“Moshe did as Adonai had ordered him. He took Y’hoshua, put him before El‘azar the cohen and the whole community, laid his hands on him, and commissioned him, as Adonai had said through Moshe.”-Numbers 27:22-23 The new leader to succeed Moses has been chosen! And his name is Joshua! Let’s take a look at what […]

“Adonai said to Moshe, “Climb this mountain in the ‘Avarim Range, and look out at the land which I have given the people of Israel.  After you have seen it, you too will be gathered to your people, just as Aharon your brother was gathered; because in the Tzin Desert, when the community was disputing […]

Today I want to deal with the thorny question of what happened when a Hebrew female who had received her father’s inheritance because he didn’t have any sons married a non-Israelite or a foreigner. The first thing you need to know is that daughters were provided for differently than sons. When a father married off […]

In my last post, I reiterated a VERY IMPORTANT point concerning Israel’s “ownership” of the Promised Land. The point I made is that the Jewish people do NOT really own the land of Israel. Rather, what they have is a “long-term lease” of the land of Canaan. It is misleading to say “long-term” however, because […]

“Adonai answered Moshe, “The daughters of Zelophehad are right in what they say. You must give them property to be inherited along with that of their father’s brothers; have what their father would have inherited pass to them.”-Numbers 27:6-7 We just got done studying about the unique situation of a man name Zelophehad who died […]