[Avodah] Abra(ha)m Received An A+

[Zev Sero]

R Wolberg wrote:

> Many different explanations have been advanced for the double /"lamed 
> chof/" to which I’ll add another.  What is the best score one can 
> receive? One hundred percent.

Or ten perdec, or a thousand permil, or twelve perdoz, or any other
divisor one wishes to use.  There's no natural law that implies 100 as
a universal divisor, it's just something people started doing, because
it makes calculations easy given the Indian numeric system that we use
today.  I know of no source in the Torah or TSBP for such a convention,
and I don't believe that one existed in those days, among either Jews
or goyim.

Nor can I think of anywhere where 100 is used to imply completeness.
On the contrary, we have other numbers that are used to mean shleimus,
especially 60.


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