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Chapter 26 discussed the census that would set the boundaries of the land of Canaan. Everything seemed to make sense. The land would be apportioned by the size of the tribes. But five daughters saw a problem. They had no brothers and their father died. Why should they not get their father\u2019s inheritance? So, they petitioned Moses. Moses asked God, and God agreed, mandating that in a family of only daughters, the daughters would inherit.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

When the daughters of Zelophehad approached Moses they explained \u201cOur father died in the wilderness. He was not one of the faction, Korah\u2019s faction, which banded together against God, but he died for his own sin\u201d (verse 3). Why was it important to say that he was not one of Korach\u2019s followers and that he died from his own sin? According to Rashi, the daughters are distinguishing him from those individuals who rabble-roused and enticed others to complain. He only sinned on his own and did not take anyone down with him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

He then brings two opinions that Zelophehad could have been the person who gathered sticks on Shabbat in chapter 15, or one of the people who tried to enter the land without God\u2019s approval, in chapter 14. Ibn Ezra splits the two. The daughters believed that those who were in Korach\u2019s cohort would be cut out from inheriting so they first distinguished their father from that group. Then, quoting Rabbi Yehudah Halevi, he shows that the daughters explained that their father died prematurely of his own sin which was why he did not have sons.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ramban does not like either of these interpretations. He believes that the daughters were concerned that Moses had a vendetta against the descendants of Korach because they had directly questioned Moses\u2019s authority. Instead, they emphasized to Moses that their father died \u201cin his own sin\u201d, meaning because of the sin of everyone in that generation who did not believe that God would take them into the land.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Perhaps the answer also lies in the second half of the chapter. Moses is told to look at the land on the horizon knowing he will not be able to enter. In response, he asks God to appoint someone in his stead. God chooses Joshua to lead the people. Moses had two sons, but neither were in the running. Moses was concerned that his efforts would go for naught in the new land. He was not allowed to enter due to his own sin, but would his legacy continue? Just like the daughters of Zelophehad , God responds that there is a way for his legacy to continue even if not in the \u201cnormal\u201d way. 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Similar to the story in Numbers chapter 9, the story of Zelophehad\u2019s daughters introduces us to a group of people who, feeling excluded by the <\/span>halacha,<\/span><\/i> come to Moses with the question: \"Why should we be any less?\" God's response to Moses in chapter 9 demonstrates that he was just waiting for someone to ask in order to introduce new laws that were even more far-reaching and inclusive than that which was requested. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

In our story, the message emphasized by Rashi is that not only does God <\/span>want<\/b> people to ask, He <\/span>needs <\/b>them to. \"Thus is it written before me above, teaching that their eyes saw what Moses\u2019 eyes did not see\" (Rashi on 27:7). The halacha of inheritance as it had been presented up until that point was lacking! The daughters of Zelophehad needed to burst into the <\/span>beit midrash<\/span><\/em> and make their demand in order for the \"Torah-true\" approach to be revealed. Without their intervention, there would have been a dissonance between the divine law above and its application in the world below.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But what motivated this intervention? An honest, non-anachronistic reading of the text would seem to yield no proto-feminist motivations behind the daughters\u2019 request, and perhaps just the opposite. What moves Zelophehad\u2019s daughters is their desire that the patriarchal name of the family not be diminished, not any criticism of the lack of egalitarianism in Jewish law. This plain reading is replaced by a \u201cmansplained\u201d reading by the Sifrei, but with an astonishing twist.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\"When the daughters of Zelophehad heard that the land was being divided among the tribes and not the women, they gathered together to advise. They said: the mercy of flesh and blood is not like the mercy of God! Flesh and blood have more mercy on men, but God is not like this, rather, on men and women, He has mercy on all...\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n

When women in modern times have advocated for halakhic change, they have frequently been met with the accusation that they are not motivated by Torah values, but rather by an egalitarian ideology which is foreign to Torah. The rabbinic readings above tell nearly the same story, with the opposite conclusion. The egalitarian assumptions of Zelophehad\u2019s daughters are what allow them to access to previously unrevealed truths of Torah.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cYes, Zelophehad\u2019s daughters\u2019 words are just\u2026\u201d (27:7). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

