Portrait of Hacham Shimon Agassi

Portrait of Hacham Shimon Agassi
Portrait of Hacham Agassi painted by Mrs Ruth Gila, Beit Meir , Israel

Tuesday, January 27, 2015

The Daughters of Tzelophechad

 בנות צלפחד

B'Midbar 27.7



7.’Truthfully (correctly) speak the daughters of Tzelophehad; you shall surely give them an ancestral inheritance among their father's brothers; and you shall cause the inheritance of their father to pass to them-כֵּן בְּנוֹת צְלָפְחָד דֹּבְרֹת נָתֹן תִּתֵּן לָהֶם אֲחֻזַּת נַחֲלָה בְּתוֹךְ אֲחֵי אֲבִיהֶם וְהַעֲבַרְתָּ אֶת נַחֲלַת אֲבִיהֶן לָהֶן(10360=10=1 or + 17 words=10377=18 counting final Nuns, Mem and Kaf as 700, 600 and 500). 

The verse can be divided so:
·         Truthfully (correctly) speak the daughters of Tzelophehad- כֵּן בְּנוֹת צְלָפְחָד דֹּבְרֹת (1346 =14=8 or + 4 words=1350=1+8);
·         You shall surely give them an ancestral inheritance among their father's brothers- תִּתֵּן לָהֶם אֲחֻזַּת נַחֲלָה בְּתוֹךְ אֲחֵי אֲבִיהֶם (2439=18);
·         And you shall cause the inheritance of their father to pass to them- וְהַעֲבַרְתָּ אֶת נַחֲלַת אֲבִיהֶן לָהֶן(3025=10=1 counting final Nuns as 700).
The gematria of the words “you shall surely give them”- נָתֹן תִּתֵּן לָהֶם is 3285=18 counting final Nuns and Mem as 700 and 600.


Rashi comments here that their eye saw that which the eye of Moses did not see as Hashem said “So is this passage written before Me on High”. And moreover it is said (Sifrei 134):


Happy is the man whose words are confirmed by Hashem

אַשְׁרֵי אָדָם שֶׁהַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא מוֹדֶה לִדְבָרָיו

1818 =18


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