The daughters of Tzelafchad were a group of five single sisters with a deceased father who approached Moshe Rabbeinu about inheriting their father's land. It is because of this incident that the laws pertaining to women and inheritance were revealed to the people. But when you look at the whole story, we can see a lot of questions: why is the story mentioned? It is almost a footnote in a parsha filled with seemingly unrelated events. Who were these women? Why does the Torah make such a big deal out of the fact that we learn a law from them? Why are they are all mentioned by name? Why were they important, and what can we learn from them?