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My shtetl-born grandfather, Leon Gerson z\u201dl, had a great \u201cbah.\u201d One harrumph evoked an exhaustion and indignation honed by millennia of Jewish suffering. To him, all the media yelling about \u201cthe feminists,\u201d pro and con, was bah-worthy. Yet, he was so proud of the flexibility, vision, humanity, and respect for women that Moses, the Torah, and God convey in Numbers 27 \u2013 with the daughters of Zelophehad.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The story begins with five daughters approaching Moses thoughtfully, respectfully. Their father died without sons. They nevertheless feel they should inherit a portion of his land to continue his name -- a nice reminder that the stuff we inherit represents our parents\u2019 spiritual legacies.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Moses lobbies God \u2013 <\/span>VaYikrav<\/span><\/em>\u2013 \u201cto approach\u201d; also, \u201cto make a sacrificial offering.\u201d A mere six words later, voila, God understands the daughters spoke \u201cjustly.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A powerful moment in democratic reform occurs. God declares in 27:11 that this new expansiveness shall remain forever as <\/span>Chukat Mishpat<\/span><\/em>\u2013 a \u201cdecreed statue as the Lord commanded Moses.\u201d Using the traditional wording legitimizes this innovation.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Sadly, Moses\u2019s fortunes turn abruptly in the next verse. God tells Moses to glance at the Promised Land, while remembering he won\u2019t reach it, as a punishment for his previous sin of not lobbying God properly for water.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Numbers <\/span>again distinguishes between constructive dissent triggering legitimized reform versus destructive lashing out. \u00a0This helps explain Grandpa Leon\u2019s delight in Zelophehad daughters. My grandfather\u2019s \u201cbah\u201d wasn\u2019t rejecting powerful women but all the polemics, which obscured his more natural, organic, Bible-based egalitarianism. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

He loved recalling that he discovered Zionism as a 12-year-old by reading <\/span>Daniel Deronda<\/span><\/em>-- written by a woman, George Eliot -- during Kol Nidre<\/em>. A congregant seized the book and passed it to the rabbi, forcing my formidable great-grandmother to demand it back after the fast. My grandfather was proud that his mother ran a bakery in Stavisk, Poland, his wife worked in the Bronx and Queens, his daughter \u2013 my mother \u2013 worked \u2013 in Brooklyn and Queens, and his only granddaughter had a fancy job in the only borough that counted, Manhattan \u2013 what we kids from Queens called \u201cNew York.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\r\n

