Shnayim Yomi - Bamidbar - Shishi - #6

[Music] now before khali israel actually left mitzrayim the bahrain the firstborn were sanctified to hashem and they needed to be redeemed now the process of redemption was not given until now and in this hashem tells moshe that i want you to take a census of the bahoram of the firstborn in claudia israel or every male from one month old and up you should count them in this census and then what you're going to do is you're going to redeem the firstborn for the levium in claudius for every one bahr he's going to be redeemed for one levy so hashem wants that the bakura and the firstborn themselves to be redeemed and as well for their animals to be redeemed now what was interesting is that it turned out that the number of bahram of born was actually 273 more than the amount of livium that there were in claudia israel so in turn hashem said okay for the excess bahorim you're going to redeem them by each one paying five shekel in order to be redeemed and that money is going to be given to our own now rashi points out something very interesting that moshe had a dilemma he said that you know what am i going to do i'm going to go over to a bachar and say that you have to give me five shekel to be redeemed and he say no no not me i'm one of the people that gets redeemed through a levy why do i have to pay the five shekel and everyone's going to say this so what should i do so what moshe abbayna decided to do is as follows he had a massive lottery and he wrote down on 22 000 tickets the word ben levy and then he took another 273 tickets and wrote down five shkolin and what he did is he put them all in a big pot and he had all of the bahrain pick out and that was the way in which they determined how they were going to be redeemed [Music] you