Blessings From Struggle

July 7, 2023

In this week’s parashah, Zelophehad’s five daughters win their appeal to Moses — and God — to inherit their late father’s land, blazing a new trail for all the daughters of Israel. “We can only imagine how this momentous event shifted their sense of who they were within society and what was possible for them,” says Rabbi Samantha Natov. “This struggle against injustice never ends — yet from struggle, blessings may come.”