#513: How Important Is Your Family Line?

R. Moshe Heifetz on Parashat Bemidbar, Numbers/Bemidbar 1:4

The Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor by William Halsall, 1882. There is a society of Mayflower descendants, the bluest of blue blood.

Numbers/Bemidbar 1:4

וְאִתְּכֶ֣ם יִהְי֔וּ אִ֥ישׁ אִ֖ישׁ לַמַּטֶּ֑ה אִ֛ישׁ רֹ֥אשׁ לְבֵית־אֲבֹתָ֖יו הֽוּא׃

Associated with you shall be a participant from each tribe, each one the head of his ancestral house.

Gimme Some Torah #513

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