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Is your home a HAPPY place? | Pasha Perspectives | Bamidbar 5786

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Rabbi Efrem Goldberg

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Okay, good morning. I was about to say booker tov. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Thank you for the flexibility. Traveling [clears throat] for several simchas this week. So, I can't do the sheer Tuesday morning. Wanted to sneak in the sheer this afternoon. I'm so grateful and honored that you're spending your Sunday and for some your Mother's Day and for those very happy Mother's Day. For those who are virtual mothers helping the world help thank you. We're going to talk about that in our parsha, too. And when you here we are in Midbar God speaks to Moshe in Midbar Sinai in the desert from the desert. And here the Torah gives us the topography, the climate, the environment, everything about where this conversation took place. It was in Midbar in the It was start with a few in the ish. Why the Torah needs to tell us specifically that Hashem gives these commandments, this message. Why do we need to know where it's delivered? Why do we need to know what the climate is? What the environment is? So, Rashi says This is an introduction to the opening of the parashah, which is a census of the people. God tells Moshe, "It's time to count. You need to know what you got. Count the people." And why is there another of the people? Why does Hashem keep counting us? He's infinite and omnipotent. He's all-knowing. He doesn't need to take a

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