{"id":49208,"date":"2019-02-11T12:49:44","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T10:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=49208"},"modified":"2022-09-05T09:05:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T06:05:26","slug":"an-inspirational-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/an-inspirational-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"An Inspirational Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[522,545,600],"acf":{"old_id":"49208","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":37333,"related_cahpter":"153","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"The struggle of women not for mates or progeny - but for standing","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When we think of women in the Torah, Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah and Noah may not be the first names which spring to mind. We may think of Sarah, who faithfully followed her husband Abraham to another land. We may think of Rebecca, who met her husband Isaac by falling off a camel. And we may think of Leah and Rachel, sisters who ended up married to the same man, Jacob. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have already met the late Zelophehad\u2019s daughters in Numbers 27. And unlike Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel and Leah, whose appearance in the Torah is tied to their husbands from the very start, Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah and Tirzah are not (yet) married. They stand before Moses and the elders and demand their inheritance: \u2018Let not our father\u2019s name be lost to his clan just because he had no son\u2019 (Numbers 27:4). I can only imagine the sisters\u2019 joy at the moment Moses confirms that God agreed to their request. Even though they have no father, no brothers and no husbands, they have a place: they are entitled to inherit their father\u2019s land.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The story could have ended there. The five sisters triumphant, basking in their victory. Smiling happily under the warm desert sun. Safe in the knowledge that they will rightfully inherit what is theirs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But, the Torah reminds us, while Zelophehad\u2019s daughters may have no close male relatives, they do have a tribe. Moses qualifies the law, explaining that \u2018Every daughter among the Israelite tribes who inherits a share must marry someone from a clan of her father\u2019s tribe\u2019 (Numbers 36:8). Even though \u00a0a daughter with no brothers may inherit her father\u2019s land, in order that the land remain with the tribe, she must marry from within it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At first reading, this law seems terribly restrictive. It removes the independence that Zelophehad\u2019s daughters so boldly claimed. It is not exactly fair. But let us remember that these women retain the right to inherit from their father. 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