Bamidbar 5785 - L'negdi

Someone once saw R' Aryeh Levin, often referred to as “the tzaddik of yerushalayim” in the street and asked him, "Rabbi, is it true what they say about you, that you are one of the lamed-vav tzaddikim, one of the 36 righteous people in the world?" R' Aryeh responded, "Sometimes I am, but sometimes I'm not."   Parshas Bamidbar tells us mainly about two concepts: The census of Bnei Yisrael and the order of the encampment of Am Yisrael around the Mishkan. And as the Torah introduces this second…