As Jews, we are used to fighting for both our physical and spiritual survival. Classic sources saw this duality in the two festivals of Purim
פִּינְחָס בֶּן אֶלְעָזָר בֶּן אַהֲרֹן הַכֹּהֵן הֵשִׁיב אֶת חֲמָתִי מֵעַל בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל בְּקַנְאוֹ אֶת קִנְאָתִי בְּתוֹכָם וְלֹא כִלִּיתִי אֶת בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל בְּקִנְאָתִי. לָכֵן אֱמֹר הִנְנִי
Gittin 47a recounts Reish Lakish’s feat of strength and bravery: He sold himself to the Ludae, taking a sack containing a round stone with him.
Sometimes, we can be so focused on ourselves that we don’t always think about those around us. However, parshat Pinchas is all about acting for
לעילוי נשמת יואל אפרים בן אברהם עוזיאל זלצמן ז”ל Question: A friend—who made sheva brachot for me—is getting married a couple of days before Shiva
The beginning of Pinchas is a postscript to the end of last week’s Torah portion, Balak. Zimri, a prince of Israel, is cohabitating with a
A number of years ago I had a wound on my upper right arm, and when it healed a large bump grew in its place.
Pinchas saves the day with his heroic act of killing Zimri and Cozbi, thus, putting an end to the raging plague that was causing thousands
The Toldos Aharon Rebbe, Rav Dovid Kahn, arrived this week (Monday) at the Har Nof residence of Hagaon Harav Moshe Sternbuch, before his departure to
In our last piece, we saw that Hashem’s directorship of the world also applies to the actions and decisions of man (as natural occurrences). Hashem
One meaning of the root פרשׁ is “to separate.” We know this root well from rabbinic Hebrew: e.g., הפרישׁ, in the context of maaser and
Back in the 1980s, when El Al was a national airline owned and run by the State of Israel, a great controversy raged over whether
