Guiding Questions: Numbers 8

This is part of the Tanakh Yomi Project.

  1. How is the description of the lights and the candelabra continued as a tradition to this day?
  2. Having dedicated the Mishkan, what “dedication” follows?
  3. Should Numbers 8:12 immediately follow Numbers 8:10—and what does the symbolism convey?
  4. What is the relationship between Numbers 8:11-13?
  5. According to Numbers 8:14 to whom did the Leviim “belong?”
  6. Does Numbers 8:17 change the earlier reason for the selection of the Leviim?
  7. Why, were it not for the Leviim, might there be a “plague” amongst the Israelites approaching the “Kodesh?”
  8. How long do the Leviim serve, and what is their role following “retirement” (Numbers 8:24-26)?

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Perek Yomi materials originally produced by the USCJ and Dr. Morton K. Siegel.
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