- The number of times the word shabbos occurs in the Chumash is 70.
- The number of times the word shabbos occurs with respect to shemitta is 17:
- 10 in the BeHar segment, and
- 7 in the BeChuqotei segment (with the interlude properly going to the BeHar segment, as the original segmentation of the chapters has it).
- All 7 of the BeChuqotei occurences refer to the tokhachah.
- The remaining occurences therefore number 53, of which
- 3 are a repetition in Deuteronomy of the Decalogue's statement in Exodus, and
- 1 is the story of the meqoshesh eitzim, which is narrative and not legislative.
- That leaves variously 49 (7 x 7) or 50 instances.
- The term shabbaton occurs 11 times:
- 7 times as shabbat shabbaton, and
- 4 times as shabbaton by itself:
- one each for
- Yom haZikaron,
- Chag haAssif,
- Shemini Atzeret, and once for the
- sephiach qetzirkha for the land.
06 November 2011
Shabbos x 70
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