Rabbi Ari Hertz - Parashat Bamidbar

in this past week's Parsha by mid bar Hashem commands Moshe and Ireland to count the Jewish people so it's a pretty interesting idea to just count them the question is why would they be counted and and the ramban explains that amongst the many issues and amongst many reasons the one of the main reasons was so that each individual member of the Jewish people could go in front of Moshe and our own these two extremely holy people and be looked at them with an iron toe so we often think about iron Tov and and the mystical elements to that but but it's clear that from from the ramban himself and from the Urbana as well that what that meant was really just looking at them with you're good a feeling of I view you as good and the question that arises is how do we do that how do we become people who can just view others as good and the robin explains that the way to do that is by being someone who is samayako by being someone who is content with their lot in life and I think a little bit of an added Dimension to that is really not just that you're content with what God has given you but you're content with yourself as a person when you can look at yourself and say I'm good I accept myself there that way it will be so much easier to accept others it will become almost an inevitable therefore of exactly what Moshe and Aaron were capable of doing they were so self-accepting and they were so able to accept others which made them accept themselves as well and and I think one added Dimension to this just in in the spirit of the Holiday World we're accepting the Torah again from Hashem every single time it's so it's so crucial to recognize another pasuk in the Torah in this week's Parsha that said that just as when the Jewish nation was encamped we had the Torah in the middle we had the the shaved of Levy the tribe of Levy in the middle so too when they were traveling it would be in the middle and the time learns from that that that's why we actually have a bhima in the middle of our show where we read the Torah we could just as easily read the Torah in the front of the show and it wouldn't have been any any more difficult and in fact it might even make a little more sense we should read it as close to the our own as possible as close to where we would assume the shafina God's presence is coming down and and the time learns he says the reason for that is so that nobody should ever feel that they are not adequate enough for Torah that everybody should recognize that they have a part in Torah and it's so clear a lot of the time we serve Hashem just because we think we feel like you know what I I have to do this so that I can be good enough but it's so the op is that you're so good we are so good and so accepted by Hashem that we have we have the right to Torah only because of how good we are and how great we are and how much he sees inside of us that he wants us to connect to him through that and see how he thinks train our minds to think how he thinks I I give everybody abraha the District of the world we should all feel so good about our relationship with Hashem about our relationship with ourselves others around us everybody meaningful in our lives and hugs a math enjoy take that moment to really appreciate yourself