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“Avenge Israel from the hand of Midian, and you will be among your people.”
In this week’s Pashaha, God says to Moses: “Avenge the Israelites, avenge the Midianites, and then you will be your people.” Holy Light of Life complicates a profound question – God commands Moses to go to war with the Midianites, after which he will be gathered to his people, but instead of going to war, Moses tells Pinchas ben Eleazar that he will go to war. Holy Light of Life asks why send Pinchas and not go out himself?
But we can say here that this is a great foundation to learn in our souls, the Holy Torah tells us that a person should give thanks with all his strength. A person who has a grateful heart is the greatest virtue. A person without a grateful heart is fundamentally flawed, and gratitude is one of the most important things that the Torah commands us to do.
If we look at Moses, the rabbi of the people of Israel – with the plague of blood and frogs, Moses sent his brother Aaron to bring these plagues. Rashi says (Exodus 7:19) “According to Moses, when he was thrown into the light curtain, it was not he who was struck with blood or frogs, but Aaron who struck him.” Although Moses received the plague of blood and frogs by striking the tree, he could not do this strike himself, because he could not throw a stone into the well from which he had drunk water. Moses teaches us what gratitude is and how a person should show gratitude.
Our sages said that when our Rabbi Moses wanted to kill Pharaoh because he killed the Egyptians, he fled from Pharaoh, and Moses hid in the land of Midian for several years. So, because he was in Midian and received good things from Midian, he couldn’t go to the war himself, which was the same lack of gratitude that Midian had before. That’s why Moses sent Pinchas to the Midian war, because he couldn’t fight the Midianites because he liked them and hid in their land.
That is why Moshe Rabbino took away the Pinchas, who had already started the mitzvah by killing Zimri ben Salo and the impure woman. The Pinchas is the one who fights with all the righteous “a thousand blows a thousand times”, the Gemara says (Sutta Med). He who goes to war has no words between the tefillin of his hands and the tefillin of his head. , the mind and heart are connected to our Heavenly Father and enslaved, which is the greatest slavery.
So, while Moses sent Pinchas to fight the physical war on earth, he fought the spiritual war in heaven, sanctifying the Israelites to defeat the servants of Midian above so that the Israelites could defeat the people of Midian below.
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