questions about numbers
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Shisha Vachamishim Umeya - mi yodeya?
Who knows one hundred fifty-six?
Please cite/link your sources, if possible. At some point at least twenty-four hours from now, I will:
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4answers
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Lighting candles Motzei Shabbos
I have seen different Minhagim regarding lighting one or two candles on Motzei Shabbos. What is the source and why 1 or 2?
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1answer
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Shemona Ushlosh Meyot - mi yodeya?
Who knows three hundred and eight?
?שמונה ושלוש מאות - מי יודע
In the spirit of the song "Echad - mi yodeya", please post interesting and significant Jewish facts about the number 308.
If you feel ...
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4answers
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Shiv'a Ushlosh Meyot - mi yodeya?
Who knows three hundred and seven?
?שבעה ושלוש מאות - מי יודע
In the spirit of the song "Echad - mi yodeya", please post interesting and significant Jewish facts about the number 307.
Check out ...
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2answers
85 views
Shisha Ushlosh Meyot - mi yodeya?
Who knows three hundred and six?
?שישה ושלוש מאות - מי יודע
In the spirit of the song "Echad - mi yodeya", please post interesting and significant Jewish facts about the number 306.
And that which ...
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2answers
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Are T're Asar split at all?
We generally consider T're Asar as one book (as is evident from Bava Basra 14:2). Are there any ways in which we officially treat it as twelve?
(Possible ways I can think of that we might are: having ...
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3answers
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How many Kosher animals were in Noach's Ark?
How many animals total of each Kosher species were in the teivah during the flood?
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5answers
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Tish'a Ushloshim Umatayim - mi yodeya?
Who knows two hundred thirty-nine?
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3answers
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Chamisha Ushlosh Meyot - mi yodeya?
Who knows three hundred and five?
?חמישה ושלוש מאות - מי יודע
In the spirit of the song "Echad - mi yodeya", please post interesting and significant Jewish facts about the number 305.
Don't be led ...
3
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2answers
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Arba'a Ushlosh Meyot - mi yodeya?
Who knows three hundred and four?
?ארבעה ושלוש מאות - מי יודע
In the spirit of the song "Echad - mi yodeya", please post interesting and significant Jewish facts about the number 304.
It could be ...
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2answers
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Why when washing for bread do we splash twice?
Is there any particular reason the procedure for washing hands for bread includes pouring the water twice on each hand? Isn't once enough?
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4answers
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Shelosha Ushlosh Meyot - mi yodeya?
Who knows three hundred and three?
?שלושה ושלוש מאות - מי יודע
In the spirit of the song "Echad - mi yodeya", please post interesting and significant Jewish facts about the number 303.
Lazy ...
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5answers
157 views
Shisha Ve'arba'im Umatayim - mi yodeya?
Who knows two hundred forty-six?
Please cite/link your sources, if possible. At some point at least twenty-four hours from now, I will:
Upvote all answers I consider relevant and interesting.
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5answers
98 views
Shemona Ve'arba'im Umatayim - mi yodeya?
Who knows two hundred forty-eight?
Please cite/link your sources, if possible. At some point at least twenty-four hours from now, I will:
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3answers
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Shnayim Ve'esrim Umeya - mi yodeya?
Who knows one hundred twenty-two?
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8answers
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Why is “Shalom Aleichem” always plural?
Why do we say Shalom Alaichem to one person if Alaichem is plural?
Is it saying you and all of the Jews? Is that why it's plural?
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1answer
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Parameters for brov am?
What are they parameters of brov am hadras melech? is it a requirement or a hiddur? does it apply equally to men, women and children? why does it not seem to apply to zimun (preferable to split into ...
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0answers
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What do Chazal mean when they say that when Moshiach comes there will be another note added to the octave making a total of 8 notes?
Related: What were Chazal referring to when they said there were 7 notes in a musical octave?
There is a well known Medrash (anyone help with the source?) [I think on the Posuk 'Lamnatzeich Al ...
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0answers
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What were Chazal referring to when they said there were 7 notes in a musical octave?
Related: What do Chazal mean when they say that when Moshiach comes there will be another note added to the octave making a total of 8 notes?
There is a well known Medrash (anyone help with the ...
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0answers
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Is two hundred and ten a name of God?
Is there a name of God (derived through gematria, kabbalah or otherwise) associated with the number 210?
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3answers
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Why does the gemarah start on daf bet?
Mesechtas in the Bavli shas start on daf bet instead of daf aleph, why is this so? As a child I was told it was to give you incentive to start ("Hey, I'm already on page 2!") but that now seems both ...
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0answers
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Division of Al Cheit
Al Cheit has a chorus line ועל כולם, אלוה סליחות, סלח לנו, מחל לנו, כפר לנו after the first 20 Al Cheits, then after the next 12, then after the next 12. Who made this division? Why was it not divided ...
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1answer
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The mishkan and the fencepost problem
Rashi (Shemos 26:6,26) counts out the number of poles for the chazer on each side in parshas Terumah. He seems to ignore what is called the Fencepost Problem. The same problem exists for the 20 amah ...
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5answers
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Why do some people wrap their Tefilin around their arms 8 times?
I have seen people who wrap the Tefilin 7 times around their arm and some that wrap it 8 times around their arm. Why do the people who wrap it 8 times do so?
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0answers
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The blessing for 600,000 Jews
The Gemara (Berakhot 58b) mentions that upon seeing 600,000 Jews one says the blessing "Baruch...Chacham HaRazim" (Who knows all secrets), and this is halacha (Sh.A. O.C. 224:5).
Does any know of any ...
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1answer
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Why are disputes in pairs?
