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Archive: March 2009

People Cannot be Aggregated

by Rabbi Dov Linzer
Posted on March 12, 2009

Parshat Ki Tisa opens with a census and the requirement to give money rather than to be counted directly.   What – other than superstition – is the point of this?  I believe that the Torah is telling us a critical message about the worth of each person. …