PARSHA-PIX Parshat Ha'azinu

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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).
Megila for Hester Panim.
Milk and butter, mentioned in the sedra.
TNUVA symbols (plural) makes T'NUVOT, as in the sedra
YO-YO, a.k.a. a returning top, represents T'shuva, return to G-d. Particularly appropriate is the fact that a Yo-Yo returns often, not just once. A sinner can repent, back-slide, and repent again. This is the greatness of the Divine gift to us called T'shuva. It is a second chance from G-d. And a third chance. And a fourth...

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 (Rosh HaShana) TTriddles:
[1] Mine between 400 and 20
A bumper crop of an even dozen TTriddles - 11 numbered and presented as such, and the Mazal TTriddle. Two of the TTriddles are mathematical and most of the others are of the same style, as you will see.
Mine in Hebrew is SHELI. Take the letters of that word - SHIN-LAMED-YUD and put them between a TAV (numeric value of 400) and a CHAF (SOFIT, value of 20) and you get the Rosh HaShana-related word TASHLICH. That's all there is to it. (To most of them, that is; some are a bit more "involved".)
[2] Eye the Briefcase confusedly
Eye is AYIN, which is also a letter of the ALEF-BET. The briefcase is HATIK, HEI-TAV-YUD-KUF. Confusedly tells you that the letters are mixed up, so you must unscramble these five letters and rearrange them to spell T'KI'A.
[3] A mixed up reminder of the "70 faces"
Here's another: SHIV'IM PANIM LATORA, 70 faces of the Torah. 70 is AYIN. Torah is TAV-VAV-REISH-HEI. Scramble the letters and you get T'RU'A. But, we're not finished yet with this one. REMINDER is ZICHRON, giving us ZICHRON T'RU'A as the complete answer.
[4] Related to a half and a third in different ways
This one's different. The answer is SH'VARIM, which is not only one of the Shofar-sounds, but it also means "fractions", making one way that it is related to a half and a third. In addition, SH'VARIM is a third of the three types of sounds, the other two being T'KI'A and T'RU'A. It's also half of the famous combination SH'VARIM-T'RU'A, sometimes in the same breath with its partner and sometimes just a half-breath before it.
[5] The letter HEI
Borrowed from an old Games Magazine Cryptic Crossword puzzle type of clue, the letter HEI is ROSH (the first letter) HASHANA (of the word HASHANA).
[6] Make 32 from 5,7,6,7
Here's one of the two mathematical TTriddles. Take the numbers 5,7,6, and 7 - in that order, use whatever mathematical symbols you want, and produce an expression that is equal to 32. For example, 5x7+6-7=34. Which is not the sought after solution, since we're looking for 32. But -5x7 will give you -35 which when added to 67 will give you 32. Answer: -5x7+67. More later.
[7] The woman in the mixed eagle
Here's another of the first type. The woman is HA-ISHA, HEI-ALEF-SHIN-HEI. An eagle is NESHER, NUN-SHIN-REISH. Mix up all the letters and you get SHISHA HENRA, which doesn't mean anything, or ROSH HASHANA, which is the correct solution.
[8] Cross an invalid source with a different kind of instrument and get the real things
Among the invalid sources of Shofars is the horn of any member of the cow family, including a SHOR, SHIN-VAV-REISH. A different kind of instrument is a drum, TF, TAV-VAV-PEI. Cross an ox with a drum (in Hebrew), mix up the letters and get SHOFAROT, as in the third of the theme-brachot of the Musaf Amida.
[9] stir a quantity for me
Hope you're having fun with these. A quantity, in Hebrew, is KAMUT, KAF-MEM-VAV-TAV. For me is LI, LAMED-YUD. Stir them, another hint-word for anagramming (scrambling the letters), and you get MALCHIYOT, the first of the theme-brachot.
[10] 57-6x7 = 15 • .5x7x6/7 = 3 Now you get 128 two different ways
This is the one that gave two sample mathematical expressions so you would get the idea of what is being asked for. For 128, you must get a little creative. 5! means 5-factorial, which means 5x4x3x2x1, which is 120. (The Factorial of a number (positive whole numbers only) is the product of all the whole numbers from 1 tothat number; ! - exclamation point - is the symbol for factorial.) 5! + 7 - 6 + 7 = 128. Here's another way to get 128. (5+7), which is 12, divided by 6 is 2. 2 raised to the 7th power is 128. [(5+7)/6]^7.
[11] The 7 disordered violins of Rosh Hashana
And here is one more of those Jumble types. This one will make a full set of Rosh HaShana themes. Seven is the letter ZAYIN. Violins are KINOROT. Put them together and "disorder" the letters and you get ZICHRONOT.
Which only leaves us with the Mazal-Zodiac TTriddle. The opera-lovers among Torah Tidbits readers no doubt recognized the famous Milan opera house built in 1776 (when other things were going on in the United States). La Scala. And, no doubt, the opera-lovers among TTreaders with a passing knowledge of Italian recognized immediately that La Scala means the Scale, as in the Zodiac symbol for Tishrei - MOZNAYIM, a.k.a. LIBRA, after the constellation with the same name.

This week's TTriddles:
[1] textual Haazinu - Yom Kippur link, 1-3
[2] Using 5,7,6,7 in that order, and math symbols, form expressions equal to the numbers 0-10
[3] his 2,3,4,5,8,10
[4] Then Jonah was confused
[5] Butter sandwiches and a glass of milk. Mid-morning snack in school. Who's food?
[6] found before; read after
[7] The lonely and big one
[8] pennies are the best substitute for chickens

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