Tirtza - Parshat Pinchas - A Shabbat.com Message

[Music] hi everyone mrs. spirits are sharing an insight from the Torah portion this week keeping peace below and drawing favor from above this is a lesson we learned from a few individuals in this week's Varsha the daughters of Zelophehad in fact one of the daughters is named Teresa if Feynman thinks that the tourism fashion mission read wash on campus way back the Torah granted women rights to inheritance something which was unheard of even in Western civilization until 1870s and the parsha the daughters of Zelophehad came to Moses with the concern that their father had died nasi had no brothers their family would be without her share in the Land of Israel they requested that our daughter with women they should still be given a portion in the land Moses presents the case to God who accepts their claim and incorporated into the Torah laws of inheritance we learned from the Tom wood than the five daughters of Zelophehad were wise women for they presented their petition at the right time it teaches a lesson on effective social action even if we have an accurate claim it should be spoken at the right time the greatness of binits Allah Fahad also lies in their pure intentions they wanted to share in the land because they wanted to be a part of the whole and they loved the land the purity of our Wilfred truth determines the success of all subsequent stages the more we renounce a personal agenda in focus of a community the greater the divine since we receive we may have requests ideas claims that we present before God and men and may we learn from this five women that Hashem is with us always and we should keep peace below and draw favor from above have a great Shabbat you