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Who knows one hundred fifty?

Please cite/link your sources, if possible. At some point at least twenty-four hours from now, I will:

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  • Go on to the next number.

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150 perakim in Tehillim

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150 years after the destruction of the second Beis Hamikdash (in the year 530 Seleucid Era = 3979 since Creation), Rav left Eretz Yisrael and returned to his native Babylonia, marking a new era in the study and dissemination of Torah there. (Iggeres R' Sherira Gaon)

According to R' Yehudah Halevi (Kuzari 3:67), this is also the year in which R' Yehudah Hanassi (Rabbeinu Hakadosh) completed the composition of the Mishnah.

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Parashas Noach 7:24-

וַיִּגְבְּרוּ הַמַּיִם עַל-הָאָרֶץ חֲמִשִּׁים וּמְאַת יוֹם

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Ways that the student was able to prove that a sheretz is tahor (eiruvin 13b)

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"ויבן עזיהו מגדלים...‏"

(Now I have the tune stuck in my head!)

Josephus, Antiquities, book 9, chapter 10, says he built 150-cubit-tall towers.

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What tune, and who built? – Isaac Moses Dec 21 '10 at 22:04
@R'IM: Uziyahu built, and the tune to "vayiven uziyahu". Not sure how to transcribe it here (if for no other reason than because I don't know musical notation). – msh210♦ Dec 21 '10 at 22:16
Oh, silly me. I read that three times as "eizehu." – Isaac Moses Dec 22 '10 at 14:55
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The Teiva was 300 Cubits (Amos) long which = 150 yds

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Huh? שלש מאות אמה ארך התבה (Gen. 6:15). – Alex Dec 21 '10 at 18:52
Gershon was probably thinking of the Mabul which strengthened for 150 days – YDK Dec 21 '10 at 19:41
Sorry - did it on the fly and left out critical info - see correction above – Gershon Gold Dec 21 '10 at 20:25

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