Who knows eighty-one?
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A woman who gives birth to a female brings an olah and a chatas on the 81st day after the birth. |
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There is at least one word that appears exactly once in chumash. |
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Niddah 30b records a gruesome experiment performed by Cleopatra to determine how long it takes an embryo to develop: She took pregnant maidservants who had been sentenced to death, and examined the contents of their wombs. According to the Gemara's second version (in the name of R' Yishmael), she determined that a female embryo is not developed until day 81 (as opposed to a male embryo, which is already developed by day 41). The Sages, however, rejected this conclusion as having been established by fools (אין מביאין ראיה מן השוטים), since the experiment was not adequately controlled. |
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Every book and sub-book of Tanach contains a word with Gematria 81; the most-common word is אנכי. I'd heard some parshanut/drush a while back about how אנכי is the "more complex me" as opposed to אני, "simpler me." Is anyone familiar with this? |
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