This weeks Parasha is in the book of Bamidbar also called Numbers, and is called Mattot which means ‘Tribes’. In this weeks parasha:
– YHWH command Yisra’el to keep their word if they make a vow
– If a woman living in her father’s house make a vow when he hears it he may disallow it or let it stand if he says nothing
– When a woman’s husband hears of a vow his wife made he may disallow it or if he says nothing it shall stand
– If a widow or divorced woman makes a vow it shall stand
– If a husband hears his wife’s vows and does nothing and then later disallows them he shall bear her lawlessness
– Moshe sends 1000 from every tribe to make war with Midyan
– Yisra’el destroys Midyan and their cities and takes their women captive
– Moshe was angry and told them to kill all male children and women who have known a man
– The men of war are commanded to be purified outside the camp and to purify all the spoil
– YHWH commands Moshe to divide the spoil in two for those who went to war and the congregation and to give portions for the Levi’im
– The men of war all offered an oblation of their spoils because not one died among them
– The children of Re’uven and Gad ask to inherit the cattle land on this side of Yarden and they shall fight with Yisra’el until they inherit their land
– Moshe makes a vow with the children of Re’uven Gad, and Menasheh, that if they help Yisra’el in war they may inherit Gil’ad
– The children of Re’uven, Gad, and Menasheh build their cities in the land of Gil’ad
– Haftarah – Yermeyahu is told he shall be a prophet and he shall go and tell Yahurushalayim what will happen to them
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