Pinchas was the Charles Bronson of his day. The dark one, but good like Johnny Cash. Took out Zimri, the idolater, on his own ...
His gesture is not born of noise or pride. It rises from a fidelity that cannot tolerate confusion when truth becomes visible. After the cut, the rhythm changes. The Torah leaves the initial tension ...
The Three Weeks do not ask us to despair. They ask us to remember what we lost, why we lost it, and, above all, that God has ...
Semicha is the term we use for rabbinic ordination, but what does it actually mean? We learn the answer from the portion of ...
Normally, Pinchas would have been guilty of murder and subject to execution. Yet God not only spares him — He rewards him ...
Our guest this week is Rabbi Stuart Weinblatt, leader of the B’nai Tzedek congregation in Potomac, MD. Rabbi Weinblatt is the President of the Rabbinic Cabinet of the Jewish Federations of North ...
Longing for the Land of Israel. Parashat Pinchas contains one of the most moving expressions of love for the Land of Israel in the entire Torah. It do ...
After Pinchas kills the Jewish man and Midianite woman committing immoral acts, God applauds Pinchas, granting him a “brit shalom” (covenant of peace; Numbers 25:12). Can we deduce from God’s approval ...
Parashat Pinchas begins with a continuation of the narrative of Israel’s immoral behavior found at the conclusion of Parashat Balak. That behavior was induced by Balaam, the heathen prophet hired by ...
Moses does not stand alone on Nevo – we stand with him. Together, we gaze toward a future we build but may never fully enter. Together with him, many Jews look toward a land they may never cross.
Pinchas arrives well past Sinai, after the wilderness, after the plague, after Pinchas himself has already become the hero of ...
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