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After the brief interlude of the story of Balaam and Balak, the story returns to the Israelite camp. Chaos reigns again, as the people are consumed by the orgiastic worship of the Moabite god Baal-Peor. Moses and the elders (again) have fallen on their faces, apparently in sadness. A grandson of Aaron takes things into his own hands, literally. Pinchas (Phineas) takes a spear and impales Zimri, a prince of the tribe of Simeon, and Cozbi, a princess of Moab, mid-coitus. The people snap out of their trance and following a massive plague, calm is restored to the camp. In return for his heroic vigilantism, God promises Pinchas \u201chis Covenant of Shalom\u201d (verse 12).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

What exactly is the \u201cCovenant of Shalom\u201d? Rashi believes this is simply God being grateful to Pinchas and offering him a friendly \u201cshalom\u201d greeting. This is a nice gesture, but why is it called a covenant? Ibn Ezra focuses on the word <\/span>shalom<\/em> <\/span>as \u201cpeace.\u201d He believes that God is promising Pinchas that he will continue to have peace and should not fear retribution from Zimri\u2019s family even though Zimri was a prince. This opinion introduces a whole layer of political and legal implications and questions. It implies that Pinchas, a grandson of the high priest, should have to worry about the political implications of killing a corrupt prince.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Chizkuni expands on Ibn Ezra and explains that Pinchas not only did not have to worry about Zimri\u2019s family, but he also did not have to worry about his own heritage as a priest. Because it was forbidden for a priest to come in contact with a dead body, Pinchas was concerned he would lose his priestly status. God promised him that he would not.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Sfrono expands even further. The covenant of peace is not just for safety from Zimri\u2019s family, but a general peace with the angel of death. God promises Pinchas a long life with some sources showing that he lived as much as 300 years through the ages of the Judges.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Malbim extends this even further. He brings the midrashic interpretation that Pinchas was actually the prophet Elijah. Both characters have a similar zeal for God that causes them to act in an \u201cextra-legal\u201d manner. Because the midrash also holds that Elijah never died, Pinchas is given eternal life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik explains that God is trying to teach an important lesson. The Covenant of Shalom means a promise of peace. This is ironic. Pinchas was responsible for a violent act of murder to stop a religious rebellion. Such an act is the exact opposite of peaceful! God\u2019s message is that sometimes peaceful means cannot be achieved by pacifism and crying at the doorway, like Moses and the other leaders. The example the Rav gives is Neville Chamberlain\u2019s infamous attempt to pacify Hitler. 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Pinchas - Brave Young Women<\/a><\/p>","post_main_content_image":"","post_main_content_embedded_video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/N0Z533slMak","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"Shabbat With a Schmear","tile_main_caption":"Pinchas - Brave Young Women","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Adam Mintz with Meredith Berkman (ShabbatMom)","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":"","tile_preview_video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/N0Z533slMak","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","old_create_date":"","links":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"II Samuel","chapter":false,"chapter_main_number":false,"date":false,"wall_id":"1054"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"369","name":"Visual Arts","old_id":"769"}]},{"order":5,"id":"48201","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"2","name":"Morality Binds And Blinds ","post_title":"Morality Binds And Blinds","slug":"morality-binds-and-blinds","old_id":"48201","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":39525,"post_title":"Erica Brown","slug":"erica-brown","old_id":"39525","first_name":"Erica ","last_name":"Brown","description":"Dr. Erica Brown is associate professor at the Graduate School of Education and Human Development at The George Washington University and director of its Mayberg Center for Jewish Education and Leadership. She is the author of 12 books. Her forthcoming book is The Book of Esther: Power, Fate and Fragility in Exile (Maggid\/OU).","short_description":"Dr. Erica Brown is Director of the Mayberg Center for Jewish Education and Leadership at The George Washington University.","credit":"","image_url":"","hide_writer":false,"link_for_pay":false,"image":{"id":39526,"alt":"","title":"erica brown","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/erica-brown-e1536180373903.jpg","width":154,"height":186,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/erica-brown-e1536180373903-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/erica-brown-e1536180373903.jpg","medium-width":154,"medium-height":186,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/erica-brown-e1536180373903.jpg","medium_large-width":154,"medium_large-height":186,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/erica-brown-e1536180373903.jpg","large-width":154,"large-height":186,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/erica-brown-e1536180373903.jpg","1536x1536-width":154,"1536x1536-height":186,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/erica-brown-e1536180373903.jpg","2048x2048-width":154,"2048x2048-height":186,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/erica-brown-e1536180373903.jpg","post_full_size-width":154,"post_full_size-height":186,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/erica-brown-e1536180373903.jpg","home_baner-width":154,"home_baner-height":186}},"tags":false},"related_cahpter":"142","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"Pinchas quelled a rebellion but would be unable to create a longer legacy of leadership","post_main_content_content":"

