Shabbat Pinchas -
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Pinchas = 3 Male Half-Souls
Parasha Pinchas = 5 Forms of Healing Energy
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Consciousness Builder:
"Genuine Zealotry"
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"Pinchas ... zealously avenged My cause among the Israelites ... Therefore, tell him that I have given him My covenant of peace.
Num. 25:11-12
Why did God present Pinchas, the archetypical zealot, with a covenant of peace? What was the nature of this covenant? The Prayer of Shemuel HaKatan The Talmud (
Berachot 28b)
recounts that Rabban Gamliel, who headed the Sanhedrin in Yavneh after the destruction of Jerusalem, saw the need to make an addition to the daily prayer.
The Jewish people needed heavenly protection against heretics and informers. But Rabban Gamliel had trouble finding a scholar capable of composing such a prayer. In the end, Shemuel HaKatan (‘Samuel the modest’) agreed to formulate the prayer, called Birkat HaMinim [/the twelfth benediction of the Amidah prayer].
Why was it so difficult to find a scholar to author this prayer? What made Shemuel HaKatan so qualified for the task? By its very nature, prayer is a medium of harmony and understanding, full of kindness and love. Any scholar on an appropriate spiritual level is capable of writing prayers that are fitting for a holy and wise nation.
A prayer decrying slanderers and heretics, however, touches upon powerful emotions of hostility and anger. We naturally feel hatred towards our foes and the enemies of our people. To compose a fitting prayer against enemies requires an individual who is utterly pure and holy, one who has succeeded in eliminating all hatred and petty resentments from his heart. In order that such a prayer will be pure, its sole intention must be to limit the damage and correct the evil caused by the wicked, as they impede the world’s spiritual and ethical progress. It is for the sake of this pure, unselfish motive that we plead that God vanquishes the wicked and foil their evil plans.
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Even though one’s initial motives are pure, if he is subject to even the slightest feelings of animosity that are naturally aroused when one feels attacked, his thoughts will be tainted by personal hatred, and his prayer will deviate from the true intent. Only Shemuel HaKatan was a suitable candidate to compose this difficult prayer. His life’s motto was 'Do not rejoice when your enemy falls' (Avot 4: 24).
Shemuel succeeded in removing all feelings of enmity from his heart, even for personal enemies. Only this saintly scholar was able to compose a prayer against slanderers that would convey the feelings of a pure heart, expressing the soul’s inner aspirations for complete universal good.
Refining Zeal From Shemuel HaKatan we see that zealotry is not a simple matter. Zeal must be carefully refined to ensure that it is truly for the sake of heaven. As Rav Kook explained in Orot HaKodesh (
vol. III, p. 244)
: “We need to refine the attribute of zeal so that when it enters the realm of the holy, it should be a pure zeal for God. Since zealotry often contains some slight influence of human failings, our powers of self-examination must determine its primary motive. We must ensure that it is not based on personal jealousy, which rots one’s very bones, but rather a zeal for God, which provides a covenant of peace”.
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When God gave Pinchas a covenant of peace, He affirmed that Pinchas’ act of zealotry — defending the Jewish people from idolatrous influences — was performed with pure motives. Only God could testify as to the purity of Pinchas’ zeal, that he had acted solely for the sake of Heaven, without any admixture of pettiness or personal animosity. Pinchas’ zeal was the product of his burning love for God, an expression of his desire to bring true peace (shalom) and perfection (shleimut) to the world.
Gold from the Land of Israel, pp. 275-277. Adapted from Olat Re’iyah vol. I, p. 278
Shabat Shalom uMenuchah to all!
Peace - Completion - With Comfort to all
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Story Section:
Peace From a Priest
This week’s Torah reading begins with G-d announcing that a Jew by the name of Pinhas, who jumped from obscurity, risked his life and saved the entire Jewish nation, will receive two divine gifts: Priesthood and Peace!
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Peace is the goal of mankind and a taste of the Messianic era when all strife will cease and harmony and love will reign
(Isaiah 11:6).
While priesthood means the right and ability to bless others and serve in the Holy Temple!
But if we turn back a few sentences to the end of last week's Torah reading we find that Pinhas earned these two gems by murdering two people publicly in cold blood! Zimri, the leader of the entire tribe of Shimon and his non-Jewish girlfriend Kozbi, a princess of Midian.
This is, at first glance, completely not understood:
1) Zimri, Pinhas’s victim, seemingly was trying to promote love and peace with the gentiles, why did Pinchas have to kill him?
2) Why did Pinhas get rewarded? Murder was never a praiseworthy trait in Judaism. Even King David was not allowed to build the Temple because he had the blood of war on his hands.
3) In Judaism, children at the tender age of five begin learning Torah. Why expose them to such bloody violence?
4) 'Torah' means teaching. And it teaches us that it is forbidden to just take the law into our own hands… especially by murder! What practical lesson is there for us in all this?
To understand this, here is a story:
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Shabbat Pinchas is extremely unusual even realizing that all Shabbatot are unusual and special.
What makes Parasha Pinchas unusual and special?
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There are 5 unusual items in Parasha Pinchas. All of these 5 are special tools to and for
Healing. These are the 5 unusual effects:
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- Numbers 25:11 - There is a small Yud in the name Pinchas - This letter Yud is added to Pinchas to indicate that Pinchas through his Zealousness is able to control Physical matter, according to Kabbalah. Thus the small Yud allows to reduce our ego and make a stronger connection to HaShem. By reducing our egos, we heal all aspects of physical connection like idol worship.
- Numbers 25:12 - There is a vav in the word Shalom that is split transforming Shalom = Peace into Shalaim - completion. Actually the split creates a small Yud and a small Vav. Vav representing The small Yud creates the completion of the Vav which represents the healing of any spiritual strife in your life.
- Numbers 26:1 - There is a small space in the middle of this verse, right after the word Hamagaifah = The Plague. This space represents the Light of HaShem which provides the Light of Healing for manifesting the Healing of The Plague.
- Numbers 27:5 - There is a large final Nun in the word Mishpatan = Judgmental. Human beings are by nature judgmental of others, These judgments are the cause of our being judged by our own words. This large Nun connects us to judgments associated with the world that is coming. This means only judging ourselves and not judging others. This heals our propensity to judge others, generally harshly. This healing, at a minimum, will allow us to judge others leniently.
- Numbers 29:12 - This is the description of the 70 Bulls sacrificed by the Children of Israel for the benefit of the other 70 nations. The lack of these sacrifices is the cause of Anti-semitism. Actually, what is being healed is Hatred for No Reason. When Hatred for No Reason in the children of Israel is healed anti-semitism is healed in the 70 nations.
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Other aspects of healing: In Parasha Pincha we take a census of all 13 Tribes of the Children of Israel. When we count something we limit that something. The reading of this census removes the limitation of incorrect counting. This is counting directly rather than counting indirectly like counting the 1/2 Shekel donation rather that the human beings themselves.
Another aspect of Healing is the listing and actual connection to every Holiday in the Torah except Purim and Chanukah. By hearing the reading associated with each Holiday we heal each action of the Holiday we did incorrectly, thereby healing these actions.
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