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LAWS of SHABBOS: Shemiras Shabbos Kehilchosa (11:41) writes: ‘One should not fold paper napkins on Shabbos to form special shapes from them, (as is customary to do in honor of guests). But a simple fold is permitted.’

RHYMES: ‘dear’.

SHAVUOS CHALLENGE:

  1. Sefer Torah needs to be in one binding, and it has to have two poles. At least 3 verses must be read during each aliya. The Torah is divided into 5 books. Each page of the Sefer Torah has 42 lines. There are 54 parshios in the Torah. In the Sefer Torah there are 5845 verses, 79,976 words and 304,805 letters.
  2. Regarding avoda zara and regarding being nice to a convert the Torah cautioned us more than 40 times [see Baba Metzia 59b and Baal HaTurim to Devorim 1:1].
  3. Out of all the letters in the Torah, the letter י appears most frequent.

*Note: The answers are based only on the sources quoted and might not reflect opinions of other halachic sources.

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