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Ben-Tzion Spitz

Jul 8, 2018, 3:49 PM

Pinchas: Secret Jews

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful, and we prefer the pleasures of illusion. -Aldous Huxley During my years in Uruguay, I met multiple people who had discovered, some quite recently, that they...

Robert L. Wolkoff

Jul 6, 2018, 11:18 PM

Liberal Jews Cause Earthquakes. Who Knew?

It is no coincidence that Parshat Pinchas, which centers on blind zealotry, always comes during the build up to Tisha B’av, which commemorates the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem—which was destroyed, the rabbis tell us, because of sinat...

Sharona Margolin Halickman

Jul 6, 2018, 8:37 PM

Guess who was not involved in the sin of the spies?

When we speak about Chet HaMiraglim, the sin of the spies, we mention that Yehoshua and Calev were the only two of the twelve spies who did not bring a false report and they were therefore not punished as...

William Hamilton

Jul 6, 2018, 5:58 PM

Passion’s poison and purity

Times of Israel writer Sarah Tuttle-Singer offered a July 4th posting earlier this week. “On this day, 42 years ago, Jews were in mortal danger in a hostage nightmare in Entebbe, Uganda, and for the first time in our...

Jul 6, 2018, 12:55 AM

The lost masterpiece

Illustrative: Michal Baratz Koren's portrait of the five daughters of Zelophehad, who first raised before Moses the case of a woman’s right and obligation to inherit property in the absence of a male (Courtesy, Michal Baratz Koren)

If women like Zelophehad's daughters had gone out to spy the land, they'd never have spoken negatively of it (Pinchas)

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Jul 5, 2018, 8:05 AM

When we look at the whole list of Sacrifices that are prescribed in our portion of the week, we could notice something extraordinary. On those for every day (twice) it says three times that they will give a pleasant...

Jul 3, 2018, 5:38 PM

The Present Rests Upon the Past, The Future, Upon the Present

"The daughters of Zelophehad, son of Hepher, son of Gilead, son of Machir, son of Menashe, of the family of Menashe son of Yosef drew near..." (Bamidbar 27:1) Many modern readers of this verse find here an assertiveness and eventual...

Jul 3, 2018, 3:20 PM

Dynamic Equilibrium (Parashat Pinchas 5778)

Balaam encourages the Midianite women to prostitute themselves in a concerted effort to turn Jewish men to Midianite Paganism. The Midianite ploy is extremely successful and in order to staunch the tide of converts, Hashem strikes Am Yisrael with...

Jul 1, 2018, 8:52 AM

Pinchas: Passover and Marijuana

What can possibly be the connection between Passover and marijuana? Well on Passover we ask questions, and when you are high on Marijuana, well let’s just the say the questions don’t seem to matter anymore... This may sound facetious...

Ariel Ben Avraham

Jun 30, 2018, 11:40 PM

Parshat Pinchas: The powerful of the jealousy of goodness

“Pinchas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned My wrath away from the children of Israel, in that he was very jealous for My sake among them so that I consumed not the children...

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