[Avodah] yovel

[kennethgmiller at juno.com]

R"n Lisa Liel wrote:

> You're assuming a lot. Since he isn't a member of Ephraim, why would
> he inherit Ephraim's land? I don't know where the idea of the child
> of intermarriage belonging to the maternal grandfather's tribe comes
> from. Do you have any source for that?

As to the first part: As I explained, if the mother has no brothers, then she gets her father land. And then when she dies, her son gets it. Isn't this straightforward? Why wouldn't this work? For this part, it doesn't matter what shevet one belongs to, right?

As to the second part: I don't know where I got it. But enough people have called me on it that I am going to concede that I must have been mistaken.

Akiva Miller


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