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Who knows one hundred?

Please cite/link your sources, if possible. At some point in the future, subject to holiday and user activity delay, I will:

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  • Accept the best answer.

  • Go on to the next number.

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Revision: It looks like we're probably not going to make it to 100, but the bonus points are still on the table. Any ideas for how I should award them? – Isaac Moses Oct 6 '10 at 14:22
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Maybe let them be autoawarded. I suspect there are many more Jewish hundreds no one's thinking of. – msh210♦ Oct 6 '10 at 14:43
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Yeah! If we can't reach 100, we don't deserve 100 points![/drill sergeant voice] – msh210♦ Oct 6 '10 at 19:03
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If we don't make it to 100, I'll award this one to the best answer from whoever contributed the most relevant answers. – Isaac Moses Oct 7 '10 at 17:30
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$100 is the threshold value a Rabbi of mine suggested for determining whether a new garment deserves a "Shehecheyanu".

(Interestingly, he suggested the same threshold over many years, apparently not taking inflation into consideration. Perhaps the psychological value of that round number retains significance across inflation.)

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Im not sure what your looking for

יודעי = 100

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In general, any Jewish facts about the number in question. – Isaac Moses Oct 4 '10 at 3:20
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100 cc is a k'betza according to the Chazon Ish, IINM. (As always, CYLOR.)

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100 is the number of people Elisha fed with a small amount of food (M'lachim II 4:43). (I haven't checked the commentaries, so it could be that this is an example of the hyperbole mentioned above, but I doubt it. Note that Rabbi Aron Tendler seems to say it really means 100.)

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Also the Gemara seems to assume that it's literal, because it uses this to calculate that Elisha had 2200 full-time students (Kesubos 106a). – Alex Oct 7 '10 at 20:16
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The area, on top of the exterior altar, where the kohanim would walk was 262−242=100 square amos (cubits). Source: mishnayos Midos chapter 3.

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The Medrash Rabba in Parshas Mishpatim mentions that Kayin had 100 children.

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100 is the gimatriya of לכן and of מדה במדה. Source: Baal Haturim, start of Pin'chas.

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Ok, 100, here we go!

  1. The Heichal of the second Beish Hamikdash was 100 amos tall. -msh210
  2. ..and 100 amos long.
  3. ..and 100 amos wide.
  4. Brochos to say each day -JeremyR
  5. 100 times ש״ם is written in Tehillim. -Yahu
  6. 100 amos2 where the Kohanim walked on top of the exterior altar. -msh210
  7. 100 children of Kayin. -Gershon Gold
  8. 100 people that Elish fed miraculously. -msh210
  9. 100 cc's in the Chazon Ish's K'beitzah -msh210
  10. Shem was 100 years old when his son Arpachshad was born. -msh210
  11. 100 prophets that OVadya hid from Izevel. -msh210
  12. 100 is the number used for large examples in Rabbinic literature. -msh210
  13. 100 amos that water must travel underground before it's considered a spring when it comes back up. -msh210
  14. 100 amos tall was Adam. -msh210
  15. 100 amos around a grave that there might still be body parts. -msh210
  16. 100 amos is how far the carob tree moved. -msh210
  17. 100 זוז in a woman's second marriage kesubah. -Gershon Gold
  18. 100 walk-amos is the duration of a light sleep. -Isaac Moses
  19. 100 Shofar blasts on Rosh Hashana. -Isaac Moses
  20. 100 species of impure birds in the east. -Isaac Moses
  21. 100 is how much Yaakov paid for real-estate near Sh'chem. -msh210
  22. 100 years will still be young at death says Yechezkel HaNavi. -msh210
  23. 100 years old when Sarah still looked like 20. -msh210
  24. 100 zuz wants another 100 zuz. -Isaac Moses
  25. 100 silver that a מוציא שם רע pays. -Yahu
  26. 100 times that "שמים" is written in Torah. -Yahu
  27. Torah learning is 100 times more valuable in difficult circumstances. -Isaac Moses
  28. 100 times that you must have said Mashiv Haruach, before you can assume that you say the right one without thinking. -ArghMo
  29. Heter 100 Rabbis. -ArghMo
  30. 100 silver sockets for the Mishkan. -YDK
  31. 100 answers for the missing miracle question. -Isaac Moses Meah Shearim. -Yahu
  32. The cross-sectional area of the Mishkan (viewed from the East or West) was 100 square cubits (10x10). -Isaac Moses

