This week we start the book of Bamidbar, Numbers. Here the Tora counts the children of Israel in the desert according to each Tribe.
It’s interesting that the Tribe of Binyamin counted 35 400 people and the one following which is Dan, counted 62 700. It’s interesting because Binyamin had ten children and Dan only one, besides, that one child was deaf. People had pity on him and thought that there was no future for poor Dan. Nevertheless we see that at the end they amounted to almost twice as much as Binyamin.
The Chafetz Chaim says that people think many things but from here we see that who ever fins favor in HaShem’s eyes is the one that will be blessed. There are poor people that are happy with their lot and rich people that are lacking everything.
When the first plane crashed into the twin towers, evacuation started in the bottom floors. There was a man that had had a heart attack and could not walk fast. Two of his friends helped him down but they were walking very slowly. He told them to leave him and run but they said they’re not abandoning him. Meanwhile, the second plane crashed into the other tower that finally collapsed before the first one. A lot of people that had gone down quickly where buried under the ruble of the fallen tower. This man and his friends left after the fallen tower and survived.
SHABAT SHALOM!!!!!
Soly Firman
George Deek is an Arab-Israeli diplomat. In 2018, Deek was appointed Israeli ambassador to Azerbaijan. He is the first Israeli Arab Christian to become an ambassador. Deek grew up in an Eastern Orthodox Christian family in the Ajami neighborhood of Jaffa, in a building where the other tenants included Muslims, Catholics, Jews and a Catholic priest of Jewish ancestry.[2][3] His father, who worked as a tax advisor,[3] was one of the leaders of the Christian community in Jaffa who served as chairman of the Orthodox Association, and was considered a well-known and popular figure in the city until in 2015 a square was inaugurated in his memory in Jaffa in the presence of Mayor Ron Huldai.[4] According to Deek, his grandparents fled to Lebanon for safety when the 1947–1949 Palestine war, having been told that the Jews would slaughter them if they remained in their homes, but expecting to return home once Arab armies defeated the Jews.[3] According to Deek, when the war ended, his grandparents felt that they had been “deceived”, and decided to return illegally to their home in Jaffa rather than remaining in Lebanon as refugees. Since reentering the country was illegal, Deek’s grandfather, an electrician, was arrested and jailed.
