[Avodah] Bnot tzlafchad

[Zev Sero]

On 18/07/2012 5:43 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
> In any case, Benos Tzelafchad ended up marrying "livnei doeihen
> lenashim. Mimishpechos benei Menasheh ben Yoseif hayu lenashim." (Bamidbar
> 36:11-12) Is it possible that peshat here is that the girls didn't inded
> want to settle, and thus married from [the other] families of Menasheh,
> ones that got land from the territory promised to the Avos?

"Bnei dodeihen" means they were machmir, and married not just within the
tribe but within their clan.  Beside which, if they married men whose
portion was on the west bank, what would they do with their land which
was on the east bank?

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