<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>R' Zev wrote:</div>Only if it's a long year (shlemah), which only 46% of non-leap years<br>are. A normal year (kesidrah) is 354 days, and a short year (chasera)<br>is 353 (16% of all non-leap years). Leap years are 383, 384, or 385.<div><br></div><div>However, it is still remarkable even if you look at it as a sequence: i.e. 353, 354, and <b>355 </b>(shana).</div><div>Also, my posting specifically targeted non-leap years. We all are aware that leap years are longer.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm reminded of the fascinating gematria of the ages of the ovos and Yosef hatzaddik and Moshe Rabbeinu:</div><div><br></div><div>Avraham died at 175 which is equivalent to 7x5<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">²</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">Yitzchok died at 180 which is equivalent to 5x6<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">²</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">Yaakov died at 147 which is equivalent to 3x7<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">²</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">As if this weren't coincidental enough, Yosef died at 110 which is equivalent to 1x5<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">²<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; ">+6<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">²<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; ">+7<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">²<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; ">. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">Yosef is the successor in the pattern and the sum of his predecessors (5<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">²<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; ">+6<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">²<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; ">+7<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">²<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; ">).</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">As if all of the above isn't impressive, Moshe Rabbeinu lived to the proverbial and legendary age of 120.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">This is equivalent to 2<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">² <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; ">+4<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">²<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; "> +6<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">²<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; "> +8<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">²<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; ">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div></body></html>