Bamidbar 4:18 · unit 1 — do not cut off the tribe of the families of the Kehasites

Parashas Bamidbar

The Complete Passuk

אַל־תַּכְרִ֕יתוּ אֶת־שֵׁ֖בֶט מִשְׁפְּחֹ֣ת הַקְּהָתִ֑י מִתּ֖וֹךְ הַלְוִיִּֽם׃

Do not let the group of Kohathite clans be cut off from the Levites.

Torah Temimah points to TT / related (verified).

Core Text

אל תכריתו — תניא, המת לחמשים שנה זו מיתת כרת.

English: “Do not cut off” — it was taught: One who dies at fifty years — this is the death of kares.

On the daf / in context: The warning against the Kehasites being cut off is linked to the age at which premature death is classified as kares.

Custom

Chazal associate the language of “cutting off” with the classification of death at fifty as kares.