Who knows one hundred sixty-four?
Please cite/link your sources, if possible. At some point at least twenty-four hours from now, I will:
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asked Jan 11, 2011 at 17:53
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164 are the number of parshiot in the book of Shemot. (Rambam, Hil. Sefer Torah, 8:4)
(I'm counting phrases hyphenated in the cantillation as comprising separate words and not one each.)
Yitzchak gave several blessings: Genesis 27:27–29, 27:39–40, 28:3–4. Outside of these, he spoke 164 words recorded in the Torah:
- 7 in 22:7
- 2 in 26:7
- 5 in 26:9
- 7 in 26:22
- 8 in 26:27
- 1 in 27:1
- 7 in 27:2
- 11 in 27:3
- 13 in 27:4
- 4 in 27:18
- 5 in 27:20
- 10 in 27:21
- 6 in 27:22
- 4 in 27:24
- 8 in 27:25
- 5 in 27:26
- 2 in 27:32
- 15 in 27:33
- 5 in 27:35
- 18 in 27:37
- 5 in 28:1
- 16 in 28:2
(I'm not counting 28:6, which is merely quoting/paraphrasing him.)
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2How many words are in the blessings, by contrast? How in the world did you think "164" and come up with this?– Isaac Moses ♦Jan 11, 2011 at 19:27
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@R'IM, I had how many words were in the blessings, but don't any longer, I'm afraid. But you can count them: there are only seven verses' worth. :-)– msh210 ♦Jan 11, 2011 at 19:41
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2As to how I came up with this: When searching for an answer to a previous question in this series, I found, I forget where, the claim that there were [some number of] words of Yitzchak's outside of his blessings. (I forget the number as well.) Not believing it, I counted, and discovered that the correct number is 164. So I hung on to the info until you asked this question. :-)– msh210 ♦Jan 11, 2011 at 19:45
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Yitzchok was 164 years old when Yosef became Bar Mitzva.
Yaakov was 91 when Yosef was born, Yitzchok was 151 when Yosef was born. 151 + 13 = 164
answered Jan 11, 2011 at 18:46
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Mazal Tov! Yaakov's "ben zekunim" must have gotten quite a party.– Isaac Moses ♦Jan 12, 2011 at 18:38