{"id":2983,"date":"2026-07-05T07:18:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T13:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2983"},"modified":"2026-07-05T07:18:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T13:18:37","slug":"torah-teaching-for-parsha-pinchas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2983","title":{"rendered":"Torah Teaching for parsha \u201dPinchas\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Parsha &#8216;Pinchas&#8217; (Numbers 25:1-30:1) is actually the conclusion of that story that bears the name of the grandson of Aaron, which begins with a lot of idolatry and outright &#8216;whoring&#8217; &#8211; but not for mere money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Erev Shabbat reading by Mark Call of SSM completes that story, and continues with some other elements that certainly add more &#8216;understanding&#8217; to the issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/WT-CooH-7-3-26-Pinchas-teaching-podcast-xx.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The actions of Pinchas, which some describe as &#8220;double-murder,&#8221; are sometimes said to be among the most &#8220;problematic&#8221; or even &#8220;morally ambiguous&#8221; in all of Scripture. And yet YHVH says NOTHING of the sort. It should be hard to argue with stopping a plague, and receiving the &#8220;Covenant of Peace&#8221; from the Most High, Himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But men still do. Why not? The same ones want to re-write His Word, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;Pinchas: We Had Better Be RIGHT&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/WT-CooH-7-4-26-Pinchas-You-Had-Better-Be-RIGHT-podcast-xxx.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Service information:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship worship services and teachings are broadcast live every Sabbath, via Paltalk. (www.paltalk.com has both the link, and the app.) The &#8220;room name&#8221; is &#8220;Walking Torah with Shabbat Shalom Mesa,&#8221; and can be found via the paltalk search, then bookmarked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Erev Shabbat services begin at 7:00 PM Mountain Time Friday evenings (9 PM Eastern, 8 PM Central)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Live Sabbath teachings begin shortly after 11 AM Mountain time on Sabbath day (Saturday).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>email: mark@markniwot.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The combined two-part reading and Sabbath <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/mark-call-torah-teaching-for-parsha-pinchas-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">midrash<\/a><\/strong>, via Hebrew Nation Radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa&#8217;s 2026 Torah-cycle teachings for parsha &#8220;Pinchas&#8221; (Numbers 25:10-30:1) and the interesting relationship to the 250th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. <a href=\"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2983\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,1949,1898],"tags":[28,88,27,132,63,104,2364,108,212,318,101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2985,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983\/revisions\/2985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}