Thursday, 15 October 2015

the aggadic concept of a finite number of words to speak



Is there any truth to the common claim that each person has a predetermined number of words that he can speak in his life? Source, please.


If so, then how does it work? In particular (with sources or arguments, please):



  • To whom does this apply? Jews? others?

  • Does each person have the same number (what number?) or words, or does each person have his own number?

  • Can the number change during the course of a person's life, e.g. based on his merits?

  • What happens when he runs out of words? Does he go mute? die?

  • Does any language count? (Agglutinative languages' speakers may live long, depending on the answer to the immediately previous subquestion.)

  • Do words of tora study and prayer count?

  • Does writing words count as saying them? Does signing them?





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