Summary by Channie Koplowitz Stein
This is the last devar torah for a few weeks. Thank you for reading.
As Bnei Yisroel are about to enter the Promised Land, the time to apportion the land to the various tribes and families arrives. The land is to be “divided as an inheritance according to the names of their father’s tribes… according to the lot…” One family is concerned about this division. These are five sisters, daughter of a man named Tzelaphchad. They are his only children. Having no brothers, they protest to Moshe that the portion meant for their father will be lost to their family and tribe, since the lottery would include only the names of the men. Indeed, they have a valid point, and Hashem teaches Moshe the laws of inheritance that are then recorded in the Torah and become known as the laws of the Daughters of Tzelaphchad.
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