{"id":1132,"date":"2015-04-06T23:35:07","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T23:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=1132"},"modified":"2015-04-06T23:35:07","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T23:35:07","slug":"bamidbar-5773","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=1132","title":{"rendered":"BaMidbar (5773)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Drash Cards for BaMidbar (5773)<\/strong><\/p>\n

by Marc Mangel<\/p>\n

\u2022 There are many reasons why the Torah was given in the desert. Here are two.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The desert is ownerless (or owned by everyone). The Torah is given in the wilderness so that anyone who wants to acquire it can.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The desert teaches us that we don’t need a lot to live. \u00a0That we don’t need a lot to follow the Torah.<\/p>\n

\u2022 But we wander in the desert — there is no shortcut to the promised land, no instant transformation from slaves to free people.<\/p>\n

\u2022 But in English, we call it the “Book of Numbers” because it begins with a census. \u00a0Everyone counts as 1. But everyone is counted.<\/p>\n

\u2022 What is the meaning for us? Shabat HaGadol reminds us to think about our own Egypts. \u00a0Hol HaMoed is the start of the process. \u00a0Shavuout is a check-in after 7 weeks of self improvement.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Each one of us is trying to get out of our own Egypt. \u00a0And the message of BaMidbar is that we don’t need a lot of stuff to do it. \u00a0But how?<\/p>\n

\u2022 In\u00a0 Overcoming Folly<\/em>, the fifth Chabad Rebbe noted that sometimes we need to go to extremes to achieve change (e.g. alcoholics never touch a drink in AA, to diet you may have to completely give up desert for a while).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Drash Cards for BaMidbar (5773) by Marc Mangel \u2022 There are many reasons why the Torah was given in the desert. Here are two. \u2022 The desert is ownerless (or owned by everyone). The Torah is given in the wilderness so that anyone who wants to acquire it can. \u2022 The desert teaches us that … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":51,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1132","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1133,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1132\/revisions\/1133"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}