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Chamisha Va-arba'im Ushlosh Meyot - mi yodeya?
Ezra 2:34 & Nechemia 7:36 both have the same verse.
בני יריחו שלש מאות ארבעים וחמשה
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Chatzi - mi yodeya?
Yom Tov is regarded as Chatzi L'Hashem and Chatzi lachem (half for Hashem and half for you) - Refer to Gemoro Beitzah 15b
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Chatzi - mi yodeya?
Machatzit hashekel (half a shekel) for counting Yisrael in the desert and payment for the hekdesh (money for the Temple).
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Shlish - mi yodeya?
The Gemoro in Kiddushin 30a writes:
לעולם ישלש אדם שנותיו שליש במקרא שליש במשנה שליש בתלמוד
A person should always divide his years into three parts: A third for Torah, a third for Mishna, and a ...
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Shelosha Va-arba'im Ushlosh Meyot - mi yodeya?
Rashi on Shoftim 5:31 says that the strength of the sun when Moshiach comes will be 343 times what it is now.
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Chamisha Va-arba'im Ushlosh Meyot - mi yodeya?
345 is the gematria of Moshe.
This has added significance in light of Chullin 139b:
משה מן התורה מנין בשגם הוא בשר
Where is there a reference to Moshe in the Torah? "Since he is but flesh" (...
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Shisha Veshishim Ushesh Meot (666) - mi yodeya?
Ezra 2:13
בְּנֵי֙ אֲדֹ֣נִיקָ֔ם שֵׁ֥שׁ מֵא֖וֹת שִׁשִּׁ֥ים וְשִׁשָּֽׁה:
The children of Adonikam were six hundred sixty-six.
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Shmona Vearbaim Veshalosh Meot Mi Yodea?
348 are the negative commandments as enumerated in the Introduction to Halachot Gedolot:
אילו מאתים ושבעים ושבעה לאוין ושבעים ואחת עבירות שבמיתות ששה ענשים הרי אלו שלש מאות וארבעים ושמונה מצות לא ...
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Chatzi - mi yodeya?
Meguilat Esther 7:1 "What is your request, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. Even if it be up to half the kingdom ("חצי המלכות"), it shall be fulfilled" (Artscroll Translation)...
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Chatzi - mi yodeya?
Half of man’s waking hours are spent praying, eating, and relieving himself:
כמה שנותיו של אדם שבעים שנה דל עשרין דלא ענשת עלייהו פשו להו חמשין דל עשרין וחמשה דלילותא פשו להו עשרין וחמשה דל תרתי סרי ...
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Revi'a - mi yodeya?
A quarter (reviit) of a log is a measure frequently found in halacha, particulrly for drinking such as wine. In most (all?) cases a cup of blessing must hold a reviit. Similarly, the cup used for ...
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Arba'a - mi yodeya?
Four are the fasts for the Mikdash.
(Hat-tip: my daughter)
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Echad Va-arba'im Ushlosh Meyot - mi yodeya?
According to Sefer Ezra, when the Jewish nation returned to Eretz Yisrael for the second Bais HaMikdash, 4289 Kohanim returned (2:36-39), while only 341 Leviyim returned (2:40-42).
Hat-tip: Sefer ...
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Arba'a Va-arba'im Ushlosh Meyot - mi yodeya?
344 is the least possible number of dates in the year on which a person in Israel is permitted to eat chamets. 353 days in a chaser year, minus 7 days of Pesach, and Tisha B'av and Yom Kippur. (The ...
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Shisha Va-arba'im Ushlosh Meyot - mi yodeya?
In Israel, a normal year (Non-leap year / kesdira) has 346 days that are not a Yom Tov. The math details:
A normal kesidra year has 354 days
2 days Pesach
1 day Shavuot
2 days Rosh Hashanna
1 day ...
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Shisha Va-arba'im Ushlosh Meyot - mi yodeya?
Once every 28 years we make a special Bracha when the sun returns to its original location. 28 Jewish years will generally have 346 months. Every 19 years has 7 additional months and the 9 additional ...
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Shisha Veshishim Ushesh Meot (666) - mi yodeya?
It's the amount of gold Shlomo Hamelech received every year.
Melachim I 10:14
וַֽיְהִי֙ מִשְׁקַ֣ל הַזָּהָ֔ב אֲשֶׁר־בָּ֥א לִשְׁלֹמֹ֖ה בְּשָׁנָ֣ה
אֶחָ֑ת שֵׁ֥שׁ מֵא֛וֹת שִׁשִּׁ֥ים וָשֵׁ֖שׁ כִּכַּ֥ר ...
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Shlish - mi yodeya?
The Gemoro in Bava Metzia 42a writes:
וא"ר יצחק לעולם ישליש אדם את מעותיו שליש בקרקע ושליש בפרקמטיא ושליש תחת ידו
And Rabbi Yitzcḥak says: A person should always divide his money into three; he ...
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Revi'a - mi yodeya?
The Sof Zman Kriyas Shema in the morning is (three hours) or a quarter of the day.
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Chamishit - mi yodeya?
The sinner shall make full restitution for his guilt, and add to it a fifth part to it and give it to the claimant in respect to whom he had been guilty. [Numbers 5:7]
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Chamishit - mi yodeya?
One-fifth of one's salary is the ideal amount one should give to maaser as the Shulchan Aruch YD (249:1) writes
שיעור נתינתה אם ידו משגת יתן כפי צורך העניים ואם אין ידו משגת כל כך
יתן עד חומש נכסיו - ...
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Shnayim Vachamishim Ushlosh Meyot - mi yodeya?
352 days in the shortest allowed calendar year
Source: Mishna Arakhin 2:2 says that the court would never allow fewer than 4 months to have a 30th day
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Chamisha - mi yodeya?
Five prutot and five fifths as enumerated in Mishna BM 4, 7-8:
(חמש פרוטות הן) A perutah was specified in five instances:
(ההודיה בשווה פרוטה) Admission must be [at least] the equivalent of a ...
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Arba'a Ve'esrim - mi yodeya?
24- are the number of reasons that a person can be put into cherem (Rambam, Hilchos Torah 6:14)
a person who disgraces a chacham, even after he's passed away.
a person who disgraces a messenger of a ...
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Shelosh Meyot - mi yodeya?
Rashbam in pesachim 119a s.v. masuy shelosh meyot says that whenever it says 300 in shas, it is לאו דווקא... so that kind of wipes out lots of other answers too
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Arba'im Ushlosh Meyot - mi yodeya?
340 are the fewest days in a year without a mandatory Shehechiyanu blessing for everyone in the Diaspora.
353 days in the shortest year - 1,2,10,15,16,22,23 Tishrei - 25 Kislev - 14 Adar [II] - 15,16 ...
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Shnayim Va-arba'im Ushlosh Meyot - mi yodeya?
342 is the least number of days of a year (= the number of days in a year, when the year is as short as possible, viz 353 days) that we do not say birchas hachodesh (prayer for a new month, said ...
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Arba'a Va-arba'im Ushlosh Meyot - mi yodeya?
Minhagei Yeshurin - Siman 4 says the reason we say Aizehu Mekomon every day is there is no Machlokes - dispute in that Perek. It adds that this chapter has 344 words and is "Mishna Berura L'Moshe M'...
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