Parshas Bamidbar — The Secret of the Countings • The Daily Teaching from the

For what reason is only the People of Israel worthy to receive the Torah? And what did Hashem answer the nations of the world when they wanted to receive the Torah? You will find the answers to these questions in the daily teaching before you, written by the Gaon HaTzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a—wondrous insights your ear has never heard.

Below is the full teaching to read and download, courtesy of the leaflet “Hashem Hu HaElokim”:

The Secret of “According to Their Skulls, According to Their Families, According to Their Fathers’ House”

All the nations will come before the Holy One, blessed be He, with a claim: Why doesn’t He offer them to receive the Torah—because they, too, want to receive the Torah. The Gemara says: Hashem tells them, “Bring your scroll of lineage.” For the nations have no fathers—only mothers—so it follows that no one has a scroll of lineage, because most of the nations’ children are not truly theirs. But among Israel, everyone traces their lineage through the fathers, and therefore only the People of Israel are worthy to receive the Torah.

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