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Brooke and Miriam, welcome everyone to a special edition of all parshas parshas Pinchas the Ben Ish Hai the tsadik of Raanana on parshas Pinchas learning should be is a for Shimon Yeshua Ben Sarah. Now the first offering of the Ben Ish Hai who it is a great privilege to learn his Torah as he writes in his first chelek that he gives a moda'a he makes a that he gives a moda'a he makes a notification that anyone who says over his divrei Torah in his name he will pray that they should be saved from any tsara or and if they need a yeshua ba'olam hazeh u'va'olam haba. Why did Moshe Rabbeinu give over the assassination of Zimri to Pinchas? So the Ben Ish Hai explains based on the Rav Kaddish of Lublin in the sefer Zichron Zayit that Pinchas's main kavana was to kill Kozbi. was to kill Kozbi. Zimri was only killed m'meila because he could have stopped doing what he was doing and been saved. Now there's a principle based on the Gemara in Sanhedrin on daf lamed tes that the Gemara says m'nei u'veyei aba neizel veyei narga from the forest itself comes a handle for the axe which means when Hashem brings destruction to an enemy he does it from within them. That is why Ovadia prophesied about the That is why Ovadia prophesied about the downfall of Edom because he was from a ger Edomi he was from ger Edomi. So in order to destroy Midian you need someone who came from Midian. Now Moshe Rabbeinu was married into Midian but by now he had already been perished from his wife. On the other hand Pinchas came from Yisro through his mother's side from Midian he could be shalit over them and therefore he would be able to kill Kozbi, and that is in fact why Moshe
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- 0:00Brooke and Miriam, welcome everyone to a special edition of all parshas parshas Pinchas the Ben…
- 1:00was to kill Kozbi. Zimri was only killed m'meila because he could have stopped doing what…
- 2:01Kozbi, and that is in fact why Moshe Rabbeinu gave over the assassination of Kozbi to…
- 3:02She said to him, "No, no, no, no, no. Bas Malcha ani. I am the daughter…
- 4:35Jewish people. So what they did is that they knew that there were still many sparks…
- 5:39Zimri, the kavana of uh of Zimri in living with her was for the purpose of…
- 6:42l'shem shamayim. Zimri's kavana was to bring about the Moshiach. He doesn't deserve this punishment. And…
- 8:16were mevaza. Uh they disparaged Pinchas because they recognized the redeeming kavana that Zimri had in…
- 9:18rather leshem shamayim. The Ben Ish Hai is bothered because the Gemara in Chullin says on…
- 10:20overcome. Namely, if they could seduce him to think that he would be able to gather…
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