So Moses said to Israel\u2019s officials, \u2018Each of you slay those of his men who attached themselves to Baal-peor.\u2019 Just then one of the Israelites came and brought a Midianite woman over to his companions, in the sight of Moses and of the whole Israelite community who were weeping at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting. When Phinehas, son of Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, saw this, he left the assembly and, taking a spear in his hand, he followed the Israelite into the chamber and stabbed both of them, the Israelite and the woman, through the belly. Then the plague against the Israelites was checked. (Num 25:5-8).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

One of the most difficult passages in Numbers presents yet another leadership collapse. Moses, unable to check the rebelliousness in his camp, is shown up by Pinchas, who swept into the scene fully armed and ready to stop the open promiscuity in the camp. All were paralyzed by the affront. They wept, unable to believe the brazenness of this sight and how it happened. By charging to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, Pinchas invites us to think of our own possible response and to contemplate religious violence through the ages. Pinchas accomplished his objective and was even rewarded for taking these two lives, but at what cost? <\/span><\/p>\r\n

In <\/span>The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion<\/span><\/i><\/a>, <\/span>Jonathan Haidt<\/span><\/a> helps us understand the way in which religion and any group commitment can create a unity oblivious to reality. \u201c\u2026when a group of people make something sacred, the members of the cult lose the ability to think clearly about it.<\/span> Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into ideological teams that fight each other as though the fate of the world depended on our side winning each battle. It blinds us to the fact that each team is composed of good people who have something important to say.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Our own ideologies can make us strong and can also make us insensitive to situations that require more nuance and less judgment. Haidt concludes that this, \u201c\u2026is why it's so important to have intellectual and ideological diversity within any group or institution whose goal is to find truth...\u201d\u00a0Pinchas may have stopped the problem right in front of him. He was rewarded with a covenant of peace. Some may regard this as a validation of his violence. Perhaps instead it was a farewell consolation prize to a leader who had his moment and only that. Pinchas quelled a rebellion but would be unable to create a longer legacy of leadership. That requires the capacity to sustain lasting peace and unity.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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In 1936, at a time of gathering storm clouds in both Gershom Scholem\u2019s native Berlin and his adopted Jerusalem, the magus-like scholar of the kabbalah published an extraordinary article entitled \u201cRedemption through Sin,\u201d not translated into English until 1970. This piece, which eventually matured into the full length monograph Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah<\/em>, laid out a stark and explosive thesis; the Frankist movement, a 19<\/span>th<\/span> century Jewish heresy in eastern Europe which proposed a violation of all religious norms and encouraged transgression as a vehicle to holiness, in fact emerged from the conversion and unmasking of Sabbatai Sevi, the purported messiah two centuries before who was summoned to Istanbul and chose Islam over sacrificing his life. True believers developed a theology of salvation whereby Sevi\u2019s conversion was an eschatological necessity, a plumbing of the depths to reach the heights. It was through violation that true holiness might be found, and taboo was a kind of shrouded Torah. At its most extreme, Frankists plunged themselves into orgies. The greater the descent, the more shimmering the ascent.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Today\u2019s chapter features an incident of communal breakdown, as Balak achieves through women what Balaam could not with words. Like the episodes of Korach and the Golden Calf, it is a captivating portrayal of communal consciousness and the ability of a crowd to lose its bearings and find its id. Such bacchanals would have been known to the ancient world, and not always with a negative valence. The releasing of tension, the joy of rules suspended and conventions held in abeyance would have had a great appeal in hierarchical societies structured with ritual. Here, however, the hero is not the one who starts the fun, but the one who starkly ends it. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

