Beitza 34b -35a

1- We continued the Sugya of Shabbos creating a new status. Shabbos elevates the status of  fruits and produce to the level of טבל.

2- For Gimmel Tamuz we studied the text of Reshimos #105. 

The point the Rebbe is making is that a Yid can never be outnumbered. His being and existence is a stand-alone entity that cannot be nullified.

Whereas in Halacha, for example, a particle of food may be nullified, נתבטל, a Yid, despite being a minority, a ‘single digit’, cannot be overwhelmed or diluted by huge ‘numbers’. He forever maintains his importance and uniqueness.  

The Rebbe points out the various shiurim we find in the laws of ביטול such as רוב (one in a mixture of three) 17,  60, 100 (Teruma) , 200 (orlah) and 960.

Thus the highest number of ביטול, is 960. Meaning that something that is mixed into a mixture that has 960 parts is definitely בטל.

But a Yid overcomes this ‘960’ that is stacked up against him – thus showing his resilience.

Where do we find this powerful message? In the square area of מחנה ישראל.  

As the Rebbe explains, a simple mathematical calculation shows that area of מחנה ישראל was 576,000,000 square Amos.

See graph below.

 

Concerning various Halachos we find that a person’s body ‘fills’ one square Amo.  

If one divides the 600,000 Yiden into the 576,000,000 square Amos, it shows that every person, despite only needing one square Amo for himself, had 960 square Amos in מחנה ישראל.

[An Amo is 18” or 1.5 feet. A square Amo is 2.25 square feet. So 960 square Amos is 2,160 square feet! That’s a nice sized apartment…]

So despite his own ‘personal space’ being only one square Amo he was allotted 960 times that amount.

And yet his little square Amo holds its own and is never overwhelmed or  בטל, even in a 1:960 ratio. 

960 being the sum when all individual particles lose their identity. When something is outnumbered by a ratio of one in 960 this ‘one’ ceases to exist. It cannot  ‘holds its own’ status, Except the Yid.

The makeup and size of Machane Yisroel came about as a result of the final 40 days that משה רבינו  spent on הר סיני asking for and receiving a full pardon for the חטא העגל.

Thus 40 days and nights has 960 hours……

http://www.lahak.org/templates/lahak/article_cdo/aid/2967226

https://docs.google.com/viewerng/viewer?url=https://w3.chabad.org/media/pdf/893/yYYT8932664.pdf