  33. 100 times the chullin must outnumber the terumah to be able to use the mixture. -Dave

  34. 100 years old was Avraham when Yitzchak was born. -jutky

  35. 100 Rabbis from R' Moshe Feinstein's home town. -Alex
  36. 100 amos was the length of the Mishkan's courtyard. -Dave
  37. 100 zuz in a maneh. -Shalom
  38. 100 times the word בנימן is in Tanach. -Shalom
  39. 100 times the word האחד is in Tanach. -Shalom
  40. 100 reviews which is incomparable to 101 reviews (Chagiga 9b) -HodofHod because..
  41. 100 reviews is what was common in Talmudic times (brought in Tanya Ch. 15) -HodofHod
  42. 100 zuz is the value of virginity at the time of marriage.
  43. 100 clusters of raisins that Tziva brought to Dovid. (2 Shmuel 16) -HodofHod
  44. 100 summer fruits that Tziva brought to Dovid. (ibid.) -HodofHod
  45. "The city that went forth a thousand shall have a hundred left" (Amos 5:3) -HodofHod
  46. "And five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand". (Vayikra 26:8). -HodofHod
  47. בן מאה שנים כאילו עבר ובטל מן העולם. -Dave
  48. אַרְתַּחְשַׁסְתְּא guaranteed Ezra 100 talents of silver.
  49. ..and 100 measures of wheat.
  50. ..and 100 baths of wine.
  51. ..and 100 baths of oil. (Ezra 7:22) -HodofHod
  52. "A rebuke entereth deeper into a man of understanding than a hundred stripes into a fool." (Mishlei 17:10) -HodofHod
  53. 100 amos was the length of King Solomon's house. (1 Kings 7:2) -HodofHod
  54. 100 sheep that King Solomon's court went through, a day! (1 Kings 5:3) -HodofHod
  55. 100 bullocks that were sacrifice when the 2nd Beis Hamikdash was completed. (Ezra 6:16) -HodofHod
  56. 100 talents of silver the Ammon gave to King יוֹתָם. (Chronicles 1 27:5) -HodofHod
  57. 100 chariots that Dovid reserved from what he took from הֲדַדְעֶזֶר מֶלֶךְ-צוֹבָה . (Chronicles 1 18:4) -HodofHod

  58. פַרְעֹה נְכֹה fined Israel 100 talents of silver during the reign of יְהוֹאָחָז. (Kings 2 23:33) -HodofHod

    Gematria of:

  59. "לכן" -msh210
  60. "מדה במדה" -msh210
  61. "מדון" -msh210
  62. "לך לך" -Gershon Gold
  63. "מודים" -Gershon Gold
  64. "המלכה" -Gershon Gold
  65. "כף" -Gershon Gold
  66. "פך" -Gershon Gold
  67. "על"
  68. "סם"
  69. "ימים"
  70. "כלים"
  71. "בן חיל"
  72. "יהועדה"
  73. "ימלך"
  74. "סכך"
  75. "מס"
  76. "ממך"
  77. "מיכל"
  78. "מלכי"
  79. "סלי"
  80. "מכם"
  81. "עודך"
  82. "המימה"
  83. "מימי"
  84. "נלך"
  85. "ילין"
  86. "טמאים"
  87. "יגאלנו"
  88. "ובחסדך"
  89. "ויחלמו"
  90. "גביעיה"
  91. "ייסך"
  92. "מני"
  93. "בלחמך"
  94. "ליני"
  95. "כלכל"
  96. "חצב"
  97. "וילדים"
  98. "יפי"
  99. "בכוכבים"
  100. Answers in this answer.

(Ok, I know the gematrias got a little out there, but you try coming up with 50 other references for 100!)

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100 is a number used as an example of a very large number in rabbinic Hebrew, as in Rashi to D'varim 15:10 and as in "דוחה מאה תוכחות".‎

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Isn't the "100" in that Rashi coming out of the Midrash, rather than the Torah? – Isaac Moses Oct 7 '10 at 17:06
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We find it used in Biblical Hebrew too - in Eccles. 6:3, "אם יוליד איש מאה". – Alex Oct 7 '10 at 18:47
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100 is the g'matriya of "מדון" (Rashi, Sanhedrin 7a).

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