Pinchas - 3rd Portion

Join me as we learnish for Tuesday paras where now the Torah tells us once we finished making the census and we know how many people exist amongst the Jewish people who are going to go into the land of Israel. Now the Torah tells us about how they would divide the land as we're going to see there were three methods that were used. Number one, there was a raffle, a lottery that then there was a Pascal, a voice of God that announced who should get each one. And as well, they went by the number of people that were in the tribe that they got a larger amount or smaller amount based on the people that were in the tribe and the quality of the land. Verse 52, chapter 26. And God spoke to Moshe saying, "The land will be divided among these 601,730 people that we just mentioned as an inheritance and this will be according to the number of mount of people that there were in that uh tribe. What does this mean? It's going to go to these. It's going to be land. That means in order to inherit a parcel in the land of Israel, you had to be over 20 years old. Even though it is possible that many of the children right now will become 20 once they enter the land of Israel because it took them 14 years, seven years to fight, seven years to divide the land. So there will be people who will age 20 by the time it comes to settling the land. still in only ones that took part of the land were these 600,000 people 61,730 and if one per if a person had six children at the time which were under age 20 only the father would get that's what he means these and no others 54 you must give a larger inheritance to a large tribe and you give smaller inheritance to a smaller tribe. Each person according to their numbers, that's the inheritance that they will get to a family to a tribe that had a larger amount of people was given a larger parcel of land. Even though you can look and you'll see not all the parcels of land were equal. They all went according to 12 different parcels were split up according to the amount of people that were in each tribe. The actual division was only done through the lottery and the lottery was done by divine inspiration like it's explained in Babasra. But what happened was would stand there wearing the bless the breastplate of the and in it was the would say they would ask him with the words of the with divine inspiration and say and if this tribe comes up now with this in the lottery then then he gets this parcel of land. He would pick up a uh one lottery ticket that said the tribe's name. Another one that said what parcel of land and the vum would announce which one it would be. So Rashi explains you had the 12 tribes written on 12 pieces of paper. The 12 different parcels how they were split up on one on 12 different pieces of paper. And then he mixed them all together. And the leader of each tribe would put his hand into the basket and pick up two pieces of paper and make sure and take the two papers. He would take out a paper according to his name and a paper according to his to the amount the parcel of land that would go to him. And all was said through the divine inspiration would come from the of the lottery itself would announce and say I this lottery has come up for this and this boundary for this and this tribe as it says as we're going to see in the next verse according to the mouth the ver the announcement of the lottery that means that the land Rashim explains was not only divided according to measurement, according to size and properties. Besides the actual size of land, there's different qualities that each land has. Some are good for fertilizing, some are good for building. Each one had qualities that the other one may not have. Libashuma, they also have to take into evaluation what the quality of the land was. You could have a smaller parcel or a larger parcel of land which was not as good as a good parcel of land which was much smaller. Everything goes according to its worth. 55. It's only with the lottery. Nonetheless, only with the lottery the land was divided according to the tribes according to the names of their fathers that they will inherit. Rashi according to the names of their tribes. These were the ones that came out of Egypt. This is very different. The Torah over here changes the entire concept of inheritance from all different cases of inheritance in the Torah. Because generally when we talk about inheritance, the living inherit those who passed on. over here. But over here, the dead are the ones that actually bequath to the ones that are alive. What does that mean? Explains as follows. The difference, for example, you had two brothers that were came out of Egypt. They had sons that were going to be counted now coming into the land of Israel. One guy had one son, one guy had three sons. Let's say the one son from Ruv got one portion the three sons let's say from the tribe of took three parts now it's not finished the division now we look now all of them have to go back to the way it was by their grandfather Jacob meaning that he gave parts to each one ruin shim each one got a part and they all get equal amounts like regular heirs get equal amounts of from their father's property. Therefore, it says that it goes according to their fathers meaning according to the tribes that went out of Egypt. Meaning and he explained as follows. So when you have Ruven are the ones giving it to their children. So to the son of Ruv he will get two parts. So to to the tribe of the three sons of Shim will also get two parts. So now what happens is th those three children of Shim get three parts but a less of a part than the two parts that the sons of Rubing because they each get the same amount. So they have but over here