We're beginning the third and final movement of the scroll of numbers.

This movement begins with a seemingly insignificant little story.

It's about the daughters of a man named Zalif Khad.

You see, Zalif Khad dies in the wilderness and he has no sons, just these daughters.

Which means when Israel gets to the promised land, and the land is dispersed among all

the tribes of Israel, every family gets a portion, but Zalif Khad, he will have a son

to inherit his portion.

So the five daughters come before Moses and all the leaders of Israel and they say,

you know what, this doesn't seem right.

Why should our branch of the family tree be cut off from the Eden land just because we're

women?

But the thing is, this is how God instructed Israel to disperse the land to the sons.

What you have is this group of daughters who are bringing to Moses and Yahweh the fact

that there's a gap in the laws of the Torah.

There's a scenario that the laws don't address and the laws as currently stated will lead

to what they're trying to say is injustice.

A whole branch will be lost from the family tree just because women can't inherit land

and what God says is they are right.

There shouldn't be a family that loses possession of the land just because there isn't a patriarch.

This all takes place in an ancient patriarchal setting.

What made these women think that they could approach Moses and make an amendment to the

law?

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