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<li>What need was there for a <a href="Censuses in the Wilderness" data-aht="page">census</a> in the beginning of the second year of the nation's travels, if they had just taken one a few months beforehand?  How is it that the tallies of the two censuses were identical?</li>
 
<li>What need was there for a <a href="Censuses in the Wilderness" data-aht="page">census</a> in the beginning of the second year of the nation's travels, if they had just taken one a few months beforehand?  How is it that the tallies of the two censuses were identical?</li>
<li>When and why was the tribe of <a href="Selection of the Priests and Levites" data-aht="page">Levi chosen</a> to replace the firstborns?</li>
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<li>When and why was the <a href="Selection of the Priests and Levites" data-aht="page">tribe of Levi chosen</a> to replace the firstborns?  What did they do to merit the position?  What did the firstborns do to lose their status?</li>
 
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Version as of 23:22, 15 June 2017

Parashat Bemidbar – Opening Questions

  • What need was there for a census in the beginning of the second year of the nation's travels, if they had just taken one a few months beforehand? How is it that the tallies of the two censuses were identical?
  • When and why was the tribe of Levi chosen to replace the firstborns? What did they do to merit the position? What did the firstborns do to lose their status?