By Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks from aish.com
Bamidbar begins with a census of the Israelites. That is why this book is known in English as Numbers. What is the significance of this act of counting? And why here at the beginning of the book? Besides which, there have already been two previous censuses of the people and this is the third within the space of a single year. Surely one would have been sufficient. And does counting have anything to do with leadership?
In this Parshah, we are commanded to take a census, to count the Jewish people. In an exploration of the language used, Reb Meir shows us that each of us truly counts. DISCLAIMER – the authors and promoters of the articles and videos that we place here are mostly not connected in any way to […]
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