"The Book of Transition" - The Netziv's Incredible Thesis on Sefer Bamidbar

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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.

fourth safer of the Tyra and this safer which we refer to as vamidbar and Shas is often referred to as homage hapikudem for example it says this is referring to the master on Yom Kippur so um instead of taking out another safe retire they would read it by heart so this indicates that um this safer is referred to as Ramesh hafikudum the book of counting likewise in the gamaran saith again we find in Shahs that the safer by mid bar is referred to as hameshudim so we have to try to understand this that you know a name is supposed to capture the essence of what something is all about is the counting of the Jewish people which actually takes place twice in safer by mid bar once in parashastamidbar and one in parashas uh pinchas is this really the main um does is this really the the most important and dominant theme of damidmar that we should refer to the entire safer as counting because this is um the predominant and main subject of the safer so in um it begins this is this what we're going to learn today comes from the nitsubs for for a safer bar and the initsubs says this safe is referred to in the mishnah as well as the book of counting the nurse and also the bahag likewise writes this it has been imprinted in the minds of our rabbis the subject of the two countings of the safer yes more important than one of some of the other subjects of the safe in other words it's almost as if this is the dominant theme of the safer there are many episodes and narratives in babidbar that we could have named the whole safer after one might not have thought that counting was the most

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1. 0:31fourth safer of the Tyra and this safer which we refer to as vamidbar and Shas…
2. 4:20foreign in the desert they were conducted with the attribute of Splendor which means they went…
3. 8:03so if you look at number four in the matters in the beginning of veracious it…
4. 12:02objective the two countings we're trying to accomplish the same but it changed in its purpose…
5. 15:45do you know when this transition began do you know when we turned from uh from…
6. 20:02then it feels that this is a very unusual expression again parrot Bays Passage [Applause] you…
7. 23:46as opposed to the number in the count of where it says some poses to 20.…
8. 27:37or not they had no doubt about they just wanted to know how to conquer its…
9. 31:24sort of the predecessor to the miraglam now when they prophesy that Moshe would die that's…
10. 35:16you know I feel I have a much more profound understanding of Batman is a safer…

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