Significance of numbers of Judaism

In Judaism, many numbers are significant for one of more reasons.
1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9 • 10</br>
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33</br>40 • 42 • 49 • 50 • 54 • 60 • 63 • 70 • 80 • 90</br>
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245 • 248 • 300 • 365 • 374 • 400 • 586</br>
600 • 601 • 613 • 702 • 930 • 950 • 969</br>
304,805 • References</br>
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==1==
*HashemYaffa Ganz, Who Knows One?: A Book of Jewish Numbers, Nanuet, N.Y.: Feldheim Publishers, 1981. ISBN 0-87306-285-X.
*The gematria of the Hebrew letter א
*Date in the month of Tishrei when Rosh Hashanah occurs
*Yom Kippur is one day worldwide
==2==
*The tablets of the Ten CommandmentsYaffa Ganz, Who Knows One?: A Book of Jewish Numbers, Nanuet, N.Y.: Feldheim Publishers, 1981. ISBN 0-87306-285-X.
*The loaves of challah on the Shabbat table (lekhem mishna)
*Number of days of Rosh Hashanah worldwide
*Number of days of Shavuot (Diaspora)
*Times of day Shema is recited
*The gematria of the Hebrew letter ב
==3==
*A symbol of holiness. The Holy of Holies occupied one-third, and the Holy Place two-thirds, of the entire Temple.
*There were three vessels each for the altar of burnt offering, the altar of incense, and the Ark.
*The candlestick had twice three arms (besides the shaft, which also held a lamp), and each arm had three knobs.
*The priestly blessing consists of three sections (Num. vi. 24, 25)
*In kedusha, word "holy" is recited three times.
*The patriarchs of the Jewish peopleYaffa Ganz, Who Knows One?: A Book of Jewish Numbers, Nanuet, N.Y.: Feldheim Publishers, 1981. ISBN 0-87306-285-X.
*The number of prayers recited daily
*The number of Shabbat meals
*The number of shofar sounds
*The Shalosh Ragalim (Jewish festivals): Pesach, Shavuot, and SukkotYaffa Ganz, Who Knows One?: A Book of Jewish Numbers, Nanuet, N.Y.: Feldheim Publishers, 1981. ISBN 0-87306-285-X.
*The gematria of the Hebrew letter ג
*Number of aliyot for a Torah reading on a weekday or at mincha
*Date in Tishrei of the Fast of Gedalia
==4==
*The matriarchs of the Jewish people
*The gematria of the Hebrew letter ד
*During the Pesach seder: cups of wine, questions, sons
*The Four Species taken on Sukkot
*Date in Iyar of Yom Ha'atzmaut
*Date in Tishrei of the Fast of Gedalia when postponed from Shabbat
*Date in December when the prayer for rain is first inserted into the Amidah. This is the only event in Judaism that uses the solar calendar.
==5==
*The books of the Pentateuch
*The books of the Megillah
*The gematria of the Hebrew letter ה
*The number of knots in the tzitzit
*Number of aliyot on Yom Tov that does not coincide with Shabbat
*Date in Iyar of Yom Hazikaron
*Number emphasized during Mimouna
==6==
*Number of days it took G-d to create the world
*The books of the Mishnah
*Total number of public fast days in a year
*Date in the month of Sivan when Shavuot occurs
*The gematria of the Hebrew letter ו
*Number of aliyot on Yom Kippur
==7==
*The number 7 is the Divine number of completion
*The general symbol for all association with God; the favorite religious number of Judaism, typifying the covenant of holiness and sanctification, and also all that was holy and sanctifying in purpose
*The gematria of the Hebrew letter ז
*The Seven Laws of Noah
*The menorah in the Temple had seven lamps
*Acts of atonement and purification were accompanied by a sevenfold sprinkling
*Every seventh year of the Hebrew calendar is a Sabbatical yearGabriella Samuel, The Kabbalah Handbook: A Concise Encyclopedia of Terms and Concepts in Jewish Mysticism, New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 2007. p. 242. ISBN 1-58542-560-5.
*A full week of shiva is seven days; the term "shiva" refers to the seven-day period
*Number of blessings in the Sheva Brachot
*A woman in niddah following menstruation must count seven "clean days" prior to immersion in the mikvah
*Number of days of Sukkot
*Number of days of Pesach (Israel)
*Blessings in the Amidah of Shabbat, Yom Tov, and Musaf (except Rosh Hashanah)
*Number of aliyot on Shabbat
==8==
*The gematria of the Hebrew letter ח
*The day on which a Jewish boy is circumcised
*Total number of days of Yom Tov in a year in Israel
*Number of days of Chanukah
*Number of days of Pesach (Diaspora)
*The number of strings in each corner of the tzitzit
==9==
*The number of months before a baby is born
*Number of branches of the Chanukah menorah
*Blessings in the Amidah of Musaf on Rosh Hashanah
*Date in the month of Av when Tisha B'Av occurs. The days from Rosh Chodesh Av until Tisha B'Av are considered a period of morning known as The Nine Days
*The gematria of the Hebrew letter ט
==10==
*The Ten CommandmentsGabriella Samuel, The Kabbalah Handbook: A Concise Encyclopedia of Terms and Concepts in Jewish Mysticism, New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 2007. p. 243. ISBN 1-58542-560-5.
