Pinchos - The Most Mysterious Man in the History of the World

[Music] one of the most if not the most mysterious characters in all of Tanakh is pinhas a seemingly unassuming grandchild of Aon who goes ahead and kills zimri the leader of the tribe of Shimon amidst his adulterous Act is then rewarded with the enigmatic Brey Shalom which R Baya writes Shalom is the acronym for Shalom he won't die he was rewarded with ultimate longevity Pinas then goes on to become the Novi eloho who has surfaced and resurfaced throughout the duration of Jewish history and continues to do so until this very day thear and saned states that when the T writes the word and he will atone in hashem's blessing of Pinas it does so in the the future tense hinting to the fact that pinhas will forever be the savior of the Jewish people pinhas slvi seems to show up wherever we go at every bris we set up a chair for him at every pesak seder we set up a cup of wine for him we even go so far as to open the door waiting for him to come in every time we say we ask hashm to send to bring us the good news every shabas we sing songs hoping for his arrival the list can go on so what was it about Pinas that gave him this honor what did Pinas do that granted him the status of being the Perpetual savior of the Jewish people in every generation just because he got up and killed Zim don't we find many people in the Tyra who did great things and yet they were not rewarded with anything remotely as dramatic as pinhas people like schlomo and David andm and M and Aon and amam and Y and Yehuda what was it about pinhas that made him so remarkably great that he became the immortal savior of Jews for eternity so there is virtually no way to explain the Mystique of pinhas without entering albeit cautiously into the dazzling world of toyra Secrets the proverbial deep end of the torah's Endless Ocean and there we learned that Pinas was not as unassuming as we may have fun we learned that his spiritual energy was bottled up inside of him for years in fact it actually preceded him the Rami Pano an Italian Sage who lived in the Italian city of Foo in the 1500s in his work Gil nishas page 155 and the Aral and his safer safer Gula both write that Pinas was actually the Gilgo the spiritual Reincarnation of our forefather yak the Zas Pinas points out that the gatus the numerical values of the word Pinas and the word y are the exact same 208 telling us that they share the same Soul the tun zo similarly says that the name y can be read Kates Kai alluding to the fact that the soul of yit will be around until the end of days the question is why why of all the many Souls that graced our planet all the many Halas is the one that lives in the world forever the soul of Y so they explained that yuk was the ultimate Paradigm of spiritual strength our forefather yuk willingly allowed himself to be bound up and burnt as an offering to Hashem yok would live his life completely enveloped in God and His Tyra he was about as perfect as a human mortal could be perfect except one flaw he was blind on that fateful day when yuk was laying on the altar waiting for his father aam to sacrifice him the angels in heaven were looking down and crying and those tears dropped into yak's eyes and blinded him hence writes the arel there was one function he could not accomplish and that was observing the world around him and lending kindness to it spiritual perceptiveness he couldn't detect spiritual ual or physical detriments around him to the same extent a man with proper eyesight could and this he needed to achieve before his Soul's Mission could be completed so thus at the end of his life y's Soul was left a tad incomplete it needed to re-enter This World and Achieve what it previously could not it needed someone upon whom it could rely to accomplish this penas was the perfect candidate he was the grandson of Aon the kayod and the spiritual leader the ultimate lover of Peace the Practical sort of guidance counselor to the Jews at the time and conversely he was also the grandson of yro a former Idol worshiper and priest who converted to Judaism Pinas was a man who saw it all he absorbed it all the love of Jews the Titanic spiritual abilities of any man the ludicrousness of idol worship and additionally Pinas demonstrated great humility when all his cousins became kohanim and he didn't unlike his cousin kak who made a big fuss about his status Pinas accepted his with a smile he did what needed to be done inim it says that never in his life did P sin not even once so when the T focuses the story on Pinas it begins with the word v he saw which means explains the ramam Pano that pin saw what y could not he picked up where y left off when when Pinas was standing there in the back of the crowd watching as Zim the leader of the shiv of Shimon committed his horrible act with a mid Midnite woman a wave of spiritual energy suffused him the soul of yuk discovered its perfect landing spot and Pinas realized that he was on this Earth to defend the Jewish people that presently meant to rid the world of Sinners so he grabbed a