Pinchas
Numbers · 9 articles
Parashat Pinchas - Seventh Aliyah
The seventh aliyah deals with the offerings of Sukkot, day after day the number of bulls decreases by one, until Shemini Atzeret: an intimate festival between God and the people of Israel.
Parashat Pinchas - Sixth Aliyah
The sixth aliyah of Parashat Pinchas is the passage of the festivals and their offerings, the spiritual backbone of the Jewish year. Beneath the technical lines hides a story of connection, memory and identity.
Parashat Pinchas - Fifth Aliyah
Not war and not miracle, but a routine of holiness: the daily tamid offering of morning and evening, the additions of Shabbat and the new month, and the power of small constancy that brings holiness.
Parashat Pinchas - Fourth Aliyah
God confirms the daughters of Tzlofchad and the laws of inheritance are enacted, Moshe is commanded to view the Land from Mount Avarim, and asks for a leader for the people: Yehoshua is ordained before the whole congregation.
Parashat Pinchas - Third Aliyah
Dividing the Land by lot and by the Urim veTummim, the count of the Levites and the roots of the leaders, and the daughters of Tzlofchad who demanded an inheritance and changed the halachah.
Parashat Pinchas - Second Aliyah
After Pinchas's zeal, a new census of all the tribes of Israel opens, and within the lists hides a drama: the sons of Korach did not die. On memory, repentance, and song that grows precisely out of the break.
Parashat Pinchas - First Aliyah
Sometimes there is a moment when a single person rises and the whole world changes. So rose Pinchas: pure zeal that brings a covenant of peace, and a new census for the generation entering the Land.
Why does the Torah detail the names of the five daughters of Tzelofchad - does each name reveal another side of spiritual courage?
The five daughters of Tzelofchad are not an anonymous group. A homiletical reading of the names Machlah, No'ah, Choglah, Milkah, and Tirtzah reveals five faces of spiritual courage: pain, movement, leaping, self-respect, and refined will.
Parashat Pinchas - Insights and Questions
Parashat Pinchas opens at a charged moment: after the storm of sin and plague, one man who rises from within the camp stops the collapse of an entire nation and receives a covenant of peace. From there: a census of a new generation, the daughters of Tzelofchad, the appointment of Yehoshua, the daily and festival offerings - and the verse that stops everything: the sons of Korach did not die.
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