Everyone Counts
Se’u et rosh kol adat B’nei Yisrael… / שְׂא֗וּ אֶת־רֹאשׁ֙ כָּל־עֲדַ֣ת בְּנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לTake a head-count of the entire community of the Children of Israel… (B’midbar 1:2) Sefer Bamidbar, the fourth book of the Torah, begins and ends with a census count. This is why the book is known in English as