[Avodah] One Hundred Percent

[Sholom Simon via Avodah]

>Rabbi Mayer said: a person is obligated to recite 100 Brachos each 
>day. In the Jerusalem Talmud we
>learned: it was taught in the name of Rabbi Mayer; there is no Jew 
>who does not fulfill one hundred
>Mitzvos each day, as it was written: Now Israel, what does G-d your 
>G-d ask of you? Do not read the
>verse as providing for the word: ?what? (Mah); instead read it as 
>including the word: ?one hundred?
>(Mai?Eh).

IIRC, there's a fun Ba'al HaTurim on this pasek:

If you add the alef into the pasuk -- not only does it turn the word 
into "100" -- but the pasuk will then have 100 letters in it.

-- Sholom