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Bamidbar - The Abir Yaakov on the Stirring Message of the Constant Counting of the Jewish People

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Okay. One more idea for everybody. Parasidbar Rashi points out the very first Rashi in Parasbar and Safaridbar is the constant repetition of the counting of the Jewish people. And Rashi wants to know what the reason for it is. Rashi says something that we're all familiar with. By the way, Rashi, the very first Rashi of all the five Kumashim talks about Hashem's love for the Jewish people. The first Rashi in Berata says, "Why does the Tory start boracious?" What does it mean borious? Rashi the first Rashi in Shamo that Hashem counts because we're dear to him like the stars that Hashem called out to Moshe Rashi says why does Hashem constantly counting the Rashi is because of the love their love Hashem's love for Israel. He's constantly counting us. But the Abirakov says that there is a very important message in the constant counting of the Jewish people. We're all familiar with the teaching of the zahar that the word is stands for shishim rebu that there are 600,000 letters in the Tyra. Also there's an idea there's 600,000 interpretations of the Tyra. What does this teach me? That every Jew has their in Tyra. Every Jew has their letter that they're connected to, the approach that they're connected to. Did you know that until Cla became 600,000, we didn't leave Mitsim? We couldn't leave Mitsim until we were 600,000. Cuz since the whole purpose of leaving Mess was to get the Tyra and each Jew corresponds to a letter in the Tyra, until there were 600,000 Jews, there was no point in leaving. We couldn't receive the Tyra. In other words, we needed 600,000 Jews to be able to receive the 600,000 letters. That's a new understanding of why we had to be in Mitzim so long. Why do we have to be mit,000 Jews, each Jew brought down one particular letter of Torah, one particular approach to understanding the Tory. So so long as there were only 599,999 Jews, we couldn't leave because that the Torah was not in its full form yet to be given to the entirety of Clra. So says their you know why Hashem is constantly reiterating to count is actually this is an idea that's um pointed out the Rabba says we were counted 10 times is constantly counted why says so that is Eu So that one man helps their friend and encourages their friend and arouses their friend to see that if the number of Jews are equivalent to the number of letters in the Tyra, that is an absolute sign that a Jew is connected in the deepest way to the Tyra. And therefore we accept upon oursel the yoke to be engrossed in Tyra and not to turn to the right and not to turn to left. In other words, the the purpose of constantly counting the Jewish people is so that it should enter our mind. You know how many Jews there are? There's 600,000 Jews. Do you know how many letters in the Tyra? There are 600,000 letters. Hm. Why is that? What an interesting coincidence that there the same number of letters in the Tory that there are Jews. No, it's not a coincidence. It's because every Jew is rooted in the Tyra. A Jew has no existence, no entity, no life if he's not connected to Tyra. So by constantly being aware and recognizing of our deep connection to the Tory, this will inspire us to be mab upon oursel the yoke of Torah and to be to delve into it as much as possible not to turn to the right or to the left. By the way, the rem of it's as if by the way. And then it says the rash of su are also. What does that teach me? That there's 600,000 letters and 600,000 methodologies. so that it's to arouse us that the number of of Jews is equivalent to the number of letters to be us to apply ourselves to the Tyra. So the purpose of the constant counting of the Jewish people is that it should enter our minds. It should enter our consciousness of how deeply rooted we are to haksha. Have a beautiful shabas. Have a wonderful shabas and hope to see everybody after. Thank you so much. Good jump.