PARSHA-PIX Parshat B'shalach

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

Last issue’s (BO) TTriddles:
[1] How old is Moshav Eiver-Peleg?
The Torah tells us that the MOSHAV of Bnei Yisrael in Egypt was 430 years. (Actually, the people were in Egypt for 210 years; the 430 is counted from the prophecy of enslavement at the Brit Bein HaB'tarim.) The other occurrence in the Torah of 430 years is the number of years after PELEG was born, that his father EIVER lives. Hence, Moshav Eiver-Peleg is 430 years old.
[2] With a LAMED it definitely doesn't move with a PEI
Let's start with an uncommon word in the Torah - CHIPAZON. It is an important word for Y'tzi'at Mitzrayim, in particular, and GEULA, in general. The word occurs in Tanach only three times, each time as B'CHIPAZON - with haste. In Parshat Bo, the people in Mitzrayim were commanded to eat their Korban Pesach B'CHIPAZON, because they were to leave Egypt at a moment's notice. At the end of R'EI, the word is applied to the speed (haste) with which we left Egypt, and is associated with the quick baking matza (in contrast to the slow process of making bread). Also, in contrast to the speed of the Exodus from Egypt, Yeshayahu tells us that the ultimate Geula will not come hastily. If you replace the PEI in CHIPAZON with a LAMED, you get CHILAZON, snail, wihich definitely does not move B'CHIPAZON.
[3] 2 words - same letters, different vowels - one involves vertical motion, the other involves horizontal motion
There is a more elegant way this TTriddle could have been posed: Take a word from the sedra which represents vertical motion. Move one dot from one place to the other and change the motion into horizontal. Either way, here's the answer. Moshe was told to raise his hand (other times, his staff), the command word is N'TEI, NUN-TET-HEI, with a SH'VA under the NUN and a TZEIREI under the TET. Move one dot of the SH'VA and put it under the two dots of the TZEIREI and you get NITEH, NUN/CHIRIK and TET/SEGOL. That word appears in Bamidbar when Bnei Yisrael say they will pass through the territory of Edom and Emori and stay on the main road - veering neither to the right nor the left.
[4] all the daveners at 565 Broadway 07055
This time it was people from Pasaic New Jersey - or people who know people in Pasaic - that had the advantage in solving this TTriddle. Located at 565 Broadway in Pasaic is one of several shuls named ADATH ISRAEL (or ADAS YISRAEL, ADAT YISRAEL). The daveners of that shul are K'HAL ADAT YISRAEL. All of them make up KOL K'HAL ADAT YISRAEL, a phrase that occurs only twice in Tanach - in Parshat Bo, concerning who is commanded to participate in Korban Pesach, and in Bamidbar, in the description of the Sin of the Spies.
[5] HIS BROTHERS ATE A LOT OF MATZA - WHATWHAT?
WHATWHAT is the main clue. In Hebrew, MAH-MAH. Which is the root of the words L'HITMAHMEI'AH from Parshat Bo, referring to the fact that the Exodus was so fast that the Jews could not linger to prpare bread and other provision... In B'reishit, it is Yosef's brothers who say they cannot linger, but must return to Egypt with Binyamin... Ironic, no? And also in B'reishit, Lot did linger, even though he was told to flee S'dom quickly. So these three occurrences of the MAHMAH (whatwhat) words are HIS BROTHERS, LOT (which is why the whole TTriddle is in uppercase, to allow the word LOT to sneak by unnoticed, and MATZA.
[6] The guy from Maon and Moshe - that's it people-wise
He're what a full-credit solution to a TTriddle looks like. It is from Ace TTriddler HC: There are only two people in Tanach who are called ISH GADOL M'OD (a very great man). One of them is MOSHE RABEINU, who is referred to this week as being great in Egypt in the eyes of Par'o's servants and the people. The second man is the "guy from Maon", a.k.a. NAVAL, the husband of AVIGAYIL. The phrase GADOL M'OD is mentioned four more times in Tanach, but only the above two are regarding people.
[7] AB=Him; BA=us
A and B represent two words, specifically, HASHEM and Z'VA-OT respectively. In that order, AB, they refer to Him. But TZIVOT HASHEM, that is, BA, refers to us, Bnei Yisrael. By the way, in the AB arrangement, the words appear 246 times in Tanach (none in Torah), and are two of the "Names of G-d that are not to be erased". The BA arrangement occurs only once, in Parshat Bo, in describing Bnei Yiosrael who are leaving Mitzrayim after 430 years. The term is also found in Chabad literature.

This week's TTriddles:
[1] aside from 5 2s, there are 4 5s, a 3, and another 2
[2] only twice in Tanach - this week's sedra and haftara
[3] Had he been Jewish, where might Sisra's funeral have been?
[4] They are in the coccyx position
[5] baked bean curd - when?
[6] Bob Dylan’s featured number from Bringing it All Back Home (f)
[7] The Ramon Jose Trilogy
[8] twice in the AM, once in the PM
[9] Yosef was Yocheved’s alter ego?

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