G-D’S RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU IS PERSONALIZED BY YOUR UNIQUE SACRIFICE, MAKING IT EXCLUSIVELY YOURS.
a different way, or it had to be retransmitted by Hashem to Moshe to give it the strength and validity of every other mitzvah that Moshe taught.
In the case of Zimri, he wanted to be with a Midianite woman, and being that Moshe’s wife was Tzipora, Yisro’s daughter, a Midianite, he was too involved to give the ruling. Because of this, the Torah law had to be transmitted through a different person, Pinchas.
In the case that the daughters of Tzelafchad brought, Moshe wasn’t originally involved, but they dragged him in. They said that their father wasn’t part of Korach’s rebellion against Moshe. Which, although it seems like a minor thing, it would be enough to weaken the ruling. By forgetting the law, he had to go to Hashem to receive it again. And that was enough to give it the full strength of Torah.
The daughters of Tzelafchad are mentioned three times in the Torah, each time it says their names, Machla, Tirtza, Chagla, Milka, and Noah, and all in connection to the laws of inheritance. This is because of their self-sacrifice and total investment into these laws. Their father died in one of the first years after the Exodus, so some of them were born yet in Egypt, and their case was brought in the fortieth year after the Exodus. They all refrained from getting married until their case would be heard because once they would be married, their case would not be so strong, because they would be connected to their husband’s land. This was a major sacrifice on their part, now they were around forty. They also delved into the subject with all their being, making it theirs, hence they merited to have it “written by their hands” in their honor.
This is a lesson to each of us that if we put our effort into Torah study and do it with self-sacrifice and not for a personal gain, like the daughters of Tzelafchad. Then the Torah becomes ours, and as if it was written in our honor. This is true for any sacrifice that is done for Hashem and His Torah, it makes it yours and in your merit.
May the merit of our sacrifices for Hashem and His Torah stand up for us, and storm the gates of heaven, asking that Moshiach should come already. The time has come.
