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The connection between the parshiyot of Matot and Masei is that if a
person is not traveling forward, i.e., ascending the ladder of Torah and
yirat Shamayim, Hashem will strike him to get him to move.
The last letters of the words and are numerically equivalent
to 410, which is also the gematria of the word (sacred). Hashem
strikes a person in order to move him along the road of Torah, which has
the power to sanctify him. The words and both begin with
the letter , numerically equivalent to forty. This is an allusion to the
Torah, given after forty days and nights. One who is not involved in Torah
receives “blows” to make him travel toward it.
Hashem brings suffering upon a person to awaken him to study Torah and
do mitzvot. At first, these are light taps. But if he does not get the
message, the taps become stronger. This is similar to tzara’at,which
would first come on a person’s house, then his possessions, until they
gradually came upon the person himself.
These parshiyot are read during Bein Hametzarim, for they are capable of
awakening a person to do teshuvah and thereby merit the ultimate geulah.

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“These are the journeys of the Children of
Israel who went forth from the land of Egypt

according to their legions, under the hand of
Moshe and Aharon. Moshe wrote their goings

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