Who knows three hundred?
?שלוש מאות - מי יודע
In the spirit of the song "Echad", please post interesting and significant Jewish facts about the number 300.
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Answer
300 cups of chemicals must be poured over a persons head before the skull softens enough to permit brain surgery! (Kesubos 77b)
R' Eliezer knew 300 laws about planting cucumbers through magic, and 300 laws about a specific form of tzaraas, that no one (except R' Akiva) ever asked him about. (Sanhedrin 68a)
R' Meir had 300 parables involving foxes (Sanhedrin 38b)
R' Yehudah ben Bava was pierced with 300 hundred spears after giving smicha to 5 students. (Avoda Zara 8b)
"Rava said: Nebuchadnezzar sent Nebuzaradan three hundred mules laden with iron axes that could break iron, but they were all shattered on a single gate of Jerusalem" (Sanhedrin 96b)
Iyov's (Job's) three friends each lived 300 parasangs from each other (Bava Basra 16b)
Rabbah said: Seafarers told me: There is a distance of three hundred parasangs between one wave and the other, and the height of the wave is [also] three hundred parasangs (Bava Basra 73a)
Beruriah (R' Meir's wife) studied 300 laws from 300 teachers every day. (Pesachim 62b)
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