Parsha Bemidbar: Numbers 1:1-4:20

The Sinai wilderness serves as more than a mere geographic backdrop for the reception of the Torah; it provides a necessary theological environment. In the Midrashic tradition, specifically in Bamidbar Rabbah (1:7), the Sages ask why the Torah was not given in the fertile land of Israel or within the walls of a grand city.

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׃