Here's your countdown to Shavuot.
Do you remember last week's teenager's dream that became a reality?
As you can see, we indeed inaugurated it this week on Lag B'Omer.
It's small for a bonfire, but sometimes smaller is more impactful.
Let's put this in the form of corona trivia questions for your Shabbat table:
1. How big (or should I say small) is this virus? What's the actual size? [roughly 100 nanometers]
2. What does "nano" mean? [billionth — 1/1,000,000,000]
(not to be confused with "micro" which means millionth)
3. How do you write that in decimal? [0.000000001]
4. How big is that in millimeters? [one one-millionth — 1/1,000,000]
5. How do you write that in decimal? [0.000001]
(Bonus question - why does the fraction version have one more zero than the decimal?)
7. So how big is the virus in millimeters? [1 ten-thousandth of a mm]
8. How many could you fit on the tip of an average human hair? [about 30,000] (as far as I can tell, I'm a bit rusty at packing problems)
9. How does that compare to bacteria? [a lot smaller!]
10. Final Q for your table: Is there a deeper lesson to the fact that such a tiny thing could up-end the entire world?
Shabbat Shalom
PS - Shopping on Amazon? Please use https://smile.amazon.com and Amazon will donate a % of the sale to the non-profit of your choice (such as Jewish Spiritual Literacy), at no extra cost to you. Why not?
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As you can see, we indeed inaugurated it this week on Lag B'Omer.
It's small for a bonfire, but sometimes smaller is more impactful.
Let's put this in the form of corona trivia questions for your Shabbat table:
1. How big (or should I say small) is this virus? What's the actual size? [roughly 100 nanometers]
2. What does "nano" mean? [billionth — 1/1,000,000,000]
(not to be confused with "micro" which means millionth)
3. How do you write that in decimal? [0.000000001]
4. How big is that in millimeters? [one one-millionth — 1/1,000,000]
5. How do you write that in decimal? [0.000001]
(Bonus question - why does the fraction version have one more zero than the decimal?)
7. So how big is the virus in millimeters? [1 ten-thousandth of a mm]
8. How many could you fit on the tip of an average human hair? [about 30,000] (as far as I can tell, I'm a bit rusty at packing problems)
9. How does that compare to bacteria? [a lot smaller!]
10. Final Q for your table: Is there a deeper lesson to the fact that such a tiny thing could up-end the entire world?
Shabbat Shalom
PS - Shopping on Amazon? Please use https://smile.amazon.com and Amazon will donate a % of the sale to the non-profit of your choice (such as Jewish Spiritual Literacy), at no extra cost to you. Why not?
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