When I read about our spiritual great-great-grandmothers, Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah, I delight that the Torah named them, Moses heard them, God legitimized them, and my grandfather taught us to revere them as strong women and change-agents in a tradition solid enough to root us, flexible enough to adapt when necessary.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\u201cIt is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.\u201d This opening line from Jane Austen\u2019s Pride and Prejudice<\/em>, a tale of upper-class English society in the early nineteenth century, introduces the story of the five Bennet sisters as they search for suitable husbands. In this world of dances and balls at lavish country house estates, marriage to a wealthy man is the only way to secure a woman\u2019s future, for she cannot inherit her father\u2019s title or estate. Whether she is beautiful like Jane, smart like Elizabeth, plain and serious like Mary, ditsy and silly like Kitty, or foolish like Lydia, marriage is the only solution.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Later in the nineteenth century, we find another fictional family of five daughters \u2013 this time in Yiddish. Sholem Aleichem\u2019s stories of Tevye the Dairyman later became the much loved musical, Fiddler on the Roof<\/em>. Like Pride and Prejudice<\/em>, Fiddler on the Roof<\/em> tells the story of five young women as they approach marriageable age. Once again, the five sisters are dependent on marriage to secure their future. While in Pride and Prejudice<\/em>, both Jane and Lizzy eventually marry suitable husbands, the young female protagonists in Fiddler on the Roof<\/em> challenge their community\u2019s rules for marriage. Tevye is caught between his community\u2019s expectations and his daughters\u2019 breaking of the boundaries. Tzeitel, Hodel and Chava make their choices and break their father\u2019s heart. (Shprintze and Bielke are still too young \u2013 but we can guess what is in store for them). The parallel story of an approaching pogrom suggests that the entire community is doomed \u2013 perhaps because of the younger generation\u2019s actions.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In Numbers 27, we find another family of five sisters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah and Tirzah, daughters of the late Zelophehad. Women cannot inherit their father\u2019s land, and so are dependent on marriage to secure their future, while their father\u2019s inheritance is divided among the other men of the tribe. Yet, this story runs a little differently. These women speak up. They approach Moses, Elazar the Priest and the other men in power, and ask for their father\u2019s inheritance to be given to them. Moses does not answer them immediately, but refers their question to God, who tells Moses: \u2018The plea of Zelophehad\u2019s daughters is just: you should give them a hereditary holding among their father\u2019s kinsmen; transfer their father\u2019s share to them\u2019 (Numbers 27:7). God agrees with the five sisters that they are entitled to inherit their father\u2019s estate.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This surprising, even revolutionary, response instigates a change in the law. God instructs Moses to tell the people of Israel that \u2018If a man dies without a son, you shall transfer his property to his daughter\u2019 (Numbers 27:8). Here we find an ancient example of the theme played out in Fiddler on the Roof<\/em>. Jewish tradition evolves, despite opposition to change. 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Rashi questions why Moses takes the case of the daughters of Tzelofchad immediately to God. The simplest answer is, Because he could not answer it himself: the law eluded him, was <\/span>hidden\u2014nit'alma<\/span><\/em>\u2014from him. This fit of forgetting is a punishment for the tone of superiority in Moses' long-ago words, in which he seemed to set himself up as the ultimate authority on the law. (It is striking that <\/span>takrivun<\/span><\/em>\u2014<\/span><\/i>\"you shall bring to me\"\u2014is the same expression used in our narrative of the \"approach\" of the sisters to Moses for a legal decision.) <\/span><\/p>\r\n

But there is another possibility: in this case, Moses loses the privilege of \"having the Torah written through him\"\u2014\"by his hand\"\u2014directly. Instead, the five sisters are granted that privilege; they are the catalysts of a page in Torah\u2014in a sense, they are accredited with its authorship. To author is to initiate, to authorize, to assume responsibility. To have a section of Torah written through one's agency is a privilege that the women, in this case, take over from Moses. The sense of an implicit tension between Moses and the five sisters \u2014his loss is their gain\u2014is carried over into the next passage. \"Their eye saw what Moses' eye did not see.\" <\/span><\/p>\r\n

The theme of tension between Moses and the five sisters is, perhaps surprisingly, to be found in many midrashic sources. For instance, in <\/span>Midrash Rabbah<\/span><\/em>, the women refuse to marry anyone who is not appropriate (<\/span>hagun<\/span><\/em>) for them. God brings the women into Moses' field so as to chasten any pride he might take in his own sexual abstinence. By force of their very being, they bring a moral perspective that in a sense makes Moses' self-control less remarkable. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Even more eloquently, the following section in the midrash relates another version of the story about the law that is hidden from Moses. It eludes him. In the end, God charges him with hubris in his declaration, \"What is too hard for you, bring to me!\" And then God seemingly taunts Moses: \"The law that you don't know, women discuss it!\" The sarcasm slights Moses with its implication of \"Even women ...\" This is, at least, the obvious way to read the midrash, again implying tension between Moses and the sisters. And yet, as we shall see later, there is another possibility: without sarcasm, God may be making a factual observation about the difference between Moses' vision and theirs. <\/span><\/p>\r\n


