Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parashat Pinchas COMMAND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL AND SAY TO THEM: OF MY NEAR-OFFERING, MY FOOD, AS MY FIRE-OFFERINGS,  MY SOOTHING SAVOR, YOU ARE TO BE IN CHARGE, BRING IT NEAR TO ME AT ITS APPOINTED TIME. AND YOU ARE TO SAY TO THEM: THIS IS THE FIRE-OFFERING THAT YOU ARE TO BRING NEAR TO GOD: LAMBS A YEAR IN AGE, WHOLLY SOUND, TWO PER DAY, AS A REGULAR OFFERING UP. THE ONE LAMB YOU ARE...

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Parashat Pinchas THE LORD SPOKE TO MOSHE SAYING: COMMAND THE ISRAELITE PEOPLE AND SAY TO THEM: BE PUNCTILIOUS IN PRESENTING TO ME AT STATED TIMES THE OFFERINGS OF FOOD DUE ME, AS OFFERINGS BY FIRE OF PLEASING ODOR TO ME. SAY TO THEM: THESE ARE THE OFFERINGS BY FIRE THAT YOU ARE TO PRESENT TO THE LORD: AS A REGULAR BURNT OFFERING EVERY DAY, TWO YEARLING LAMBS WITHOUT BLEMISH. YOU SHALL OFFER ONE LAMB IN THE MORNING, AND THE OTHER LAMB YOU SHALL OFFER AT TWILIGHT. AND...

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Shabbat Shalom Parshat Pinchas   “I give him my covenant of shalom; it shall be for him and for his seed after him a covenant of everlasting priesthood –because that he was zealous for his God and effected appeasement for the Children of Israel.”          (Bemidbar 25:12)   Said Rabbi Yehoshua: Great is shalom, for the covenant of priesthood was made with shalom,  as is written: “I give him my covenant of shalom” (Mashchet Derech Eretz Zuta, Perek Ha Shalom, Mishna 8)   “Pin’has ben El-azar son of...

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Parshat Pinchas 5760 And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and Korah, at the death of the community, at the consuming by fire of the fifty and two hundred men: they became a signal-of-warning. "The sound of your brother's blood . . ." Earth which has absorbed innocent blood takes revenge of her children. Said Rav Yehuda son of Rabbi Hiyya: From the day when the earth opened its mouth and received the blood of Abel, it never opened again, as is written, (Isaiah 24)...