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In the second בית המקדש, the היכל building (including the אולם) was 100 אמות tall by 100 אמות long by (at its widest point) 100 אמות wide. (Does that count as three on the list?) (Source: mishnayos Midos.) |
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One HUNdred are the ZUZ in A man-EH. (Fits the beat.) The Gemara points out the Hebrew word for widow, "almanah", sounds a lot like the "maneh" she receives for her ketubah. Gen. 42:13
The words בנימן and האחד appear 100 times (each) in Tanach. |
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It was said by a play on words that R' Moshe Feinstein's native city, Starobin, had "one hundred rabbis" (in Russian, "sta rabin") - in other words, one hundred laymen (baalei batim) who were fully knowledgeable enough that they could have served as community rabbis elsewhere. |
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לא דומה הלומד 101 פעמים ללומד 100 פעמים it was the age of Avraham when Itshak was born. |
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If terumah fell into chullin, the mixture is prohibited as terumah unless the chullin is 100 times the amount of terumah (in which case the terumah is nullified). -- Terumos 4:7 |
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The cross-sectional area of the Mishkan (viewed from the East or West) was 100 square cubits (10x10). |
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Meyah Shearim is where I would like to be right now (at a Simchas Beis HaSho'eivah!) |
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There's a target of saying 100 blessings every day. http://www.avakesh.com/2010/07/a-hundred-brochos-a-day.html |
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In Sefer Ner Lemeah R' Yerachmiel Zeltzer collected 100 answers (IY"H by us) to the following question:
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100 silver sockets for the mishkan: 40 on the north 40 on the south 16 on the west 4 under the paroches (Parashas Trumah 26:19-25) |
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One hundred walk-amot is the duration of a light sleep, according to Rami bar Yechezkel (Sukka 26a). We blow the shofar 100 times on Rosh Hashana. According to Isi ben Yehudah, "There are 100 species of Tamei birds in the east, they are all species of 'Ayah.'" (Chulin 63a) |
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Heter Me'ah Rabbanim - If a woman refuses to accept a Get, an allowance from 100 rabbis may allow her husband to remarry anyway. |
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What to do if you're not sure if you remembered to say Mashiv Haruach U'morid Ha'geshem in sh'moneh esrei? If you've already said it 100 times, (some say only 90), we assume that you remembered to say it and you do not repeat sh'moneh esrei. |
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Difficult circumstances increase the value of Torah learning by at least 100x.
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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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100 zuz is how much more money a person wants when he already has 100 zuz.
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100 is how old Sara was (in years) when she was like a twenty-year-old for beauty (or sinlessness, depending on your version of the Midrash Raba). |
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100 is how old (in years) one will die who will be said to have died young (Isaiah 65:20). |
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Lech Lcha = 100 Modim = 100 Hamalka = 100 Kaf = 100 Pach = 100 Also a Kesuba for a previously married woman is 100 Zuz. |
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100 is the distance (in amos (cubits)) a carob tree moved, in a famous story recorded in Bavli, Bava M'tzia 59b. |
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100 is apparently the distance (in amos (cubits)) around a grave where one might assume he will find a piece of a corpse in the ground. |
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Some blogger quotes the Ben Ish Chay as saying that Adam was 100 amos (cubits) tall — but I have no other source for that, myself. |
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A paper, a different version of which was apparently published in the J. Hal. Contemp. Soc., quotes the Tzemach Tzedek (Lubavitch, not Nikolsburg) as saying that 100 amos (cubits) is the distance water must travel underground before it comes up again to be considered a spring. |
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