\r\nExcerpted from: \u00a0Bewilderments<\/em>, Schocken Books, 2017, p.<\/span>265 - 267 <\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":92645,"alt":"","title":"pro15-women praying","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pro15-women-praying.jpg","width":1920,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pro15-women-praying-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pro15-women-praying-300x200.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":200,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pro15-women-praying-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pro15-women-praying-1024x683.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":683,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pro15-women-praying.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1024,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pro15-women-praying.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1280,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pro15-women-praying-1200x800.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":800,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pro15-women-praying-630x420.jpg","home_baner-width":630,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"","tile_main_caption":"Implicit Tensions","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"A woman\u2019s view, a woman\u2019s voice","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":92645,"alt":"","title":"pro15-women praying","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pro15-women-praying.jpg","width":1920,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pro15-women-praying-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pro15-women-praying-300x200.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":200,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pro15-women-praying-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pro15-women-praying-1024x683.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":683,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pro15-women-praying.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1024,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pro15-women-praying.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1280,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pro15-women-praying-1200x800.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":800,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pro15-women-praying-630x420.jpg","home_baner-width":630,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Numbers","chapter":"27","chapter_main_number":"144","date":"20260318","wall_id":"144"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"363","name":"Midrash","old_id":"763"},{"term_id":"397","name":"Moses","old_id":"797"},{"term_id":"414","name":"Law","old_id":"814"},{"term_id":"483","name":"Feminism","old_id":"883"}]},{"order":7,"id":"48445","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"2","name":"The Daughters of Zelophehad \u2013 Then and Now ","post_title":"The Daughters Of Zelophehad \u2013 Then And Now","slug":"the-daughters-of-zelophehad-then-and-now","old_id":"48445","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":33877,"post_title":"Marc Bregman","slug":"marc-bregman","old_id":"33877","first_name":"Marc","last_name":"Bregman","description":"Marc Bregman received his Ph.D. from The Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1991. 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Our chapter opens with the story of the Daughters of Zelophehad, a man who died without having any sons to whom to leave his portion in the Promised Land (27:1-11). His daughters petition Moses to let them inherit their father. Moses refers their petition to God, who replies: \u201cThe daughters of Zelophehad speak right. You shall surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brethren. And you shall cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto them\u201d (verse 7). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

This leads to major legislation in the area of inheritance law: <\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cFurther, speak to the Israelite people as follows: \u2018If a man dies without leaving a son, you shall transfer his property to his daughter. If he has no daughter, you shall assign his property to his brothers. If he has no brothers, you shall assign his property to his father\u2019s brothers. If his father had no brothers, you shall assign his property to his nearest relative in his own clan, and he shall inherit it.\u2019 This shall be the law of procedure for the Israelites, in accordance with the Lord\u2019s command to Moses\u201d (verses 8-11). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Talmud (Baba Batra 116b-122b on Mishnah Baba Batra 8:3) records a lengthy discussion of this biblical legislation. In the course of this discussion the daughters of Zelophehad are said to have been wise women (hakhmaniot<\/em>), exegetes (darshaniot<\/em>) and virtuous (tzadqaniot<\/em>). Their wisdom is demonstrated by their finding the opportune moment to raise their issue with Moses. Their exegetical ability is demonstrated by their having known the prevailing law that a daughter has no claim to inheritance when the father does have a son. They were virtuous in that even the youngest of them was willing to wait for up to 40 years to marry a husband worthy of her. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

It certainly seems that the daughters of Zelophehad deserve to be considered early Jewish feminists having demonstrated, according to the Talmudic Sages, their wisdom, exegetical ability and virtuousness.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Illustration for Chapter 27:<\/p>\r\n

