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Becoming a Kohen - Parashat Pinchas (Rabbi Dovid Kaplan)

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Rabbi Dovid Kaplan

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Yes, I I definitely encourage I encourage questions, but also they have to be timed properly as well. You know, sometimes I'm in the middle of a developing something. So, then I tell But yeah, absolutely there should be questions if if something's not clear, for sure. Okay, 876. I wish I am motion lay more. Hashem says to Mosha the following. Pinhas ben Elazar ben Aaron has seen The kind of ways he knows he the so come. Pinhas has turned back my wrath, literally, from the Jewish people. Um by avenging avenging me. I did not destroy the Israel in my anger. So, last week we ended up with Pinhas, you know, Pinhas goes and he kills know, Pinhas goes and he kills kills the two people who are consorting with What do you got? You got gentlemen, you can fill in the seats over here. You don't have to just be behind the camera. Don't just don't block the don't block the camera. But but but they fill in >> Yeah, shower this month. >> The uh So, Pinhas goes and last week last week we last time we spoke about he takes this vigilante action and he kills the Jewish man and the non-Jewish woman the Jewish man and the non-Jewish woman who are who are doing the doing the So, now Hashem says to Mosha benu that Pinhas turned back my wrath and I haven't destroyed the Israel. Therefore, I'm on fifth fourth line. Therefore, tell him I'm going to give him my covenant of peace. Now, before anything before anything, we uh There There are quite a few points over

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  1. 0:02Yes, I I definitely encourage I encourage questions, but also they have to be timed properly
  2. 4:35ruach aish mayim ruach and afar. They're four elements. Death is the severing of those parts
  3. 9:15And you come over and you and you So, Pinchas is doing something that the liberals
  4. 13:56Not you. Yeah, yeah, me. Yeah, there he is. Thank you. Thank you. Me and 35
  5. 18:30So why is it that How does the war >> [cough] >> How does the war
  6. 23:06be he's rewarded with this. Why is Pinchas being rewarded if there's a principle that you
  7. 27:42and that does not equal one moment of pleasure in the world to come. Imagine the
  8. 32:22The he nay is she bene Israel ba a man from the Jewish people comes along
  9. 36:59are joined together. It's only because he joined they're joined together that you're allowed to kill
  10. 41:37probably did not have a Midianite name spelled in Hebrew. She was a Midianite woman. So,

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