The book of Bamidbar begins with a census of the Israelites. That is why it is known in English as Numbers.
What is the significance of this act of counting? And why here, at the beginning of the book? Besides which, there have already been two previous censuses of the people, and this is the third within the space of a single year. Surely, one would have been sufficient. And does counting have anything to do with leadership?
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