Dividing the land

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  1. Families

    Rabbi Ezra Bick

    The key to understanding the unique nature of Parashat Pinhas is the significance of the families in this census. The families are emphasized throughout the counting process.

  2. Families (Audio)

    Rabbi Ezra Bick | 12 minutes

    The key to understanding the unique nature of Parashat Pinhas is the significance of the families in this census. The families are emphasized throughout the counting process.

  3. Yehezkel 47-48

    Matan Al Haperek

    Rabbi David Sabato

    Perek 47: the perakim about the Temple end with a wonderful vision of a stream that trickles out of the Temple and flows to the Dead Sea (1-2). The stream begins as a weak trickle and grows until the prophet can no longer pass over it (3-6). The wondrous waters revive and heal everything around them, eventually reaching the Dead Sea which becomes a vibrant and blossoming area (7-12). The vision of the stream trickling out of the Temple is the transition from the perakim of the Temple which come before it to the perakim which deal with the division of the land and the borders which come after.

     The section which ends Sefer Yechezkel deals with the future borders of the land and its division for the tribes. This division of the land for the tribes is completely different from the division which took place in the days of the First Temple. It is based on dividing the land into equal strips, with the Temple and the city being central and shared by all the tribes. 

  4. Yehoshua 15-16

    Matan Al Haperek

    Matan Al HaPerek - Neta Shapira

    These chapters describe the inheritance of the tribes of Yehuda and the children of Yosef (Menashe and Ephraim), as well as the story of Achsah, daughter of Calev. The length and style of the description teaches us about the relationship between the respective tribes and the progressing stages of the Land’s division. 

  5. Yehoshua 17-18

    Matan Al Haperek

    Matan Al HaPerek - Neta Shapira

    In these perakim, Yehoshua continues to apportion the remaining land. Facing him are the claims of B’nei Yosef and the need to rebuke the tribes for faltering in their individual conquests.