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"Where does it say that you have a contract with G-d to have an easy life?"

the Lubavitcher Rebbe



"Failure is not the enemy of success; it is its prerequisite."

Rabbi Nosson Scherman



27 May 2011

An individual characteristic

“Every now and then something extraordinary comes along to remind you of how special life is”
Rangitane o Wairarapa Maori tribal chief executive Jason Kerehi comment upon the birth of a rare white kiwi chick.
Read full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/rare-white-kiwi-chick-hatches-at-new-zealand-wildlife-park-will-have-protected-early-life/2011/05/26/AGuSVjBH_story.html

This week's parsha talks about the counting of the Jewish people in the Midbar. It reminds us of the importance of every individual. How fitting that a chick with its own special individuality, born at the beginning of the month, made his media debut this week.

It was only after a year in the Midbar, that the Bnei Yisroel were counted in order to be set up under the Degalim, where each Shevet was given their own flag. Why did Hashem wait so long to give them this mitzva?
Read answer at: http://www.revach.net/parshas-hashavua/quick-vort/Parshas-Bamidbar-Rav-Yaakov-Kaminetzky-Degalim-In-The-Midbar-Dividing-Only-To-Conquer/3783

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