I need your help. I need things that have to do with the number seven and Judaism.
So far, I have the seven days of the week (shabbos), and the shivas ha'min.
Anything else?

The gematria of dag (hebrew for fish) is 7, also don't forget about seven layer cake...

shmitta

mosheshmeal
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Shivas ha'min?

Tefillin shel yad -- strap goes around forearm seven times.
Seven words in the first verse of the Torah.
Seven days of Pesach and Succos.
Seven millenia of our world.
Seven orifices of the head (applies to Jewish people, so it's "Jewish?" ) -- 2 eyes, 2 ears, 2 nostrils, and 1 mouth.
Seven stanzas in "Boruch kel elyon."
Seven animals in the covenant in parashas Vayeira.
Seven pairs from each of the kosher species entered Noach's ark.

In general, the number seven is related to nature, or natural phenomena.

Shiva nekiim
Seven heavens

lest we forget the seventh lubavitcher rebbe.

mosheshmeal
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7 lands: eretz, adama, arka, geya, tziya, neshiyah, tevel (alternatively: eretz, adama, arka, charva, yabashah, tevel, chalad)
7th generations: Chanoch is seventh from Adam
avoth: Moshe is 7th generation from avraham
David is 7th son of Yishai
Asa is the 7th king from Shaul (you'll have to read the religious zionism thread to appreciate that one)
7 shmittot till the yovel
7 heavenly bodis: moon, sun, jupiter, saturn, mars, mercury, venus
7 lower sefirot
7 rivers (yarden, yarmoch, kirmyon, poga, pishon, gichon, chidekel)
7 deserts (eitan, shur, sin, sinai, paran, tzin, kadmut)
sefirat haomer
we say "hashem hu ha-e-lokim" 7 times
7 berachot: wedding, pesach seder, keriath shema, haftarah
sheva bayom hillalticha (tehillim 119:164)
7 words in yehei shemei raba
7 verses in koheleth 3:2-8
7 words introducing asereth hadibrot (shemoth 20:1)
kaddish is said a minimum of 7 times a day by the shatz
tefillin wrapped 7 times on arm (that doesn't really count since there's no real basis for that)
7 ushpizin
tahara process of a tamei -tzaraat, dead, etc.
7 days for korban after shavuoth (that's why some people don't say tachanun)
7 aliyot on shabbat
7 berachot for haphtara (including on the torah)
7 branches on menorah
7 arms on the two shi"n's on the tefillin shel rosh (4 on the left, 3 on the right)
bride circles 7 times
yericho
hosha'anot
7 species: 3 hadasim+2 aravot+lulav+etrog
7 words in pote'ach et yadecha
tefillin shel rosh parshiot are written on 7 lines
7 days till the flood
yaakov worked 7 years
lavan pursued yaakov 7 days
keriath yam suf was on the seventh day
the yonah came back on the 7th
yaakov bowed 7 times
paro's dream
sitting shiva
7 days' warning to paro
sactifying the mishkan 7 days
7 sprinklings on yom kippur
balak's 7 alters
7 kevasim on lots of chagim for korban mussaf
fleeing 7 ways in the tochechah
7 shevatim got their cheilek late (Shoftim 18)
Shimshon's hair
seven years of famine that Gad told David
Zimri
the Shunamite's kid sneezed 7 times
Yehoash became king at age 7 (remember from the religious zionism post that achaziyah ruled 1 year, then ataliah 6 years)
the haphtara on chanukah
lots of things in Mishlei
lots of things in Esther
berachot in the amida on shabbat
shiv'ah ha-minim
seven sifrei torah (if you count the upside nun's around va-yehi binso'a ha'aron)
minimal size of succah and room for mezuzah
7 names of gehinom (eiruvin 19a)
dunking in the mikvah 7 times
first mishnah in yoma
chukat
according to some opinions things are pemanent once it's 7 days eg. tying a knot (even though we don't pasken like that)
7 good men who run a shul
7 mitzvot bnei noach
7 yimei mishteh for a chatan+kallah
7 years of conquest and 7 years of division with yehoshua
7 cana'an nations
7 liquids that make tumah
7 letters take a dagesh according to sefer yetzira (it includes reish. don't ask)
7 letter have tagin (crowns)
7 names of Shlomo ha-melech
7 names of Yitro
7 daughters of Yitro
7 berachot in amida mussaf
taharah of a nazir
7 Nevi'ot
7 berachot in yadayim+hamotzi+benching+kos shel berachah
repating tehillim 47 on rosh hashanah 7 times


et cetera

770!!!!

