Masei

Mass (Hebrew " tribes " or " trains " ) denotes a read portion of the Torah with the text Numbers / Bemidbar 33.1 to 36.13.

There is a reading in the month Aw.

Gist

The text calls the deposits of the path that the people of Israel takes during the Exodus from Egypt to the Sinai. On this journey, Aaron died on Mount Hor, God commands the Israelites to drive beyond the Jordan, the Canaanites and destroy their statues.

The borders of the promised land are described in detail, and by lot to the territories are divided. In some of the cities that get the Levites, to people who have accidentally killed someone, be given shelter until their case is decided in court. There are established rules for homicide.

At the end of the fourth book of Moses is established that land may be inherited only within the tribe, ie at marriage of the daughters of Zelophehad the heritage in the paternal clan remains.

Haftorah

The associated Haftarah is Jeremiah from 2.4 to 28.

Parasha

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