The final paragraph of this answer:
We do have the tools to derive from the Torah what those Halachos are (Moshe Rabeinu taught them to us), but these rules are very general in nature and ...
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2answers
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Saying 100 Berachoth in a day
What is the source for the idea that one should say 100 Berachoth in a day, and how serious of an obligation is this? Is it mandatory, is it laudatory, or is it merely a nice idea?
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3answers
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When does counting 100 Brochos per day start and end?
There's a Halacha/Mitzvah to say at-least 100 Brochos a day.
My question is: what does the term "day" mean in this regard. Does a day start at night, and end the following night (as is the case in ...
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23answers
392 views
Arba'a - mi yodeya?
Who knows four?
Please cite/link your sources, if possible. After Shabbat, I will:
Upvote all interesting answers.
Accept the best answer.
Go on to the next number.
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2answers
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Can someone have more than one potential soulmate simultaneously?
I have been told from several different people that it is possible for one person to have multiple Besherts (divinely intended marriage partners, soulmates if you will) to choose from. He may only ...
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1answer
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How could boiling 3 eggs at a time help?
A lot of people have a custom of boiling 3 eggs at a time, as mentioned here, among any other places.
One reason given for this practice is that if one egg turns out to be unkosher, the remaining two ...
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1answer
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Can you explain this weird pattern in Eicha?
I'm not into "bible codes" but I noticed that in the the 3rd and 5th perakim of Eicha every pasuk is no less than 4 words and no more than 7. This is if you count hyphenated words as 1 word (I'm using ...
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4answers
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Arba'a Ve'arba'im Umatayim - mi yodeya?
Who knows two hundred forty-four?
Please cite/link your sources, if possible. At some point at least twenty-four hours from now, I will:
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Accept the best answer.
Go ...
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17answers
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Shelosh Meyot - mi yodeya?
Who knows three hundred?
?שלוש מאות - מי יודע
In the spirit of the song "Echad - mi yodeya", please post interesting and significant Jewish facts about the number 300.
Check out mi-yodeya-series ...
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6answers
74 views
Shelosha Ushloshim Umeya - mi yodeya?
Who knows one hundred thirty-three?
Please cite/link your sources, if possible. At some point at least twenty-four hours from now, I will:
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5answers
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Echad Veshiv'im Umatayim - mi yodeya?
Who knows two hundred seventy-one?
Please cite/link your sources, if possible.
At some undetermined point in the future, at least a day from now, I will:
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1answer
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Differences between RaMbaM and RaMbaN's mitzvah count
I know both of the Rambam and Ramban listed all 613 mitzvos, and they differ in some (I think like 16ish?)
What are the ones upon which they differ? If possible please include why they differ in ...
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0answers
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42 camps and 42 non-refuge Levite cities (Masei)
What is the significance of the numerical correspondence between the 42 camps or waypoints mentioned in the recounting of the forty years of wandering (Bamidbar 33) and the fact that 42 of the 48 ...
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Why is it called Ayin Hara?
Why is it called Ayin Hara (singular) shouldn't it be Anayim Raos (Plural)?
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0answers
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How strong was Midian's army?
When Israel took vengeance on Midian they sent 12,000 troops (Numbers 31:4) and prevailed. We aren't told how numerous Midian was, only that the spoils includes 32,000 virgin women (31:35). This ...
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3answers
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How do we calculate 100 shofar blasts?
We are obligated to hear 100 shofar blasts on Rosh Hashona [source?] - how are those blasts calculated? Do we actually hear 100 or are there extra?
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3answers
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Hitting of the rock (Chukas): why twice?
Why did Moshe hit the rock twice rather than once in Bamidbar 20:11?
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1answer
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Were there more than seven prophetesses?
The Bavli, M'gila 14:1 quotes:
Forty-eight prophets and seven prophetesses prophesied for the Jews….
Further along on the page, it questions this:
Were there no more? But it says [in ...
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9answers
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Shiv'a Asar - mi yodeya?
Who knows seventeen?
Please cite/link your sources, if possible. After about one business day, I will:
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Accept the best answer.
Go on to the next number.
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8answers
79 views
Shnayim Ve'esrim - mi yodeya?
Who knows twenty-two?
Please cite/link your sources, if possible. After about one business day, I will:
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Accept the best answer.
Go on to the next number.
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1answer
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why 3 of punishment, 7 of consolation, 2 of repentance
As is well known (e.g. from Tosafos to M'gila 31:2 or from Shulchan Aruch Orach Chayim 428:8), we have three haftaros of punishment, followed by seven of consolation and then two of return ...
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2answers
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Which mitzvah is repeated the most times in the Chumash?
I have learned that not mixing milk and meat is mentioned 3 times in the chumash, and because of this we learn 3 different laws.
I also found out today that the law "not to follow the ways of the ...
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1answer
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Shnayim Ushlosh Meyot - mi yodeya?
Who knows three hundred and two?
?שנים ושלוש מאות - מי יודע
In the spirit of the song "Echad - mi yodeya", please post interesting and significant Jewish facts about the number 302.
Don't just sit ...
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3answers
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Echad ushlosh meyot - mi yodeya?
Who knows three hundred and one?
?אחד ושלוש מאות - מי יודע
In the spirit of the song "Echad - mi yodeya", please post interesting and significant Jewish facts about the number 301.
Anyone who posts ...
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4answers
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Echad Vetish'im Umatayim - mi yodeya?
Who knows two hundred ninety-one?
?אחד ותשעים ומאתים - מי יודע
In the spirit of the song "Echad - mi yodeya", please post interesting and significant Jewish facts about the number 291.
I'll bet you ...