spear and he killed them both in one blow right then and there Hashem took a look at Pinas and took a look at y sitting up high in heaven and smiled this is what the Jewish people need a man with the spiritual Dynamite of Y and the love the perception and the determination of Pinas rolled into one he was perfect he would be the one to ride the train alongside the Jewish people down history's long tracks he would be there to correct the wrongs to love the oppressed steer the Jews when they go arai and give them hope when all seems lost and hence Pinas became eloh anavi ELO who would defend and protect the Jewish people time and time again he would weed out the Sinners he would Inspire repentance he would encourage the blind poor and needy he was the only person in the history of the world to have an openly chronicled story of going to heaven alive he lived in both worlds much like y who on the altar went up to heaven and came back down Alo says the a went up to heaven specifically in in the East Bank of the Jordan River for that is the precise location that penas killed Zim they are one and the same so when it says in that is still alive it means that El and P carrying the soul of exist in this world in a literal sense he is here watching and listening and nurturing us showing up when we need it the most he's defending us and he's empowering us the very last person on Earth to be graced with prophecy was the prophet malahi he was the last person to have heard hashem's word in prophetic form the very last thing he heard Hashem say the very last time Hashem spoke directly to a person on planet Earth was when hasem said the following behold I will send youi before the end of days and he will restore peace within the land ELO is the one to Herald in Messiah for he is the one who has been with us throughout our journey hence we mention ELO all the time we give him a seat at our bris we give him a SE seat at our PES table we sing about him at weddings we mention his name while benching and we hear stories about people who are sure that they've met him so indebted are we to his kindness and his protection that we attach the wordss he is remembered for good we attach that to his actual name the goodness and blessing he gave and continues to give the Jewish people made him so synonymous with goodness that we literally attach that title to his name ELO is referred to as ELO in more than 60 instances in m and even the one time the phrase is tagged onto someone else in as in both the and the are quick to point out the med EST which says that harona which is spelled differently than the first evil harona mentioned in the beginning of the Milla was in fact aloi and he saved the day yet again no person or book can possibly recount all the kindnesses and favors ELO has contributed towards the Jewish people his benevolence is incalculable he is the one who taught our teachers Tyra men such [Music] like aades all in medu he saved rebi from agonizing toothaches in bous ra giml he appeared as a Roman soldier to save the life of no is Gamu and Tinus he showed up as a Horseman to savei who was being attacked by a snake in shab he disguised himself as an Arab to save a poor couple in Med and he dressed up as a woman to save of Mayor from a band of barbaric Romans ofar Al he was the one when formed shim barai of the Caesar's death and he was the one who showed up to rea's door and enabled him to go to Yeshiva facilitating his becoming one of the most important sages in the last 2,000 years according to and these are just the instances that we know about when ELO is not traversing the world saving Jews in their times of peril or teaching our teachers Tyra writes to safer he sits down and he writes down each and every Mitzvah that all of us are doing are performing and he signs his name in the bottom and he puts it in a safe place storing it for the day that he will read it in heaven and when we go to shamayim he's the one who's welcoming Us in and he reads those mitzvos that we did all our life he is Heaven's Door Man aside from helping us in this world he is the one ensuring our experience in the next world is the absolute fullest of course there were great men before Pinas and great men after pinhas but few harbored as deep a love and as burning a desire to defend and help the Jewish people as did y/ pin theel in writes that Moshe was on such a high level that upon his death he just ascended directly to God's throne in heaven where he now sits beside not that he was rewarded with any less than pentus not less just different rud kisher adds that had Moshe not gone through the process of a regular death the Jewish populace would have wrongly thought he was an angel and would have would have given up aspiring to be spiritually great mistakenly thinking that spiritual greatness is reserved for angels and not mortal man he had to go through a normal death process but Pinas on the other hand posed no such threat and therefore was rewarded with longevity with immortality Pinas with a burning desire to save the Jews threatened by a devastating plague