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Why is there yet another census in chapter 26? This census happens after the plague in chapter 25. After another mass death, God wants another census. There are a few unique features about this counting that help explain why this census happens now. This counting is done by families, and there are four death narratives\u00a0 that are mixed in with the names. These four narratives are: Datan and Aviram who were swallowed up by the ground during Korach\u2019s rebellion, Korach himself and the 250 leaders who were burned to death (although not Korach\u2019s sons), Er and Onan who died back in Genesis, and Nadab and Avihu who died in Leviticus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Why are these stories included? There were plenty of other deaths over the many years. Perhaps the answer comes at the end of the chapter:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Among these there was not one of those enrolled by Moses and Aaron the priest when they recorded the Israelites in the wilderness of Sinai. For God had said of them, \u2018They shall die in the wilderness.\u2019 Not one of them survived, except Caleb son of Jephuneh and Joshua son of Nun\u201d (verses 64-65).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Each one of the stories listed is a lesson about questioning God\u2019s authority and leadership. Datan, Aviram, Korach, and the 250 directly confronted Moses and Aaron and questioned their authority. Nadav and Avihu decided to go against the commandment of Moses and Aaron by bringing a foreign fire into the Mishkan. And Er and Onan refused to continue the leadership lineage of their father. Finally, the generation in the desert questioned God\u2019s ability to bring them into Canaan.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This chapter is the first count of just the individuals that will be able to enter the land. God promises that \u201cthe land, moreover, is to be apportioned by lot; and the allotment shall be made according to the listings of their ancestral tribes\u201d (verse 55). But in order for the people to be ready to enter the land they must remember why their parents were not able to enter the land. God\u2019s authority cannot be questioned. This is also why in the next chapter, God commands Moses to appoint Joshua and the new leader. The older rebellious generations have died out, and now it is time for the new generations to accept God\u2019s authority.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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These are mentioned in the genealogy:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Datan and Aviram <\/span>strove\u2026against the Lord. And the earth\u2026swallowed them.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\r\n

Er and Onan, the sons of Yehudah, <\/span>died in the Land of Cana\u2019an<\/span><\/i><\/p>\r\n

for they were <\/span>wicked in the eyes of the Lord.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\r\n

Nadav and Avihu, the sons of Aaron, <\/span>brought a strange fire before <\/span><\/i>God; they are smitten down.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Zelophchad, of the tribe of Menashe, <\/span>died of his own sin<\/span><\/i><\/p>\r\n

and left no sons.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

There are those who are so imperfect
\r\n<\/span>they disappear.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Even they are a part of us.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Genesis 38:7, 10; Numbers 26:9-10, 19, 61; 27:3<\/span><\/i><\/p>\r\n

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\"The daughters of Zelophehad came forward\" (Num. 27:1): This was greatness for them and greatness for their father... that such women came forth from them. They were wise and righteous women. What was their wisdom? They spoke at the appropriate moment, for Moses was engaged upon the subject of inheritances, saying: \"Among these the land shall be divided\" (26:53). They said to him: \"If we have the status of a son let us inherit like a son; if not, let our mother perform the levirate marriage.\" Immediately, \"Moses brought their case before God\" (27:5). \u00a0(<\/span>Bamidbar Rabbah 21:11<\/span><\/i>) <\/span><\/p>\r\n

