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The book of Numbers ends in a seemingly very odd way with the continuation of the very personal story of the \u2018Zelophehad sisters.\u2019 The rest of the tribe comes to Moses to complain about God\u2019s decree that the daughters of Zelophehad are granted their father\u2019s inheritance. They are afraid that that may allow their tribal lands to be diluted. The story does bring up a main theme of the book, namely, the delineation of the borders in the new land. That is the essence of the argument. But, the ultimate argument is very technical. Why would a book that covers 38 years of history with a devastating decree, personal tragedies for Moses, and mass death matched with grandiose planning for the entry in the land end like this?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Perhaps, after the major issues that plagued the people at the start of the book of Numbers, this is a welcome relief. These are the types of disputes that Moses and God want: technical legalistic arguments over the land. There is no plague or grand curse. This is a purely \u201cin the eyes of heaven\u201d argument. In this way, the book ends on a perfect note. As the people enter the land, these are the types of disputes that God wants.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The context of the story itself seems regressive. The original story was a triumph for these women, only to have this group of men work to use their victory as an excuse to lock them down. Even the rabbis were troubled. The Talmud in Taanit 30b explains that the holiday of the 15<\/span>th<\/span> of Av was the day that the restriction was reversed leading to a great day of celebration. The decree of chapter 36 was only for the initial period of settlement in the land.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

One last thing; the book of Numbers ends with an almost identical verse as Leviticus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

These are the commandments and regulations that God enjoined upon the Israelites, through Moses, on the steppes of Moab, at the Jordan near Jericho (verse 13).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

These are the commandments that God gave Moses for the Israelite people on Mount Sinai (Lev. 27:34).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The only difference between the two is the location. Leviticus was at the foot of Mt. Sinai, and Numbers is at the entrance to the land. New location, same Moses. No matter where Moses is, he will be there to pass on God\u2019s laws.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Compare this to the end of Exodus:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

For over the Tabernacle a cloud of God rested by day, and fire would appear in it<\/span>.<\/span><\/i> by night, in the view of all the house of Israel throughout their journeys. (Exodus ).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

During the journey in the wilderness, God protected the people with the cloud and the fire. Along the way, Moses dispensed another code of protection: the law of God. The laws will be the cloud and fire as the people enter the land. It will guide them and protect them along the way.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Mahla, Tirtza, Hogla, Milca and Noa, Zelophehad\u2019s daughters. . .<\/span>
\r\n<\/span><\/em>\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 \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 \u00a0Numbers 36:11<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I wish the whole of humanity could be placed in a single body so I could embrace them all<\/span><\/em>. <\/span><\/i>\u00a0
\r\n\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 \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 R. Abraham Isaac Hacohen Kook<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\r\n

In the last chapter of Numbers<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>in the last year of Israel\u2019s wandering<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>in the desert for forty years<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>the five daughters of Zelophehad --<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>movement in the root of their names--<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Mahla\u00a0 (<\/span>lehollel<\/span><\/em>)<\/span><\/i> dancing<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Tirtza\u00a0 (<\/span>larutz<\/span><\/em>)<\/span><\/i> running<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Hogla (<\/span>lachug<\/span><\/em>)<\/span><\/i> circling<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Milka (<\/span>lalechet<\/span><\/em>)<\/span><\/i> walking<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Noa (<\/span>lanua<\/span><\/em>)<\/span><\/i> moving<\/span><\/p>\r\n

reach in their humanity<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>to the root of our being--<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>love<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>God, the Land of Israel<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>ongoing, eternal.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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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>\r\n

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>\r\n

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>\r\n

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>\r\n

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. And that remains an inspirational victory \u2013 even more than two millennia later.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Try an experiment. Put eighteen kids on a field and see how long they play well together. But take those same eighteen kids, give them a bat, a ball, and what some estimate to be 71 basic rules \u2013 and voila, they can play constructively for hours, \u00a0create a ten-billion-dollar-a-year business, while generating countless hours of entertainment, inspiration, and mythmaking on what now become \u201cFields of Dreams.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

