Rabbi Cantor Marcelo Gindlin will be installed as the Senior Rabbi at Malibu Jewish Center & Synagogue on Saturday, August 26, 2023 at 7:00 pm. The evening will begin with Argentinian cocktails & sweets, followed by the Installation Ceremony & Havdalah Service.
The daughters of Tzelophehad claimed their rights as individuals, rather than as a group. Yet individualism is also synonymous with chaos. Thus, the tribes as a society formed the organizing principle of Judaism. Therefore, their rights were offset by the tribal rights of the male relatives.
Rabbi Sacks asks the question: Why did Moshe’s prayer for a successor appear here, instead of 7 chapters earlier, when God informed him that he would die in the wilderness? He identifies the first clue—if the daughters of Zelophechad could inherit, then why couldn’t his sons? The second clue is that he wanted to die like Aaron, whose sons inherited his position.
Rabbi Ruditsky writes that while the parashah, at first glance, focuses on societal order, it is substantially concerned with vows and oaths. Rabbi Ruditsky explains these as personal declarations of self-affirming choices, whose power rests in the commitment and integrity of the one making the affirmation.
Rabbi Ruditsky writes about the various concepts of ownership–both of land and of Torah.