So in this week’s Parashah is the whole idea of counting. And the Ramban explains. He asks the question. Why did, and if you read the Torah it’s amazing. Moshe, Moses, and Aaron they go and they count every single one of the B’nai Israel. Each one of them has to come in front of Moshe and he counts them.

And they ask why did Moshe have to count each one of the B’nai Israel? Why can’t he go, let’s say to the head of the household, let’s say to the head of the tribe, and say how many people in your family? Twenty people. Write it down. Or go to the head of the tribe. How many people in your tribe? Fifty thousand people. Write it down. Why did Moshe go to each one of the B’nai Israel and count them?

And the Ramban, Nachmanides, and again, the words are beautiful in Hebrew. But what he says is that what was happening here is that Moshe was blessing each one of the B’nai Israel.

And what he explains further is that, is that the whole purpose of a Prophet, of a Navi. And this is something that is explained by many of the commentators. The Gaon m’Vilna, in his commentary on the Prophets explains this.

Why would a person go to a Prophet? And think about it, many of us, or even let’s say not us, but certainly other people we know, or students of ours. If you have a chance to go to Moshe Rabeinu, to Moses; if you have a chance to go to Yeshayah Levit, Isaiah the Prophet, or one of the Prophets, you want to hear what’s going to be in the future. Or you want to maybe get a blessing.

The single purpose, the single purpose for Moshe counting, the single purpose for people going to see the Prophets, when there were Prophets, was to attach them to their Supernal Source. On a deeper level to attach them to the reshimu (impression).

What Moshe Rabeinu is doing this week’s Parashah, and this is what he says, the Ramban says. The Ramban, those of you who know, he’s one of the earliest kabbalists in Spain. Because during the time, there’s a discussion about this, but he was probably one of the first kabbalists to get the Zohar. There were many people before, before the Zohar was revealed again in Spain who achieved high levels. But the Ramban is unique in the fact that he was towards the beginning of that revelation.

And throughout his commentary on the Torah there’s, like last week’s Parashat there’s a really interesting section, if you get a chance to read it, where the Ramban says there’s a secret here from the secrets of the Torah. And a lot of the secrets that the Ramban writes about, and he writes about them very cryptically, he gets them from, he got them probably from the study of the Zohar.

But in this week’s Parashat is just one or two lines where he talks about the importance, why Moshe himself did it. And he says because this is the way they got their blessing; by Moshe attaching them to their Supernal Source. Counting them. Counting them means attaching them to their Source. More deep than that, attaching them to their Supernal Desire.

What is the problem that each one of us has? What is the problem that every student that we have has? Is that they are not attached to the true Desire. Most people’s desire, physical, even in a sort of, on a higher level, you know, even physical for the sake of sharing.

But what we’re supposed to get to, and this is, you know, that verse, (Hebrew)days are coming and there will be a hunger in the world. (Hebrew) The people, even people who are coming to spirituality, hopefully will come the time where they’re not coming for bread and water. They’re not coming for anything physical. (Hebrew) Only to connect. To hear and to connect to the Light of the Creator.

What happens in this week’s Parashat, that’s why it’s not, you know, it’s not, again, we don’t read this Parashat. But we connect it. What happens on this Shabbat is that every single person, and the world as a whole, becomes elevated again to that connection.

What Moshe did thousands of years ago in the desert, he comes back to us. Moshe comes back to us on this Shabbat. And he elevates us again to that connecting to our reshimu (impression), to our true Desire.

And what we have to ask for on this Shabbat, and not only ask for ourselves, but also ask for our students, and ask for the world, that Moshe, Moshe’s influence, through this reading, through this Shabbat, should be strong enough to connect enough people to their reshimu (impression), enough people to their true Desire, so that, as Rav Ashlag says, we’ll quickly come to the, to the re-revelation of that Light.

But it’s really, if you understand the gift of this Shabbat, it’s a tremendously exciting Shabbat. A tremendously exciting Shabbat for ourselves, but it’s important that we awaken within as many people as possible this consciousness. That on this Shabbat Moshe Rabeinu, Moses, and Aaron are coming to us and raising (Hebrew).

What is the idea of raising the head? It is reconnecting us back to our Source, to our Rosh. What is our Source? Again, without going into details, but the Olam Adam Kadmon, the kelim d’igulim, the vessels that, which now we know are the only ones that are called Keter, Chochmah, Binah, Zeir Anpin and Malchut. The ones that have that lack, that have the true Desire, that awaken the true Desire.

Shabbat shalom.