parshat Bamidbar

why does the Torah spend so many verses and details in enumerating the population of the Jewish people at that time? And why does the Torah mention the names of the leaders?

Joy in the celebration G-d's love led King David to “leap and dance” when the Ark was brought into Jerusalem. When love defeats dignity, faith is alive and well.

Are the levi’im an exalted tribe or a banished one? Why is there a difference between Ya'acov And Moshe to the Levi tribe?

Let us pray for a full redemption to get to the point that Hoshea speaks of in this week’s haftara: Bnei Yisrael should be “as many as the granules of sand by the sea, which cannot be counted”.

It is possible to see order even in the turmoil we are in. Order meaning control; control means that there is direction and there is a purpose; in other words, there is Gd!

Why with the third census mentioned in the Torah in this week's Parshat Bamidbar suddenly individuals' names matter, rather than just the total number?

A question naturally arises about the significance that all of this was taught and expounded upon in the desert of Sinai. What difference does it really make where it happened?

what is the significance of this act of counting? And why here at the beginning of the book? Besides which, there have already been two previous censuses of the people and this is the third within the space of a single year. Surely one would have been sufficient. Additionally, does counting have anything to do with leadership?

In this week's Torah reading of Bamidbar we encounter the third census of the Hebrew nation. Why does the Torah dedicate 47 verses to this issue?