Published August 19, 2010
Starting in the upper-left: An Xed out noose. That’s not the hanging that is meant in Ki Teitzei - it is the hanging the body after execution.
Soldier in a tank, represents the many times “army” issues are mentioned in the sedra - The Beautiful Captive, the cleanliness of an army camp, exemption from service for a groom for the first year of marriage…
Warning lights to prevent someone getting injured from a hazard in one’s property - the flip side of MAAKEH
Boot is for CHALITZA and the whole subject of YIBUM
Nest with eggs happens immediately after the fulfillment of Shiluach HaKen.
Couple under the CHUPA stands for several topics related to marriage
Hands taking money out of wallet = different monetary mitzvot in the sedra - not to borrow with interest, to pay a laborer on time, fulfill one’s pledges…
Cluster of grapes on top of a stalk of wheat to represent K’LAI KEREM
Garden shovel is the YATEID, digging tool, that is required of soldiers to have and use for proper hygienic “bathroom”
Toilet is for requirement of having sanitary facilities outside an army camp
String around finger is for the various mitzvot to remember - what happened to Miriam, being in Mitzrayim, Amalek
The grave-marker is for the mitzva to bury our dead, and reasonably quickly
The donkey = many references to either donkey or other animal. The donkey gets lost, he is overburdened, he cannot pull a plow with an ox…
Barbells with different weights on each end represents false weights and measures. Forbidden even to possess
Aardvark and giraffe are tied together. That is a Torah violation of plowing with an ox and a donkey together
Timeclock = paying the worker on time, and also the mitzvot related to workers’ & employers’ rights, as well
Purim grogger stands for ZACHOR and especially wiping out Amalek.
KEY=KI, the word that starts the sedra off and appears 48 times
Apple tree can be for the rules of SHICH’CHA or the location of a nest, or for the rules to allow apple pickers to eat during their breaks
T’filin are not mentioned in Ki Teitzei. Here it refers to the prohibition of a woman’s wearing K’LEI GEVER, men’s apparel - according to Targum Yonatan Ben Uziel
Pawn =“Something given as security for a loan…”, which is in the sedra.
Xed out cat-o-nine-tails. MAKOT, whipping, punishment for many violations, was with a broad leather strip meant to hurt but not cut
Goldfish and a dog = a pair of pets or parapets meaning MAAKEH
Upper-right, murex trunculus from which T’cheilet is made, for G’DILIM TAASEH LACH…
Bubble bath for KETZEF in haftara
Dove with olive branch for MI NO’ACH in haftara.
TAGIM for SHAATNEZ (GETZ)
3 Unexplaineds (hint: Mitzvot)
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