Joshua J. Friedman on Nostr: For the non-Jews, there's a tradition of giving gifts of money in multiples of 18 ...
For the non-Jews, there's a tradition of giving gifts of money in multiples of 18 because that's the numerological value of the letters in the Hebrew word "chai," meaning "life" (it's pronounced with a German-style gutteral "ch" sound).
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