I apologize for an error in my post today, Pinchas: Do Women Count? Part 1. Underneath the subhead “How many portions” is a repetition of the material under the subhead “For the sake of a name”. And the essay as a whole doesn’t make as much sense without the material that was supposed to appear under “How many portions”!
Here is the section that I omitted from my post:
How many portions
And God spoke to Moshe, saying: “The daughters of Tzelafechad spoke correctly! You must definitely assign them landed property of nachalah in the midst of their father’s brothers; and you must transfer the nachalah of their father to them.” (Numbers 27:6-7)
nachalah (נַחֲלָה) = inheritance, hereditary possession
After approving the claim of the five sisters to land in Canaan, God has two alternatives: giving them five plots of land in Canaan, as if each woman had been counted like a man in the census; or giving all five sisters a single plot of land in Canaan, as if their deceased father had been counted in the census.
By saying “you must transfer the nachalah of their father to them” God opts for the second choice. Only the inheritance of one man, their father Tzelafechad, will be assigned to them.
Hirsch pointed out: “Had Tzelafechad left five sons instead of five daughters, these five sons—like their cousins—would first have received five portions.”6
Instead, Ibn Ezra wrote, “What he [Tzelafechad] should have received, they shall receive.”7
At this point, the daughters of Tzelafechad have won the right to one man’s plot of land in Canaan. But if they were men, they would receive five times as much land.
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