{"id":2625,"date":"2017-05-26T14:23:28","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T14:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=2625"},"modified":"2017-05-28T04:05:23","modified_gmt":"2017-05-28T04:05:23","slug":"bamidbar-5777","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=2625","title":{"rendered":"BaMidbar (5777)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Drash Cards for BaMidbar (5777)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>by Marc Mangel<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Here\u2019s a list of names; no hints about who they are Elizur ben Shedeur; Shelumiel ben Zurishaddai; Nahshon ben Amminadab; Nethanel ben Zuar; Eliab ben Helon; Elishama ben Ammihud; Gamaliel ben Pedahzur; Abidan ben Giedeoni; Ahiezer ben Ammishaddai; Pagiel ben Ochran; Elasaasph ben Deuel; Ahira ben Enan<\/li>\n<li>Another list of names; one hint about who they are: David Lee Goldfein, Norton Allan Schwarz, Aluf David Daniel Marcus, Sidney T. Weinstein, H Steven Blum, Jack Weinstein, Issur Danielovitch, Julius Ochs Alder, William P Levine, Jeremy Michael Boorda, Uriah Phillips, Levy, Chaim Godalia Rickover, Ben Moreel, Maurice Herbert Rindskopf, Sumner Shapiro, Edward David Taussig<\/li>\n<li>First list \u2013 \u201cthe Princes\u201d who helped Moshe with the census. I decided to learn about them for this drash. But the fact is that we know very little. They are part of a Wikipedia page on \u2018Minor Biblical Figures\u2019. They also were the leaders of their tribes during the encampments in the wilderness and brought the donations from their tribes when the Mishkan was completed. They were summoned to meet with Moshe by the sounding of a single silver trumpet; all of Israel summoned by two silver trumpets<\/li>\n<li>Jacob Milgram, in his JPS commentary on BaMidbar notes i) 16 of the 24 names in the listing of the princes never occur again in the bible; ii) none of them involves the divine element YH (as in YHVH), iii) 10 of the 24 are noun sentences (e.g. Elizur = God is a Rock) and 4 are verb sentences (e.g. Amminadab = the kinsman is generous\u2019). He concludes \u201cThe list of twenty-four names betrays evidence of great antiquity\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>So, the Princes were very, very important but don\u2019t get much recognition.<\/li>\n<li>Second list is because I started to wonder about Jewish American Generals or Admirals (Marcus was only a Colonel in the US military, but Israel\u2019s first general).\u00a0\u00a0 There are about 80 Jewish American Generals or Admirals; most do not have a wikipedia page other than their name present \u2013 much as the princes most of them don\u2019t get much recognition We might call them \u2018minor Jewish American Generals or Admirals\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>Others do. For example<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>David Lee Goldfein<\/strong>\u00a0 is the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chief_of_Staff_of_the_United_States_Air_Force\">Air Force Chief of Staff<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Norton Allan Schwartz<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Norton_A._Schwartz#cite_note-1\"><sup>[1]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0was <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chief_of_Staff_of_the_United_States_Air_Force\">Chief of Staff of the Air Force<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Aluf David Daniel &#8220;Mickey&#8221; Marcus<\/strong>\u00a0was a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Army\">United States Army<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colonel_(United_States)\">colonel<\/a>\u00a0who assisted\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Israel\">Israel<\/a>\u00a0during the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1948_Arab-Israeli_War\">1948 Arab-Israeli War<\/a>, and who became Israel&#8217;s first modern general<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mickey_Marcus#cite_note-1\"><sup>[1]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hebrew_language\">Hebrew<\/a>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aluf\">Aluf<\/a>). \u00a0Issur Danielovitch = Kirk Douglas who played Marcus in the movie <em>Cast A Giant Shadow<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sidney T. Weinstein<\/strong>\u00a0 is considered by many to be the father of the modern military intelligence corps.<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sidney_T._Weinstein#cite_note-Obit-1\"><sup>[1]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>William P. Levine<\/strong>\u00a0(July 1, 1915 \u2013 March 29, 2013) was was among the first\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Allies_of_World_War_II\">Allied Forces<\/a>\u00a0to enter Dachau<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jeremy Michael Boorda<\/strong>\u00a0was the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chief_of_Naval_Operations\">Chief of Naval Operations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Uriah Phillips <\/strong>was an Admiral who purchased and began the restoration of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monticello\">Monticello<\/a>\u00a0in the 1830s; he also commissioned and donated a statue of Jefferson that is now located in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Capitol_Rotunda\">Capitol Rotunda<\/a>; it is the only privately commissioned artwork in the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hyman G. Rickover<\/strong>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Navy\">U.S. Navy<\/a>, directed the original development of naval nuclear propulsion and controlled its operations for three decades as director of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Naval_Reactors\">Naval Reactors<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Maurice Herbert Rindskopf<\/strong>\u00a0was the youngest officer to ascend to command of a Fleet Submarine in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_II\">World War II<\/a>. He culminated his career Director of Naval Intelligence.