תלמוד על במדבר 28:10

R. Joshua b. Levi said: I have never looked into a book of ’aggadta except once when I looked and found written therein that the one hundred and seventy-five sections of the Torah,⁴⁷i.e. the Pentateuch. in which occurs any expression of speaking, saying or commanding, correspond to the number of years of our father Abraham;⁴⁸Abraham lived 175 years (Gen. 25, 7). for it is written, Thou hast ascended on high, Thou hast led captivity captive; Thou hast received gifts⁴⁹Explained as the Torah given to Moses as a gift from God. for the sake of the man,⁵⁰viz. Abraham. Ps. 68, 19, E.V. among men. and it is also written, The greatest man⁵¹Also explained of Abraham. among the Anakim.⁵²Josh. 14, 15. On this account the Rabbis instituted one hundred and seventy-five orders in the Torah [to be read in public worship] every Sabbath⁵³Completing the entire Pentateuch in 175 weeks, or three and a half years: fifty orders or sections in one year. This was the Jerusalem practice. In Babylon and at the present time the Pentateuch is completed every year. [as regularly as the] continual burnt-offering.⁵⁴Cf. Num. 28, 10.