Sefer Bamidbar concludes with a verse that reads:These are the commandments and the judgments which the Lord commanded by the hand of Moshe to Bnei Yisrael in the plains of Moav by the Jordan near Yericho. (Bamidbar 36:13). But which commandments is this verse referring to? We examine the inner structure of the passages in the nearby parshiyyot, and we compare the closing of Bamidbar with that of Vayikra. What we find is an important message about the inheritance of the "two and a half tribes" who settle on the eastern side of the Jordan River.

 

Translated by Kaeren Fish 

5 pages
Courtesy of the Virtual Beit Midrash, Yeshivat Har Etzion