PARSHA-PIX Parshat Vayikra

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Parsha Pix
Pelephone represents G-d calling to Moshe (after the Cloud lifted, Moshe had K'LITA).
Cow, goat, sheep, and dove are all represented.
As is the Mizbei'ach for the Korbanot
Salt shaker is for salting all korbanot
Hand with pinky sticking up and thumb pointing out is the Kohen's K'MITZA.
In his palm, within the curl of the three middle fingers is the quantity of the Mincha dough that was burned on the Mizbei'ach, and the amount of L'VONA that was added to the Mincha.
Kidney is referred to several times in the sedra.
Flour and oil are the main ingredients of Minachot and the frying pan and oven are two methods of preparing the Mincha.
Upper right is branch of the Boswellia Thurifera tree, from whose resin comes L'VONA.

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 (V-P - HaChodesh) TTriddles:
[1] Shabbat new YK - unhooked
B'CHOL MOSH'VOTEICHEM, in all the places you dwell, appears 10 times in Tanach. Only once, in Yechezkeil, it is spelled with two VAVs, one after the MEM and one after the VET. The other 9 times are all in Chumash. Six of them are spelled with a VAV after the MEM but not after the VET. Three times, the word is spelled with no VAVs - unhooked, we can say (VAV means hook). The contexts for those three unhooked B'CHOL MOSH'VOTEICHEM are: Shabbat, Chadash (new grain), and Yom Kippur.
[2] Bent Ellipses vs. Lying Colons Final Score: 33-8
No, not a sports game between two weirdly named teams. But rather a count of the words ET (ES) and EIT (EIS, sounds like ace) in the beginning of Vayakhel. Sh'mot 35:11-19, to be specific. There are 14 ETs (SEGOL under the ALEF) and another 19 V'ETs, for a total of 33 for the ET team. There are two EITs and six more V'EITs,for a total of 8 for the EIT team (8, EIT, appropriate). And the team names? An ellipsis is the symbol made of three dots (periods, full stops) in a row, like this, [...]. A bent ellipsis could be the Hebrew vowel SEGOL. Just bend the ellipsis between the second and third dot, forcing the third dot between and below the first two. Voila - a SEGOL. ET or ES. And if you take a colon [:] and lie it down, you get a TZEIREI, the vowel for EIT or EIS. BTW, overall count for Tanach is ET: 6717, V'ET: 1793, for a total of 8510. EIT: 604, V'EIT:434, for a total of 1038.
[3] Where we did it again in Yehoshua
Moshe gathered (VAYAKEL MOSHE) all the congregation of Bnei Yisrael... KOL ADAT BNEI YISRAEL. So did Yehoshua gather the people (same phrasing). Where? SHILO.
[4] At first glance, it looks like someone got his holidays mixed up. Who?
In the haftara for Parshat HaChodesh, Yechezkeil 45:21 to be specific, we find the following: In the first (month), on the 14th day of the month, you shall have the (Korban) Pesach, (followed by) a feast of seven days, matzot shall be eaten. A feast of seven days is CHAG SH'VUOT YAMIM. On first glance, it looks like Pesach,Shavuot, matza - like someone got his holidays mixed up. Who? Yechezkeil.
[5] The Mazal (Zodiac) TTriddle
H(S)M and BDF identified the computer card correctly as Random Access Memory or RAM for short, as in Ram or Aries, the Mazal of Nissan. ZR went for Pascal as in the computer language as a sound alike for Paschal Lamb, as in Korban Pesach (and not its Christian meaning), as read in the Maftir for Shabbat HaChodesh and asa symbol of the month of Nissan. ZR thought the computer language was represented by the computer card. Not intended, but ties in very well.

NachKwestion of the Week
Find 5 consecutive words in davening, four of which are names of G-d. (submitted by EB)
First answer, which several solvers have already submitted, is from the beginning of the Amida - (BARUCH ATA) HASHEM ELOKEINU VEILOKEI AVOTEINU, ELOKEI... That's four of five consecutive words that are names of G-d.
Some solvers left it at that. Others went beyond. What follows are solutions from different solvers. Many overlapped. Some solutions are more solid that others, but that’s the way TTriddles are.
HC, who did nicely with the TTriddles, felt that nicknames of G-d were included in the Kwestion and submitted many answers using them. Good try, but names of G-d refers to the main names that are forbidden to erase. Not to KINUYIM, terms that refer to G-d.
Shir shel HaYom for Monday, Yom Sheini. ...b’ir HASHEM TZ’VAKOT B’IR ELOKEINU, ELOKIM y’cho-n’neha ad olam, sela.
Daily P’sukei D’zimra, HODU: ...baruch ELOKIM. KEIL N’KAMOT HASHEM, KEIL n’kamot hofi’a. It spans two p’sukim, but it completely comforms with the wording of the NachKwestion.
Here’s one from several solvers: At N’ILA, we say HASHEM HU HA-ELOKIM seven times. So bridging the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd times (so to 2,3,4; 3,4,5; 4,5,6; and 5,6,7) we say: ...HA-ELOKIM. HASHEM HU HA-ELOKIM. HASHEM... Five consecutive words, four of which are G-d’s names.
Here too is one popular submission. Do we accept it as an answer? Maybe. Chazan at the end of Sh’ma says: ani HASHEM ELOKEICHEM EMET and repeats HASHEM ELOKEICHEM EMET.
ZR adds one from what is said at a BRIT. Is this davening? Don’t know. Father of the baby and gathered family and friends say: sh’ma yisrael, HASHEM ELOKEINU, HASHEM ECHAD, followed by HASHEM melech... If we count it as davening, then it fits.
One more for now. In the short passage towards the end of P’sukei D’zimra, BARUCH HASHEM L’OLAM, AMEN V’AMEN, we say the last word(s) of the second pasuk - HALLELUYA, followed by BARUCH HASHEM ELOKIM, ELOKEI yisrael... If HALLELUYA is one single word, then this doesn’t qualify, but if we were to say it as it is written in a T’HILIM scroll (and some Tanachs and Siddurim) as two separate words: HALLU KAH, then this becomes another acceptable solution.
AG called in a few new answers. First, the easy one (which someone else had gotten too). In MODIM D’RABBANAN, we say: modim anachnu lach, sha-ata hu HASHEM ELOKEINU VEI-LOKEI AVOTEINU, ELOKEI chol basar...
In Slichot, the passage Sh’ma Koleinu ends with ATA TAANEH HASHEM ELOKEINU. It is followed immediately by the introductory words to VIDUI, which are ELOKEINU VEILOKEI AVOTEINU. Here we have four consecutive words all of which are names of G-d (first time we found that), so to fit the Kwestion, we can add the TAANEH at the beginning or the AVOTEINU at the end. Either produces a correct solution.
Now watch this one. In Musaf of Rosh HaShana, we say the pasuk SH’MA YISRAEL HASHEM ELOKEINU HASHEM ECHAD followed by ELOKEINU VEILOKEI... That’s 5 of 6 words (which is two ways of 4 of 5).
TTreaders are invited to submit more solutions...

This week's TTriddles:
[1] Double, 3 times in Yeshayahu and nowhere else; one of which we read this Shabbat
[2] That's what the M'chabeir says
[3] Ashkenazic pronunciation could describe it or its accompaniment
[4] One (51.7%), two (30.1%) three (18.1%)
[5] Preceded and followed by the likes of Queen Elizabeth, Susan Taragin and Menachem Persoff
[6] Warp
[7] Rambling with Gambling

NachKwestion of the Week:
If you think of this bracha, you have to say it; otherwise you don’t. (submitted by Shmaya)

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