mischief maker: right, and the person, if he himself is good, is the 1; so a 1 in front of 6 zeroes is 1,000,000. 😉
there’s story about a great tzaddik marrying off his daughter to an orphan. at the engagement, the tzaddik says, “we have a minhag to read off the yichussim of both parties.” so he starts listing all the yichus on side of girl. then it’s the boy’s turn: he says, i don’t know my parents or any yichus, but one thing i learned when i was an apprentice to a shoemaker. “as long as the candle is lit, can still fix the shoe, and i apply that to the neshamah.” the tzaddik says, “that’s equal all the yichus in the world”