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Rabbi Moshe Haber Perashat Bemidbar: Why was the tribe of Levi not included in this count? 5.5.26 · Rabbi Moshe Haber - Daily Mussar/Weekly Perasha

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  According to plan with 20 days away from going into Israel, 20
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  days away from marriage to say, oh, there would have been go
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  right in. So this counting and how Pasha
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  and all the laws are actually this.
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  These laws are actually laws and countings as a form of
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  preparation before we go in. That's what this is.
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  This is what, between 18 time and time after Matanzora, after
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  the Mishkan, after everything, and all we have left is it turns
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  out to not gleam, which sends the whole thing into a tizzy.
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  But right now you're on our way, 20 days away from going to the
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  land. That's it.
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  Just travel and you go in. So as Sham was really counting,
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  is counting army sailor for preparation and going in.
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  That's the purpose of them. It's vice.
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  And that means we need to gut Sava, which is the army, before
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  we go in as a discount. Thing is, that's why we look for
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  all those who are 20 and older, but not yet.
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  I've been punished for this. We did hit the ego.
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  We had a tone for the hit the ego through the building in the
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  Mishkan. So that's gone.
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  It's sin on its own. It's gone.
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  That's not a whole year. OK, so we're two years in two
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  years and the second month of the second year.
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  So it's after the whole year, Yes.
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  You have Matanzo, you have, you have Yom Kippur, you have the
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  building of the Mishkan. You got it all.
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  We have the Mishkan a travelled with.
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  That's what it was system of travelling with.
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  So I sent them a Sabin or really the laws of the book about mbar
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  actually are the laws of the Durham bond says actually that
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  the entire book, almost all the laws in this Sabin Bart are laws
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  that are temporary laws that apply while you're in the mbar.
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  In other words, laws of travelling, laws of building the
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  Mishkan, taking it apart, rebuilding it, guarding it all
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  laws in the temporary laws. But in our sense, in our part,
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  Charlotte, they're actually concepts of preparation to go
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  into any to sale. What is the meaning of
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  preparation? Count, Count on your sale and
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  you got to get to a number. Why is counting so significant?
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  So there are two points, 1, practically speaking, you need
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  to count and set up the army because we need to fight before
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  you're going. Was there an expectation of
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  actually fighting? Maybe not.
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  The hope was that part of the miracles would be that we don't
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  need to fight, but you still need to prepare the army.
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  That was Part 1 and Part 2. Yes, part exactly.
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  Part 2, counting was there in order to get to a certain number
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  total. What's the goal?
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  The goal is to get to a number very similar to the amount that
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  we had by RC9. What's that #600,000 men?
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  At least 600,000 men who was over 20.
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  What's the theme? The theme is that we need
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  Shaheenao with us. Shaheenao is with us, was with
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  us by leaving the sign was with us by Matanzo now, and we need
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  it with us by the next stage, which is going into the land.
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  The only way we get that Shaheenao is if we have a large
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  enough crowd. I love Jewish men.
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  Now bring the Shahnaa down over 69,000 men.
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  So the part of the purpose of the counting was to get the army
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  ready and also to have an overall siboor that brings the
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  Shahnaa down. Now fine, very nice.
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  The wording that we use for counting is first of all two
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  things. The name of the seven is called
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  7 Baman Bart. And in English, what do they
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  call Baman Bart? What do they call the name of
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  the book? Numbers.
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  Seva Picudim, the book of Numbers, which means we have
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  counting. So we have numbers.
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  But I've always won this question.
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  Numbers. It should be desert.
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  Like you just mentioned, it should be desert.
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  Why is it referred to as numbers?
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  So the rabbi said because it's not just English translation.
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  It literally is called the Book of Picudim, the book of
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  countings, because we have two countings in this book.
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  OK, you have a lot of things in this book.
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  You have the story of Kodak, you have the story of the spies.
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  You have a story up in the class.
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  If a lot of things happens in the book, why does it boil down
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  to the main theme of the entire Sabbath, entire book, one of the
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  five books, the main, the theme, the main title is the book of
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  numbers because you have countings.
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  So the theme, and it's important, is that the word that
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  we use for counting is SU. SU means count, but it also
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  means now, so, so lift up, which means the theme of this idea of
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  counting on yourself is to lift up the overall Jewish people and
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  to lift up each individual. Meaning when we reached our
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  quota, when we reached that number, we reached the 600,000.
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  You lift up the entire Jewish people because you hit that
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  number. You have shakina, you have the
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  number that you had. You can see on the sign the
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  number that you had by Matanzo, the number that you have going
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  into the land of Israel. Those are all numbers that reach
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  the amount in the court to be at seaboard to bring in Shahrina
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  and also means lift up the individual is the most important
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  thing. When you count each individual
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  or you are telling them is that every Jewish person has a value
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  and means something and is one of the most significant concepts
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  that we have to absorb the idea that you mean something.
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  Now you can look at this idea of trying to get the 600,000 and
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  saying or just a number as part of the bigger amount.
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  Or you can look at it and say, without me, the total of the
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  Jewish people would be a 0. Because if it's if they don't
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  have the quota, it's a 0, which therefore means I mean something
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  get even more detailed. They count every individual,
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  which means every individual matters go even further.
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  So lift him up. You play a role that is one day
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  only you can play, and there's nobody else.
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  And this is a reality that Hashem has an overall framework
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  of the world. Hashem has a vision of the
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  world, and without us that vision does not exist.
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  The entire structure of the world changes when one person is
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  here against if the person is not here, it's a completely
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  different world. Every person who first was an
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  olam, you're an O la Monte yourself.
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  What does it mean? You're a world?
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  If you're a world, that's because you literally changed
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  the overall world. So so means lift that person up,
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  elevate him by counting him. That's the theme.
