Pinchas, פִּינְחָס
Phineas
25:10-30:1
You are here. You are strong and confident in yourself. You are claiming this space, your right to be here. (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: Standing Strong Like The Daughters of Tzelafchad (Parashat Pinchas) Read More »
In this meditation, we look to the daughters of Tzelafchad — who petitioned and won the right to inherit land — as models of empowerment and agency. We consider their movements, first circling inward and then standing with integrity before others, and we remember God’s supportive ken, “yes” to their self reclamation and to ours.
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You are not your anxiety or your fear of even your helpless inner child. You are something way beyond that. You are the spirit that holds them all. (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: Being the Space Between: Becoming a Leader for Your Own System (Parashat Pinchas) Read More »
Moshe asks God to appoint a leader in his stead before he dies so that the people will not be like sheep without a shepherd. In this meditation, we consider the ways in which our internal systems often feel leaderless and the ways we might learn to be stronger internal leaders for our parts. We
MEDITATION: The Internal Leadership of Spaciousness (Parashat Pinchas) Read More »
Serach sits with her grandfather Yaakov, gently playing the lyre, and as she does, softly telling him that Yosef is alive. Be gentle in transition, even a good transition. (Click image to read more)
ESSAY: “Serach” Stories for Transition and Growth (Parashat Pinchas) Read More »
Serach, the daughter of Asher, lived a very long time — she lived through the descent to Egypt and the enslavement, the redemption, the desert, and the entrance to the land of Israel. She is listed in our parsha in the census (Numbers 26:46), one of the only women to be mentioned, and she is
MEDITATION: The Steady Presence of Serach bat Asher (Parashat Pinchas) Read More »
Included in this week’s parsha is the Olat Tamid — the burnt offering that was sacrificed on the sanctuary altar twice a day, every day. Tamid means “always” — not just now and then, but all the time, regularly — reminding us of the importance of constancy and steadfastness in our connection to God.
SHORT ESSAY: On The Olat Tamid and Eternity (Parashat Pinchas) Read More »
“If there are two people and one of them honors you and the other disparages you, are they the same in your eyes or not?” This is the question that the kabbalist Rabbi Yitzhak of Acco reports in the name of Rabbi Avner as being the essential question of equanimity, a state necessary in order
SHORT ESSAY: Getting Beyond Praise or Blame (Parashat Pinchas) Read More »
In devoting my life to Torah, I consider that I am carrying on the legacy of my father and my grandfather. My father loved Rashi so much that he believed that he was given an extra four years of life in order to pursue more of his work on Rashi. My grandfather was shot in
SHORT ESSAY: My Grandfather’s Inheritance (Parashat Pinchas) Read More »
Our lives, our choices are not completely determined by our parents’ paths and by our past. We each shape our own destinies. At every moment we have complete freedom to act in a fresh new way. In this week’s parsha we find a few examples of this freedom. Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milchah and Tirzah are
SHORT ESSAY: The Unstuck Children of Sinners (Parashat Pinchas) Read More »