PARSHA-PIX Nitzavim-Vayeilech

Click on image for enlargement

Parsha Pix
The family in the upper-left represents the beginning of Nitzavim that describes all who are standing today before G-d. Included are men, women, and children, and all types of people, including the woodcutter (George Washington, as in the cherry tree) and the water-drawers (Jack & Jill, or is it water fetchers?).
The family also stands for those who were to participate in HAK-HEL - men, women, and children. HAK-HEL is also represented by the crowned Torah-reader - the king, and by the Torah in the Sukka, in the lower-right.
The feather writing letters is for the mitzva to write a Sefer Torah. That mitzva is also represented by the open gemara.
The Xed out moon, planets, and stars is LO BASHAMAYIM HI.
The acid rain symbol is for the description of the punishment for turning away from G-d.
The Megila is for the hidden "clue" to Esther in the Torah - HESTEIR PANIM.
The questioned road signs is the choice of choosing Life or Death, Good or Evil.
The plant growing a Tzedaka box is from the haftara, referring to G-d, YATZMI'ACH TZEDAKA.
The Chatan and Kallah under the Chupa is also from the haftara.
And the chemical expression is sulfur and salt burning...

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 (KI TAVO) TTriddles:
[1] Chester would qualify for both
Chester is a city in England, the seat of Cheshire county, south of Liverpool, on the River Dee. Chester is also an industrial suburb of Philadelphia, in south- east Pennsylvania. It's on the Delaware River (sort of a River D, too. The latter was named for the former. Being cities, Chester represents, in TTriddle terms, BARCH ATA BA'IR. Being the first half of the name Chesterfield, it qualifies for BARUCH ATA BASADEH too. Chesterfield is also a city in England, Idaho, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, New York, South Carolina, a township in New Jersey, a county in Virginia, and neighborhood in West Valley City, Utah,as well as being a single- or double- breasted overcoat, usually with concealed buttons and a velvet collar. And an overstuffed davenport with upright armrests, and an unmentionable item that misguided individuals smoke. Now you know.
[2] A day, A month, All Mitzvot
SHAMOR (with and without the CHOLOM) occurs only 5 times in Tanach - all in the book of D'varim. (This does not include the more common SH'MOR.) Three times, it is all the mitzvot that we are commanded to "guard" or "preserve". Once it is the Shabbat day, and once it is the month of AVIV, the spring, i.e. Nissan.
[3] Connected to all three legs
The mitzva of bringing Bikurim (beginning of Ki Tavo) is connected to each of the SHALOSH REGALIM, the three "legs". Shavuot is the beginning of Bikurim season, so to speak. Bikurim brought until Sukkot is accompanied by the recitation of the Bikurim declaration. And the declaration was borrowed by the editors of the Pesach Hagada, from which we know it well.
[4] Repeated several hours later
Our answer for this is the verse quoted in the introductory mishna to each chapter of Pirkei Avot. All Israel has a share in the World to Come... as it says (in Yeshayahu 60): V'AMEICH KULAM TZADIKIM. The pasuk is found in the haftara of Ki Tavo and we repeat it several hours later when we say/learn Pirkei Avot. HC got that answer (and others) and added another answer to this TTriddle. He correctly observes that the phrase ET KOL DIVREI HATORAH HAZOT appears seven times in Tanach - all in the book of D'varim. Three times in Ki Tavo and once in the Shabbat afternoon (and Monday and Thursday) reading for Nitzavim. So we repeated it several hours later.
TTriddles prize awarded to HC this week (and many others in the past) for his solutions and additions to some of the TTriddles.

NachKwestion of the Week
Alef-Bets in Tanach and near Alef-Bets
To revisit this old (not that only) NachKestion of a few weeks ago, two TTreaders found another near Alef-Bet in Tanach that we did not include in the report a couple of weeks ago. T'hilim perek 37 is the most erratic of the alphabetical chapters. There are 40 p'sukim in the chapter. The first begins with L'DAVID - to David...then continues AL TITCHAR BAM'REI'IM... There's the ALEF - AL. The initial letters of the following verses follow the ALEF-BET: 3, 5, 7, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 21, 23, 25, 27, no AYIN pasuk, 30, 32, 34, 35, 37, and no TAV pasuk. Pasuk 39 comes close. Anyway, thank you to our astute TTreaders for this addition.

This week's TTriddles:
[1] Big split; this not
[2] Placed before us, in hand of Tongue
[3] indivisibility jibing with it
[4] Beis Midrash Govoah
[5] It might have been at the top anyway

[The Parshat Nitzavim-Vayeilech Homepage]
[The TORAH tidbits Homepage] [How to use TORAH tidbits]
[About The OU/NCSY Israel Center] [About TORAH tidbits]
 [www.ou.org]