{"id":48352,"date":"2019-01-28T17:32:17","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T15:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=48352"},"modified":"2022-08-21T14:08:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T11:08:51","slug":"the-lucky-number-600000-and-the-demographic-bogeyman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-lucky-number-600000-and-the-demographic-bogeyman\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lucky Number 600,000 And The Demographic Bogeyman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[395,789],"acf":{"old_id":"48352","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33859,"related_cahpter":"143","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Don\u2019t let numbers numb you regarding our values and dreams","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The census in chapter 26 seems, on the face of it, similar enough to the one which occurred 39 years and 25 chapters earlier, at the beginning of the book of Numbers. But since then, everything, and literally almost everyone, has changed. The seemingly dry listing in fact bears the painful scars of all the troubles of the last 40 years, both explicitly, and beneath the surface. The number of Shimonites has been reduced by more than half, a testament to the tribe&#8217;s central role in the sin with the daughters of Moab, led by their prince, Zimri. Whole families are missing from the tribe of Levi, perhaps because of their participation in Korach&#8217;s rebellion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But despite all of those changes, natural growth and supernatural deaths even each other out, such that after 40 years, the bottom line is essentially the same- the Jewish people still tallies in right around the lucky number 600,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The number 600,000, as the rabbis understood it typologically, represents the full diversity of humankind. Every single type of person left Egypt, and every single type of person will enter the land. The specific choices of those who left Egypt determined that the particular individuals making up the nation have almost all changed, save those wise enough to make the right choices. This lucky group includes two men, and, according to Rashi in this chapter, <\/span><b>all <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the women. But, as a nation, you could say that the Jewish people to whom God promised the land is essentially unchanged.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is an observation that ought to inform us when considering the many urgent initiatives responding to various demographic threats and time bombs. The demographic bogeyman is used to justify policy proposals from all sections of the political and religious map; to withdraw from territories and to annex territories, to change religion and to conserve it. The experience of the Jewish people in the desert, as <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">maaseh avot siman lebanim<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, an archetype which has proven true throughout our history, despite everything, should allow us to calm down and refocus ourselves. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Jewish people, the eternal nation that created a covenant with God, will be ok. It will survive, as it has in the face of far more formidable challenges. 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