Parashat Bamidbar: The individual within the collective

This week’s Torah portion opens the fourth of the Five Books of the Torah, Bamidbar (Numbers), known by our sages as Humash Hapekudim (“the book of countings”) because it describes two central censuses of the people of Israel: one at the beginning of the book (Chapter 1), and another toward its end (Chapter 26).

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