Parsha #42: Matot
& Parsha #43: Masai

JPS 1912 English Translation
Torah (Matot): Numbers 30:2 - 32:42
Torah (Mas'ei): Numbers 33:1 - 36:13
Haftara (Matot) Jeremiah 1:1 - 2:3
Haftara (Masei) Jeremiah 2:4-28, 3:4. 4:1-2

Rav Aryeh Kaplan's The Living Torah:
Chapter 30 • • Chapter 31 • • Chapter 32 • • Chapter 33 • • Chapter 34 • • Chapter 35 • • Chapter 36

OU/NCSY Israel Center Torah Tidbits
SEDRA STATS
42nd & 43rd of the 54 sedras; 9th & 10th of 10 in Bamidbar
Matot is written on 190 lines; Mas'ei is written on 189 lines
Parshiyot: Matot 9; 4 open, 5 closed; Mas'ei: 8; 6 open, 2 closed
P'sukim: Matot: 112, ranks 24th (7th in Bamidbar); tied with Vayeshev
Mas'ei: 132, 12th (5th in Bamidbar)
Combined: 244 - longest "sedra" by far, almost 40% longer than the longest single sedra, Naso
Words: Matot: 1484, ranks 29th (6th); Mas'ei: 1461, ranks 32nd (7th)
Combined: 2945 - 30% longer than NASO
Letters: Matot: 5652 - ranks 30th (7th); Mas'ei: 5773 - ranks 28th (6th)
Combined: 11425; 32% longer than NASO
Matot & Mas'ei are the most often combined pair of the seven pairs that combine.
The drop in ranking from p'sukim to words & letters - noticeable for Matot but very severe for Mas'ei - is a result of these sedras having relatively short p'sukim. Mas'ei's p'sukim are the shortest in the whole Torah
Compare Matot with Mas'ei. Matot has 20 fewer p'sukim than Mas'ei and 121 fewer letters. But it has 23 more words.

Chumash with Rashi by Rav Brovender
Menachem Leibtag (warning: there will often be repeats in subsequent years)
1. Questions
  1. Questions (Matot-Mas'ei) - for MM 5758 5759
2. Parsha
  1. Matot-Masei 5758 (rev. 57)
  2. Matot 5759 (Nedarim, the first Pasuk)
3. Siyyumim on Sefer Bemidbar
  1. Tehillim Perek 78 & Sefer Bamidbar (rev. 5759)
  2. Matot/Pinchas 5755: "Should Chumash end in Parshat Pinchas?"
Yeshivat Har Etzion

Yitz Etshalom

Parashiot Mattot/Mas'ei: Siyyum on Sefer Bamidbar

MJ-Ravtorah - Rav Yosef Dov Baer Soloveitchik Zt'l

Nechama Leibowitz Gilyonot - JNF/KKL Matot-Mas'ei Warning: Some of these links may not work
Nechama Leibowitz Gilyonot - Jewish Agency
Eitan Mayer

Matot 5759 (rev. 58)

Judaic Seminar

Bar Ilan Professors
1. Matot
  1. The Reason for Cities of Refuge
    Menahem Ben-Yashar (1998)
  2. "Some Names Being Changed"-- Musabot Shem (Num. 32:38)
    Dr. Zvi Betzer (1997)
2. Mas'ei
  1. Who Runs to a City of Refuge?
    Dr. Aharon Shemesh (1999)


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