Let us explain a couple of basic things about Hebrew counting.
First of all, let us just practice counting to ten. Zero in both masculine and feminine is FS. Now, in feminine it is (foreign language). In masculine, instead of saying Hahat (foreign language). Okay, that is how to count from one to ten. A hundred is (foreign language), 200 is (foreign language), 300 (foreign language), 400 (foreign language). Okay, so that is basic counting.
Now, if you also know that Hebrew letters have a numerical coefficient. So you could a lot of dates for example go are that numbers in the letter form. So example the ninth above you do is at the ninth above would be TET or Tu Bishvat would be ten above because nine and six is equal to fifteen, the fifteenth above. And you might to ask why would you not do (foreign language) which is the simplest way to do fifteen which is ten and five but (foreign language) are through the letters of God’s four letter name to such a grammar time so we avoid doing that in the case of number fifteen.
So Hebrew letters alef, is one, bed is two, gemelos is three, (foreign language) is four, (foreign language) is five, (foreign language) is six, (foreign language) is seven, (foreign language) is eight, (foreign language) is nine and (foreign language) is ten. And then (foreign language) is twenty, (foreign language) is thirty, (foreign language) is forty, (foreign language) is fifty, (foreign language) as sixty, (foreign language) is seventy and so on. When you get costs a hundred, (foreign language) is two hundred, (foreign language) is three hundred, and then (foreign language) is four hundred.
Now, one way that is very apparent to Jews today, which is that when you are writing up the year, which is 5768, you do not need to write the five thousand. So how you will do 768? While you put the 700 by putting the 400 which is (foreign language) and the 300 which is (foreign language) together (foreign language) and then you get a 60 which is (foreign language) and then eight which is (foreign language). O, you will see (foreign language) on all the time when you are writing a 52768 which is really 768. It is not really you do not have the 5000 number there.
I know if you are talking about what day of the month it is. Let us say it is the 21st of the month of a dot. Well, all you do (foreign language) which is twenty, and (foreign language) which is one, (foreign language) that is how people write it.
Anyway, I hope that some basic numbers like just review for example masculine counting to ten (foreign language), so you should find places where you can learn this counting system at least one to ten and know that the letters also have a numerical coefficients because a lot of Hebrew counting is done in a letter form. Hope that does explanation of the basic explanation about Hebrew counting.
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