Parsha Bemidbar: Numbers 1:1-4:20

Parsha: Bemidbar

Day 3: Numbers 2:1-34

(Study Notes)

In our last daily portion of Parsha Bamidbar, we learned that the Levites were to camp close to the Tabernacle, while the rest of the 12 Tribes (10 + 2 of Joseph) encamped in formation at a distance. Today’s portion provides the formation of the outer  Tribal encampments.

(Numbers 2:1-2)

We learn that the Israelite encampment was not random. The people did not haphazardly choose where to dwell. Rather, HaKadosh Baruch Hu instructs Moshe Rabbeinu and Aaron how and in what order the Tribes were to set up their dwellings. These dwellings were the sukkahs ordained by HaKadosh Baruch Hu.

Parsha: Bemidbar

Day 2: Numbers 1:20-54

(Study Notes)

This portion of Tanakh provides the details of the census taken by the 12 Chieftains, which was recorded by Moshe Rabbeinu. The census provides total numbers of the individuals enrolled in each Tribe of Israel. These numbers can be compared to the census taken in Genesis 46:8-26, which records the names of those 70 Hebrews who went down to Mitzrayim.

The census here in Numbers 1 does not provide the full list of names, arguably because the list was so vast: 603,500 men. We learn that the total number provided for each tribe is

Parsha: Bamidbar

Day 1: Numbers 1:1-19

(Study Notes)

(Numbers 1: 1-2)

(Numbers 1:1)

This verse teaches us that HaKadosh Baruch Hu spoke to Moshe Rabbeinu in “the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of meeting.”

Day 1: Numbers 1:1-19

Numbers Chapter 1

Parsha Bamidbar

וַיְדַבֵּ֨ר יְהֹוָ֧ה אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֛ה בְּמִדְבַּ֥ר סִינַ֖י בְּאֹ֣הֶל מוֹעֵ֑ד בְּאֶחָד֩ לַחֹ֨דֶשׁ הַשֵּׁנִ֜י בַּשָּׁנָ֣ה הַשֵּׁנִ֗ית לְצֵאתָ֛ם מֵאֶ֥רֶץ מִצְרַ֖יִם לֵאמֹֽר׃

1 AND THE LORD spoke unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying:

שְׂא֗וּ אֶת־רֹאשׁ֙ כׇּל־עֲדַ֣ת בְּנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָ֖ם לְבֵ֣ית אֲבֹתָ֑ם בְּמִסְפַּ֣ר שֵׁמ֔וֹת כׇּל־זָכָ֖ר לְגֻלְגְּלֹתָֽם׃

Day 2: Numbers 1:20-54

וַיִּהְי֤וּ בְנֵֽי־רְאוּבֵן֙ בְּכֹ֣ר יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל תּוֹלְדֹתָ֥ם לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָ֖ם לְבֵ֣ית אֲבֹתָ֑ם בְּמִסְפַּ֤ר שֵׁמוֹת֙ לְגֻלְגְּלֹתָ֔ם כׇּל־זָכָ֗ר מִבֶּ֨ן עֶשְׂרִ֤ים שָׁנָה֙ וָמַ֔עְלָה כֹּ֖ל יֹצֵ֥א צָבָֽא׃

20 And the children of Reuben, Israel’s first-born, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

פְּקֻדֵיהֶ֖ם לְמַטֵּ֣ה רְאוּבֵ֑ן שִׁשָּׁ֧ה וְאַרְבָּעִ֛ים אֶ֖לֶף וַחֲמֵ֥שׁ מֵאֽוֹת׃ {פ}

21 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.

Day 3: Numbers 2:1-34

Numbers Chapter 2

וַיְדַבֵּ֣ר יְהֹוָ֔ה אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֥ה וְאֶֽל־אַהֲרֹ֖ן לֵאמֹֽר׃

1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying:

אִ֣ישׁ עַל־דִּגְל֤וֹ בְאֹתֹת֙ לְבֵ֣ית אֲבֹתָ֔ם יַחֲנ֖וּ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל מִנֶּ֕גֶד סָבִ֥יב לְאֹֽהֶל־מוֹעֵ֖ד יַחֲנֽוּ׃

2 ’The children of Israel shall pitch by their fathers’ houses; every man with his own standard, according to the ensigns; a good way off shall they pitch round about the tent of meeting.