[Avodah] army exemption

[Saul.Z.Newman at kp.org]

r sternbukh  points out that  the net count  of  bnai yisrael  is the same 
 in shmot and bmidbar  in spite of  shevet levi's  being  counted 
separately in bmidbar, to teach that RBSO  made up to klal yisrael  that 
the 'army'  [litzvo tzava]  didnt lose out  by exempting  shevet levi from 
military service; and it should be a mussar haskel.
one could probably argue that  1] those were nes-filled times [ at least 
more apparent than now]    2]  the ratio of  shevet levi to the shvatim 
would seem to have been in the  5 %  range.  i assume that the ratio of 18 
yr olds in israel applying for torato umnato  status is significantly 
higher.....


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