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This is Memorial Day weekend and close to the Jubilee of the 6 Day War, so I add this<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cThis is a tale you will tale your grandchildren, and mighty bored they\u2019ll be\u201d&#8212; Lieutenant General Brian Horrocks [not Jewish] , to the commanding officers of the British XXX Corps about operation MARKET GARDEN Sept 1944 (largest airborne assault in the war to that point).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why do I choose this theme &#8212; forgotten military leaders\/forgotten people &#8212; for today\u2019s drash? Pinchas Peli, in his book of Torah commentary, <em>Torah Today<\/em>, calls this Parsha \u2018True People\u2019s Army\u2019; the Rebbe in his book <em>Daily Wisdom<\/em> calls it \u2018The Jewish Army\u2019; and Sue Fishkoff titles her book about Chabad <em>The Rebbe\u2019s Army.<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Peli writes that \u201cThe army to be formed was\u2026[A] true people\u2019s army. This represents quite a revolutionary idea for the ancient idea. Israel is usually credited with heralding the ideas of liberty, equality, and the like. The fact that Israel is also the originator of a new revolutionary military concept is hardly known. Yet this is history\u2019s first record of an army composed\u2026of an entire people. Everyone is to be conscripted\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>He concludes \u201cA soldier-fighter in time of need, a son and family man, all the same\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>Those of us who know Israeli or American soldiers who gave their lives or were seriously injured remember this very well.<\/li>\n<li>In her book <em>A Portion of Kindness<\/em> devotes her entire discussion of BaMidbar about how we respond when parents lose children. She is thinking about Israelis and war, but the issue is of course more general. She writes \u201cMany people, when confronted with parents who have tragically lost children often feel uncomfortable and don\u2019t know what to say\u2026[But] when people die, they live on in our memories, in our hearts and in our consciousness \u2013 if we let them. It is very important that we do their memory honor by talking abou them, about the importance of their lives and [in the case of soldiers, with the importance of their sacrifice] with their parents. It is a great <em>chesed <\/em>to show parents that though their children may be gone, they are not forgotten\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u2022 And how about those of us not in the army who don\u2019t know parents of soliders who have died. The Rebbe empahsizes that \u201cGod had the families counted, in order to stress the centrality of the family in Judaism\u2026The threefold love of fellow Jew, of God, and of the Torah ripples outward from the family setting and affects the entire world for the better\u201d.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>And one more teaching, from Richard Feynman [explain who he was].<\/li>\n<li>When Feynman won the Nobel Prize in physics in the mid 1960s, a Japanese scientist who had been at CalTech during the years in which Feynman did the prize winning work sent a congratulatory telegram to Feynman. He also told Feynman that he was nothing, a nameless man.<\/li>\n<li>Feynman responded: \u201cYou met me at the peak of my career when I seemed to you to be concerned with problems close to the gods. But at the same time, I had another Ph.D. student (Albert Hibbs) whose thesis was on how it is that the winds build up waves blowing over water in the sea. I accepted him as a student because he came to me with the problem he wanted to solve. &#8230;No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it. You say you are a nameless man. You are not to your wife and to your child. You will not long remain so to your immediate colleagues if you can answer their simple questions when they come into your office. You are not nameless to me. Do not remain nameless to yourself &#8212; it is too sad a way to be. Know your place in the world and evaluate yourself fairly, not in terms of ideals of your own youth, nor in terms of what you erroneously imagine your teacher&#8217;s ideals are.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drash Cards for BaMidbar (5777) by Marc Mangel Here\u2019s a list of names; no hints about who they are Elizur ben Shedeur; Shelumiel ben Zurishaddai; Nahshon ben Amminadab; Nethanel ben Zuar; Eliab ben Helon; Elishama ben Ammihud; Gamaliel ben Pedahzur; Abidan ben Giedeoni; Ahiezer ben Ammishaddai; Pagiel ben Ochran; Elasaasph ben Deuel; Ahira ben Enan &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=2625\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":51,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2625","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2625","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=2625"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2628,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2625\/revisions\/2628"}],"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=2625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}