Rabbi Binyamin Yuhanan Mystical Insights Into Parashat Bamidbar 1

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Binyamin Yuhanan’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Shalom Alim we are learning parb the new SE the new book of Torah seph another name for this book is seph the word means in the wilderness the the the other name seph means the book of accounting or countings like the English name for for this book is numbers why is it called this book is numbers why is it called numbers because there are a lot of countings be it people animals gold and silver and so on in fact in this Seer the Jewish people are accounted twice once in the swix para and once in parad and we know that the Jewish people were and we know that the Jewish people were counted already once when they left Egypt by um The Exodus they were counted and the number was the same as in this week's partial over 600,000 ma um males between the ages of 20 and 60 now the question arises double fold number one why is Hashem counting us three times each time Hashem counting us three times each time the number is similar it's about 600,000 men the first two times the number is identical exactly the same number by Exodus and now this is a year later um why is Hashem counting us especially if the number Remains the if the number Remains the Same on top of that we know that it's not good to count too much when you have a specific number for something you tend to limit it to that number when you say I have so much money so You just defined how much money you have and Shalom it might not grow why because you decreed that this is how

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1. 0:01Shalom Alim we are learning parb the new SE the new book of Torah seph another…
2. 2:41because you decreed that this is how much money I have but what if hashm wants…
3. 5:48but in two cases it is permitted to count one is if you're fulfilling a Mitzvah…
4. 8:50troops and stand them in a parade in a show why because the king loves his…
5. 11:56says hasem Will Shine Your Shine his face upon you and hasem will raise up his…
6. 15:03and by looking at you by recognizing your true worth your essence Hashem is Raising you…
7. 17:56Jewish people are counted yes each one is count Ed individually each Jew is important in…
8. 21:1063,000 with some extras this time the tribe of Levy was not counted it was again…
9. 24:17baby so the other possibility is that perhaps Moshe can visit them in their house in…
10. 27:24them I'm going to go until I come to the tent but I can't enter the…

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