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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>
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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? </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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<li>The events of the opening chapters of Sefer Bemidbar appear to be recorded out of <a href="Chronology of Bemidbar 1 – 10 " data-aht="page">chronological order</a>.  When did each of the laws and stories actually occur, and why might the Torah have preferred to recount them in this manner?</li>
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Latest revision as of 12:26, 19 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?
  • 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?
  • The events of the opening chapters of Sefer Bemidbar appear to be recorded out of chronological order. When did each of the laws and stories actually occur, and why might the Torah have preferred to recount them in this manner?