The valorization of Pinchas is not just the celebration of a zealot, but a definitive rejection of the route of redemption through the field of sin. Extremism in defense of norms is no vice, we are told; it pierces to the heart of Zimri, and the matter. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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With Pinchas a new type enters the world of Israel: the zealot. \u201cPinchas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned My anger away from the Israelites by being zealous with My zeal in their midst so that I did not put an end to them in My zeal\u201d (Num. 25: 11). He was followed, many centuries later, by the one other figure in Tanakh described as a zealot, the prophet Elijah. He tells God on Mount Horeb, \u201cI have been very zealous for the LORD God Almighty.\u201d (1 Kings 19: 14). In fact, tradition identified the two men: \u201cPinchas is Elijah\u201d (Yalkut Shimoni, Torah, 771). Pinchas, says Targum Yonatan (to Num. 25: 12), \u201cbecame an angel who lives forever and will be the harbinger of redemption at the End of Days.\u201d...<\/span><\/p>\r\n

There can be no doubt that Pinchas and Elijah were religious heroes. They stepped into the breach at a time when the nation was facing religious and moral crisis and palpable Divine anger. They acted while everyone else, at best, watched. They risked their lives by so doing. There can be little doubt that the mob might have turned against them and attacked them. Indeed after the trial at Mount Carmel, Jezebel lets it be known that she intends to have Elijah killed. Both men acted for the sake of God and the religious welfare of the nation. And God himself is called \u201czealous\u201d many times in the Torah.<\/span>
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\r\n<\/span>Yet their treatment in both the written and oral Torah is deeply ambivalent\u2026 Pinchas and Elijah are, in other words, both gently rebuked by God. Why this moral ambivalence? The simplest answer is that the zealot is not acting within the normal parameters of the law... More profoundly, the zealot is in effect taking the place of God\u2026. The zealot who takes the law into his own hands is embarking on a course of action fraught with moral danger. Only the most holy may do so, only once in a lifetime, and only in the most dire circumstance when the nation is at risk, when there is nothing else to be done, and no one else to do it. Even then, were the zealot to ask permission from a court, he would be denied it.<\/span>
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\r\n<\/span>Nothing in the religious life is more risk-laden than zeal, and nothing more compelling than the truth God taught Elijah, that God is not to be found in the use of force but in the still, small voice that turns the sinner from sin. As for vengeance, that belongs to God alone.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

From:<\/span>The Zealot (Covenant & Conversation, Pinchas 5772)<\/span><\/i><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":60001,"alt":"","title":"2sam6-anger","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam6-anger.png","width":1089,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam6-anger-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam6-anger-255x300.png","medium-width":255,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam6-anger-768x903.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":903,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam6-anger-871x1024.png","large-width":871,"large-height":1024,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam6-anger.png","1536x1536-width":1089,"1536x1536-height":1280,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam6-anger.png","2048x2048-width":1089,"2048x2048-height":1280,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam6-anger-1021x1200.png","post_full_size-width":1021,"post_full_size-height":1200,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam6-anger-357x420.png","home_baner-width":357,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"","tile_main_caption":"The Moral Ambivalence of Zealotry","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Vengeance belongs to God alone","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":60001,"alt":"","title":"2sam6-anger","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam6-anger.png","width":1089,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam6-anger-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam6-anger-255x300.png","medium-width":255,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam6-anger-768x903.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":903,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam6-anger-871x1024.png","large-width":871,"large-height":1024,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam6-anger.png","1536x1536-width":1089,"1536x1536-height":1280,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam6-anger.png","2048x2048-width":1089,"2048x2048-height":1280,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam6-anger-1021x1200.png","post_full_size-width":1021,"post_full_size-height":1200,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam6-anger-357x420.png","home_baner-width":357,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Numbers","chapter":"25","chapter_main_number":"142","date":"20260316","wall_id":"142"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"354","name":"Rabbi Sacks","old_id":"754"},{"term_id":"414","name":"Law","old_id":"814"},{"term_id":"479","name":"Activities","old_id":"879"},{"term_id":"543","name":"Violence","old_id":"943"}]},{"order":8,"id":"48209","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Noble violence? 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Few biblical stories trouble modern readers quite as much as that of Pinchas, the Torah\u2019s zealot-hero.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Numbers insists upon the nobility of Pinchas\u2019 violent deed. Yet there is something profoundly disturbing about this evaluation. Not surprisingly, Rabbinic tradition was decidedly ambivalent about Pinchas, seeing him both as a hero and as a potentially dangerous force needing to be contained and restrained. Even if one defends what Pinchas did, he remains an extremely troubling figure, and tradition gives voice to that fact in a variety of powerful ways.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Naftali Zvi Yehudah Berlin (Netziv, 1816-1893) asks why does God grant Pinchas a covenant of peace? \u201cIn reward for calming the anger and wrath of the Blessed Holy One,\u201d he writes, \u201cGod blessed him with the attribute of peace... Since it is in the nature of Pinchas\u2019 action\u2014killing human beings with his hands\u2014to leave an intense emotional unrest in the soul afterwards... the blessing he received was to be in a state of peace and tranquility\u201d (Ha\u2019amek Davar to Numbers 25:12). On this reading, the blessing Pinchas receives is the one he most needs: A zealot needs help in discovering calm.<\/p>\r\n