there's more people to split that amount into. Therefore after the sons took it they split it up according to the tribes that went out of Egypt. But if they wouldn't do that then you would have the four would take two parts. But over here the these four Ruven and Shim got together four parts. So to make it simple what Rashi is telling us over here the in this case you have not even though you have let's say Ruvane had two sons. Shim has three sons. So first Ruvane's sons take two parts. Shim's sons take three parts. But then you have to go backwards and you have to see how many how many parts are there in total. Everybody has to get even. So Ruvane's two sons are going to split his part. Shim's three sons are going to split his part. But now those three sons get less because there's more people divided amongst. But it's always going to go back to the ones that went out of Egypt, which is Ruain, Shim, and Lehuda. Each one will get an equal amount. So within the tribe, they're going to get an equal amount from how many people are in that tribe. They're going to have to split it in more portions depending on how many people are there. This way, they are all getting the same equal amount. And if it would be the other way around, that means if the land of Israel would go about only the people that are being counted currently, then you can have that each one would be getting more. Let's say this has three children, so she'll be getting more property. The one that has one child will getting less property. So therefore, we see over here the the concept that it's going back onto their grandfather, meaning they're going to what Yakov gave them that every son should get an equal amount. The word only Yeshua the word whenever it says only ex excluding meaning that it's excluding somebody here who are the people that don't get it's excluding Yeshua and they got their portion got they got their plot because they gave according to what Moshe said according to that they gave him the land that he asked for the city that he asked for which was that means also said the exception that Yeshua get a different parcel of land not part of their tribe the tribes of their father what is it telling us that it has to go according to their father this included converts this excluded I'm sorry converts and slaves that were bought non-Jewish slaves that were bought by a Jew being that they They don't have a tribe. So therefore, they did not get a specific allotted portion and parcel in the land of Israel. Verse 56, according to the inheritance will be divided according to the lottery whether it would be otherwise have been large or small. What does this mean? As we explained before, the lottery would announce teaches us that it was divided according to divine inspiration. Therefore, it says the word alpe according to God's mouth. Verse 57, and this is the census before we talk about the census of the Jewish people, that which was 61,000. And if you'll notice, the only one that we didn't count was the Levite family. So now we're going to be counting the Levites. This is the counting of the Levites according to their families. Verse 58. Rashi over here. We're missing we're missing over here part of the Levite families as well and part of the family. As we mentioned before, there were some families of the Levites that were missing as well. 58. Um was the one that gave birth to Amram. 59. The name of the wife of Am the daughter of Ley that Ley gave birth that she gave birth to Ley in the land of Egypt. She gave birth to Aaron Mosh and Miriam their sister. that she gave birth to Ley in Egypt. Rashi, what does this mean? The wife of Ley, which means which was the wife of Ley gave birth in Egypt. She was born in Egypt, but she was not conceived in Egypt because she was born as soon as they walked through the city walls. and she made it to number 70 because if you do the counting of all the families of Jacob that came into Egypt invitation only find 69 who was number 70 and why does the Torah say 70 people came into Egypt? She was number 70 and Aaron gave birth as gave birth to summer died young when they brought an unauthorized fire before Hashem. verse 62 and their counting was 23,000. This is all males. They were counted from a month old. They were not counted amongst the rest of the Jewish people because they were not getting an inheritance amongst the Jewish people in the land of Israel. They were going to be given 42 scattered cities all around Israel. Not part of a specific inheritance in the allotted portion that they were getting. 62. They were not counted from 20 years and up. Why were they not counted from 20 and up? The people that were counted. Once 20 and up, you're then considered valued as a time to inherit. People according to their counting would be given their inheritance. countings that they counted the Jewish people. by the plains of Mo at the side of the Jordan River opposite Jericho. Amongst these people, virtually no man was there that were counted by the Jewish people in the Sinai desert in the year of 2449, 38 years prior. If you'll notice over here, the words of the Torah are exact. And the Torah says, "Amongst them there was no man, but there were women." Because the decree of not going into the land of Israel was only against the men that complained, not against the women. Because they were the ones that love the land of Israel. The men would say, "Let us turn around and go back to Egypt." However, we want a parcel of land in the land of Israel. Therefore, what's the next Torah reading that we're about to read? The next star our chapter begins with the daughters of showing their love for the land of Israel. Therefore, the Torah reading about happens right after this