Parashas Masei · Side-ring from SKIP 36:01–03
Bava Basra 119b (on the daughters of Tzelofchad; the Gilad petition in 36:1–3 is the sequel that preserves tribal land).
E-Daf — Bava Basra 119b · Sefaria
English: Our Rabbis taught: The daughters of Tzelofchad are wise, are expounders, are righteous. Wise — they spoke at the right moment… Expounders — they said: Had they had a son we would not have spoken… Righteous — they married only those fit for them.
Bavli narrative midrash on the character of the heiresses whose case triggers the Gilad petition of 36:1–3.
The petition of the Gilad heads in 36:1–3 is the tribal response to the daughters’ successful claim. The Gemara’s praise of the daughters as wise, expounding, and righteous frames why their inheritance required the corrective of intra-tribal marriage in this chapter.