Some commentators seem to doubt that zealotry can be checked or tamed at all. Affirming Pinchas\u2019 greatness, they nevertheless insist that his zealotry disqualifies him from leading the people. Not long after Pinchas\u2019 slaying of the Israelite leader and his Midianite consort, Moses is reminded by God of his impending death; he will not lead the people into the land. Moses makes a request: \u201cLet the Lord, God of all spirits,<\/span> appoint someone over the community who shall go out before them and come in before them, and who shall take them out and lead them in\u201d (27:16-17). God responds by appointing Joshua, \u201ca man filled with the spirit\u201d (27:18). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Why does this exchange between God and Moses happen specifically now? Why did Moses not make this request of God earlier, when he had first learned that he would not be the one to lead the people into the Promised Land? The Hasidic Master R. Menahem Mendel of Kotzk explains that until Pinchas\u2019 moment of ferocious zealotry, Moses had always assumed that the latter would be his successor. The Kotzker affirms that Pinchas\u2019 actions were incomparably great, and he reminds us of the tremendous reward he receives from God. Still, he insists, \u201chaving seen Pinchas\u2019 zealousness for God\u2019s name... Moses thought, \u2018A zealot cannot be the leader of Israel.\u2019\u201d Therefore Moses turned to God to find an alternative (Amud Ha-Emet, p. 42).<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":107406,"alt":"","title":"-6301fd8425706--6301fd8425707num25-gun violence 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The Israelites were seduced by Midianite women and they engaged in wanton lewd behavior and worshipped Midianite deities, thereby violating two of the three cardinal sins of Judaism: sexual misconduct, murder, and idolatry.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Matters were exacerbated when one of the Israelite princes made a public display of immorality with a Midianite princess, daring Moses and Israel\u2019s other leaders to react. His challenge was taken up by Phineas, grandson to Aaron, who seized a spear and stabbed the prince and his consort to death.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A greater tragedy was thereby averted. God rewarded Phineas with \u201cMy covenant of peace\u201d (v. 12), to be enjoyed by him and his posterity as \u201can eternal covenant of priesthood\u201d (v. 13). The stipulated reason: \u00a0\u201cSince he was zealous (<\/span>kinne\u2019<\/span><\/em>) on behalf of his God, atoning for the Israelites\u201d (ibid).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The term <\/span>kinne\u2019<\/span><\/i> is also used in the Torah to indicate jealousy. Rachel was jealous (<\/span>va-tekanne\u2019<\/span><\/em>) of her sister Leah\u2019s fertility (Genesis 30:1), and a husband who suspects his wife\u2019s infidelity is, likewise, described as jealous (see our comments on Numbers 5).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Indeed, jealousy and zealotry are the two sides of the same passionate emotion, the former turned inward and the latter outward. If someone makes advances towards something you cherish and threatens to take it away, you will likely become all the more possessive of it. Whether you internalize those feelings or put them on public display determines whether you are jealous or zealous.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Kin\u2019ah<\/span><\/em> is also an attribute of God: \u201cFor the Lord, your God, is named \u2018zealous\u2019 (<\/span>kanna shemo<\/span><\/em>); He is a zealous God\u201d (Exodus 34:14). If another nation were to threaten us, God\u2019s zeal would manifest itself in our defense. However, if we were to threaten that relationship by our own promiscuity, His jealousy would result in our exile and disgrace.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":107409,"alt":"","title":"-6301ffdfcd7fc--6301ffdfcd7fdnum25-arrows in 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Our chapter includes the dramatic story of Pinchas, the grandson of Aaron the first High Priest who, enraged at the whoring of the Israelites, impaled on his spear Zimri, a Prince of the Tribe of Shimon, and Cosbi, the daughter of the head of the Midianites (Numbers 25:7-15). \u00a0As a reward for his zealousness, by which he halted the plague sent as punishment, God says of Pinhas: \u201cBehold, I give unto him My covenant of Peace (briti shalom<\/em>)\u201d (verse 12). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Midrash (Numbers Rabbah 21:1 and parallels) utilizes this verse as a basis for a remarkable paean to Peace: \u201cGreat is Peace -- the covenant given by God to Pinhas! For the world is only sustained by Peace. And the whole Torah is Peace, as it says: \u201cHer ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are Peace\u201d (Proverbs 3:17). When a person comes back from a journey, he is greeted by asking after his \u201cPeace\u201d (i.e. \u201cwell-being\u201d -- mah shelomkha<\/em>?). To this day, in the morning and in the evening one asks after a person's \u201cPeace\u201d. Our Hashkivenu prayer on Shabbat in the evening concludes with the blessing: \u201cBlessed are You, O Lord, Who spreads a tabernacle of Peace over us and over all of His People Israel and over Jerusalem\u201d. The Amidah Prayer (Shemoneh \u2018Esreh) concludes with the \u201cBlessing of Peace\u201d: \u201cBlessed are You, O Lord, Who blesses His people Israel with Peace\u201d. And the priestly benediction concludes with Peace: \u201cMay the Lord bestow His favor upon you and grant you Peace!\u201d (Numbers 6:26). \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rabbi Simeon ben Halafta said: The one vessel that holds a blessing is Peace, as it says: \u201cThe Lord will give strength unto His people. The Lord will bless his people with Peace\u201d (Psalms 29:11).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The central message that we have to learn from chapter 25 is also the primary prophetic and rabbinic understanding of Jewish tragedy throughout the ages. It\u2019s a message that is hard to hear, but critically important to listen to. The true existential threat to the Jewish people is not an external physical threat, as that of Sichon and Og, or an external spiritual threat, as that of Balaam. From the days of the Jews sinning in the desert, to the Hasmonean competition that invited in the Romans, to the warring Jewish sects that ultimately brought about the Temple\u2019s destruction, to the infighting of today, we have always been our own worst enemy and the key to our own downfall. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

