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imamazing




 
 
    
 

Post Mon, Dec 05 2022, 8:40 pm
What is the significance of taking a Kabbalah or doing something for forty days? Like nishmas cycle …

Tia
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PinkFridge




 
 
    
 

Post Mon, Dec 05 2022, 9:10 pm
I think it has to do with the 40 days it takes a baby to develop in the womb. 40 is a number of development. (Moshe Rabbeinu on Har Sinai, among other 40s.)
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imasinger




 
 
    
 

Post Mon, Dec 05 2022, 10:20 pm
It might be the interesting to collect a list of 40. Here are a random few, to start.

Rain in the mabul
Years in midbar
Moshe's life was 40x3
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MiracleMama




 
 
    
 

Post Mon, Dec 05 2022, 10:24 pm
mikvah, 40 se'ah

40 days 1st of Elul to YK
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Greenapple




 
 
    
 

Post Mon, Dec 05 2022, 10:40 pm
imamazing wrote:
What is the significance of taking a Kabbalah or doing something for forty days? Like nishmas cycle …

Tia


In high school I heard several times quoted from the heiliga rebbi r' Eleimelach from Lizensk that it takes 40 days work on a middah to change it
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happytobemom




 
 
    
 

Post Mon, Dec 05 2022, 10:55 pm
imasinger wrote:

Moshe's life was 40x3

Is there significance to this - that Moshe's life was 40x3? I've never heard it put that way.
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