Soccer Dad: Jewish numbers

June 21, 2007

Jewish numbers

My 19 year old nephew made up the following quiz for the guests of his Bar Mitzvah brother's Siyum (completion of a tractate of Gemora/Talmud). See how many you can get!

1	32	400
2	39	410
3	40	420
4	48	430
5	49	500
6	50	600
7	52	613
8	55	793
9	60	852
10	70	903
11	71	930
12	80	969
13	85	1000
14	90	1335
15	100	2000
16	120	14700
17	127	22000
18	180	500000
19	210	603550
20	250	800000
21	273	1/2
22	365	1/3
23	368	1/4
24	369	1/5

Instructions: Where in the entire Torah (oral and written ) do these numbers appear? Serial numbers are not allowed (first, second). No search machines or concordance. You may, however, check a source if you want to make sure you are correct.

I know that this graphic gives some of the answers, but it's so perfect.

(courtesy, Not Quite Perfect; click on the image for the full sized version)

Torah, Talmud, jewish trivia.

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Comments

serial numbers

ordinal numbers?

Posted by: Yitzchak Goodman at June 22, 2007 1:03 AM

1000 appears in the expression "afilu be'elef lo batil." That qualifies as oral Torah, right?

Posted by: Yitzchak Goodman at June 22, 2007 11:49 AM

R. Yosei ben Kisma is offered 1,000,000 gold dinars. precious stones, and pearls in Pirkei Avos. That could be one of the numbers.

Posted by: Yitzchak Goodman at June 22, 2007 6:24 PM

Thanks for linking to my graphic :) The quiz is a genius idea, but I'd need to use my concordance!

Posted by: Dzeni at June 23, 2007 2:35 AM