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#515: Is There Such Thing as a Stupid Question?

#515: Is There Such Thing as a Stupid Question?

Ḥatam Sofer on Parashat Bamidbar, Bamidbar/Numbers 1:2

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Rabbi Moses Schreiber (1762-1830) was better known as the Ḥatam Sofer.

Bamidbar/Numbers 1:2

שְׂא֗וּ אֶת־רֹאשׁ֙ כׇּל־עֲדַ֣ת בְּנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָ֖ם לְבֵ֣ית אֲבֹתָ֑ם בְּמִסְפַּ֣ר שֵׁמ֔וֹת כׇּל־זָכָ֖ר לְגֻלְגְּלֹתָֽם׃

Take a census of the whole Israelite company [of fighters] by the clans of its ancestral houses, listing the names, every male, he…

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