Questions tagged [chukas]

In parshas chukas (20:8), right before Hashem tells Moshe to speak to the rock, Hashem instructs him to take his staff. Why instruct Moshe to take the staff, if he was supposed to speak to the rock and not hit it?

Chukas 19:14, with Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan's translation (brackets in his original): זֹאת הַתּוֹרָה אָדָם כִּי יָמוּת בְּאֹהֶל כָּל הַבָּא אֶל הָאֹהֶל וְכָל אֲשֶׁר בָּאֹהֶל יִטְמָא שִׁבְעַת יָמִים.‏ When a man dies in a tent, this is the law: Everything…