That\u2019s the message we learn in The Book of Numbers\u2019 grand finale, proclaiming: \u201cThese are the commandments and the ordinances, which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses unto the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.\u201d Juxtaposed with the opening of Numbers, when Moses takes a census of the people, we are given a profound lesson in child-rearing, baseball, peoplehood and dare I say it in this polarized age, nationalism.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The census, the count, the Book of <\/span>Numbers<\/span><\/i>, a people, begins with belonging, with taking responsibility. That, in itself, is a profound move, choosing not just to be, but to belong. But that\u2019s still luck of the draw, accident of birth, the start of the journey. The final verse 36:13 gets into the real work, \u201cthe commandments and the ordinances.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Now, we\u2019re talking. We\u2019ve gone from being to belonging to becoming \u2013 becoming a better person, becoming better people, becoming a better people. The essential lesson here is that we started with \u201chardware\u201d now we\u2019re into \u201csoftware,\u201d we join the group, the group has norms - -the content, the programming -- and those norms stretch us, improve us and root us.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

That explains the second half of the verse. By specifying the location where the rules were given, the Torah is teaching us that these aren\u2019t just laws to list or learn and file away, but practical road signs, guideposts, and traffic signals for real life and real places.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

These Bs essential to healthy constructive liberal nationalism, Jewish nationalism \u2013 of being, belonging, and becoming better-- are best explained by two other favorite \u201cBs\u201d of mine: Baseball and Isaiah Berlin. 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Inheritance is a strange idea. \u2018To inherit\u2019 is a verb, but it\u2019s a passive one. It is an achievement of status rather than of striving, as the law conveys wealth intergenerationally by virtue of will and testament, the swift or shaky signature of the pen. It always relies on one man (or woman) enjoying the fruits of another\u2019s labor and severs the connection between work and reward. It ensures a lag time between merit and outcome, while also preserving the status quo on an inter-generational canvas.<\/p>\r\n

Many things can be inherited. Family assets, ancestral lands, a well curated library and a tangled chest of jewels. Many things cannot; a memory, a touch, the glimpse of a smile and the dream of a dance. Inheritance is that most private of things, passed down along the branches of a family tree and excluding the rest of the world, no matter how destitute or deserving. It inscribes inequality into the order of things and insulates it from a world that clamors for greater justice, more equitable distribution.<\/p>\r\n

From another angle, inheritance is all that we have in common- language, culture, a planet of eroding riches and escalating dangers. It is the shoulders of giants from whose vantage point we can most clearly see the possibilities that constitute our mutual estate.<\/p>\r\n

Today\u2019s chapter shows us the inheritances that must be fought for, the histories that need to be grappled to the ground for the present to come into its own. Women have had to do this work for millennia, to lay claim to not only the wealth that is theirs but to what Virginia Woolf memorably called a Room of One\u2019s Own, the space where what came before can be properly held in the name of a better and fairer future. An inheritance without this alchemy is inert. With it, it funds the most wondrous ongoing and accruing strength.<\/p>\r\n

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\"It's all well and good that you're sympathetic to feminist complaints of inequality, Moses. After all, who doesn't believe in fundamental equality and justice? But what about the policy implications? What will this do to the community?\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The complaints of the children of Gilad neatly, if anachronistically, match up with a common objection to feminist innovations. Opponents will grant the fundamental equality of the sexes (and this itself is a tremendous accomplishment of the feminist movement), and may even admit that the halacha can change in response to changing circumstances. But, they will argue, perhaps paraphrasing Jewish feminist Blu Greenberg, just because there is a halachic way, doesn't mean there ought to be a rabbinic will, and this because of the social consequences. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Should these be ignored?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Moses\u2019 response to this claim is highly instructive. While respecting and providing a response to the men's concerns, he also defines (and limits) the impact and weight they need to be given.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

