Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa takes another two-part look at parsha “Pinchas” this week (Numbers 25:10 through 30:1).<\/p>\n
The Erev Shabbat overview teaching begins with the end of the story of Pinchas (aka “Phineas” in some English Bibles), the now-legendary zealot who stayed the plague against the children of Israel by running a pair of coupling pagans through with a spear, and continues through the ‘second head count’, as the mixed multitude prepare to enter the land, to a summary of the daily and <em>moedim <\/em>offerings.<\/p>\n
SSM Pinchas 2017<\/a><\/p>\n This week the Sabbath Day teaching is about The Zealot, but with the caveat that Pinchas was “in the camp” whereas we today are in exile; arguably, the “opposite part of the cycle.” As Mark also notes, it should perhaps be no surprise that the haftorah portion this week, from the story of Eliyahu (Elijah) the prophet, I Kings 18 into 19, is also a man who self-describes as “zealous for YHVH”. And there’s a whole lot to be learned from that comparison!<\/p>\n Pinchas – and how ‘zealous’ are WE today?”<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mark Call’s 2017 teachings for parsha “Pinchas” from Shabbat Shalom Mesa. Continue reading