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From the city of dates. This refers to Yericho, as the fertile tract of Yericho¹⁷An area outside the city, measuring five hundred amohs by five hundred amohs. (Yalkut, 38.) was given to them for their consumption until the Beis HaMikdosh would be built. The one in whose portion the Beis HaMikdosh would be built¹⁸The tribe of Binyomin. (Ibid). would then receive it,¹⁹In return for the Beis Hamikdosh territory, which would become the property of all the tribes. so that all of Yisroel could share in the Beis HaMikdosh. It was given to the descendants of Yisro for four hundred and forty years.²⁰From the conquest of Eretz Yisroel by Yehoshua, until the construction of the Beis Hamikdosh by King Solomon. (See Melachim 1,6:1.) The scholars among them departed, and went to Asniel, the son of Kenaz, also known as Ya'avetz, to the wilderness of Yehudah south of Arad to study Torah.²¹Yalkut, ibid.

He settled with the people. With the disciples who sat before him. He requested of the Holy One, blessed is He, that He furnish him with suitable disciples, as it said, "Ya'avetz cried out to Elohim…etc."²²“…of Yisroel, saying: If You bless me by broadening my boundary, and Your hand shall be with me…”. (Divrei Hayamim 1, 4:10. See fn.6) He furnished him with these pious men.²³Yalkut, ibid.