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Written by Jonathan Grosskopf
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Pinchos was basically a man of peace, like his father Elazar and grandfather Aharon the High Priest (Cohen Gadol). He therefore acted in a manner totally alien to his nature and upbringing and in that he showed tremendous Gevuroh/ Strength of character for the sake of making a Kiddush Hashem (Glorification of Hashem). I feel that action can best described by the term OZ! The final posuk at the end of the 6 Books of the Mishnah concludes:" Hashem gave OZ to HIS people and Hashem will bless HIS people with Peace. Thus it is obvious that Pinchos who showed the characteristics of OZ was the person who would as a consequence of his actions also receive the Divine Covenant of Peace!
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Written by yehuda katz
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PINCHUS
" Pinchas , the son of Eleazer, the son of Aaron..............................................." (25:11)
A leader in Israel, Zimri, was killed by Pinchas because Zimri was committing immorality in public with a Midyanite Princess. This took great courage, and in fact saved the Israelites from a plague. Rashi quotes Sanhedrin 82 , as follows (Paraphrase): The tribes were belittling Pinchas by pointing to the fact that his mother's father , Yitro, was in an Idol worshipper before changing his ways, and believing in G-d. They called him "Ben Puti" to emphasize this very fact.We must realize that the nation was outraged when one of their leaders was killed by Pinchas (end of paraphrase). So how does G-d react to this gossip, He focuses on the positive that Pinchas was also descended from very great people, namely Aaron.This is why the Torah reiterates Pinchas lineage in verse 25:11.
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Written by Daniel Sandground
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Parashas Pinchas – The Real Battle against the Midyanites
This week's sedra is bursting with detail starting with the aftermath of the incident which was described at the end of last week's sedra in which Pinchas slayed Zimri and his Midyanite partner during their public illicit relations. The resultant commandment to “Harass... and smite” [25:17] the Midyanites is then given over to Moshe to seemingly conclude this dark episode, which will be discussed more below. Parashas Pinchas then gives over a census of the remaining members of the nation which was undertaken towards the end of the nations time in the desert. Some very interesting facts can be learnt out from comparing this census to that of those at the beginning of the book of Bamidbar, in which we can determine how many people died following all the disturbances during the wilderness years (the Sin of the Golden Calf, the Spies, Korach's rebellion and the incident with the Midyanite women) and also from which tribes these casualties mainly took place. The laws for the inheritance of the land according to each tribe are then given over, in which the land was distributed based on both size and fertility. With this we
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Written by d fine
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We are told that the result of Pinchas’s heroic act was that he was awarded with the Kehunah. What does the Kehunah have to do with what Pinchas did? One idea here is that, as the Maharal says, the key facet of the Kohen’s job is the creation of shalom. It is via the korbanos that the Kohen ‘makes shalom’ between HaShem and Klal Yisrael, and even the Sotah offering - which brings a husband and wife back together (if it goes well!) - is done via the Kohen. Thus, since Pinchas’s act both stopped the plague in Klal Yisrael and stopped the warring factions against Moshe, Pinchas was rewarded with ‘a covenant of peace’ (25:12) in the form of the Kehunah.
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Written by d fine
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The Yom Tov of Shmini Atzeres makes an appearance at the very end of our sedra. Chazal tell us that HaShem instituted Shmini Atzeres because He declared ‘your separation is hard for me.’ In other words, HaShem wanted us to stay and celebrate ’with Him’ one day longer. But how exactly does one day make a difference here; after this day we will still have to separate from HaShem, so to speak? One idea is that ‘your separation’ here refers to our rushing away from Sukkos. HaShem wants to make sure that we ingest and digest all the themes and messages of Sukkos, as opposed to rushing back to our ‘normal’ everyday lives. Thus, He gave us an extra day called Shmini Atzeres to internalise and develop everything that we gained from Sukkos. Alternatively, ‘your separation’ refers to the unity amongst Klal Yisrael. For for the entire duration of Sukkos we have been offering 70 cow offerings corresponding to the 70 nations of the world (amongst other offerings); we were offering korbanos on their behalf too. And when we are ‘on show’ for the other nations of the world it is very easy to preserve unity and act in a unified way. But HaShem feared that after the Sukkos korbanos were over then we’d sink to national disunity, and so said ‘your separation (from each other) is difficult for me’ and instituted Shmini Atzeres for us to celebrate together purely as the Jewish People and forge unity with each other.
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Written by Howard Jackson
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“This is the census of Moshe and Elazar the priest (to apportion the land of Israel) who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moav by the Jordan at Jericho. But among these there was not a man of the (earlier) census of Moshe and Aharon the priest who numbered the children of Israel in the Sinai desert. For God had said of them: ‘They will surely die in the desert’. The only remaining ones of them were Calev ben Yefuneh and Yehoshua bin Nun. Then TZelofchad’s daughters … drew near …” (BeMidbar 26:63-27:1).
The Torah teaches here that the only men who merited to be kept alive for the whole journey from Egypt to Israel were Calev and Yehoshua. Well, what about the women?
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Written by Rabbi Zev Leff
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When Moshe Rabbeinu entreated Hashem to appoint a leader to succeed him, Hashem answered, \"Before you command Me concerning My children, command My children concerning Me.\" Moshe proceeded to a command the Jewish people concerning the laws of the daily and holiday sacrifices.
In order to understand this Midrash (Yalkut Shimoni Bamidbar 228), we must first understand the function of a Torah leader. When the Jewish people feared that Moshe would not return from Har Sinai, they beseeched Aharon to make them a leader who would walk before them. They viewed a leader as one who goes \"before,\" accomplishing what his followers cannot. Thus when Moshe delayed they felt helpless and in need of a new intermediary
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