The Torah/Matot
Questions
editHere are a few of the questions that the Rabbis raised about this Torah reading:
- Are vows good or bad?[1]
- What is the Biblical basis for the law of the dissolution of vows?[2]
- Does God vow? If so, is God bound by the vow?[3]
- May one annul a vow on the Sabbath?[4]
- Why did the Israelites pillage the Midianites?[5]
- Did the Reubenites and Gadites have an honorable reason to settle outside the Land of Israel?[6]
- How can one honor the command of Numbers 32:22 that “you shall be clear before the Lord and before Israel”?[7]
Notes
edit- ↑ Mishnah Avot 3:13; Jerusalem Talmud Nedarim 9:1; Babylonian Talmud Nedarim 22a, 59a; Numbers Rabbah 22:1.
- ↑ Mishnah Chagigah 1:8; Babylonian Talmud Chagigah 10a.
- ↑ Babylonian Talmud Bava Batra 74a, Berakhot 32a; Exodus Rabbah 43:4.
- ↑ Mishnah Shabbat 24:5; Babylonian Talmud Shabbat 157a.
- ↑ Numbers Rabbah 22:8.
- ↑ Numbers Rabbah 22:7, 9.
- ↑ Babylonian Talmud Yoma 38a.