Musar for Eruvin 111:1
פת קיבר ושכר חדש וירק לא קשיא הא בתומי וכרתי הא בשאר ירקי כדתניא שום ירק כרישין חצי ירק נראה צנון נראה סם חיים
black bread,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' panis cibarius.');"><sup>1</sup></span> new beer and vegetables?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Pes. 42a.');"><sup>2</sup></span> - This is no difficulty, one [statement referring] to garlic and leek while the other [refers] to other vegetables; as it was taught: Garlic is a vegetable, leek is a semi-vegetable;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which proves that garlic and leek may be described as vegetables.');"><sup>3</sup></span>
Shenei Luchot HaBerit
I have found a very brilliant allusion to the 365 days of the solar year in the very name of the sun, in a book called Ginat Egoz. The author explains that we have three different names for "sun" in Hebrew. It is called שמש, חמה, חרס. When you combine the last letter in each of these three names for the sun you get 365= שהס. According to our tradition the sun is guided by an angel. When you spell the Hebrew word for "angel," i.e. מלאך, using words instead of letters, ממ, למד, אלף, כף you get a total of 365. When you spell the word מלאך in the conventional way, using only letters, you get a total of 91. This is an allusion to the four seasons in the solar year, each of which comprises 91 days.
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