Pinchas 5782

This is Torah Talk for the week of July 17th, 2022

Num. 26:9  The sons of Eliab were Nemuel, and Dathan and Abiram. These are the same Dathan and Abiram, chosen in the assembly, who agitated against Moses and Aaron as part of Korah’s band when they agitated against the Lord. ¹⁰ Whereupon the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up with Korah—when that band died, when the fire consumed the two hundred and fifty men—and they became an example [וַיִּהְי֖וּ לְנֵֽס].

A nes is not an “example” anywhere else in the Bible – why doe it mean that here?

This week’s handout: 41 Pinchas 5782

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Tags: Abraham ibn Ezra, Baruch Levine, Book of Numbers, Dictionary of Classical Hebrew, George Buchanan Gray, Hebrew & Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, ICC, Jacob Milgrom, Rashi