Asks the Rav:’ Why were the people concerned that the tribe of Levi should say: the Torah was not given to you? It was a simple fact that they all received the Torah at Sinai?

I think, that this reinforces that which our Sages (Tanchuma) said, that the tribe of Levi were not in the servitude and in the heavy work of Egypt, whereas the rest of the people, whose lives the ...

The Tribe of Levi originated, then, in the trauma of a spurned woman, unloved by her husband; in Levi’s birth, ... people whose very existence society tries to ignore.

This was the tribe of Levi – the tribe entrusted with the spiritual leadership of the people. Regarding this tribe, it was said to Moses, himself a member of the tribe, to count them separately ...

A project in memory of Baruch Leib HaKohen b. Mordechai Yidel ve-Dobba Chaya. The Roots of Punishment The book of Bamidbar opens with a count of the Jewish people, first by tribe and then by tribe ...