Peace amongst the Myriads

After finishing the third book of Moses known as Leviticus, we now begin to read the

fourth book of Moses, known as Bamidbar, which means in the desert. Deserts are no

cake walk as we have seen terrible human suffering in the Darfor region of Sudan and we

see how desperate immigrants come to the United States of America by crossing

formidable deserts including the Sonora Desert. Not a day goes by that we don’t hear

about a death of a human being on the way to his/her so called land of opportunity. The

most common cause of death is dehydration. In contrary to these facts, we did not even

find one person of the more than 2 million Israelites who trekked through the Desert on

the way to the promised land who died of dehydration. That is not to say that the

Israelites never complained. All too often we hear the famous line, why did you take us

out of Egypt to die in the desert, there aren’t enough graves in Mitzrayim (ancient Egypt)?

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necked people for no reason. Besides the clouds of glory that protected the Children of

Israel, we also see the miracle that God always gave them to drink through his servant

Moses. Unlike the Mexicans and others who enter the desert and risk being caught and

sent back, we were not only welcomed by God into the desert but we were like a husband

and wife under the canopy when we accepted the Torah on the Sixth of Sivan in the year

2448.

Believe it or not, in the Torah itself there is no term such as “the holiday of the giving of

the Torah” but it is called

fruits or

Ten Commandments on the 50

holiday

celebrated the following week after reading the section called Bamidbar. Indeed, with

the aid of the codes, we find an allusion to this term. The Torah says the following,