PARSHA-PIX Parshat Chayei Sara

Parsha Pix
400 silver pieces that Avraham handed over to EFRON (pencil = IPARON, heteronym of EFRON).
V’LIVKOTAH is written with a small KAF - 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. (B'ruch HaShem, by Lavan.)
Dakva’s scene of Rivka at the well (spring).
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.
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.
The arrow is from CHAVILA to SHOR.
The badge is Agent 99's of Control. She was a SOCHENET, a term describing Avishag in the haftara.

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] Old sailor, Philistine, TT’s uncle
One of the nicknames for an old sailor is SALT. As in NETZIV MELACH, a pillar of salt, into which Lot's wife turned. BTW, although in the Torah she is known only as Lot's wife, there are Midrashim that name her. In different texts, she is called IDIT (Edith) and IRIS (Iris). Who wrote, "Don't look back, Mrs. Lot?" (Ans. Ephraim Kishon.) Anyway, besides NETZIV MELACH, the word NETZIV occurs elsewhere in Tanach with the meaning of officer or garrison, as in NETZIV P'LISHTIM (Philistines). TT in this TTriddle does not stand for Torah Tidbits (nor Rex Stout's Tingley's Tidbits - the best Liver Pate No. 3, from a Nero Wolff short story, The Bitter End - thank you Shmuel M.), but TT stands for Torah Temima, the excellent work on Chumash that correlates the Oral Torah with the Written, by R' Baruch HaLevi Epstein. The Torah Temima's father is the Aruch HaShulchan, R' Yechiel Michel HaLevi Epstein, and his uncle is R' Naftali Tzvi Yehuda Berlin, known by the acronym NETZIV. The answer of this TTriddle: NETZIV.

[2] Royal dreamers of the night
The word CHALOM, dream, occurs many times in Tanach (in various grammatical forms), but the term BACHALOM HALAILA, in the dream of the night, occurs only three times (once without a VAV in BACHALOM and twice with). The two royal night dreamers are AVIMELECH from Parshat Vayeira, when he received a warning from G-d not to touch Sara and to return her to Avraham, and [L] Shlomo HaMelech in Giv'on, was spoken to by G-d in a night- dream and asked what he wanted. Young Shlomo acknowledged G-d's kindness to his father David, and asked for, what we can called, the sensitivity and intelligence to be able distinguish between good and evil, right and wrong, and to judge the people well. G-d was pleased (so to speak) with what Shlomo asked for, and that that he did not ask for long life or wealth or dominance over his enemies. He granted him, not only unparalleled wisdom, but also the things that he had not asked for - wealth, honor, etc.

[3] testifies to its high fat content
One of the foods that Avraham served his guests was CHEM'A. In modern Hebrew, the word is used for butter. As we saw in last week's Portion of the Portion, there are different opinions as to the meaning of the Biblical word CHEM'A, which included curds (cottage cheese?) and the cream skimmed from the top of milk (butter fat). Whatever CHEM'A was, what testifies to its high fat content is the Aramaic word for CHEM'A, as found in Targum Onkeles - SH'MAN, from the root word that means FAT.

This week's TTriddles:
[1] Congratulations to Pippin III and Bertrada of Laon on their marriage
[2] High School reunion for alumni of the Mesivta of Zanesville This Motza'ei Shabbat Not to take place at the Israel Center, Jerusalem Ir Kodsheinu
[3] Namesakes, 10 gen. apart, they each had 4. What?
[4] In the B’reishit Man race, he beat him 9-8. Who? Whom?
[5] Biblical counterparts of Marion Jones and Lauryn Williams, one aspect
[6] The singer’s nephew is a sharp, questioning Oriental
[7] What do Tzivia’s son and Shlomo’s mother have in common?
[8] Sounds like heavy

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