Rabbi Yisroel Bodkins on Parshas Pinchas

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yisroel Bodkins’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

It is there is a piece in here that is an ode to the Jewish women of Klal Yisrael. Bnos Tzelafchad the daughters of Tzelafchad came to complain while Moshe and Aaron and the Zikainim, the elders were sitting and deciding who gets which piece of land when they come into Eretz Yisrael. They came in and they said our father passed away. He was not part of the incident with the spies. spies. He was not part of any group that was doing anything. He had his own sins and his own issues. And he doesn't have any sons. And everybody knows that all the yerusha, all the inheritance goes to the sons. So, what happens when you don't have sons? Aren't we considered as children? Surprisingly Moshe said I don't know. And he said, "Give me a second." And he asked Hashem what to do. Now, this is an incredible thing. Because no one in the history of the Jewish people before and in the future we're told no one's going to have this type of relationship. No prophet has ever had or ever will have this type of relationship with the Rebono Shel Just give me a second, I'll ask God and he'll give me an answer. Doesn't happen anymore. Only to Moshe. But Hashem told Moshe, "They're right. They should get their inheritance. And not only that, if there are no sons, the inheritance goes to the daughters, simple as that." Why didn't Moshe know that? The Torah was given at Mount Sinai, which was 40 years ago. 40 years before this incident. Why didn't Moshe know? Hashem knew that these

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1. 0:38It is there is a piece in here that is an ode to the Jewish women…
2. 1:08spies. He was not part of any group that was doing anything. He had his own…
3. 1:40And he said, "Give me a second." And he asked Hashem what to do. Now, this…
4. 2:41that these very special, brilliant righteous Jewish women were going to come to Moshe and ask…
5. 3:12Not only that, we're told that they were righteous, they were brilliant, and they loved Eretz…
6. 4:13long before they even came into into Mitzrayim, into Egypt. And now we're talking about it,…
7. 4:44found out that Yosef was still alive and they were coming back to Eretz Yisrael, to…
8. 5:16over the loss of Yosef, he had trouble sleeping. But this night, as he was falling…
9. 6:16who is the power. Who is the understanding? Who is the sensitivity behind the greatness of…
10. 6:48Shabbat Betamus, the eve after the fast of of the 17th of Tammuz as a remembrance…

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