Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha BAMIDBAR 5778

[Applause] it's time for rabbi mankiewicz weekly Torah lesson here with his spiritual perspective and insight rabbi megawatts welcome to this week's Torah lesson this week's Torah portion is partially by midburn the question of the week is what is the Jewish three step program so this week's Torah portion partial amid more we learn about God counting the Jewish people so we find interesting that this time when God counts Jewish people in by mid bar it's the third time they're already been counted this is the third the first time when they left Egypt the second time was when they were collecting money to build a loose cannon and here's the third time one month after the building in the Mishkan and we find something interesting the first time the Jewish people counted they would have counted it doesn't say who counted them obviously God counted them the second time they were counted by the Mishkan when they were donating to Mishkin who capped the mantra better count them here in this week's Torah portion the Torah tells us Moshe counted them Aaron count then all the princesses count them for every tribal leader counted them all these people involved the counting and the question is why in the first counting nobody counted them the second one most Rubino and the third Moshe Aaron all the tribal leaders cuz Remy explains a phenomenal idea he says as follows we all know when you count so everyone's equal everyone's one number everyone it's just one number to the total so there's nothing special and unique about a human being that's on one hand but on the other hand in counting there's a process as you see the three types of counting in other words the first time the Jewish people were counted they were in Egypt they were struggling and they were had to run away from evil so when they came to running away from evil you just run away you don't need anyone to count you you just run away now when you want to start becoming a better human being you want to stop coming close to the card so now you need inspiration inspiration you need some like mantra of angel as we know motion fed the Jewish people inspiration the third time they're counted ready now it's not only about inspiration now it's about transformation and when it comes to translation then you really need a lot of health Moshe Aaron the high priests your rabbi your mentor whoever may be a good friend an older student someone to help you with your transformation so you see clearly when it comes to counting the three stages one is when you're running away from something B is when you're looking for inspiration and the third level is when you're looking for transformation so the Jewish three-step program is running away from it bad situation being inspired to move on in life and then final step is for full transformation this week's Torah lesson is a memory of varrock Benari laid and vinyasa may the soul be elevated by a tour was studying in their memory thanks so much for joining us for our weekly Torah lesson for more information please see our website [Music]