Comments on: In the Beginning, There Was 0.00408163… http://www.ctc-torah.org/2009/06/in-the-beginning-there-was-0-00408163/ Congregation Toras Chaim of Dallas writes a sefer Torah Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:34:26 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Rabbi Avraham Chaim Bloomenstiel, Soferhttp://www.ctc-torah.org/2009/06/in-the-beginning-there-was-0-00408163/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Rabbi Avraham Chaim Bloomenstiel, Sofer Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:40:54 +0000 http://www.ctc-torah.org/?p=143#comment-6 I will be putting up an article on taggim in the upcoming few weeks.This is a good point, but the problem with counting the taggim, the crowns upon the letters, is that it doesn't actually get you to 600,000. If we count each "Tagged" letter as 4 letters (the letter plus three taggim), then you get a total of 458,117. Even if you count the individual taggim that have become a custom to put on the Hehs, Dalets, kufs, and beis, then you still only get 514,239.Another possible answer to this question of letters is to say that we actually count each letter twice: once for the letter, once for its vowel. Even still, that puts you about 10,000 over. I recently put up a post about this very topic. Good stuff! Y'K for checking in! I will be putting up an article on taggim in the upcoming few weeks.

This is a good point, but the problem with counting the taggim, the crowns upon the letters, is that it doesn’t actually get you to 600,000. If we count each “Tagged” letter as 4 letters (the letter plus three taggim), then you get a total of 458,117. Even if you count the individual taggim that have become a custom to put on the Hehs, Dalets, kufs, and beis, then you still only get 514,239.

Another possible answer to this question of letters is to say that we actually count each letter twice: once for the letter, once for its vowel. Even still, that puts you about 10,000 over. I recently put up a post about this very topic. Good stuff! Y’K for checking in!

]]> By: Yehuda Reynoldshttp://www.ctc-torah.org/2009/06/in-the-beginning-there-was-0-00408163/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Yehuda Reynolds Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:53:40 +0000 http://www.ctc-torah.org/?p=143#comment-5 Because in Gemara Kiddushin "Daf Lamed Amud Aleph or Beis" (can't remember which, and I don't have my gemara presently...) The counting of the letters include the "Tah-gim" as well. I will leave it to R' Bloomenstiel to explain the importance, relevance, and meaning of these "Tah-gim" Because in Gemara Kiddushin “Daf Lamed Amud Aleph or Beis” (can’t remember which, and I don’t have my gemara presently…) The counting of the letters include the “Tah-gim” as well. I will leave it to R’ Bloomenstiel to explain the importance, relevance, and meaning of these “Tah-gim”

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