First, he establishes that the demands of justice must come first, and only afterward is social policy considered. Although it seems that the law limiting marriage in these cases within the tribe was already given along with the original innovation of the inheritance of daughters, Moses didn't adulterate the original ruling with its technical limitations. For that, he waited for the issue to actually be raised, and only then did he offer the (already prepared) response.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Second, we learn that responding to policy concerns can't be allowed to undermine the fundamental response to a problem of inequality. A simpler solution to the problem suggests itself. Why weren't the daughters of Zelophehad told that, should they choose to marry outside the tribe, they must forfeit their father's portion, and accept their husband's portion as their own? Isn't that what other women did?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In fact, the sisters may have been happy to accept this alternative. If their original request had been motivated by their intense love of the land of Israel, as the Midrash suggests, it must have been quite disappointing that the men of their tribe decided to waive their portion inside the land, and conquer the land of Gilad, east of the Jordan.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Perhaps their willingness to accept the limitation imposed on them comes from the feeling that, even when policy concerns demand consideration (and they do), their fundamental call for justice and change is assigned greatest 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He taught at the Hebrew Union College (Jerusalem), The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the Schechter Institute for Judaic Studies in Jerusalem, and at the Ben-Gurion University in Beer Sheba, Israel. During 1993 he was Visiting Associate Professor at Yale University, and during 1996 he was the Stroum Professor of Jewish Studies and Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Washington in Seattle. During 2005, Bregman served as the Harry Starr Fellow in Judaica at Harvard University and was awarded a Teaching Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He also has served as Forchheimer Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is the author of The Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature: Studies in the Evolution of the Versions (Gorgias Press, 2003). 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In our chapter, we return to the story of the Daughters of Zelophehad. The heads of their father\u2019s family petition Moses to solve a problem that has arisen. If these, and any other women, who have inherited their father\u2019s property, marry men not from their own tribe, their inherited property will become part of their husbands\u2019 tribal inheritance rather than remaining part of the tribal inheritance of their father\u2019s family. Moses confirms the rightness of this claim and, speaking with divine authority, instructs that the daughters of Zelophehad may marry whomever they wish, so long as they choose husbands only from their father\u2019s tribe. This ruling is then applied to any women in a similar situation. Finally, we are told that \u201c\u2026Mahlah, Tirzah and Hoglah and Milcah and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father's brothers' sons. They were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father\u201d (Numbers 36:11-12). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Midrash (Lamentations Rabbah, Proem 33) uses this brief biblical narrative as a basis for a discussion of times when the unmarried women of Israel presented themselves as available for marriage: \u00a0Rabbi Simeon ben Gamaliel said: Israel had no greater holidays than the fifteenth of Av and the Day of Atonement, when the maidens of Israel used to go out in white garments \u2026 to dance in the vineyards. Any man who had no wife would go there, for the maidens would sing: Young man! Lift up your eyes and see whom you will choose. Look not upon beauty but upon family! \u2026 <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Why on the Fifteenth of Av? Because that was the day on which the problem of women who, like the Daughters of Zelophehad, had inherited property, was resolved, by allowing them to marry whomever they wish, so long as they choose husbands only from the family of their father. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Since Rabbinic times, Jewish women, with or without property of their own, have for the most part been permitted to marry men of their own choosing. And the Fifteenth of Av has become in modern Israel a kind of Festival of Love (Hag Ha-Ahavah), a veritable Jewish Valentine\u2019s day, often chosen, in our time, for an appropriate day on which to perform weddings.
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\"These are the commandments and the laws which the Lord commanded the Children of Israel through Moses.\u2026\" (Numbers 36:13)
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I received an email from God,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Inviting me to visit<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Him,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>To enter the gates of His palace,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>To walk through His chambers, room after room,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>To approach His throne of glory,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>To behold His scepter and His crown,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>To speak with Him. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

I received an email from God,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Inviting me to visit<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Him.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\"<\/span>You don't have to<\/span><\/i>,\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n

He added,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>\"<\/span>You can choose to stay where you are, if you wish,<\/span><\/i>
\r\n<\/span><\/i>But I would be happy if you would come,<\/span><\/i>
\r\n<\/span><\/i>Stroll through the royal gardens,<\/span><\/i>
\r\n<\/span><\/i>Smell the fragrance of the cinnamon, aloes and nard,<\/span><\/i>
\r\n<\/span><\/i>Dip your hand in the regal fountain<\/span><\/i>
\r\n<\/span><\/i>And drink from its water<\/span><\/i>.\" <\/span><\/p>\r\n

