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