count to tell us that the women were not part of the decree of the spies. They had always a special love for the land of Israel. Omar. Why were they not part of this count? Because God said to them, they will die in the desert. And none of them from none of them was anyone remaining. Besides, for the son of Yafuna and Joshua, the son of Nun. Chapter 27 verse one we now law learn about the laws of inheritance prefaced by the story of the daughters of Tal that expressed an unbelievable love for the land of Israel that they also wanted a part though they had no brothers and they were not married at the time chapter 27 verse one after the hearing the laws about the splitting of the land of Israel the daughters of approached who is the son of the son of Gilad the son of Maher, the son of Manasha. So he was a fellow from the tribe of Manasha to the family of Manasha, the son of Yseph. And these are the names of his daughters and Rashi. Why does it have to say who they were? Already says the son of man. I know he's the son of Yoseph to tell you. The same way Yseph cherished the land of Israel that he didn't want to be buried outside the land of Israel. as he tells the Jewish people you'll remember saying you'll take my bones with me and so do his daughters love the land because today they over here they demand we want a parcel in the land of Israel to teach us that they were all righteous people even all generations back to Yose for all righteous people because anyone that his actions and the actions of his forefathers we don't know if they were righteous or not. So therefore, the Torah details and says who is their ancestry telling them who is the father to going back to the lineage to let you know that they were all righteous people if it's going to tell you also the lineage you'll know if how they to their embarrassment as well. So for example we see by the story of in the book of kings where it says as it says also the 10 people that were with him and they killed Gdalia and it tells you about the fellow who killed Gdalia and it goes back a bunch of generations letting you know that everybody there he didn't just come out of a vacuum he was a terrible guy because his father was a terrible guy his father was a terrible guy and so on later on it gives a different order of names to let us know that they were all equal in greatness and they were all equal in their approaching their complaint complaint and their issue with Moshe and they stood before Mosha in front of the elders in front of the Jewish people by the entrance of the tent of meeting that means that they came to them only after the 40 years after Aaron already died before Moshe only afterwards does it say before how is it possible that they're going to Moshe If how's going to know you have to switch around the verse as follows you have to this explains that what happened was they were sitting in this they were sitting in the study hall study and they stood in front of them. So the Torah is enumerating all the people that were sitting there. Verse three what did they say? Our father died in the desert. And when he died, he was not amongst the people who who made a coup against God with the community of he had his own problems, his own sin that he died. It happened to be he had no sons because they're going to say that he died in a sin. They had to preface by saying he was not the one of the people who were complaining the meaning he was not a person who got others to sin. He didn't do anything that would antagonize and get other people to do something against Moshe. He had his own issue. What was his own issue? says he was one of he was the individual that we spoke about a few weeks ago that collected the wood to tell the Jewish people the severity of the laws of Shabas says he was one of those people that after Moshe said that we're not going to make it to the land of Israel he decided he wants to go anyways and he died amongst the what was what's their complaint what's their question why should our father's name be eliminated from his family just because he doesn't have a We want an inheritance amongst our father's brothers. We're standing here in the place of sons. And if the females, if the women are not considered children to be able to inherit them, then our mother should be able to have the leftight marriage and she should be able to remarry somebody else. that we should be able to then get uh and we should be able to inherit because of our father. Just the very fact that he only had daughters, he should not lose out that there should be as if he doesn't have any children. Oh, from here we learn that if he would have had a son, they would not have any arguments. What does this teach us? That these women, the daughters of they were not simple people. They were smart, intelligent women. They knew exactly what the laws were and therefore they were coming with a proper complaint before Moshe. So Moshe brought their case before God. In this case, Moshe forgot was concealed from him the proper law. This is because when he was telling the Jewish people the laws and he was appointing different judges and he used the terminology anything that's difficult just bring it to me. So because he took that responsibility he says I know everything over here we was proven not everything does he know another explanation that really this Torah reading about the laws of inheritance should have been written because of Moshe. Moshe would have been told by God to write all the other laws. But because the daughters of Tal were the ones that showed a love for the land of Israel, they merited that this mitzvah should be given because of them. This concludes the Torah reading for Tuesday, the third tow reading of Paras.