Parashat Pinchas<\/span><\/i> relates the story of the five daughters of Zelophehad and their appeal against the Jewish laws of inheritance. Israelite society was patriarchal, so when Zelophehad died without leaving sons to inherit, his portion would have been eliminated. His five daughters \u2013 Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milkah, and Tirza \u2013 approached Moses and the chieftains contending that they, too, should have the right to inherit. Moses, in turn, asked God for a ruling, whereupon new inheritance laws were enacted establishing the right of daughters in a family with no sons to inherit their father\u2019s land.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Are we to consider the daughters of Zelophehad an early model of the feminist struggle for equal rights? Or are we to understand that their real concern was only to perpetuate their father\u2019s name? No doubt they displayed great courage in protesting the impending injustice, but reading their story as an ancient feminist episode may be a bit anachronistic. Avner Moriah\u2019s thoughts in this regard are clear. By juxtaposing the stories of Zelophehad\u2019s daughters and Ruth and Boaz, the artist is clearly suggesting that the daughters\u2019 real concern was to maintain their family\u2019s ancestral portion and to eternalize their father\u2019s name.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The painting is divided into three registers. On the top, we see Zelophehad\u2019s five daughters standing together, figured with their eyes wide open, looking toward Moses, who is holding his staff. In front of the women are the chieftains, portrayed bearded but without facial features, their blank faces and their backs toward the daughters implying that they are not at all concerned with or sympathetic to their cause. In the space between Moses and the chieftains is an elevated minimalistic schematic scene of pairs of figures, some within a partial frame that resembles a marriage canopy and some above it. This curious inset alludes to a subsequent amendment to the laws of inheritance that precludes an ancestral portion being lost to the paternal tribe: \u201cThis is what the Lord has commanded concerning the daughters of Zelophehad: They may marry anyone they wish, provided they marry into a clan of their father\u2019s tribe\u201d (Num. 36:6).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The first scene on the right of the middle register visualizes a verse from the Book of Ruth: \u201cMeanwhile Boaz had gone in the gate and sat down there. And now the redeemer whom Boaz had mentioned passed by. He calls, come over and sit down here\u201d (Ruth 4:1). For Boaz to be allowed to marry Ruth, her redeemer (Naomi\u2019s next of kin) must give up his rights to claim her and to buy her late husband\u2019s and son\u2019s lands. The next scene to the left depicts the required disclaiming ritual: \u201c[For the act] of redemption or exchange to validate any transaction, one man would take off his sandal and hand it to the other\u201d (Ruth 4:7).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the lower register we see the wedding of Boaz and Ruth at the city gate in front of all the people, where Boaz declares: \u201cI am also acquiring Ruth the Moabite, the wife of Mahlon, as my wife so as to perpetuate the name of the deceased upon his estate, that the name of the deceased may not disappear from his kinsmen\u2026\u201d (Ruth 4:10). The last scene on the left shows the birth of Ruth and Boaz\u2019s child, who would keep the name of the deceased. Boaz words about the obligation to perpetuate the name of the deceased echoes the words of the daughters of Zelophehad, which strongly suggests their real concern: \u201cLet not our father\u2019s name be lost to his clan just because he had no son. Give us a holding among our father kinsmen\u201d (Num. 27:4).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Artwork by: Avner Moriah, by courtesy of the artist<\/p>\r\n

Text by: Dr. Shulamit Laderman, who holds a\u00a0<\/span>PhD in Art History and has published extensively on Jewish and Christian influences on biblical interpretive illustration.<\/p>\r\n

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God tells Moses to appoint Joshua, \u2018a man in whom is the spirit\u2019. He gives him precise instructions about how to arrange the succession:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cTake Joshua son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and lay your hand on him. Have him stand before Elazar the priest and the entire assembly and commission him in their presence. Give him some of your authority so the whole Israelite community will obey him\u2026 At his command he and the entire community of the Israelites will go out, and at his command they will come in.\u201d (Num. 27:18-21).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

There are three actions involved here: [1] Moses was to lay his hand on Joshua, [2] have him stand before Elazar the priest and the entire assembly, and [3] give him \u201csome of your authority [me-hodecha<\/em>]\u201d. What is the significance of this threefold process? What does it tell us about the nature of leadership in Judaism?<\/span>
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\r\n<\/span>Beneath these enigmatic words is a fundamental truth about leadership\u2026 the three-fold process through which Joshua was to be inducted into office had to do with the three types of leadership. Specifically the second stage \u2013 \u201cHave him stand before Elazar the priest and the entire assembly and commission him in their presence\u201d \u2013 had to do with the fact that Moses was not a priest. His successor had to be formally recognised by the representative of the priesthood, Elazar the High Priest.<\/span>
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\r\n<\/span>Power and influence are often thought of as being the same kind of thing: those who have power have influence and vice versa. In fact, though, they are quite different. If I have total power and then decide to share it with nine others, I now have only one-tenth of the power I had before. If I have a certain measure of influence and then share it with nine others, I do not have less. I have more. Instead of one person radiating this influence, there are now ten. Power works by division, influence by multiplication.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Moses occupied two roles. He was the functional equivalent of a king\u2026 A king had power. He ruled. He made military, economic and political decisions. Those who disobeyed him faced the possible penalty of death. A prophet had no power whatsoever. He commanded no battalions. He had no way of enforcing his views. But he had massive influence. Today we barely remember the names of most of Israel\u2019s and Judah\u2019s kings. But the words of the prophets continue to inspire by the sheer force of their vision and ideals. As Kierkegaard once said: When a king dies, his power ends; when a prophet dies, his influence begins.<\/span>
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\r\n<\/span>Moses was to confer both roles on Joshua as his successor\u2026Moses gave Joshua his power and his influence. The first was essential to the political and military tasks ahead. But it was the second that made Joshua one of the great figures of our tradition. Influence is simply more enduring than power. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

