Over 2,700 years ago, the Assyrians exiled the ten tribes of the Kingdom of Israel. The ten tribes would have returned at once to the Holy Land had not the Lord encircled them with the legendary ...

Sefer Bamidbar opens - in our Parasha - with a count of the numbers of each of the tribes, except for the tribe of Levi, which is counted separately, later in our Parasha, as we read: (3:39 ...