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 | | |  | Sivan 2, 5772 · May 23, 2012 | General Overview:
| This week's reading, Bamidbar, begins the Book of Numbers, the fourth of the Five Books of Moses. This book of the Torah opens on the first of Iyar, one month after the inauguration of the Tabernacle, and several weeks before the Jews will depart from Mount Sinai and begin their journey to the Holy Land. In this week's portion the Israelites and the Tribe of Levi are counted separately. G‑d instructs the Israelites on how to camp in the desert, surrounding the Tabernacle. The Levites are informed the procedure for dismantling the Tabernacle before traveling. |
 | By Mendel Kalmenson |  |
|  | | THE PARSHAH | | | Numbers 1:1–4:20
Numbers in the Book of Numbers: 4 camps, 12 tribes, 273 surplus firstborn, 22,300 Levites, 603,550 Israelites—each of whom count. Plus how to take apart G‑d's home, transport it across the desert and put it back together again.
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By Lazer Gurkow |  | | | |
By Menachem Posner | | | | | When the Torah tells us who lived near whom, it's telling us about the power of proximal influence. There's the influence of a rebel rouser and of the scholar...
By Rochel Holzkenner | | | | FEATURED VIDEO | | | A Taste of Text—Bamidbar
When we realize the importance of our individual roles, we are empowered to tackle and transform our personal wildnerness. By Chana Weisberg | | | | | Part 2: The Desert of Sinai
You may already know that the giving of the Torah -- which we celebrate on the holiday of Shavuot -- took place at Sinai. But what is Sinai? The Torah speaks of a wilderness called Sinai as well as a mountain by the same name. What is the difference between the desert and the mountain? And how does that shape our understanding of what happened there years ago? By Mendel Kaplan | | | | | Topics include: How the census of the Jewish people teaches us about the power of speech, the commandment for the Levites to guard the Holy Temple, why Torah was given in a barren desert. By Chaim Miller | | | | FEATURED AUDIO CLASSES | | | A five minute weekly Torah insight based on the wellsprings of Torah and Chassidut. By J. Immanuel Schochet | | | | | An in depth presentation of Chassidic teachings on the weekly Parshah. By Berel Bell | | | | | |
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