From:<\/span>Influence and Power (Covenant & Conversation, Pinchas 5777)<\/span><\/i><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":57303,"alt":"","title":"isam8-king","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/isam8-king.png","width":755,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/isam8-king-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/isam8-king-177x300.png","medium-width":177,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/isam8-king-604x1024.png","medium_large-width":604,"medium_large-height":1024,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/isam8-king-604x1024.png","large-width":604,"large-height":1024,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/isam8-king.png","1536x1536-width":755,"1536x1536-height":1280,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/isam8-king.png","2048x2048-width":755,"2048x2048-height":1280,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/isam8-king-708x1200.png","post_full_size-width":708,"post_full_size-height":1200,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/isam8-king-248x420.png","home_baner-width":248,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"","tile_main_caption":"Of Kings And Prophets, Power And Influence","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"The words of the prophets continue to inspire by the sheer force of their vision and ideals","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":57303,"alt":"","title":"isam8-king","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/isam8-king.png","width":755,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/isam8-king-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/isam8-king-177x300.png","medium-width":177,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/isam8-king-604x1024.png","medium_large-width":604,"medium_large-height":1024,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/isam8-king-604x1024.png","large-width":604,"large-height":1024,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/isam8-king.png","1536x1536-width":755,"1536x1536-height":1280,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/isam8-king.png","2048x2048-width":755,"2048x2048-height":1280,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/isam8-king-708x1200.png","post_full_size-width":708,"post_full_size-height":1200,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/isam8-king-248x420.png","home_baner-width":248,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Numbers","chapter":"27","chapter_main_number":"144","date":"20260318","wall_id":"144"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"397","name":"Moses","old_id":"797"},{"term_id":"402","name":"Leadership","old_id":"802"},{"term_id":"412","name":"Responsibility","old_id":"812"},{"term_id":"503","name":"Power","old_id":"903"},{"term_id":"806","name":"Joshua","old_id":"1206"}]},{"order":11,"id":"48440","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"What To Look For In A Successor ","post_title":"What To Look For In A Successor","slug":"what-to-look-for-in-a-successor","old_id":"48440","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":46656,"post_title":"Molly Morris","slug":"molly-morris","old_id":"46656","first_name":"Molly ","last_name":"Morris ","description":"Molly Morris holds a Masters degree in Leadership and Community Engagement. 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After receiving confirmation that he\u2019s not going to be leading the Israelites into the land of Israel, Moses asks God to appoint his successor, referring to God as \u201cthe God of all living souls\u201d and stipulating two required characteristics or skill-sets for his successor: 1) that he will \u201ccome in before them\u201d and 2) that he will \u201clead them out and bring them in (27:17)\u201d. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In fact there is a third characteristic of the new leader alluded to in the way Moses addressed God as the God of \u201call living souls\u201d (27:16). There is an opinion (Rashi) that this reference to individual souls is an acknowledgment that each member of the Israelite community has a unique personality, and their leader needs to be able to support each of them individually as well as, or maybe in order to lead the community as a whole. The other two required skills for Moses\u2019 successor have a distinctly military connotation. \u201cLeading them out and leading them in\u201d conjures images of battlefield leadership, which makes sense in the context of the next challenge to be faced by the Israelites: conquering the land of Israel. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

But there is a seeming disconnect between the requirements Moses suggests and God\u2019s response to appoint Joshua, \u201ca man of spirit:\u201d (27:18). Whether or not this allusion to spirituality is an additional characteristic or a more nuanced take on \u201cleading them out and bringing them in\u201d, it\u2019s clearly a central requirement for successorship to Moses. The next thing God commands Moses is to \u201clay your hands on Joshua and give him some of your splendor\u201d (27:19-20), followed by the instruction for the leadership hierarchy: Joshua will lead under the direction of the newly appointed high priest, Elazar, who will, in turn, lead through the usage of the Oracle provided by God (27:21). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

