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questions about numbers
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Tish'a - mi yodeya?
Nine is this year!
(לפ"ק)
3
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Chamisha Asar - mi yodeya?
15 are the days S'faradim are not sad during the Omer.
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Shemona Ve'arba'im - mi yodeya?
48 is the second in a series of two consecutive days' shirim shel yom whose chapter number is exactly 24 times the day of the week on which it is recited. (The first one is on Sunday.) …
6
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Shishim - mi yodeya?
60 is how many myriads of Israelites there were in the desert.
Also the proportion of a stingy person's crop to the amount he gives as t'ruma.
Also death:sleep.
3
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Shiv'a Ve'arba'im Umeya - mi yodeya?
There are 147 unique body parts in the human body.
The mishna in Ahalos 1:8 lists that 101 have symmetrical counterparts and 46 are central.
Some are bones. Others are not, but all are referred to b …
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Why do some pairs of Tzitzit have one hole on each corner and some have two?
I have seen followers of minhagei haGr"a having two holes in each corner of the talis katan.
This practice is also listed in the Sefer Haminhagim of Chaba"d.
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Asara Umatayim - mi yodeya?
210 are the years of shi'bud Mitzrayim. (Rash"i on B'reshis 15:13)
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Where does the Sefer HaChinuch discuss geometry/"Handassa"?
It looks like the mitzva of honesty in weights and measures: שלא להונות במדות. The highest quality hebrewbooks version has little whitespaces where the pictures you seek should be. In the lower qualit …
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Shiv'a Vachamishim - mi yodeya?
There are 57 b'rachos that are "in the bag" when calculating a [chol day] calculation of 100 b'rachos, due to the 3 daily amidos (19*3=57).
4
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Shnayim Ve'arba'im - mi yodeya?
The number of words in birkas hatzadikim in Sh'monah Esre (according to the סידורים of the word-counting genre) …
12
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Chamisha - mi yodeya?
Five are the books of T'hilim.
4
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Shelosha - mi yodeya?
Three are the steps to a fuller you. I.e., the three Pilgrimage festivals (pesach, shavuot, succot).
9
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Echad - mi yodeya?
1=10
(cf. אבן עזרא לשמות ג:יד)
7
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Number of Candles at Lighting
The purpose of lighting is to prepare for shabas in a respectable way and provide visibility during the night. The former is a fulfillment of the rabbinic requirement to "honor" shabas, and the latter …
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Is there a list of Mitzvot and their corresponding body parts?
A very similar list appears in a number of other machzorim (example) and some translation assistance was provided by this machzor. …