Compassion vs Cruelty: Parshat Pinchas - Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

hi this is donosi and welcome to the par five we're in five minutes we try to give you a little insight into the par Pinas Pinas Ben ala benon hohen that's not the way we usually do Yus we do Yus back one generation unless there is an overriding consideration why like we saw by korak it goes all the way back until Yakov because Yakov daved that he shouldn't be included in h in korak but otherwise we just give the person and their father that's the normal way of doing why are we going back to Aon and so say because just likeon was an shom and shom was shom and shom what does that mean as Rashi explains because the Je people were making fun of Pinas and says you took a spear and killed a Nasi and the Jewish people according to one view in the gamarra uh he was in fact sha bananis one of the people who went down to MIM so that means he was 250 years old and this kid penas takes a spear and kills him in front of everybody yeah NES you know how could you do something that cruel how could you do something that cruel it must be because your grandfather yro who served the V Zora that cruelty has come down into you and has become part of who you are and therefore the Torah is him to his other grandfather Aon to tell you that just like iron is an shom and shom so too P was an sh shom which means that you can sometimes look at something that appears to be an act of Cruelty and understand that it's really an act of mercy and that's why the say someone who is merciful to the cruel or end up being cruel to the merciful because uh it's misplaced uh you know um pity you know and that's why couldn't bring himself to kill AAG the king of amalik and he stuck along around long enough to be able to have children and uh from that came hon who almost destroyed the entire Jewish people cuz Shaw wasn't prepared to do what he was going to do and so the whole world is screaming at Israel how dare you go and attack Gaza where innocent civilians are going to get killed just because you want to stop terrorists from coming and killing your people you you're you're not protesting that Kash should release hostages you're not protesting that Kamas should stop killing Jews you're only protesting that the Jews are fighting back there was a Maga that was destroying clel 24,000 people died in that M and that in that plague and had it not been stopped it would have wiped out the entire Jewish people and Pinas killed zimri in order to save the Jewish people if there's somebody on a roof firing into a schoolyard of children and the only way to stop him is to shoot him that's not an act of Cruelty it's an act of mercy and so that's why he's described as a Cano AO is someone who is jealous for God's honor and wants to save from this kind of disgrace and there are people who fight on behalf of GD Torah and those who represent Torah not because they want to fight but because they're trying to preserve the cover of and of and every one of us should find ourselves in a position where we when we're called upon to defend the honor of Torah rise to the occasion Chavis