Wow Melech, were you up all night or something?

Does he ever get writer's block?

seven stops at a levayah
seven names of the yetzer ha-ra: ra, areil, tamei, sonei, michshol, even, tzefoni
(which by the way explains the Baal Haturim to next week's parsha breishit 29:10 where he describes "yetzer hara domeh le'even")

How were the Seven Hakofot on simchat Torah skipped?

As you would say, another freak on the flypaper...

777- that terrible stuff that they sell in Israel and for some strange reason call "cognac" in yiddish.

Hey, If you can't beat 'em join 'em.

...and it's all because the world was created in 7 days.

(thanks for the list.)

Was it?

mosheshmeal
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Good point.

How about, completed in 7 days.

not in a sefardic wedding

Once I read melech's post, there was nothing I could add.

It's also the thing that the British co-pilot crash-landed.

mosheshmeal
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In my siddur by kidush levanah it says seven...

I have nothing to add to what the members have already mentioned....especialy Melech - bravo.


As a last resort there is always some wiki bits.

(I beg of you, Please do NOT add 7 to your sig!)

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In Judaism:

1. A highly symbolic number in the Torah, alluding to the infusion of spirituality and Godliness into the Creation. For example:
2. God rested on and sanctified the seventh day (Sabbath).
3. A seven-day purification period is required for one who has become tamei to become tahor.
4. The Shemittah (Sabbatical) year arrives every seventh year.
5. The Jubilee (Yovel) year comes after 7 times 7 years.
6. The Counting of the Omer leading up to the Giving of the Torah is expressed as "7 times 7 weeks."

• The weekly Torah portion is divided into seven aliyahs, and seven men or boys over the age of 13 are called up for the reading of these aliyahs during Sabbath morning services.
• Seven blessings are recited under the chuppah during a Jewish wedding ceremony.
• David was the eighth son of Jesse.
• A Jewish bride and groom are feted with seven days of festive meals after their wedding, known as Sheva Berachot ("Seven Blessings").
• The number of Ushpizzin (also known as the "Seven Shepherds") who visit the sukkah during the holiday of Sukkot: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, and David.
• The number of nations God told the Israelites they would displace when they entered the land of Israel (Deut. 7:1): the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
• In Breslov tradition, the seven orifices of the face (2 eyes, 2 nostrils, 2 ears, and the mouth) are called "The Seven Candles."
• The menorah (Hebrew: מנורה), is a seven branched candelabrum lit by olive oil in the Tabernacle and the Temple in Jerusalem. The menorah is one of the oldest symbols of the Jewish people. It is said to symbolize the burning bush as seen by Moses on Mount Sinai (Exodus 25).

7 sefirot ( chesed, gevurah, tiferes, netsach, hod, yesod, malchus)

Where is seven mentioned in kidush levanah?

In middle of the Tanna d'vie Rabbi Yishmael.

"V'az yihye ohr halevana k'ohr hachama, k'ohr 7 yemei beraishis"?

yes it says seven there no? unless you were referring to something else?

While your at it the gemora also refers to it at times like that:

It's in a footnote in the siddur vilna.

Seven "yemei beraishis" means "days of Creating?"

I take it that you use a siddur vilna since this isn't first time you cite it?



yes, as Tosofos over there explains, that although the world was created in six days, the world was "Missing rest", until Shabbos came then there came rest unto the world, this is what is says Breishis 2:2 "And God completed on the seventh day His work that He did, and He abstained on the seventh day from all His work that He did."

Rashi also says this on the above quoted possuk, it comes from Midrash Breishis Rabah 10:9 (since your into the Midrash you might want to check it for yourself).

Yes.

Thanks.