Parsha Perspectives for Today (Bamidbar)

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The opening of this shiur, in Living with Emunah - Rabbi Efrem Goldberg’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

the fourth book of the Torah named aptly by the same name by mid per page 726 if you're following in the art Scrolls to finish at home by the bear show emotion the mid bar scene I Bahama Wade they had the ho - a shiny and so on and so forth a Shem spoke to Moshe and here the Torah feels a need all of a sudden to give us the topography to tell us the climate to tell us the geography of where the section of the Torah was given not just that I shouldn't communicated or transmitted these lessons of these values and ideals but that he did so values and ideals but that he did so bemidbar see now that he did so specifically in the mid bar he did so in that environment we'll come back to in a moment why the Torah felt a need to give us that particular detail but he begins this fourth book begins with a practice that generally we've seen the Torah frown upon sooo a search card that's been a sterling mission for some evasive Oh some be miss fachi muscosa Harley Google or some take a census count the Jewish people in order to know how many there are according to their families according to according to their families according to their father's household by the numbers of their names every male member according to their account now the Torah earlier and safer Schmo sin para la mitad pasa Kadesh most la mitad your days if you have the arts ghost on Hamish it's on page 484 there the Torah tells us Casey says George Meredith good a.m. we have an earlier example of a census which is taken or a coach particle counted the Jewish people encountered them through the means of their donation of a half shekel counted the half shekel

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1. 0:33the fourth book of the Torah named aptly by the same name by mid per page…
2. 6:12every day but very opponent lee and very pointedly they should lewis every year we go…
3. 12:32we know you and you matter and you make a difference and that experience of being…
4. 18:09idea in Perak base we're going to come back to what is in between but I…
5. 24:20or spotlight what difference does it make why am I even here which can lead to…
6. 29:54individuality and our sense of uniqueness just and also that Revere Rock'em and his - Tara…
7. 35:59organized exactly that sense of order that we were meant to have so again this is…
8. 41:37thousands of years ago we're counting towards our actual accepting the Torah ourselves how can we…
9. 47:44nefesh to compromise to sacrifice firstly individual Avram and then the beginning of the people at…
10. 53:24you know what does it Torah because not about debating hash kapha it's not about debating…

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