The rabbis explain that which is clarified later in the Torah. The story of the sin with the daughters of Moab was Balaam\u2019s brainchild, because he understood that, for all his power as a sorcerer, the only way he could best us was to cause us to trip ourselves up.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It's a message that runs all through the prophets, but we ignore it today, and we do so at our own peril. Tremendous resources, in terms of money, energy and attention, are focused on external threats over which we have limited control, at the expense of our significant problems from within.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In a state founded on a socialist ethos, inspired by the vision of the prophets, the gap between the rich and the poor is among the largest in the world.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In a state founded to be the home to all Jews, large swaths of world Jewry are disenfranchised and alienated by Israel\u2019s discriminatory religious policies.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the state of the people of the book, education is not prioritized, classrooms are overcrowded and teachers are overworked and underappreciated.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the state dedicated to the ingathering of the exiles, the ingathered exiles still face discrimination and racism.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

As Walt Kelly wrote, \"we have met the enemy, and he is us.\" Isaiah said it first: \"Your destroyers and demolishers will come from within you\" (49:17). That is both the most frightening message we learn from Balaam, and the most empowering, because it means that our redemption is not \"across the sea..but it is a thing very, very close to us\u201d (Deuteronomy 30).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The violence itself, the killing of a man and woman happens at the end of last week\u2019s portion Balak (25:7-9). We are told only of the result in the opening of this week\u2019s portion of Pinchas, eponymously named for the killer of Israelite Zimri and Midianite Cosbi. Commentators have been perplexed for centuries why a covenant of peace is a reward for cold-blooded murder, motivated by \u201czealousness for God\u201d (25:10) or not. Though some, such as Rashi, suggest that the covenant of peace is a gift to Pinchas as a repair or restoration for him for the violence he has done, I think there is something else involved.<\/p>\r\n

