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it's time for Rabbi minkowitz weekly
Torah lesson a place where life's most
difficult questions are answered here
with his spiritual perspective and
insight Rabbi minkowitz welcome to this
week's Torah lesson we are starting a
new book the book of B midbar the monk
of numbers and the question of the week
is what is the power of the Jewish
people so in this week's Torah portion
par midbar we learn about namely as the
Torah portion is called by midbar
numbers where they count the numbers of
the Jewish people and we find something
very interesting the Torah tells
us to count the number of the Jewish
people so the goal is to find out the
number of the Jewish people so the Torah
tells
us we want you to count every single
family and by counting the families
we'll know the amount of the Jewish
people so the rby asked a very simple
question what is the goal the goal is to
count the Jewish people so if you want
to count the Jewish people you count the
Jewish people and then you know how many
Jewish people there are if you count the
families you don't know how many Jewish
people there are so obviously you count
the people and then you count then you
that are in the family but ultimately
you need to know the amount of people
and the amount of in each each person
and the total number of the Jewish
people how does the families help you so
the rebi says you see from here that the
Torah wants people to be counted as part
of the family in other words a Jew an
isolated Jew not part of a family not
part of a tradition is really not adding
to to the real power of the Jewish
people so in other words to answer the
question what is the power of the Jewish
people the power of the Jewish people is
that when we have strong families not
only biological but Family Ties family
connections family commitments and
building the families that's the way we
really build and the Jewish Nation this
week's Torah lesson is dedicated to the
memory
of and schomo Ben Yosef May their souls
be elevated by the Torah we're studying
in their
memory I'd like to wish a special Mao to
our daughter zeli on her engagement to
Naki
Rosenberg thanks so much for joining us
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