Make eye contact. Smile. Let them know you do not take them for granted. You appreciate them. They matter as individuals. For this is the life-changing idea: We are as important as we make other people feel.” The word Naso that gives its name to this week’s parshah is a verb of an extraordinary range of meanings, among them: to lift, to carry and to forgive. Here though, and elsewhere in the wilderness years, it is used, in conjunction with the phrase et rosh (“the head”) to mean “to count.” This is an odd way of speaking, because Biblical Hebrew...