The midrash reverses our expectations: these women bring glory to their distinguished ancestors. They are wise, righteous: these terms, applied usually to men, are now inflected in the feminine form. But this midrash aims to define their wisdom, grounding it in their fine sense of timing. If they are considered their father's seed\u2014\"like sons\"\u2014they should inherit; or if their father left no seed, let their mother conceive from her dead husband's brother. They have a case only in the present circumstances, where there are no male heirs:<\/span> l'fi sha'ah<\/span><\/em>, in accord with the reality of the moment, they plead their cause. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Another midrash, however, takes a different view of the greatness of these women and makes a more radical claim, writing that in the moment that the people are hankering Moses to return to Egypt, the daughters stand up: They answered, We know that in the end all Israel will claim their share in the Land; as it is said, \"It is a time to act for God\u2014they have transgressed Your Torah!\" Don't read like this; read \"They have transgressed Your Torah in acting for God!\"... Where there is no man, try to be a man! \u00a0(<\/span>Yalkut Shimoni <\/span><\/i>773)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Inspired by the energy of loving conviction, the women speak against the status quo of legal understanding. They speak with a fierce serenity. Their passion becomes a paradigm for all human courage in the face of conformity. \"Where there is no man, try to be a man!\" Of course, the midrashic authors are fully aware of the shock effect of this aphorism as applied to women. Unmistakably gendered, \"Try to be a man, a <\/span>gever<\/span><\/i>\" evokes masculine might (<\/span>gevurah<\/span><\/em>) as the aspiration\u2014and achievement\u2014of these women. For a moment, the reader is jarred; the boundaries of gender slip. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

It is to speak without the support of conventional frameworks; to speak at the particular historical moment when one's speech will resound uncannily\u2014when it may create change. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

 <\/p>\r\n

Excerpted from: \u00a0Bewilderments, Schocken Books, 2017, p. 270<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Our Chapter contains a census of the Israelites who came forth from Egypt, a total of 601,730 men of military age, 20 years and older (26:2-51). Among all these men, only one woman is mentioned: Serah bat Asher (verse 46; see also I Chronicles 7:30). Significantly, Serah has been mentioned previously among the 70 souls who went down to Egypt with Jacob (Genesis 46:17), and again, she is the only woman mentioned in this list as well. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Rabbinic Sages reasoned that if Serah is mentioned among those sixty myriads of Israelites who made the Exodus from Egypt, she must have \u201cspanned the generations\u201d from the time of Joseph to the time of Moses, having lived for several hundred years (see Pesiqta de Rav Kahana, Beshalah, ed. Mandelbaum, p. 189). It is perhaps only natural then that the Sages included this extraordinary woman among those few immortals who \"never tasted the taste of death\" and \"entered Paradise alive\" (Derekh Eretz 1:18). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Indeed, Serah continues to live on in the folktales of the Jewish people. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

The following story is collected in the Israel Folktale Archives (9524 -- Story 28). Once there was a king who made laws against the Jews. One day the king was hunting in the forest with his soldiers. He saw a doe and chased after it. The doe entered a cave and the king followed. The entrance to the cave closed behind the king and he was caught there in the dark for several days. Then the king suddenly saw emerging out of the dark a beautiful maiden, a woman warrior with her female soldiers. She called the king to come to her. She asked the king: Do you recognize me? He said: No. She said: I am the doe that you were chasing who jumped on your head and you were unable to catch. I want to know -- Why have you made laws against the Jews? <\/span><\/p>\r\n

The king then asked her: \u00a0Who are you? She answered: I am Serah bat Asher, the granddaughter of Jacob, the Jewish patriarch. The king promised her that he would revoke the laws against the Jews and she released him from the dark cave. The king kept his word and gave the Jews beautiful clothes, so they could celebrate all their holidays. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

The king told the Jews what had happened to him and asked them if there was in their books someone called Serah bat Asher. They answered: Yes, she was blessed by our father Jacob with immortality. And then the king built a big synagogue where he had entered the cave, so that the Jews could pray on all their holidays as a memorial to Serah bat Asher. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Indeed, a memorial to Serah bat Asher still stands today in the Jewish cemetery at Pir Bakran in Iran.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