So in a very few, short verses of this chapter, we are given a blueprint for leadership and succession planning. 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Numbers 27 is divided into four neat and even packages. The first two paragraphs weave one story \u2013 that of the Daughters of Zelophehad asking for their father\u2019s inheritance \u2013 while the second two paragraphs tell another tale \u2013 that of God\u2019s reminder to Moses that he will not be entering the land alongside his people.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The juxtaposition of these two short, to-the-point, and seemingly unrelated anecdotes begs the question: why? Why are they placed side-by-side in our chapter? What does reading them together teach us? And why is each of the stories subdivided again into two? \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

One might say that it is all about the pivot.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Both vignettes are proof positive that God has grown up over the 40 years in the desert. Because in both stories, God pivots. God truly hears the other. God exhibits tractability.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the first tale, the women make themselves vulnerable. They even acknowledge their father died because of a sin. The initial paragraph ends on a cliffhanger, and we expect God to respond to their request with a \u201cNo way!\u201d That is the God we knew. But by now, 40 years down the line, it is no longer an all-or-nothing situation. People sin, but that doesn\u2019t mean they are wiped out completely. They still have a voice. And God listens to the sisters\u2019 voice, affirming their wish.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the second anecdote, Moses too makes himself vulnerable. God reminds him of the sin that will keep him from the Promised Land. The paragraph ends abruptly, and we anticipate some sort of breakdown to follow. But it doesn\u2019t. Moses still has the wherewithal to tell God he thinks a new leader must be chosen. Because by now, it is not an all-or-nothing situation. People sin, but that doesn\u2019t mean their ideas are wiped out completely. Moses still has a voice. And God listens to his voice, heeding his advice.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

At the beginning of our narrative, back in early Exodus, God would not have done this. God lashed out at Moses for doubting His plan, or even for asking Him to take things a little slower. God was the character who expected everyone to keep up, no matter the pace He was going. God hardened people\u2019s hearts. God did not allow for change. God was rigid.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But 40 years down the line, here in Numbers 27, God has learned the lesson of flexibility. The lesson of the pivot. 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Applauding the courage and inner strength of the five sisters who fought for their rights. After their father died, his five daughters bravely approached Moses arguing that with no husbands, brothers or sons they should be allowed to inherit their father\u2019s allotted share. Moses brings their case to God who confirms \u201cthe daughters of Zelophehad are correct- they shall surely be given an inheritance, thus establishing clarified rules regarding all future women of Israel. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

