Our Individual Mission
This week, as we start the book of Bamidbar, the Torah begins by enumerating the Jewish People who were in the Sinai desert. This is to symbolize that every Jew, without exception, has a unique and intrinsic value, and is…
Unity in Numbers!
What does a number mean to you? Technically a number is a mathematical object used to count and measure. Yet we use numbers to represent important times in our lives, to role dice in a game or even play a…
Why am I seeing this?!
Moshe had a special mission cut out for twelve individuals. They had to be hand-picked and were going on a national mission to search out the land of Israel. The twelve spies set out to search the land of Israel.…
Are you Moshe?!
Want to be a servant? Of course not, it’s a tough job right? Well there’s another side to that argument. The number of butlers registered with Greycoat Placements, the servants’ employment agency, has almost doubled to more than 5,000 over…
Stand up and be counted
“And with you shall be one man from each tribe, a man who is a prince of his fathers’ house” (Numbers 1:4). Rashi (1040-1105) comments on the words “and with you shall be” and explains that Hashem is saying to…
POSITIVE ATTITUDE
Moshe was told to count the Jewish nation. “Take a census of the entire assembly of the Children of Israel according to their families… From twenty years of age and up…everyone who goes out to the legion…” (Bamidbar 1:2-3). This…
