[Avodah] 100 kolos?

[kennethgmiller at juno.com]

The Torah requires us to blow a tekiah, a teruah, and another tekiah, and to do that three times. That's nine sounds in total.

There are three ways of accomplishing what the Torah calls a "teruah" -- three medium blasts, nine short blasts, or both together. For the purposes of this thread, it is unimportant whether one can use any of those three, or whether only an unknown one of the three is valid. What *is* important to this thread is my understanding that the "both" version (three medium and nine short together) is NOT a compromise between the other two, but is rather another sort of sound having equal standing with the other two. (If I'm mistaken on that, then forget the whole rest of this post.)

Here's my question. According to the above, then it makes sense that when we blow what we refer to as "tekiah shevarim tekiah", it counts as three sounds. Also, when we blow what we refer to as "tekiah teruah tekiah", that too counts as three sounds. But when we blow "tekiah shevarim-teruah tekiah", shouldn't that also count as three? But in actual practice, in order to reach the goal of 100 sounds, we count them as *four*.

To me, this seems like an error. However one explains the importance of reaching 100 sounds, do we do it justice by counting "tekiah shevarim-teruah tekiah" as four?

Akiva Miller

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