{"id":977,"date":"2015-02-05T01:31:44","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T01:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=977"},"modified":"2015-02-05T01:31:44","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T01:31:44","slug":"pinchas-5771","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=977","title":{"rendered":"Pinchas (5771)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Drash Cards for Pinchas (5771)<\/strong><\/p>\n

by Marc Mangel<\/p>\n

\u2022 Pinchas presents us with a real problem: \u00a0In his deal for God he killed people without a trial, warning, legal testimony — all in defiance of the Torah — taking the law into his own hands and yet he is rewarded. Nehama Leibowtiz calls this “coping with zeal”.<\/p>\n

\u2022William Feller, a famous mathematician, once said “Problems are not solved by ignoring them”<\/p>\n

\u2022 Nehama, on Ch 25, v 12 quotes Ha’amek Davar: “The Divine promise of a covenant of peace constitutes rather a guarantee of protection against the inner enemy, lurking inside the zealous perpetrator of the sudden deed, against the inner demoralization that such an act as the killing of a human being, without due process of law is liable to cause”<\/p>\n

\u2022 And she further quotes Naphtali Zvi Yehuda Berlin explaining that the reward of Pinchas is that God “blessed him with the attribute of peace, that he should not be quick-tempered or angry. Since, it was only natural that such a deed of Pinchas’s should leave in his heart an intense emotional unrest afterward, the Divine blessing was desinged to cope with this situation and promised peace and tranquility of soul”<\/p>\n

\u2022 The modern Orthodox commentator David Weinberger writes “Pinchas’s zealousness is clearly not the normative behavior that we should emulate” and David Radinsky notes that Pinchas’s action was unique, one of a kind of energy only justified in the context of time and place.<\/p>\n

\u2022 But Shlomo Caplan write “The true zealot is a student of Aaron HaCohen, who loves Klal Yisrael, advocates on behalf of Klal Yisrael and controls his emotions”<\/p>\n

\u2022 On this portion, the Rebbe wrote that every Jew has the resources in his soul to rescue holiness from wherever it is hidden and that when one sees a Jew zealous in his service of God, even one with no claims for leadership or distinction, one should not dissuade or discourage him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Drash Cards for Pinchas (5771) by Marc Mangel \u2022 Pinchas presents us with a real problem: \u00a0In his deal for God he killed people without a trial, warning, legal testimony — all in defiance of the Torah — taking the law into his own hands and yet he is rewarded. Nehama Leibowtiz calls this “coping … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":51,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-977","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":978,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/977\/revisions\/978"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}