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Parsha Perspectives - Bamidbar

1.6K views · May 28, 2025

Rabbi Efrem Goldberg

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Good morning Boker to welcome back to para perspectives for today. We have the privilege this morning of studying paras opening up the fourth book of the Torah returning back to our narrative and our storyline the development and evolution from a family to a people and becoming a nation whereby Sax writes in his if safer is the story of our journey from then by midbar we transition to the story of our journey to where we came from and where we're going what it means say spoke to Moshe And he spoke to where? We've spoken about this many times in the past. Why do we need to be told the topography, the geography, the climate, the environment? Torah was given, it was transmitted. This is the word of the divine. Hashem, the source of all existence. The creator said, "Here's my blueprint for creation. Here's what to do and not do. What do we care what's happening outside?" It was such a Jewish thing. Talk about the weather. What's the weather? It was so humid. You can't believe the humidity. It was nice longer than usual. We had the nicest pes. It was too cold. It was too hot. It was a desert. It What do we care? What's the relevance of? We've spoken about this many, many, many times. If you listen to all the previous part, we open up with exactly this and many insights in it. But this year, we'll try to bring as we always do new insights and new ideas. begins by talking not about the climate, the environment, but what the point and what we're doing there is the

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