In this week’s Torah portion, Pinchas, the Land of Israel is divided by tribes and male heads of families.  The daughters of a man named Tzelafchad, who had a great love for the Land of Israel, come forward and declare:

 “Our father died in the wilderness. He was not one of Korah’s faction, which banded together against God, but died for his own sin; and he has left no sons.  Why should our father’s name miss out, (in Hebrew- Lamah Yi’gara)  from his family just because he had no son. Give us a holding of land among our father’s brothers.  Moses brought their case before God.  And God said to Moses, “The daughters of Tzelafchad have spoken correctly, you should give them a hereditary holding among their father’s kinsmen; transfer their father’s share to them.”  And to the Jewish people you shall say, “If a man dies without leaving a son, you shall transfer his property to his daughter.””

A similar situation has occurred a few portionas ago in the Torah with the use of similar language in regard to the Passover offering:

“Some of the people were impure because of a corpse and could not offer the Passover sacrifice on Passover.  They came before Moses and Aaron and said, “We are impure by reason of contact with a corpse, why must we miss out (Lama Ni’Gara) from presenting God’s offering at its set time with the rest of the Israelites?”  Moses said to them, “Stand by, and let me hear what instructions God gives about you.”  And God spoke to Moses, saying: “Speak to the Israelite people, saying: When any party—whether you or your posterity—who is defiled by a corpse or is on a long journey who would have offered a Passover sacrifice to God- instead they may offer it in the second month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight.””

In both instances the complaint of the people is, “lamah negara,” “Why should we be left out?”  In both instances Moses turns to God and a solution, a way for them to do the mitzvah,  is found.
Certainly God knew these cases could come up and people could be left out of a mitzvah.  Why didn’t the Torah take such cases into account before they came up?   Maybe the lesson is for us.  When someone wants to do a mitzvah, we must try our best to enable them to do so.  Like Moshe we must seek a way for them.   We must hear their voice exclaiming: “Lamah Ni’gara”, “Why must we miss out?” and we must turn to God, or for us to the halacha, to Jewish law, and find a door for them to be included in the holy.  Certainly this may not always be possible, but we must try hard so that no Jew feels left out.