About this episode

This episode discusses the importance of gratitude and reflecting on personal transformation through blessings.

 The basic form of gratitude is counting your blessings-something good happens in our life we notice it and thank G-D for it.  This week's Torah Portion introduces another way to spice up our gratitude: Looking at the Before and After in life. Notice how your life was before you received the gift and after, see how much better life is. This week we learn how the jews were counted. One of the reasons given is for the jews to reflect how far they came in such a short time. Going from a nation of 70 to over 600,000.&nbsp…

People in this episode

Host: Rabbi Yochanan David

Topics covered

• gratitude
• blessings
• transformation
• Jewish teachings
• self-reflection

Keywords

• gratitude
• blessings
• Jewish teachings
• self-reflection
• Ramban
• Parshas Bamidbar

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Parshas Bamidbar

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