Parshas Pinchas
In this week’s Parsha Pinchas is granted the blessing of HaShem, peace and the Priesthood, for defending the Honor of HaShem and executing Zimri for his sin and public blasphemy. The singular form of the word G-d is used as opposed to the more standard plural form. When the Ten Commandments were given the singular form was used as well. This is because each and every one of us have our own responsibility to serve HaShem as He commanded us to do, regardless of what everyone else is doing. There is no excuse that someone else is sinning therefore we will too. Pinchas saw Moshe and Aron standing on the side and they did not get up to stop Zimri, he could have told himself that if the greatest men are not doing anything how could he? But he did not, he knew what the correct thing to do was and he did it. We should try to learn from this and always do the right thing regardless of what everyone else is doing.




