainly a good formula for a happy New Year, that our rejoicing should always be L'SHEIM SHAMAYIM, in G-d, in Torah, in Mitzvot.
[7] Myocard refers to the heart muscle. Gastrocnemius is the largest muscle in the calf of the leg. If the former were to replace the latter, we would have a TTriddles-type play-on-words situation described in D'varim 29:18 - KI B'SH'RIRUT LIBI EILECH...
[8] This refers to the description of Sedom-like destruction. GOFRIT VAMELACH S'REIFA KOL ARTZA - fire and brimstone (sulfur) has burned all its soil... When sulfur burns, it combines with oxygen to produce sulfur dioxide (and sulfur oxide). If it rains after the above fire and brimstone, when water mixes with sulfur dioxide, the result is sulfuric acid, a.k.a. oil of vitriol.

This week's TTriddles:
[1] The most significant day for Chag
[2] The symbol stands apart from what it represents
[3] Hamantash turnovers
[4] borrowed by 3 of 5 two days earlier
[5] They were 766, 636, 531, 441, 371, 306, 144, and 79; two not yet
[6] Like major, like minor - almost, and one short
[7] plus two elements from the ParshaPix of Haazinu

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