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  So you're elevating the Jewish people and you're elevating the
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  each individual on their own. That's why you can call the book
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  the book of numbers because the numbers defines as concepts
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  which one of the most significant concepts we have
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  understood now at the same time, when you elevated you, he says
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  on Wednesday night, so oh was used by yourself to the
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  salamischeme. Tell him you're going to be
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  elevated out of jail to go back to your position and hands up at
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  all. You're going to become a very
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  important officer and that same language, which is a that's a
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  very significant one. Elevation was also used for the
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  other officer. What happened to the other
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  officer who was in jail with yourself hung?
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  So, so means lift up his head, he lift up the position or the
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  opposite. It's a very extreme opposite.
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  What's the idea? The idea that when a Jew has to
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  realize that along with being a very significant person, if you
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  matter, that means you matter. And that means if you matter and
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  you mail it in, you're saying it's not worth it.
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  You're not really valuing yourself, and you're basically
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  harming the world as Shalom. In the same way you could have
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  helped if you this, that doesn't work.
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  You can't work one way or the other if you are important
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  enough and you make a difference and the lack of you also makes a
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  difference. And therefore, if you are
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  praying matters, your lack of praying also matters.
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  Your learning matters, your lack of if you have positivity, if
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  your influence, if your ideas of your clarity, of your guidance,
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  if you're a MUNA, you name it. If your role in this earth makes
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  a difference, and if you're not there, then.
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  And you know what, it also makes a difference.
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  So a person has to realize and feel that he matters, feel that
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  he's important, feel that he has a role to play in this world.
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  Without that, without that recognition, a Jew doesn't
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  perform enough. And with this recognition, you
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  realize an idea of us, that we have a major role to play.
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  That's the idea of how bad shots.
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  Let's go through it solely. You have the count, we count
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  each try. And you go on to the idea of
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  telling us about soup tells us you don't count the Levine.
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  Why don't you count the job of Levine, Count the everyone.
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  They don't fight. They don't fight.
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  Do they matter? And sure do matter, but they
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  matter without the captain. They matter because in the
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  Mbarda specifically, he all had jobs that were so significant
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  that they had all tasks of carrying the the Mishkan,
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  building it, undoing it, all those different rules.
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  So because they mattered so much, they didn't need to be
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  told that they matter. That's the overall theme.
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  And besides that, they didn't fight.
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  So therefore they weren't counting in this count.
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  And then we had, they were counting separately, just not
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  part of this count. And then you have this idea of
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  flags. The idea of flags is that the
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  Jewish people encamped around the Mishkaim and have flags on
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  the four sides. A group of three tribes, a flag
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  group of three tribes with the tribes, a group of three,
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  they'll have flags. And the overall theme was
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  everyone had their own representation.
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  Because if along with this idea that you're important, that you
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  play a role, is the theme that you represent something
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  different. Part of the fact that you play a
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  role more than me is because you have something that I don't have
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  to offer and I have something you don't have to offer.
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  And that's the overall theme of the numbers coming full circle.
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  You're important on your own, you're important as part of the
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  support, and you're important with your own individuality.
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  And every person needs to feel every single wake minute of the
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  day. And whatever I do today makes a
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  significant real difference. That's you need to feel to not
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  allow yourself to feel replaceable, to allow yourself
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  to feel like you don't matter because then you're missing.
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  I shot the message of the Book of Numbers.
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  The Book of Numbers is a book of realization who we are and how
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  important we are. All right, This has to be in the
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  back of our mind at all times. It's considered one of the most
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  empowering concepts out there. Yudaya Adam, a person knows Eric
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  Atzmo, his words, you know, and I know it.
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  If you're working in an office and you're not really using your
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  talents, OK, you have a certain gifts, you're a salesman.
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  You're, you're, you're able to manufacture, you're able to
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  create whatever it may be and you're working in that office
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  and you're not topping into your talents.
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  They have you doing something else to you now, your strength,
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  you're doing graphic artists and you're not good at that.
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  And instead you could be doing what you love, what you're good
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  at. You feel during that time while
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  you're doing a role that is not your strength.
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  You feel like a zero, right? Why do you feel like a zero
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  'cause I'm not anything not contribute, not man contribute
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  at all. And I can and I don't know that
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  I can. I'm not realizing that I can
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  because I'm in a situation that they're not noticing my
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  strengths. And it's a very demeaning,
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  demoralizing, upsetting, difficult position to be in.
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  Even if you're good at what they're giving you to do you,
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  you're still not your full potential, because you're not.
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  Especially if you know the average train.
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  Especially you know the average train and the goal of all of us
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  and our families, everyone around us, and for people to
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  feel like they themselves in their current position are
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  capable of doing a lot. Hashem wants us to notice this
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  and we should copy Him and allow the people around us.
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  I know it's the exact same thing.
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  If God need to make every individual feel like he's
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  something special that we need to make the people around us
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  feel just the same. When you do, you get so much
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  more out of them. But when they feel like they're
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  not important and they feel like they have nothing to offer and
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  there are nothing, people are the way they reflect.
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  We all know that to be the case. You act the way you're you're
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  reflected. So if I look at you and this, I
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  see you have no role. You're not going to offer
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  anything. If I look at you and say, you
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  know, you play a role in my day in the shul and whatever it is,
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  you know what? You come alive in ways that you
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  didn't know possible and you make a difference.
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  So the Book of Numbers is a book of individuals.
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  It's a book of people realizing their own individual strengths.
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  So elevation, at the same time, if you're going to be elevated,
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  then you know what? The lack of a person, the lack
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  of your contribution is also very significant and elevated in
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  a good way. And therefore for us, the people
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  around you, the fall, the lack of that person is also equally a
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  significant. That's the idea about.