We find some guidance in depictions of Pinchas in the rabbinic tradition. The Talmud in Bava Batra 15a, discussing who wrote which parts of the books attributed to them, states that \u201cJoshua wrote his own book.\u201d The text then questions how he wrote about his own death in Joshua 24:29? The response: \u201cAaron\u2019s son Elazar completed it. The Gemara asks: But isn\u2019t it also written: \u2018And Elazar, son of Aaron, died\u2019 (Joshua 24:33)? The Gemara answers: Pinchas completed it.\u201d The discussion here is whether an individual can write his own death, but actually it is about completion. Who is the right person to complete a task?\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

Why is Pinchas cited as the one to finish writing the book of Joshua, that details the settling of the Israelites in the land, the completion of the unfinished work of Moses who wasn\u2019t allowed to enter the land?\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

One answer, based on the text, would be that Pinchas is the last individual mentioned in Joshua, when we are told his father Elazar is buried on his land (24:33). However, the concept of Pinchas as the individual granted a covenant of peace makes him the appropriate candidate to complete the entrance into the land, symbolically, by concluding the writing of the book of Joshua.<\/p>\r\n

Thus the land can only be settled by those who legitimately embody the \u201ccovenant of peace.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

The meaning of \u201cpeace\u201d can be seen in the priestly blessing, the one Jewish parents give their children each week, which culminates in the word \u201cshalom\u201d (Numbers 6:26). Jacob Milgram says about peace in the priestly blessing that the meaning of \u2018shalom\u2019 is \"general well-being\" (Proverbs 3:2), as well as prosperity, good health (Ps 38:4) and friendship (Jer. 20:10 and 38:22).\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

Pinchas is an individual who knew how to make wrong actions stop; stopping evil creates a feeling of well-being, prosperity, good health and friendship. That is, to my mind, what Pinchas\u2019 covenant of peace is meant to uphold.<\/p>\r\n

A coda to this idea is a tradition about Pinchas that \u201cone who sees Pinchas in a dream, it is an omen that a miracle will be performed on his behalf, just as miracles were performed for Pinchas\u201d (Talmud Brachot 56b). 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Parshat Pinchas begins by completing the episode which began in Parshat Balak: Pinchas had ended the plague that was devastating the Israelites who had been led into idolatry by the Moabite and Midianite women. Pinchas\u2019 reward for his zealotry was a \u201ccovenant of peace\u201d (25:12) and \u201clasting Priesthood\u201d (25:13).<\/p>\r\n

The parsha then moves on to the second census in the book, this time accounting for the new generation that would enter the land. We next read two stories, one about the daughters of Tzelophechad, and the second about Moses\u2019 request that God appoint a successor. The parsha ends with two chapters about the sacrifices to be brought at different times, daily, weekly, monthly, and on festivals.<\/p>\r\n