I am so thankful now, thousands of years later, as my family and I are so fortunate to make a home on that very land. We live in the Shomron, on the border of the original territory of Ephraim and Menasseh. My own daughters and son are growing up surrounded by these mountains that forever echo the valor of the Daughters of Zelophehad, our female heroines of spirit.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Artwork: courtesy of the author - Daughters of Tzalafchad, acrylic paint and hand dyed silk on canvas<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":48443,"alt":"","title":"YaelResnickNumbers27","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/YaelResnickNumbers27.jpg","width":1500,"height":1050,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/YaelResnickNumbers27-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/YaelResnickNumbers27-300x210.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":210,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/YaelResnickNumbers27-768x538.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":538,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/YaelResnickNumbers27-1024x717.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":717,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/YaelResnickNumbers27.jpg","1536x1536-width":1500,"1536x1536-height":1050,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/YaelResnickNumbers27.jpg","2048x2048-width":1500,"2048x2048-height":1050,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/YaelResnickNumbers27-1200x840.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":840,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/YaelResnickNumbers27-600x420.jpg","home_baner-width":600,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"","tile_main_caption":"A View From the Land of Ephraim and Menasseh","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"A midrash in art","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":48443,"alt":"","title":"YaelResnickNumbers27","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/YaelResnickNumbers27.jpg","width":1500,"height":1050,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/YaelResnickNumbers27-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/YaelResnickNumbers27-300x210.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":210,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/YaelResnickNumbers27-768x538.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":538,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/YaelResnickNumbers27-1024x717.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":717,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/YaelResnickNumbers27.jpg","1536x1536-width":1500,"1536x1536-height":1050,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/YaelResnickNumbers27.jpg","2048x2048-width":1500,"2048x2048-height":1050,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/YaelResnickNumbers27-1200x840.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":840,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/YaelResnickNumbers27-600x420.jpg","home_baner-width":600,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Numbers","chapter":"27","chapter_main_number":"144","date":"20260318","wall_id":"144"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"363","name":"Midrash","old_id":"763"},{"term_id":"369","name":"Visual Arts","old_id":"769"},{"term_id":"431","name":"Personal\/memoir","old_id":"831"},{"term_id":"600","name":"Women","old_id":"1000"}]},{"order":14,"id":"48448","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Zelophehad And His Daughters ","post_title":"Zelophehad And His Daughters","slug":"zelophehad-and-his-daughters","old_id":"48448","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":36669,"post_title":"Yakov Azriel","slug":"yakov-azriel","old_id":"36669","first_name":"Yakov ","last_name":"Azriel","description":"Yakov Azriel, who lives in Israel, has published five books of poetry in the USA and hundreds of poems in journals and magazines. 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\u201cThen came forward daughters of Zelophehad the son of Hepher the son of Gilead the son of Machir the son of Menashe, from the family of Menashe the son of Joseph; and these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noa, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.\u201d \u00a0(Numbers 27:1)<\/p>\r\n


\r\nTevye the Dairyman had beautiful and gifted daughters<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Who brought him only heart-break.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Who did they marry?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A poor tailor, who died young and left Tzeitl penniless with three babies;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span> A revolutionary exiled to Siberia, accompanied by Hodel;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span> A Russian \u00a0lover, who brought Chava to the baptismal font;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span> A rich widow\u2019s only son, whose broken engagement led Schprintze to suicide;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span> And Beilke\u2019s fat, bald businessman with a loud voice and a sniggering laugh<\/span>
\r\n<\/span> Who later went bankrupt.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Was Zelophehad also a <\/span>s<\/span>hlimazel<\/span><\/em>, or did his daughters do any better?<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Did any of them marry a prophet, or a <\/span>nazir<\/span><\/em>, or a scribe? <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Or was Zelophehad interested in finding a husband<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Who would just appreciate Mahlah\u2019s love of learning,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Or give warmth and love to Noa?<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Did he often wake up in the middle of the night<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Worried about Hoglah\u2019s disappointments,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Sighing over Milcah\u2019s unrealistic dreams,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Depressed about Tirzah\u2019s fears?<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>When he met a neighbor\u2019s sons, did he speculate:<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>\u2018This one would make a devoted husband for Milcah,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>That one could find a common language with Tirzah\u2019?<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Did he plan and hope and pray?<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Did anxiety and solicitude finally break his heart? <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Let Shakespeare forget about Hamlet and Brutus,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Let Homer forget about Achilles and Odysseus;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The real hero is the father who manages to marry off his daughters<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Well.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":103123,"alt":"","title":"-62365451e8b8c--62365451e8b8egen31-father 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\u201cSpeaking Truth: The Daughters of Zelophehad\u201d<\/span><\/a> by Laurie Matzkin: Explore Rabbinic traditions about these sisters. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

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  1. Every daughter has a name<\/em>. \u201cThe names of the daughters were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah\u201d (verse 1).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Sinners don\u2019t prosper.<\/em> From the words of the daughters of Zelophehad in verse 3, it sounds like there are sins which can cancel out an inheritance. They emphasize regarding their father: \u201cOur father died in the wilderness. He was not one of the faction, Korah\u2019s faction, which banded together against the LORD.\u201d We shall encounter this principle again in another 164 chapters (I Kings 21).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. The demands of the position<\/em>. This is the job description as phrased by the predecessor - the one who held the position for over 40 years: \u201csomeone over the community who shall go out before them and come in before them, and who shall take them out and bring them in, so that the LORD\u2019s community may not be like sheep that have no shepherd\u201d (verses 16-7).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
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