Bamidbar
Taking a census of the people leads to a unified consensus.
In the wilderness, Moses counts the people. The Levites replace the firstborn in Temple service. The firstborn have to redeem themselves. The three branches of the Levite family conveyed the Tabernacle through the desert. Each of the three Levite families had their specific tasks. The twelve tribes camped and traveled in formation, a grid with four to a side ordered around the Sanctuary in the center. Each of the tribes also had a chief, and heralded a flag bearing their tribal colors and crest.
One Heart: The Message of Shavuot
In Parshat Bamidbar what power did Sinai have that united the people when they “camped opposite the mountain”? Total fusion of matter & spirit; body & soul.
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How High Can You Reach? Pre-Shavuot Workshop
Learn about your true possibilities — how to see and how to conquer new horizons, panoramas that you may have long forgotten or perhaps never known of.
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Back to the USSR: Dispatch from Moscow
How does Russian history affect our Jewish lives today?
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Numerical Value
Throughout the Chumash, G-d instructs Moses to count the Jewish people on 4 separate occasions so much so that the fourth book is called “Book of Countings”
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The Wilderness & the Torah
Teaching from the Alter Rebbe which highlight the significance of receiving the Torah in the desert and how this is a lesson for our daily lives..
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Playing G-d
A Chassidic story of the disciples of the Maggid of Mezerich, including the Alter Rebbe, discussing how, in their opinions, G-d should run the world.
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The First Creation
The mitzvah of kiddush hachodesh, sanctification of the new month, as “the first mitzvah commanded to the Jewish people.”
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