Friday, May 12, 2006

Rabbi Akiva, Rashbi, and the number 12

My wife raised an interesting question: is there a connection between the units of 12 years that Rabbi Akiva learned for and the 12 years + 1 that Rashbi spent in a cave, and the 12,000 zugos of talmidim of R' Akiva who died? What is so special about this number 12 (yes, we know about zodiav and shevatim – you have to do better than that)? This took some thinking, but I finally came up with an idea that I posted here . Please feel free to chime in if you have any ideas.

4 comments:

  1. Anonymous12:00 AM

    WHAT BRACHA IS SUSHI?
    WHAT IS THE IKAR?
    HOW DO WE DECIDE?
    MY THEORY WOULD BE SHEHAKOL SIMPILY PUT THE FISH WOULD SEEM TO BE THE IKAR AND THE RICE IS SOFEK SHEHAKOL ANY WAY AND THERE IS THE SOFEK BRACHA SHEHAKOEL KLAL SO AM I RIGHT THANKS?

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