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\"And when Israel dwelt in Shittim, the people began to commit harlotry with the daughters of Moab, who invited the people to offer sacrifices unto their gods; and the people ate [of their sacrifices] and worshipped their gods.\" (Numbers 25:1-2)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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There is the earth.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>There are the heavens.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And there is a ladder.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\"Climb!\"<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>What happens, though,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>When someone has no feet?<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And if there are feet,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>There are no hands?<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And if there are both hands and feet,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>There is no dream?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Grant me, please,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>O Lord,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The wings of a dove<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And I will rise<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>To You;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>But if not,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Gift me at least a bird's voice \u2014<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>I will try<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>To awake at dawn,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>I will try<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>To sing You<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>A new song.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":84938,"alt":"","title":"ps68-gold silver dove","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps68-gold-silver-dove.png","width":1280,"height":1054,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps68-gold-silver-dove-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps68-gold-silver-dove-300x247.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":247,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps68-gold-silver-dove-768x632.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":632,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps68-gold-silver-dove-1024x843.png","large-width":1024,"large-height":843,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps68-gold-silver-dove.png","1536x1536-width":1280,"1536x1536-height":1054,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps68-gold-silver-dove.png","2048x2048-width":1280,"2048x2048-height":1054,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps68-gold-silver-dove-1200x988.png","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":988,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps68-gold-silver-dove-510x420.png","home_baner-width":510,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"929 Poetry Corner","tile_main_caption":"After The Sin","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"To sing to You a new song","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":84938,"alt":"","title":"ps68-gold silver dove","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps68-gold-silver-dove.png","width":1280,"height":1054,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps68-gold-silver-dove-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps68-gold-silver-dove-300x247.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":247,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps68-gold-silver-dove-768x632.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":632,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps68-gold-silver-dove-1024x843.png","large-width":1024,"large-height":843,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps68-gold-silver-dove.png","1536x1536-width":1280,"1536x1536-height":1054,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps68-gold-silver-dove.png","2048x2048-width":1280,"2048x2048-height":1054,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps68-gold-silver-dove-1200x988.png","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":988,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps68-gold-silver-dove-510x420.png","home_baner-width":510,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"tile_link_for_pay":"0","send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Numbers","chapter":"25","chapter_main_number":"142","date":"20260316","wall_id":"142"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"362","name":"Poetry","old_id":"762"}]},{"order":18,"id":"48070","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"A Lesson on the Daily Chapter- Numbers 25 ","post_title":"A Lesson on the Daily Chapter- Numbers 25","slug":"a-lesson-on-the-daily-chapter-numbers-25","old_id":"48070","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":40936,"post_title":"David Silber","slug":"david-silber-2","old_id":"40936","first_name":"David ","last_name":"Silber ","description":"Rabbi David Silber is the Founder and Dean of Drisha Institute for Jewish Education. 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\u201cRabbis & Rebels I: Torah Models of Defiance, Rebuke, and Heroism\u201d<\/span><\/a> \u00a0by Andy Shapiro Katz: What does it look like to stand up for what is right?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201c\u2018All Its Paths Are Peace:\u2019 Religious Violence and Its Alternatives in Traditional Sources\u201d<\/span><\/a> by Rabbi Josh Bolton: Is violence the answer?<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":"","post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"Go deeper into the chapter....","tile_main_caption":"Sefaria Source Sheets - Numbers 25","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Click to get links to learning resources","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":42232,"alt":"","title":"sefaria-words-sunburst","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","width":608,"height":395,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst-300x195.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":195,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","medium_large-width":608,"medium_large-height":395,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","large-width":608,"large-height":395,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","1536x1536-width":608,"1536x1536-height":395,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","2048x2048-width":608,"2048x2048-height":395,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","post_full_size-width":608,"post_full_size-height":395,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","home_baner-width":608,"home_baner-height":395}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"Sefaria word sunburst visualization","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","old_create_date":"","links":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Numbers","chapter":"25","chapter_main_number":"142","date":"20260316","wall_id":"142"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":20,"id":"107396","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Points To Ponder: Numbers 25 ","post_title":"Points To Ponder: Numbers 25","slug":"points-to-ponder-numbers-24-2","old_id":"107396","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":false,"related_cahpter":"142","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"","post_main_content_content":"

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  1. Cultic sex<\/em>. This is a familiar phrase from the cult of Ba\u2019al, which by the way, highlights the rain \u201cimpregnating\u201d (<\/span>bo\u2019el<\/span><\/em>) the soil. In our chapter, there are hints that the cult of the idol of Ba\u2019al-Pe\u2019or was indeed of a sexual nature.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. The covenant of peace<\/em> (verse 13). This is the blessing that the one who represents violent zealousness receives. A point which invites interpretation and comments, which see.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Why specifically Phineas?<\/em> In addition to his zealousness, and personal initiative, it is worth remembering that Phineas son of Elazar is a priest, responsible for the sanctity, and when its desecration occurs at the \u201cat the entrance of the Tent of Meeting\u201d (verse 6), perhaps he felt more than anyone else that it was up to him to act.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. Not just any guy and gal<\/em>. They were \u201cZimri son of Salu, chieftain of a Simeonite ancestral house\u201d and \u201cCozbi daughter of Zur; he was the tribal head of an ancestral house in Midian\u201d (verses 14-15). Why is their lineage mentioned only after their deaths? Perhaps to indicate that Phineas\u2019 deed was not related to their social standing. 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