Mass (parasha)

Mass ( Hebrew מַסְעֵי 'Stämme, Zug' ) denotes a reading section of the Torah with the text Numbers / Bemidbar 33–36 (33 BHS ; 34 BHS ; 35 BHS ; 36 BHS ).

It is a reading in the month of Aw .

Essential content

The text names the camps on the road that the people of Israel take during their exodus from Egypt to Sinai. On this journey Aaron dies on Mount Hor. God orders the Israelites to drive out the Canaanites on the other side of the Jordan and to destroy their statues.

The boundaries of the promised land are clearly described and the areas are to be divided up by lot. Some of the cities given the Levites are said to have sheltered people who have accidentally killed someone until their case is decided. There are rules for homicides.

At the end of the 4th book of Moses it is stipulated that properties may only be inherited within a tribe, i.e. if the daughters of Zelophchad marry, the inheritance remains with the paternal clan.

Haftara

The Haftara belonging to this Parascha is, according to the Ashkenazi rite, Jeremiah 2,4–28 BHS and 3,4 BHS and according to Sephardic custom, Jeremiah 2,4–28 BHS and 4,1–2 BHS .

Web links

Walter Rothschild : Massej - Is that the best way? In: ark.de. General Rabbinical Conference, August 1, 2014, accessed April 28, 2018 .
Jonah Sievers : Mattot Maasse - Asylum Centers. In: ark.de. General Rabbinical Conference, July 28, 2017, accessed April 28, 2018 .
Jonah Sievers: Mattot Massej - Let's use the time. In: ark.de. General Rabbinical Conference, August 12, 2016, accessed April 28, 2018 .
Gesa Shira Ederberg : Matot Massei - When girls swear. In: ark.de. General Rabbinical Conference, July 20, 2018, accessed December 21, 2018 .
Rabbi Dr. Simon Bernfeld: Jewish translation of mass. In: talmud.de. talmud.de, May 6, 2020, accessed June 2, 2020 .

Individual evidence

↑ Bemidbar / Numbers 33-36, 13. after the Codex L . In: tanach.us. Retrieved October 9, 2017 .
↑ Hanna Liss: Tanach - Textbook of the Jewish Bible . 3. Edition. Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH, Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8253-5904-1 , p. 163 (414 pp.).

[1] Bemidbar / Numbers 33-36, 13. after the Codex L . In: tanach.us. Retrieved October 9, 2017 .

[2] Hanna Liss: Tanach - Textbook of the Jewish Bible . 3. Edition. Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH, Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8253-5904-1 , p. 163 (414 pp.).