weekly Torah reading from Numbers 25:10-30:1
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Question about the actions of Pinchas when he killed Zimri
The Gemara (Sanhedrin 82A), while relating the story of Pinchas killing Zimri, tells us the following:
"And Phineas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it." (Bamidbar 25:7) Now, ...
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Why does the census “of all who are able to go forth to war” include a few women?
The census in Bamidbar 26 is directed thus:
Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers' houses, all that are able to go ...
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Why don't we read from 2 torahs on every shabbat?
The maftir for many holidays, from the second sefer, has to do with the korban musaf of that day. But shabbat is a "holiday" and there is definitely a korban hayom as evidenced by its inclusion in our ...
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Is Pinchas of Balak/Pinchas same Pinchas as Shoftim?
Is the Pinchas from the generation that left Egypt the same as the Pinchas mentioned in Shoftim 20?
Pinchas's zealotry earns him an eternal priesthood because of going above the letter of the law ...
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Shimon and Levi and Killing for Immorality?
Shimon and Levi single-handedly Killed out an entire city because of immorality against Dinah their sister illustrating their character of anger, later Pinchas a descendant of Levi followed in his ...
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Source for meaning of parasha break in Numbers 26:1
Bamidbar 26:1 is written:
וַיְהִי, אַחֲרֵי הַמַּגֵּפָה; {פ}
וַיֹּאמֶר יְהוָה אֶל-מֹשֶׁה, וְאֶל אֶלְעָזָר בֶּן-אַהֲרֹן הַכֹּהֵן לֵאמֹר
The {פ} indicates a line break - in the middle of the ...
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Action in Balak and Reward in Pinchas
Why is it that in Parashas Pinchas we see the reward of Pinchas (Bamidbar 25:7), even though his to-be-rewarded action was in Parashas Balak (Bamidbar 25:12)? Why wait a Parsha to say what reward he ...
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Why did they eat?
It says that before the Jews had relations with the Midyanite women that eventually led Pinchas to kill Kozbi and Zimri they ate of their Idolatrous sacrifices and then it says and they bowed to their ...
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Was Pinchas born in Egypt?
I'm a little confused about the chronology of the Biblical giants Caleb and Pinchas. Caleb appears to have been part of the Exodus generation, and with Joshua, their defense of the Land of Israel ...
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Why does Pinchas come to the Bris? [closed]
Why does Pinchas who is Eliyahu Hanavi (Elijah the Prophet) come to Brissim and what does it have to do with this Parshas Pinchas?
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