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Take a census of all of the assembly of the Bnei Yisrael according to their families, according to their fathers’ household, by number of the… Read More »The Ultimate Pedigree

BS”D Bemidbar Volume 39, No. 31 4 Sivan 5785 May 31, 2025 Sponsored by the Vogel family on the 4th yahrzeit of mother, grandmother, and… Read More »The Honor Guard

Rabbi Frand on Bamidbar and Shavuos These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Torah Tapes on the… Read More »The Double-Edged Sword of Opportunity and Responsibility

This week we begin the Sefer {Book} of Bamidbar. “And Hashem spoke to Moshe Bamidbar {in the wilderness of} Sinai, in the Ohel Moed {Tent… Read More »Time and Space

“…according to the number of names…”(1:3) Chazal refer to the fourth book of the Torah as Sefer HaPekudim – The Book Of Counting. Presumably this… Read More »Everyone Counts

Was it an accident of geography that a barren wilderness lay between Egypt and the Promised Land? Was it an accident of geography that the… Read More »The Wilderness Within

This week’s portion begins Sefer Bamidbar, telling the story of the major events that occurred during the forty year trek though the Midbar towards the… Read More »A Cut Amongst the Rest

WRITER’S BLOCK IS a real thing for some. There are an infinite number of ideas in the world, and yet a writer can feel as… Read More »Infinite Well

If you will go in My decrees and guard My Mitzvos and do them… (Vayikra 26:3) If you will go in My decrees…If you follow… Read More »It’s Always Worth It

If you will follow My decrees and observe my mitzvos and perform them…[2] A midrash[3] sees this pasuk as asking us to choose a path… Read More »Driving in Reverse