3 Sharp Divrei Torah on Parshas Bamidbar {Pninei Kedem}

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

Okay, good morning, dear friends. Parshas Bamidbar, three sharp divrei Torah from the sefer Pnei Kedem. Perek aleph, pasuk bet, second pasuk in sefer Bamidbar. "Se'u es rosh Bnei Yisrael lemishpachosam, kol zachar legolgolosam." And yet when it comes to Shevet Levi, it says "Pekudei es Bnei Levi leveis avosam, lemishpachosam, kol zachar miben chodesh umalah tifkedeim." And it doesn't say legolgolosam. Why does it only say legolgolosam by the rest of Klal Yisrael and not by Shevet Levi? Says the Gaon Reb Shmuel Krakover, in Menachos daf lamed zayin, it talks about the possibility that someone could have two heads. However, if you have two heads, you can't live that long. Therefore, Shevet Levi, who's counted from a month, it could be someone had two heads. And therefore, you're going to come to make a mistake and count them twice. Therefore, it doesn't say legolgolosa. Because at 30 days old, somebody could be alive with two heads. So therefore, it can't say by the head count, because it doesn't go by the head count, it goes by the person. Mashei'in came by the shaar shvatim that are counted by 20, so uh you can't have somebody with two heads. They wouldn't have survived at 20 years old. 30 days old, you can have someone with two heads. 20 years old, you can't. So in order that we don't mistakenly count someone with two heads, it doesn't say legolgolosam by Shevet Levi. Here's a great one. By all the shvatim it says livnei Reuven, livnei Shimon, liv- livnei Yissachar, but by Naftali it's bnei Naftali. It doesn't say lamid. It just says bnei. Says Reb of Amsterdam the sum total of yidden we already knew.

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1. 0:00Okay, good morning, dear friends. Parshas Bamidbar, three sharp divrei Torah from the sefer Pnei Kedem.…
2. 0:32Shevet Levi? Says the Gaon Reb Shmuel Krakover, in Menachos daf lamed zayin, it talks about…
3. 1:02doesn't say legolgolosa. Because at 30 days old, somebody could be alive with two heads. So…
4. 1:36mistakenly count someone with two heads, it doesn't say legolgolosam by Shevet Levi. Here's a great…
5. 2:06We knew the total. 603,550. The question is we need to know the breakdown of the…
6. 2:36knew what his count would be cuz we knew the sum total to begin with. We…
7. 3:08And then from Hagoyim Reb Shmuel Faivish Kahana, a grandson of the Sma, the Gemara in…
8. 3:39Levi. If your said five shkalim, you had to pay five shkalim. Question, why did Moshe…
9. 4:09Says Reb Shmuel Faivish Kahana, very simple. There might Moshe was afraid for some kind of…
10. 4:39legitimately pulled up a blank paper. So Moshe wrote Ben Levi cuz nobody could forge Moshe's…

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