A Number and a Name - Bamidbar (Rabbi Dovid Kaplan) (Weekly Parsha)

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

and uh bidart is translated in English as uh you know the English translation what it's called in English numbers numbers in eng that's what the word bamidbar means but if you look at the books so the books are e Genesis Exodus Leviticus Leviticus is because it talks about the kohanim and the levim bidur is called numbers which is not what you would think to translate I would call it deserts Wilderness right wilderness right why why is it called wilderness right why why is it called numbers they're constantly being counted the Jewish people are counts starts out with a count and it enumerates them and it constantly happens so they called numbers uh and then uh uh dorum is called Deuteronomy you know why two two Deuce word Deuce because there they got doed but it's because it's it's because of what you call because the the the uh the word Deuce Deuteronomy the root of the word is Deuce and they're AR repeat of many of the mitzah in the Torah because many of the mitzah in the Torah because it's repeat that's is called numbers now it starts out like this bar Siem spokes to moem speaks 7:26 hasem speaks to Moshe in in the Sinai desert in the tenth of meeting on the one first day of the second month say so it's the first day of second month of second year now right here the

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