 <\/p>\r\n

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The census in chapter 26 seems, on the face of it, similar enough to the one which occurred 39 years and 25 chapters earlier, at the beginning of the book of Numbers. But since then, everything, and literally almost everyone, has changed. The seemingly dry listing in fact bears the painful scars of all the troubles of the last 40 years, both explicitly, and beneath the surface. The number of Shimonites has been reduced by more than half, a testament to the tribe's central role in the sin with the daughters of Moab, led by their prince, Zimri. Whole families are missing from the tribe of Levi, perhaps because of their participation in Korach's rebellion.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But despite all of those changes, natural growth and supernatural deaths even each other out, such that after 40 years, the bottom line is essentially the same- the Jewish people still tallies in right around the lucky number 600,000.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The number 600,000, as the rabbis understood it typologically, represents the full diversity of humankind. Every single type of person left Egypt, and every single type of person will enter the land. The specific choices of those who left Egypt determined that the particular individuals making up the nation have almost all changed, save those wise enough to make the right choices. This lucky group includes two men, and, according to Rashi in this chapter, <\/span>all <\/b>the women. But, as a nation, you could say that the Jewish people to whom God promised the land is essentially unchanged.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This is an observation that ought to inform us when considering the many urgent initiatives responding to various demographic threats and time bombs. The demographic bogeyman is used to justify policy proposals from all sections of the political and religious map; to withdraw from territories and to annex territories, to change religion and to conserve it. The experience of the Jewish people in the desert, as <\/span>maaseh avot siman lebanim<\/span><\/em>, an archetype which has proven true throughout our history, despite everything, should allow us to calm down and refocus ourselves. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Jewish people, the eternal nation that created a covenant with God, will be ok. It will survive, as it has in the face of far more formidable challenges. 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The counting that we see in this chapter is a re-count. It brings us back to the first chapter of Numbers which describes the counting in the second year of the travels of Israel in the desert. We run through the names, with a minimum of narrative digression, and we learn that the land will be distributed by lot to these tribes, according to their numbers. None of this surprises. It sounds like simple business.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Yet when we reach the last verses of this chapter, we learn an astonishing fact. Among those counted now by Moses and by Aaron\u2019s son, Elazar, (Aaron, who had been Moses\u2019 partner in the first count is no longer living), there is not a single man who was counted also in the second year because God had said about them: \u201cthey will die in the desert.\u201d Only Caleb Ben Yefuneh and Joshua Bin Nun remained from that number (26:63-65).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Now the count has a very different feel. With this ending, it becomes a count that foregrounds absence perhaps even more than presence. As much as the people has grown, there are no longer the elders, those who left Egypt. It is an utterly new generation, with two survivors in their midst: Caleb and Joshua. And Moses.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

For Caleb and Joshua, what is it like to outlive the people with whom you have undergone a miraculous historical transformation? What is it like to be all that is left? To look around and to see only those who have replaced their predecessors? What does it mean to know that you are the only figures who will have been on both sides of history? There and here, then and now. They must reckon with leaving behind the life of slavery but recognizing its shadow in inaugurating a meaningful, intentional freedom.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Moses, too, looking at the tribes, is looking at shadows. Shadows of those who came out of Egypt. He sees the absences of Miriam and Aaron, and the certainty of his own death. He, of all the children of Israel, is truly alone in this counting. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Perhaps now the intense emphasis on remembering the exodus takes a new poignancy. We must remember -- daily, weekly, yearly -- because the event of exodus has been structured so that the memory, rather than the experience of slavery and the first stage of redemption, will be what marks the life of mitzvot in the land of Israel.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Numbers 26 is one of those sections that gives the Hebrew Bible a bad rap. A second census is called for, and instead of just letting us know that it was successfully concluded, the Torah decides to share each and every name from every single tribe, down to the clans, the families, the individuals.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Every year, I resolve to read more slowly, to pour over every word of every parashah, and this is the one that defeats me each time. However noble my intention, by the third or forth clan, my eyes glaze over, my attention drifts, and I find myself skimming quickly just in case the Torah smuggled in something interesting in this smothering blanket of endless names.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In a book that is famous for its sparse descriptions and its tight use of words, why do we need an entire chapter that reads like roll call?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Years ago, one of my teachers, Rabbi Burton Visotzky, offered a pithy piece of wisdom: he said that this parasha was boring, unless your name was one of the names listed. I think about that now as a rabbi. Plaques with the names of the deceased seem endless and dreary, unless you are looking for the plaque of your loved one\u2019s name. Honor rolls of prize winners are dull and repetitive, unless one of those prize winners is you, and any fundraiser can recount how very important it is to each donor that their name and gift be properly enumerated in any public donor recognition.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

