Parshah • July 2022
Pinchas – Listen to Your Soul, Not Your Body
In this week’s Parsha, Pinchas, the 12 tribes of Israel receive their allocation of the land of Israel. It was via a lottery. To most people, a lottery means random…
Parshah • July 2021
Pinchas – Criticising the Critic
Pinchas was criticised by many as a young upstart who didn’t respect his elders by taking the law into his own hands. Later adjudged a hero, this didn’t stop criticism…
Parshah • July 2020
Pinchas – ‘Getting Up After Falling Down’
The act of genuine Teshuva (regret) is an instrument of transcending time and travelling into the past, changing it, and creating a new future. It’s the Jewish version of ‘back…
Parshah • July 2018
Pinchas – Never Allow Anger to Guide You
The youthful Jewish leader, Pinchas, spears a Tribal Elder who fornicates publicly with a Moabite princess. Was he acting out of anger? Anger is forbidden in Jewish teachings. But if…
Parshah • July 2017
Pinchas – Do You Have a Succession Plan?
When Moses realizes the moment has come to transfer leadership, he lays his hands on Joshua’s head. And in that very act there is a transfer of energy from one…
Parshah • July 2014
Pinchas – Extremism or Piety? – Depends What you Believe
His major characteristic is described as ‘zealousness’ What does this mean? How do we distinguish zealous and extremist? Moach shalit al halev – the mind is the compass directing the…