by Rav Ari Yitzchak Chwat, yeshiva.org.il, translated by Hillel Fendel
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In our weekly Torah portion – Bamidbar, which opens the fourth Book of the Torah – we read that every tribe has its own unique flag, bearing its own colors and symbol: "The Children of Israel encamped [in the desert, on their way to the Promised Land of Israel], each man near and according to his flag with his paternal family's insignia" (Numbers 2,1).
