Shnayim Yomi - Bamidbar - Rishon - #1- Rabbi Yaakov Moskowitz

[Music] Welcome back everyone and a very special welcome to all those that are brand new here to my name is Rabbi Yakov of Moscowitz and I am really looking forward to traveling through Parsha's Bidra together with all of you over the course of this week. Now the para begins by telling us that Hashem wanted Moshe to take a census in the desert. He said, "Count every single male from age 20 and up." And Rashi tells us that the reason why Hashem wanted to take a census is to show his great love for Kali Israel by constantly counting them. Hashem is showing us how much he loves us. Rashi tells us he counted us when we left Mitsim. He counted us by the time period of the eagle haz and he's counting us now as Hashem is about to bring his into our world. And the way that this census worked was that they did not count each individual by head, but rather every single person was to donate a half shekel. And in turn, we're going to count the money and know the count through that. Now, the tell us that Hashem wanted there to be one man from each together with Moshe as he went through the count. And theukim delineate who were these men? These were the nim. Each nussi should be together with Moshe as they are counting that particular shvet. And the aliyah concludes by telling us that in this census there was something unique going on that Hashem wanted a specific count of each and every single shad individually. And Rashi tells us that the people actually came before Moshe with documentation of their lineage showing which particular shvet they were from so that we could get an exact count of every single individual shvet. [Music]