Parsha discussion

1. Why does משה mention the test of the קטורת twice? 2. If the מחתות נחושת were used improperly, why are they used to cover the מזבח? 3. Why doesn’t אהרן write his own name on the staff, as was required by the other tribal leaders? 4. 18:17 If these בכורים need to be קורבנות, why does 18:15 allow them to be redeemed?

1. 13:27 ויספרו לו - who is referred to in the singular? Surely they are addressing the entire nation? 2. Why would the failure to bring the people to the promised land reduce the effect of יציאת מצרים? 3. Why are the נסכים only relevant in ארץ כנען? 4. Why are the חטאות not mentioned together with those in פרשת ויקרא?

1. Why did the לויים need to go through a process of טהרה if they’d already been exchanged for the בכורים? 2. Why do the people who were טמאים refer to the קרבן הפסח as קרבן ה׳? 3. Why is משה worried that חבב won’t join the people for their journey to the promised land? And why doesn’t he join them? 4. 11:30 implies that משה and the זקנים had been outside the camp. Yet previously they had gathered outside the (אהל (מועד?

1. Why are the roles of the בני לוי repeated in פרק ד, after having been mentioned in פרק ג? 2. Why is it assumed that the סוטה is guilty - only mentioning the potential innocence “by the way” at the end 3. 6:21 what is the meaning of מלבד אשר תשיג ידו in relation to the קרבנות brought by the נזיר? 4. What was the dilemma that משה faced in accepting the wagons and oxen from the נשיאים? Why should it have been a problem?