My spirit on all flesh; Your sons and daughters shall prophesy . . . ." Professor Dennis Olson of Princeton Theological Seminary wrote that the episode illustrated the need to allow for the possibility that persons outside the institutional leadership of God's people may have genuine words and insights from God. Professor Robert Alter of the University of California, Berkeley, wrote that Moses hyperbolically expressed the sense that holding on to a monopoly of power (equated with access to God's spirit) was not what impelled him, and pointed rather to an ideal of radical spiritual egalitarianism whereby God granted access to the spirit to anyone God chose. Terence Fretheim, Professor Emeritus at Luther Seminary, wrote that Moses shared the charisma of God's spirit and wished that all God's people could receive it. And Professor Nili Fox of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion suggested that the story may reflect an ancient debate about whether there could be only one legitimate prophet at a time, as perhaps implied by , or if there could be many prophets in a single era. Numbers chapter 12 Professor Masha Turner, of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Jerusalem, suggested that one can read the account of Miriam and Moses’s wife sympathetically as a case in which God sides with one maligned woman — Moses’ wife — against a more powerful one — Miriam. Commandments According to both Maimonides and Sefer ha-Chinuch, there are 3 positive and 2 negative commandments in the parashah: To slaughter the second Passover lamb To eat the second Passover lamb in accordance with the Passover rituals Not to leave the second Passover meat over until morning Not to break any bones from the second Passover offering To sound alarm in times of catastrophe In the liturgy Some Jews read "at 50 years old one offers counsel," reflecting the retirement age for Levites in , as they study Pirkei Avot chapter 6 on a Sabbath between Passover and Rosh Hashanah. The laws of the Passover offering in provide an application of the second of the Thirteen Rules for interpreting the Torah in the Baraita of Rabbi Ishmael that many Jews read as part of the readings before the Pesukei dezimra prayer service. The second rule provides that similar words in different contexts invite the reader to find a connection between the two topics. The words "in its proper time" (, bemoado)