Counting the cost - Thousand

The last in this series.  Whither go we subsequently??
Shalom, shalom.

Counting the cost - hundred

Very short lesson.

Counting the cost - ten

Counting the cost - nine

Sorry about the sound track.  I guess I need a new microphone....

Counting the cost - eight

Counting the cost - seven

According to blogger, this is my 77th post. On the number 7. Can you say synchronicity? Do you know what it means?

Counting the cost - six

Counting the cost - Five

Counting the cost - Four

back to three

I started reading the book "The History of Pi" by Petr Beckmann.  I found this conclusion most interesting, in light of the fact that the root idea behind the word  שלש is the concept of measurement.

"Man first learned to count to two, and a long time elapsed before he learned to count to higher numbers.  There is a fair amount of evidence for this, perhaps none of it more fascinating than that preserved in man's languages: In Czech, until the Middle Ages, there used to be two kinds of plural -- one for two items, another for many (more than two) items, and apparently in Finnish [and Hebrew-ed.note] this is so to this day.  There is evidently no connection between the (Germanic) words two and half; these is none in the Romance languages (French: deux and moitie) nor in the Slavic languages (Russian: dva and pol), and in Hungarian, which is not an Indo-European language, the words are ketto and fel. [True also in Hebrew: shnayim and khetzi-ed.note]  Yet in all European languages, the words for 3 and 1/3, 4 and 1/4, etc., are related.  This suggests that men grasped the concept of a ratio, and the  idea of a relation between a number and its reciprocal only after they had learned to count beyond two." (page 19)

Counting the cost - Three

Counting the Cost - Two

Counting the cost - First - Part 2

My less-than-one-year old computer is having serious monitor problems. Please pray that they would be covered by warranty. Thanks and blessings to you.

Counting the cost - First - Part 1

One is not first....

Counting the cost - One

A new series looking into the meaning behind each Hebrew number. We start with......One!