<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">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.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">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.....<br>
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