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Brace yourself: here comes another Biblical list that people love to mock. An array of names, one for each of the new leaders of the tribes, to work with Joshua and Eleazar the Priest in the apportioning of the Land for the Israelite confederation. In a fairly subtle move, the Torah lists the two familiar leaders from the previous generation, but supplements them with all new leaders from the other tribes. The astute reader will note that, as promised, the first generation of wanderers has perished. They will not enter into the Land of Promise. Only those leaders from a new generation, one that never knew slavery, never lived in Egypt, only these are fit to lead the people Israel into their new land, their new future.<\/span><\/p>\n

But there is another subtle message flowing just under the surface as well. The tribal leaders are listed in the approximate order of their tribes\u2019 placement in the geography of the Land of Israel. Even before entering the land, people are introduced in their proper setting, their proper location. Everybody has their time, the Mishnah teaches, and every thing has its place. In the Torah\u2019s list here, we learn that each person has a place too.<\/span><\/p>\n

We are all children of the soil, springing from the rich loam of this beautiful planet. Each person is of a place. In our busy, mobile time, it may well be true that we each have more than one place. But for all of us there is somewhere we are rooted, somewhere that calls us home. For me, the city of my childhood is one of my homes. The town of my college and of my graduate school also feel like homes to me. And as a Jew, every time I fly to Israel, a piece of me is flying home. But at the end of the day, Home (with a capital H) is where my wife and children live. That is where I breathe easiest, where I am nested and settled. Several homes; one Home. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So the Torah reminds us that even before we\u2019ve unpacked, we each of us has a home. We are of somewhere. We belong. And someday a new generation will take up their homes in what was once ours, just as we dwell in the spot where others have dwelt before us. And life\u2019s blessing is to see that continuity as the blessing it is; to celebrate our rootedness. 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