Streets Paved with Gold by Rabbi Mordechai Rhine When the Jewish People were counted in the desert, we find that the numbers of the different tribes ranged from the thirty thousands to the seventy thousands, with one exception. The tribe of Levi had noticeably fewer people than the other tribes. Their tribe is listed at more »

Are You Honor Able by Rabbi Mordechai Rhine One of the important facets of the Jewish encampment in the desert was the personal flag that each tribe camped with. Just as an army rallies around its flag in battle, so each tribe camped with its appropriate flag, rallying around a theme that made that tribe more »

by Rabbi Mordechai Rhine Moshe was instructed to take a tally of the Jewish families according to their tribes. Various reasons are given for this counting. Among them: To make the Jewish people realize how much they had been blessed. Just three hundred years earlier they had been a family of 70 people. Since that more »