*The Ten Days of Repentance in Tishrei
*Date in the month of Tishrei when Yom Kippur occurs
*Date in the month of Tevet when the fast of the Tenth of Tevet occurs
*The gematria of the Hebrew letter י
*Number of Jews required for a minyan
*Ten Martyrs
==11==
*Stars in Joseph's dream
*Date in which the Fast of Esther is observed when Purim falls on Sunday
==12==
*There were twelve loaves of show-bread on the shulchan (table) in the Beit Hamikdash
*Sons of Jacob
*Tribes of Israel
*Stones of the Hoshen
*Age at which Bat Mitzvah is attained (Orthodox tradition)
==13==
*Thirteen Attributes of Mercy
*Jewish principles of faith according to Maimonides
*Age at which Bar Mitzvah is attained
*Number of days of Yom Tov in a year (Diaspora)
*Months in a leap year on the Hebrew calendar
*Date in Adar (or Adar II in leap years) of the Fast of Esther
==14==
*The number of steps in the Passover seder
*Date in the month of Iyar when Pesach Sheni occurs
*Date in the month of Adar (Adar II in leap years) when Purim occurs
==15==
*One of two numbers that is written differently from the conventions of writing numbers in Hebrew in order to avoid writing the name of G-d.Wayne Dosick, Living Judaism: The Complete Guide to Jewish Belief, Tradition, and Practice, New York: HarperCollins, 1995. p. 155. ISBN 0-06-062179-6. The other is 16.
*Date of the Hebrew month on which the full moon occurs. Several holidays occur on this date: Pesach, Tu B'Av, Sukkot, Tu B'Shevat, and Shushan Purim.
==16==
*One of two numbers that is written differently from the conventions of writing numbers in Hebrew in order to avoid writing the name of G-d. The other is 15.
==17==
*Date in the month of Tammuz when the fast of the Seventeenth of Tammuz occurs
==18==
*Gematria of "CHAI" חַי, the Hebrew word for life. Numbers evenly divisible by this number are considered good luck.
*The maximum number of minutes matzah is allowed to bake in order to be considered kosher for Pesach
*Date in the month of Iyar when Lag Ba'omer occurs
==19==
*The number of years in a cycle in which the date on the lunar calendar matches the date on the solar calendar
*Blessings in the weekday Amidah
==20==
*The gematria of the Hebrew letter כ
==22==
*The letters in the Hebrew alphabet
*Years in which Jacob and Joseph were sepaated
==23==
*Number of judges need to carry out a trial for capital punishment in Judaism
==24==
*Total number of books in the Tanakh
==25==
*Date in the month of Elul on which creation began
*Date in the month of Kislev Chanukah begins
==26==
*Gematria of G-d's Name
==27==
*Date in Nisan of Yom HaShoah
==28==
*Frequency in years of Birkat Hachama
*Date in Iyar of Yom Yerushalayim
==29==
*The number of days in some months of the Hebrew calendar
==30==
*The number of days in some months of the Hebrew calendar
*The gematria of the Hebrew letter ל
==33==
*Celebrated day during the Counting of the Omer known as "Lag BaOmer" 
==40==
*Years in the desert
*The gematria of the Hebrew letter מ
==42==
*Letters in one of G-d's Divine Names
==49==
*Number of nights of counting of the Omer
==50==
*The gematria of the Hebrew letter נ
*Frequency of the Yovel year
==54==
*Total number of parashahs
==60==
*The gematria of the Hebrew letter ס
==63==
*Total tractates in the six books of the Mishnah
==70==
*Members of the Sanhedrin
*Life of King David
*Years between the destruction of the first and construction of the Second Temple
*Year (AD) of the Destruction of the Second Temple
*The gematria of the Hebrew letter ע
*Number of scribes who translated the Septuagint
==80==
*The gematria of the Hebrew letter פ
==90==
*The gematria of the Hebrew letter צ
==100==
*Total number of times the shofar is sounded on each day of Rosh Hashanah
*The gematria of the Hebrew letter ק
==120==
*Life of Moses
==147==
*Life of Jacob
==150==
*Number of psalms
==175==
*Life of Abraham
==180==
*Life of Isaac
==200==
*The gematria of the Hebrew letter ר
==245==
*Words in the Shema prayer
==248==
*Total number of positive mitzvot
==300==
*The gematria of the Hebrew letter ש
==365==
*Length of the solar calendar (which has significance in Judaism]]
*Total number of negative commandments
==374==
*Total number of years the First Temple stood
==400==
*The gematria of the Hebrew letter ת
==586==
*Total number of years the Second Temple stood
==600==
*Gematria of the word Tzitzit
*Age of Noah at time of flood
==601==
*Age of Noah at time flood ended
==613==
*Total number of mitzvot
==702==
*Gematria of שַׁבָּת
==930==
*Life of Adam
==950==
*Life of Noah
==969==
*Life of Methuselah, the longest lived person according to the Book of Genesis
==304,805==
*Total number of letters in the Torah
==References==
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