Shabbat
Portion of Pinchas : Same old same old, or Totally Renewing?
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Portion of Pinchas : Same old same old, or Totally Renewing?
What a busy week - 2 nights ago a new Sefer Torah (based on our 3000 year best seller)
was dedicated and there was dancing in the street
Yesterday after prayers and learning I attended a bar mitzvah for 30 so so Ehiopian kids
(I didn't understand a word of the main speech, given in Amharic - more for the families than for the now-Israeli kids)
Then back to a celebraton of a bris where both grandfathers srudy with me (at the Great Synagogue - see RabbiAndy.com for pictures) - and they dedicated a kiddush (real Jews are a very GIVING group)
What's that got to do with the portion?
The portion is packed too - starts with Pinchas (in a later guise Elijah the Prophet)
being ordained a Priest,
and ends with 70 sacrifices Israel must bring in the Temple for the "70 nations" (the rest of the world) -
and in there somewhere we are instructed to bring the daily sacrifice and that it MUST be from COMMUNAL funds
Just a quick word from the Holy Ohr Hachayim (passed on about 220 yeaRS AGO -who's Yahrzeit was this Thursday too):
hE SAID: We believe there is Holiness of the individual - and also holiness of the WHOLE PEOPLE
The DAILY offering must be from THE WHOLE COMMUNITY -
to remind us that the Almighty looks at us not only as individuals -
but also as the Whole Jewish People
MAY WE ALL BE BLESSED WITH A GREAT SHABBAT
Rabbi Andy Eichenholz