Rabbi David Kaplan - Weekly Torah Portion: Nasso - Part 1

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

Now Parshas Nasso is the Parshas Nasso is the longest Parsha in the Torah. There are 176 pesukim in Parshas Nasso. Interestingly enough, there are 176 pages in Bava Basra, which is the longest masechta in Shas. And there are 176 pesukim in the longest paragraph of Tehillim. They're all long 176. Now, the significance of the number 176 escapes me. me. I do not know what the significance is where what the number 176, but that just happens to be a fact that these parshas have it's page 748. These parshas happen to have the happen to have the longest what do you call it? The longest uh uh uh um um um These are These are longest parshas. Now, in Parshas Nasso again, it starts with with various technical who's carrying what. And then on uh uh on on pasuk hey, it says like this. Uh this is really there are two central ideas over really there are two central ideas over here. Um the first one is in the bottom of page Sorry, the bottom of page 750. Vayedaber Hashem el Moshe lemor, Daber el Bnei Yisrael, speak to the Jewish people, ve'amarta aleihem, ish ish, any man ki yisteh ish. So, in other words, yisteh, which means to stray, also comes from the Hebrew word shoteh, which means what? Drink. To be No, no, that's shoteh with a taf. That's shoteh with a taf. This is shoteh with a test. What's a shoteh cheresh shoteh vekaton?

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