So, answer number one is that the detailed names matter for those who know and love the individuals listed. And the Torah invites us to so love those who have gone before us, whose wanderings brought us to the place of promise.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But I think there is a second response worth sharing too. Life isn\u2019t all glamor and glitter. As we age, we come to cherish days in which there is nothing to report \u2013 no big headliner of news, good or bad. Just a day filled with the blessings of simply living: same breakfast, same tasks, same companions, same dinner, same evening, same bedroom and bedtime. A life rich with the quotidian, the everyday, a harvest of normal. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\"And the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them [Dothan and Abiram] together with Korah, when that congregation died \u2026. But the sons of Korah didn't die.\" (Numbers 26:10-11)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The sons of Korah didn\u2019t die, for though<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>They loved their father, still they understood<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The branch which gave them shade and shelter could<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Be toppled by a storm. \u00a0They didn\u2019t know<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Beforehand that their father\u2019s tree would grow<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>A bitter, poisoned fruit, or that its wood<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Was weaker than a weed; they knew he should<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Have chosen truth, not pride\u2019s deceitful glow. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Because they didn\u2019t make the same mistake<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Their father made but chose to stay above \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The fray, the sons of Korach didn\u2019t die. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>They understood the need at times to make<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>A break, to turn away from those you love,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>That love can be an open pit. \u00a0And I?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\u201cMiriam\u201d<\/span><\/a> by Esther Levy: Explore sources about this powerful woman. <\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":"","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":"Go deeper into the chapter....","tile_main_caption":"Sefaria Source Sheets - Numbers 26","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Click to get links to learning resources","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":42232,"alt":"","title":"sefaria-words-sunburst","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","width":608,"height":395,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst-300x195.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":195,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","medium_large-width":608,"medium_large-height":395,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","large-width":608,"large-height":395,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","1536x1536-width":608,"1536x1536-height":395,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","2048x2048-width":608,"2048x2048-height":395,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","post_full_size-width":608,"post_full_size-height":395,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","home_baner-width":608,"home_baner-height":395}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"Sefaria word sunburst visualization","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":"","old_create_date":"","links":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Numbers","chapter":"26","chapter_main_number":"143","date":"20260317","wall_id":"143"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":13,"id":"107421","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Points To Ponder: Numbers 26 ","post_title":"Points To Ponder: Numbers 26","slug":"points-to-ponder-numbers-26","old_id":"107421","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":false,"related_cahpter":"143","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"","post_main_content_content":"

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  1. Those who went missing.<\/em> In the course of the census, there\u2019s a reminder regarding those who were removed from the rolls under difficult circumstances. Dathan and Aviram who died in the rebellion of Korach and his company (verses 9-11), Er and Onan, the sons of Judah, who died in Canaan (verse 19), and Nadav and Avihu who died when offering \u201cstrange fire\u201d (verse 61).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. The stats<\/em>. For those interested<\/em> in the demographics, there\u2019s a surprise in store with the comparison of the census of Num. ch. 1 and the current one. Besides those tribes that remained numerically stable, there were those that grew substantially,\u00a0 and also those that shrunk a great deal.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Did they die or not?<\/em> What was the fate of the sons of Korach? Verses 10-11 present a slightly different version of that which we might have imagined from 10 chapters ago (Num. 16:32).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. Moses and Miriam - next gen?<\/em> In verse 59, there\u2019s a reminder regarding the sons and daughters of the leading family, \u201cThe name of Amram\u2019s wife was Jochebed daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt; she bore to Amram Aaron and Moses and their sister Miriam.\u201d And what of the next generation? 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