Jeremy Rosen
Making Sense of the Bible: Can its Ancient Text be Relevant Today? Numbers 1, In the Desert
Summary
Study the text of the Bible weekly with Jeremy Rosen through a combination of traditional, critical, and personal perspectives. No knowledge of Hebrew or the Bible is necessary. You may use any Bible text you may have or you can go to sefaria.org. This week will begin with Numbers 1, in the desert.
Jeremy Rosen
Manchester-born Jeremy Rosen was educated at Cambridge University England and Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem. He has practiced as an orthodox rabbi, as principal of Carmel College in the UK, and as professor at the Faculty for Comparative Religion in Antwerp, Belgium. He has written and lectured extensively in the UK and the US, where he now resides and was the rabbi of the Persian-Jewish community in Manhattan.
That’s correct. They were not included in the census. The census was explicitly for the children of Israel.
I don’t think it’s loyalty rather a status. Unfortunately, as in this day and age today, we still have royal families that have status and priorities. Although there might have been second rate or illegitimate children, they just don’t count. So that seems to have been the norm for thousands of years.
My assumption is that they’re doing it to give status. That there was status to the sons of the main wives and less status to those of the concubines.