The Book of Bamidbar begins with the command to count the Jewish males from the age of twenty to sixty. The purpose of the counting was to bring the Shechina, the Divine Presence, into the Mishkan.

The total was 603,550, where the number, 600,000 was significant in constituting the nation of Israel.

There are two historical “coincidences” connected with the........

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