Bemidbar 5782

This is Torah Talk for the week of May 29th, 2022

Num. 1:18 On the first day of the second month they convoked the whole community, who were registered [וַיִּתְיַֽלְד֥וּ] by the clans of their ancestral houses—the names of those aged twenty years and over being listed head by head.

Hapax legomenon? – you decide.  But what does וַיִּתְיַֽלְד֥וּ mean, and how does this unusual usage help us sort out when the biblical text was written?

This week’s handout: 34 Bemidbar 5782

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Tags: Abraham ibn Ezra, Avi Hurvitz, Baruch Levine, Jacob Milgrom, Late Biblical Hebrew, Nahmanides, Rashi