Rabbi Binyamin Yuhanan Mystical Insights Into Parashat Bamidbar 2

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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.

cannot withhold yourself from doing the job the job you have to do but finishing it is not your uh requirement God will finish it for us we just have to do whatever we can now as we mentioned the Torah tells us count each Jew according to his family family according to his father's house and there's one more word that is used according to their armies the word SAA means Army in Hebrew but it doesn't only mean a military army to fight rather it means any group of fight rather it means any group of people that are united by a common goal that's called an army this is what ra um how he defines this word and therefore when when when it says count every man between 20 and 60 everyone who goes into the army it doesn't mean that they're all soldiers in fact I can't recall any time when all fact I can't recall any time when all 600,000 men had to go to fight in fact the Jewish people always sent a select number of soldiers to fight we didn't fight with masses we didn't fight with numbers we fought realizing that Hashem is fighting our Wars that Hashem is guiding us and therefore we don't win by guiding us and therefore we don't win by numbers by physical might so these 600,000 men were not all conscripted soldiers so when it says everyone who goes into the army among the Jewish people doesn't mean military army rather it means everyone who goes out to do communal service among the

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1. 0:01cannot withhold yourself from doing the job the job you have to do but finishing it…
2. 2:46out to do communal service among the Jewish people sa the Army means are you involved…
3. 5:51some um rabbis say in the talmud that they traveled in exactly same square as they…
4. 8:58ysep was the leader like we know in Egypt or at other times in Jewish history…
5. 11:35him and Hashem said to this man from his name wasam benad from The Tribe ofhim…
6. 14:44they have to balance each other that no side should take too much control and if…
7. 17:54system any Jew by his Devotion to God and the Torah and the truth he becomes…
8. 20:27why but the the entire Community feels it they great and they are our leaders not…
9. 23:37they volunteered nobody appointed them not no human being God chose them because of their behavior…
10. 26:54died when they brought a Strange Fire they were kohanim they were from the Levites and…

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