{"id":2253,"date":"2015-07-08T20:26:13","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T20:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/?p=2253"},"modified":"2015-07-08T20:29:37","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T20:29:37","slug":"1011july-parasha-pinchas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/services\/this-shabbat\/1011july-parasha-pinchas\/","title":{"rendered":"10\/11JULY: PARSHA PINCHAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Shabbat comes in at 9.02pm and goes out at 10.18pm<\/em><\/p>\n<p>__________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>At the end of last week\u2019s parasha, Pinchas,\u00a0 the grandson of Aharon the Kohen, saw the leader of the tribe of Shimon and the daughter of the king of Midian acting promiscuously.\u00a0 Pinchas took a spear in his hand, followed the Israelite man into the tent and pierced them both\u2026and a plague that was afflicting the children of Israel at that point ended.<\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of this week\u2019s parasha, Pinchas, we read: \u201cGod spoke to Moshe saying: \u2018Pinchas, the son of Elazar, the son of Aharon the Kohen turned back my anger from upon B\u2019nai Yisrael, when he zealously avenged Me among them, so that I did not consume B\u2019nai Yisrael with My vengeance. Therefore tell him that I give him My covenant of peace. It shall be for him and his descendents after him a covenant of eternal kehunah (priesthood) because he took vengeance for his God and he atoned for B\u2019nai Yisrael.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The rabbis of the Jerusalem Talmud state that the religious leaders at the time were not happy with what Pinchas did and wanted to excommunicate him.\u00a0 They did not appreciate religious extremism.\u00a0 Therefore God HAD to immediately declare that Pinchas did the right thing.\u00a0 The message is clear:\u00a0 We are not allowed to act alone with religious zeal.<\/p>\n<p>Shabbat shalom<\/p>\n<p>Rabbi Paul Arberman<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shabbat comes in at 9.02pm and goes out at 10.18pm __________________________________________________________________________ At the end of last week\u2019s parasha, Pinchas,\u00a0 the grandson of Aharon the Kohen, saw the leader of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-shabbat"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2255,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions\/2255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}