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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.

ben Harav Thank you to Chana Ringel and lastly, it's my mother's birthday this week, so I'm going to say we're going to learn also in honor of my mother's birthday. She's not here so I can say that and not embarrass her. She should have many more years in good health, happiness and she'll get a lot of nachas from her children and grandchildren. Parsha is Naso, page 748 in the ArtScroll Stone Chumash, the second Parsha of Sefer Bamidbar. We pick up where last week's Parsha two weeks ago we read it, but the last Parsha we read left off and namely that is the census, the count of the Jewish people. Va'Yidaber Hashem el Moshe lemor God speaks to Moshe. Rabbi Saks brings down in the Chumash, I won't read it to you inside but I saw it and it was powerful. In antiquity in the old world, census sensai, is that a word? censuses sensai censuses People did a census in order to demonstrate power. We see this right now. Armies flex their muscle. What kind of military might? How many ships can they send to the region? How many soldiers on those ships? How many ornaments? How many weapons? How do they flex their muscle? Well, in those days, the way that you flex your muscle was when you talked about your population, the census. This is as many we have, and therefore you can extrapolate how big our army is. And that was the goal, that was the purpose of a census. The Jewish census is very different. It's about a name, not a number. It's about people, not just positions. Not just soldiers. It's not just to flex might or power. Our real

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1. 1:02ben Harav Thank you to Chana Ringel and lastly, it's my mother's birthday this week, so…
2. 6:50It's a very important and powerful lesson that we learn from here. Look around Jewish communal…
3. 13:24people. So when you realize that it's carrying you, you're not carrying it, it humbles you.…
4. 19:16the son-in-law of the former chief rabbi of Jerusalem. He was the son-in-law of Rabbi Tzvi…
5. 25:47has joined the Jewish people. To whom do you return? A loan, a theft, overdue wages,…
6. 31:31hakol, lo nichsam gezar dinam ad shepashat yadayam begezal." Cuz even though chamas, anarchy, chaos, there…
7. 37:52so does the man with whom she had the affair. She dies in the base Hamikdash,…
8. 43:44Teachers, rabbis and rebbetzins. This is not gender specific. Respect Torah, the values of Torah, the…
9. 50:04the person feel less than. No, says the Menachem Tzion, that when Chazal said God Allah…
10. 56:05Because one of the laws of the sota is in the base of the coin uncovers…

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