Given Gad’s unusual assignment as the rearguard of Degel Reuven, and considering that it was the only tribe that stemmed from one of the maidservants to be in a formation with tribes descended ...

9. The Sabbath is their day of rest. 10. The old women of the tribe who have reached menopause light candles Friday night. 11. They smear blood on the doorframe during a plague. 12.

‘Our Sages comment, that because Reuben and Gad were so attached to their wealth, till they were prepared to settle outside the land, they were the exiled from it, before the other tribes.' ...

Are we just watching from afar? Or are we, like the tribes of Reuben and Gad, also crossing the Jordan River on our way to Israel to be part of the front lines during times of war?

There are those who claim that the Mikado, the Japanese emperor, is a descendant of the Hebrew tribe of Gad. 'Mikado' recalls the Hebrew word for 'his majesty the king,' 'Malchuto'.

Thus, when the request by the tribes of Reuben, Gad and half the tribe of Menashe that they be allowed to settle alongside the Eastern Bank of the Jordan River was voiced, this caused a small ...