My brother received this email, too.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>But it's a scam, he said.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Why would God Almighty be interested<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>In us,<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In worms that slither senselessly in the dirt,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>In flies that eat dust and mate on dung,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>In fleas that suck the blood of dogs?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

My brother deleted the email,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Advising me to do the same. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

What should I do?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I received an email from God,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Inviting me to visit<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Him.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":68605,"alt":"","title":"is60-letter","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/is60-letter.jpg","width":1920,"height":1344,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/is60-letter-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/is60-letter-300x210.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":210,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/is60-letter-768x538.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":538,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/is60-letter-1024x717.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":717,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/is60-letter.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1075,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/is60-letter.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1344,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/is60-letter-1200x840.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":840,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/is60-letter-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":"929 Poetry Corner","tile_main_caption":"Email","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"What would you do if you got an email from God?","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":68605,"alt":"","title":"is60-letter","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/is60-letter.jpg","width":1920,"height":1344,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/is60-letter-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/is60-letter-300x210.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":210,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/is60-letter-768x538.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":538,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/is60-letter-1024x717.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":717,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/is60-letter.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1075,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/is60-letter.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1344,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/is60-letter-1200x840.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":840,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/is60-letter-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":"36","chapter_main_number":"153","date":"20260331","wall_id":"153"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"362","name":"Poetry","old_id":"762"}]},{"order":11,"id":"48965","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"A Lesson on the Daily Chapter- Numbers 36 ","post_title":"A Lesson on the Daily Chapter- Numbers 36","slug":"a-lesson-on-the-daily-chapter-numbers-36","old_id":"48965","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":40936,"post_title":"David Silber","slug":"david-silber-2","old_id":"40936","first_name":"David ","last_name":"Silber ","description":"Rabbi David Silber is the Founder and Dean of Drisha Institute for Jewish Education. 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\u201cChanging Authority in the Jewish Tradition\u201d<\/span><\/a> by Rick Kellner: What does it mean to challenge the status quo in Jewish texts?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\"The Daughters of Tzelafchad:<\/span><\/a> The Tikkun for Dor Hamidbar\" by Adam Starr: What was these women\u2019s role in the scope of Numbers writ large? <\/span><\/p>\r\n

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  1. Places, and reminders<\/em>. Verses 1-5 are a very succinct list of the stations of the journey in the wilderness, with some hints as to what transpired along the way. To decipher the hints - see the commentaries.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Spot the differences-1<\/em>. In Ex. 18, Yitro initiated the reforms that changed the judiciary from one supreme judge (Moses) to an organized hierarchical system. Here - Yitro is not even mentioned. Moses is presented as the originator of the idea.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Spot the differences-2.<\/em> Who initiated the delegation of scouts? Who were the people nominated for this mission? Compare and contrast with Numbers 13-14, and you\u2019ll see some intriguing differences.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. Why doesn\u2019t Moses enter the Land?<\/em> A surprising reason is given in verse 37.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  5. A painful image<\/em>. \u201cThen the Amorites who lived in those hills came out against you like so many bees and chased you, and they crushed you at Hormah in Seir\u201d (verse 44).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  6. On a more personal note<\/em>. Tucked in between the heritage of the past and instructions for the future is the more personal voice of Moses. Find it for instance in the contrast between the blessing of verse 11 sandwiched in between the complaints of 10 and 12.<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>","post_main_content_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"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":"The Daily Summary","tile_main_caption":"Points to Ponder: Deuteronomy 1","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Insights and questions for personal reflection and group discussion","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"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":"","old_create_date":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","links":false,"send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Deuteronomy","chapter":"1","chapter_main_number":"154","date":"20260401","wall_id":"154"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false}],"hide_acf":true,"home_image":false,"home_posts":false,"home_posts_title":"","posts_home":[],"static_cube_title":"","static_cube_brief":"","static_cube_color":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall\/48950"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wall"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}