Pinchas: Can You Escape Your Yichus?

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Hi, this is Dov bar Laserski, uh with our parsha in five, where in five minutes we try to give you an insight into the parsha, and this week is parshas Pinchas. In general, we only do yichus, father and son. Right? Yehoshua bin Nun, Nachshon ben Aminadav. We only go back one generation. When it's more than one generation, we have to ask why. Like in parshas Korach, where it traces them all the way back to Levi. So, you have to ask why, but normally it's just father to son. And so, of course, the Rashi is bothered in this week's parsha, where it says Pinchas ben Elazar ben Aaron ha-Kohen. Why did it go back to the grandfather? And the answer is, says Rashi, because people said Elazar married a girl from the daughters of Yisro. The bnei Putiel. Now, there's two shots in them in that, but one of them was Yisro. Which means that Yisro, who was a non-Jew, and had served uh avodah zarah, he was an idol worshiper, had all of these terrible tendencies, and even when he became a Jew, those tendencies still existed inside of him. And so, they said, how could Elazar, son, who came from bnei Putiel, Pinchas, take a spear and stick it through two two of them, one of them who was a nasi, who, according to one view in the Gemara, was actually Shaul ben ha-Kena'anis, he was 250 years old. How could you do something that cruel? It must be because of the non-Jewish influence that he got from his other grandfather, Yisro. And so, we trace it back to his grandfather Aaron. We don't say

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1. 0:00Hi, this is Dov bar Laserski, uh with our parsha in five, where in five minutes…
2. 0:30where it traces them all the way back to Levi. So, you have to ask why,…
3. 1:01in them in that, but one of them was Yisro. Which means that Yisro, who was…
4. 1:33two of them, one of them who was a nasi, who, according to one view in…
5. 2:03we go from just to Aliza cuz then you can make this point. No, it's Pinchas…
6. 3:07Which means, says the Chasam Sofer, a very important thing. Yeah. Yichus can affect us. Where…
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8. 4:08learn more Torah. So, Moshe looked at him and said in English, "You're okay, kid." >>…
9. 4:39makeup you're passing on to your children. We spoke, uh, you know, on Parshas Bamidbar about…
10. 5:09Which is judgment. Yeah? This guy said he only wanted to live by the sea, wanted…

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