Overcoming Our Challenges - Rabbi Michael Hoenig

benay israel suffers a tragic plague which claims the lives of many members of the jewish people following this plague hashem instructs mosher abbayno and allah take a census take account of his beloved people then the torah goes on to list the numbers for each and every tribe what were the results for the tribe of binyamin forty five thousand six hundred immediately afterwards the torah lists the numbers for shaividan which were tells us that these numbers are very significant they're very crucial when yaakov avinu goes down to miss ryan he goes with 70 descendants and what does the families look like his youngest son binyamin has 10 sons a very very big family his son don what are the numbers in his family don only has one son and his name is unfortunately had the great challenge of being deaf that was his one child rafam elaborates says imagine the table imagine the table with the children and grandchildren surrounding yaakov avinu bin yaman's there with his ten children god and asher both have seven sons shimon has six and so on beautiful illustrious families and don has whom his one son who's there unfortunately deaf not necessarily aware of everything going on what do you think don was thinking to himself what's going to be what's going to be with myhushing what's going to happen to him and what's going to be with my tribe this was now at the beginning of claestrell what's going to be with the perpetuation of my shaven what's going to happen all my brothers have these massive families i have and he's a great challenge what's gonna happen our palm explains we see something so beautiful from the one comes the second largest tribe at sixty four thousand four hundred only second to the tribe of yehuda from khushan came this illustrious beautiful tribe our palm says we see from here no matter what the challenge we have the difficulty we have we could produce greatness and great things could come this should give us tremendous reason no matter the challenge that we have or going through or if a family member has a challenge we have to think ahushim from khushim with a very difficult challenge came the second largest tribe so bazrat hashem to know hashem gives us all our talents and our challenges and our stumbling blocks and no matter what they are we should mirror hashem have the strength to persevere and produce beautiful beautiful fruits