brought about due to the adulterous acts they were performing rose up and became the Timeless defender of the Jewish people he took the soul entrusted within him and showed up at the doorstep of Jews in distress for the duration of our history with passion in his heart and a fire in his soul he wants nothing more than to stand up for us when we are down and lift us up when we lose hope be it physically be it spiritually another intriguing example anytime in gamarra there is a question so piercing none of the brilliant sages know the answer to it the gamar writes the word te the word teu is really an acronym for the words TI K meaning to say that ELO came from the word t the city tishby will one day tell us the answers to all our questions it may be later in our lives in the form of a mysterious Sage or in the end of times when ELO ushers in mashiah so there's a question why is Elo the one to answer all our Torah questions when mosha Raab was the one who handed us the Torah wouldn't mosha be the best candidate to tell us the answer to all our questions wouldn't it be more appropriate for the G to write as in MOS so explains that ELO is the most fitting to answer all our questions for not only does he live comfortably in the next World with access to the greatest reservoirs of Tyra in existence he has additionally been here on Earth with us through the thick and through the thin he understands us he comprehends our issues and our struggles he speaks our language and hence he will be the one to take all our questions and answer them for he more than anyone intimately knows us he is the champion of our grandparents and the champion of our parents he is the champion of us us in 600 Us in 1433 Us in 1654 Us in 1822 us yesterday us today on September 11th 2001 at 807 a.m. exactly 39 minutes before Al-Qaeda teres muhamad ATA and wed alheri flew American Airlines plane number 11 into the Twin Towers a group of nine Jewish businessmen stood at a nearby sh waiting for a minion normally there would have been more than enough people filling the minion but that morning over 100 people attended the schim the one Monon remembrance of Jews who died in a Grand Canyon helicopter crash utterly aware of the tragedy that was about to take place the men began losing patience these were serious men these were professionals and all of them had to be at their desk in the World Trade Center well before 9:00 a.m. at 811 a.m. exactly 35 minutes before the horror began the men were sitting in the sh impatiently tapping their watches let's just dve and be Aus one of them said I I have a meeting no another replied let's wait a few more minutes they waited some more at 8:15 exactly 31 minutes before the first plane burst through the first Tower one man got up and said okay I'm leaving I'm just going to dab in my office and just as he was about to pick up his tallest bag and walk out they heard the door of the sh Creek open an elderly man they have never seen before walked into the sh and marched right up to the um and declared I have yard site and must DAV the man about to leave Grog sat down in his seat at 8:17 a.m. exactly 29 minutes before the plane began its Slaughter of thousands of people the old man started doing unlike the other members of the Dominion he was in no rush he had yard he was going to make it count excruciatingly slowly the man carefully uttered the words wanting to leave but stuck there to ensure the quota of 10 was complete the other men stayed until the very last aain the very minute the old man finished saying Kadesh at the end of daving at exactly 8:46 a.m. the men picked up their belongings and ran outside only to see a sight that is seared into their minds forever a plane crashing into the World Trade Center setting the entire building of flame they stopped in their tracks They looked up at the smoke they looked up at the death they looked up to fire they looked up to see hundreds of people jumping from the top floors of the building to their horrible deaths below they looked up and realized that that should have been them had that minion finished even 3 minutes earlier they could have been dead they then realized that the seemingly ordinary old man who just happened to show up at that show probably wasn't so ordinary they ran back in to see who he was but he was gone gone to help the next Jew from his plight gone to teach the next tyus scholar gone to help the next young Widow feed her children the man looked at that empty sh and realized that if not for that mysterious old man they would be dead they went back outside and ran for their lives each and every week for hundreds of years Jews after making havdalah softly sing the song eloi we look to the upcoming week and hope that ELO will be there to guide us and to inspire us we sing hoping that the soul of Y with the love and strength of Pinas will be with us each day but most of all we sing The Hope and the prayer that this will be the week where ELO brings us the news we've all been waiting for and all been crying for and all been hoping for the news of the arrival of mashiach