Questions tagged [pinchas]

Maybe I am missing something from the Pinchas story, it goes like this: Thousands of the Hebrews sin with the non-Jewish women. Pinchas does nothing. Moses orders to judge and kill them all. Pinchas does nothing. Zimri comes to Moses, claims he…

How did the daughters of Zelophehad present themselves to Moshe (וַתִּקְרַבְנָה בְּנוֹת צְלָפְחָד), to Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation in Bamidbar 27? What was the protocol? Did the daughters prostrate…

In the course of Parshat Pinchas (the relevant section is Bamidbar 28-29), where the sacrifices for each day are discussed, it frequently says that for a bull, the mincha is 3 tenths of an ephah, for a goat, 2 tenths, and for a sheep 1 tenth. For…