Bamidar

This week's Torah portion is Bamidar. After to listening to it on the computer twice now Jonny, has collected some facts. Each tribe had to have a minimum of 20,000 Jews. The levite tribe was counted using males over 1 month. All the rest were counted with males over 20 years old. G-d counts the Jews because he loves them. That is why this is the third counting. He counted 70 when they went into Israel. There were 600,000 when they came out. After the Chet Faygel the incident with the golden calf they were counted again. This counting was performed on the first day of the second month after the Mishkan was established. This teaches about the mezuzah. Jonny's family had so much bad luck because they didn't put them up right away. But in the old days you had to wait 30 days. The rabbis now interpret this to mean that Jews put one up right away if they own the house and wait 30 days if it is an apartment. Moshe counted the tribes and counted the people. He needed to make sure there were 20,000 in each tribe. The Levite tribe was exempt from a lot of the punishment because they were counted at 1 month and up. They had fewer numbers because less of them were punished. On the other hand they had fewer numbers so they were counted at a lower age.

Jonny finished a book. He called his parents last night on the way home from class. He left Kristina and Wendell a message. Hello it is 9:12 PM. They were not home. Lorraine and Jesse aren't sleeping well. Angelina is dealing with the slow moving kitchen repairs. Alberta is on crutches. Jonny is dealing with his Russian counter part to get a demographics integration program put into place. He revitalized a c# program today and provided some cause of death data. The book was 216 pages. It was called Bladerunner. There were parts that were very good. Most of it was just so so. Lorraine didn't feel like helping Jonny pick out a new book today. So he picked out one himself. He is now on page 25 of Stephen King's From a Buick 8. He is halfway done with CD Fahrenheit 451. Jonny has physical therapy at 5PM today. He drove 21 miles yesterday. The lights were out in downtown Ann Arbor around 5:30 PM. It was very scary.