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hi this is De owski and welcome to the
para in five where in five minutes uh we
give you an idea on the parha that
hopefully will add to your uh
understanding of the par Shu give you
something to say over at the shabas
table and uh hopefully give you a few
minutes of enjoyment now it could be
that this one will only be four minutes
because of shrinkflation if you're not
familiar with the term Joe Biden speaks
about it anyway um we start a new safer
we're starting now safer B midbar yeah
and um uh saer by midbar tells the story
it happens to be one of the best paros
if you're um like to do Rashi because
there aren't too many of them yeah a lot
of numbers lot of numbers yeah hence in
English it's called The Book of Numbers
which is of course based on uh gar and
sa which refers to it as sa Pim the book
of the countings but
um what's going on over here so this is
the story of setting up the m in the
midbar the camp that the Jews had and uh
the motivation for this is that at
Matra theim were revealed opened up the
opened up the they could see everything
above and everything below and uh and
they saw that the
malim uh are set up in four camps in
four directions those of you who are
careful to say the
full and uh each one of the sides were
ruled by a Archangel and his
hosts and um and they saw them and they
saw they all had
flags and they said we want to live
like on that kind of level and that's
why if you take a look says the name of
the Nasi who's listed in the middle on
it lists you know on each Direction
three Nim the NY in the middle his name
always ends with kale just as Gabriel
and M and urel so you have schel and gel
right so um the uh the name of the
person of the Nasi is mirroring to a
certain extent that idea of an arch
angel and as they set up the M each one
in a particular direction and the
direction that they went in was of
course significant we'll have to talk
about that another time who ended up on
which direction of the Mah and why but
uh they each got
flags and uh the kazal described what
was on each flag yeah ruen had the do
do shim had sometimes you can go to shes
where you see they have these 12
pictures either on the Aron or they have
windows with these uh with these images
on them yeah and uh each one of these
pictures uh symbolized the strength of
that particular shavit so what was the
purpose of this
well today we have communication you
have walkie-talkies and things like that
on the battlefield but it used to be
that when you in the midst of battle
people fighting going back and forth and
uh you know you didn't know what was
going on somebody would rally the flag
somebody would lift the flag and start
waving it and the people saw where their
people were they got lost in the battle
they knew where to go a flag is a symbol
for us to know where we belong and
that's the deel the dle of
Cl yeah you find these
Expressions is you find this all the
time because it's up on a pole to be
able for everyone to see yeah
um Rashi says by the
aada as tested him no can also be a a
banner a pillar that everyone will be
able to look and see this is why I'm
going with Abraham ainu my friends every
one of us has a flag we have to figure
out what's on our flag we have to figure
out what our rallying point is and where
we're going to all come
together to be who we are as a person as
a family as a community as
CL we'll find our place in the mAh
chavas
