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Bamidbar – G-d's Recount

with Rabbi Benny Rapoport

In the opening parshah of the book of Numbers, G-d commands Moses and Aaron to conduct a census of the Jewish people.

Sounds like a sensible idea; except for the fact that Judaism believes that G-d is all-knowing. There is nothing in our universe that He does not know, including the exact population of the Jewish people. What then is the point in counting them?

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	Rabbi Benny Rapoport is director of Chabad's Jewish Discovery Center in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania. He has lived in the Scranton/Abington area with his wife and family since the fall of 2000.

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