_Chaggigah_, fol. 13, col. 2.
In the Liturgy for the Feast of Tabernacles it is said that
Sandalphon gathers in his hands the prayers of Israel, and,
forming a wreath of them, he adjures it to ascend as an orb for
the head of the supreme King of kings.
The mount of the Temple was five hundred yards square.
_Middoth_, chap. 2.
One Scripture text (1 Chron. xxi. 25) says, "So David gave to Ornan for
the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight." And another Scripture
(2 Sam. xxiv. 24) says, "So David bought the threshing-floor and the
oxen for fifty shekels of silver." How is this? David took from each
tribe fifty shekels, and they made together the total six hundred, i.e.,
he took silver to the value of fifty shekels of gold.
_Zevachim_, fol. 116, col. 2.
Rabbi Samlai explains that six hundred and thirteen commandments were
communicated to Moses; three hundred and sixty-five negative, according
to the number of days in the year, and two hundred and forty-eight
positive, according to the number of members in the human body. Rav
Hamnunah asked what was the Scripture proof for this. The reply was
(Deut. xxxiii. 4), "Moses commanded us a law" (Torah), which by Gematria
answers to six hundred and eleven.
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