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Petition of the Two and a Half Tribes
Introduction
main questions:
Both the request of Reuven and Gad and the response of Moshe are surprising and troubling.
1) Request: Do they really mean to abandon their people’s campaign of conquering the
Promised Land and to prefer the lands of Sichon and Og, to G-d’s choice of Canaan?
2) Response: Moshe’s long (10 verses) and passionate response assumes the worst-was i
reasonable? If it was, why does he permit them in the end, to settle outside of Canaan?
