1)

What is the status of the River Yarden?

1.

Rashi (in Yehoshua, 15:5): It is part of the eastern border of Eretz Cana'an.

2)

?Zos Tih?yeh lachem ha?Aretz li?Gevulosehah?. What are the four basic borders of Eretz Yisrael?

1.

Targum Yonasan: Kadesh Barne?a in the south, Hor ha?Har in th north, the Mediterranean in the west and the Yam ha?Melach in the east.

3)

Why does the Torah insert the (otherwise superfluous) words "ha'Aretz li'Gevulosehah"?

1.

Bechoros, 55a: To teach us that the whole of the land is considered one border - and that consequently, if ten lambs are born anywhere in Eretz Yisrael - even if five are born in one tribe and five in another - the owner is obligated to Ma'aser them. 1

1

See Torah Temmah, note 1.

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