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Shelosha Veshishim Umatayim - mi yodeya?
So the number of words directly associated with Shema is 263. …
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Shisha Veshishim Umatayim - mi yodeya?
There are 266 (some add: and 2/3) amos in a "ris," a measurement used for some halachic purposes (such as the distance you have to go to aid someone whose animal has collapsed under its burden - Bava …
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Echad Veshiv'im Umatayim - mi yodeya?
271 years after the first Beis Hamikdash's foundations were laid, a new era in its history began, with Chizkiyahu's purifying it from the idolatry introduced by his father Achaz and urging the Jews to …
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Shelosha Veshiv'im Umatayim - mi yodeya?
A beis kor (the area in which a kor, about 500-700 lb., of grain can be sown) is defined in halachah as 75000 square cubits. Rashi (to Kiddushin 60b, ד"ה בית כור) points out that this is a square a bi …
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Shnayim Ushmonim Umatayim - mi yodeya?
According to Rashi's chronology (commentary to Jud. 11:26), the Ammonites waited 282 years from when the Jews conquered their (former) territory (from Sichon and Og) until they began laying claim to t …
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Shiv'a Ushmonim Umatayim - mi yodeya?
The number of chalakim (that don't add up to a full hour) in a non-leap year is 876; in a leap year it is 589. The difference between these two figures is 287. …
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Shemona Ushmonim Umatayim - mi yodeya?
288 "sparks of holiness" were embedded in the primordial World of Tohu that Hashem originally created, which then "broke apart" and scattered these sparks throughout the subsequent World of Tikkun in …
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Tish'a Ushmonim Umatayim - mi yodeya?
The total of these two numbers is 613, the number of mitzvos, which are all included in Shabbos. …
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Shisha Vetish'im Umatayim - mi yodeya?
The timeline of the leaders of Chassidus and then of Chabad (beginning with the Baal Shem Tov and ending with the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe - an example is here) spans 296 years, from the Baal Shem To …
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Tish'a Vetish'im Umatayim - mi yodeya?
Well, not sure how much this is a Jewish fact per se, but Raavad, in his Seder HaKabbalah, states about Yeshu Hanotzri that "we have a reliable tradition that... 299 years after the building of the [s …
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Shelosh Meyot - mi yodeya?
300 years passed from when the Jews conquered the (former Moabite and Ammonite) territories on the east side of the Jordan, until the king of Ammon demanded them back. (Judg. 11:26)
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Chamisha - mi yodeya?
Five are the species of animals and birds that can be brought as sacrifices.
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Echad ushlosh meyot - mi yodeya?
Sarah was born 301 years after the end of the Flood (1657-1958).
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Shiv'a - mi yodeya?
Seven are the household items containing chametz ingredients, listed in the Mishnah (Pesachim 3:1) as having to be disposed of before Pesach.
Also, seven are the reactants used to test a stain of unk …
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Shemona Veshishim - mi yodeya?
There are 68 bones that make up the essential structure of the human body (the parts that are essential for life, apparently): 22 ribs, 18 spinal vertebrae, 9 bones of the skull, 8 cervical vertebrae, …