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Weekly Announcements 770 W 40th St. Miami Beach, FL 33140 ph: 305.538.1251 email: [email protected] www.bethisraelmiami.org Rabbi Donald Bixon – Rabbi Abraham Galbut – President Parshat Pinchas ~ Shabbat Mevarchim July 27th, 2019 ~ 24 Tammuz 5779 Parshat Pinchas By: Ari Ciment cut off (later on in his reincarnated life you can “cut” the peace is if you are or complete (this is שָׁ לֵם /”as Eliyahu) because the souls of Nadav “shalem and Avihu ended up departing or shalom without the vav) which is only detaching from Pinchas’s soul. accomplished by having small Yud, i.e. Another possible Kabbalistic answer is being a team player! In short then, you

that the Yud here hints to Yesod which is can only cut the peace or have a Vav THE MYSTERIOUS SMALL YUD AND the ninth of the ten sefirot, and the sixth Ketiah if you are a Yud Zeira, a team CUT-OFF VAV IN THIS WEEKS of the emotive attributes within player who is “shalem”! PARSHA MEANS? Creation. As inner.org explains: Corresponding to the procreative organ TAKEAWAY MESSAGES: Why a small“ פִּ ינְחָ ס בֶּן-אֶ לְעָזָר בֶּן-אַ הֲרֹן הַ כֹּהֵ ן, הֵשִׁ יב אֶ ת-חֲמָתִ י of man, Yesod is the foundation of Yud in Pinchas and a cut-off Vav in מֵ עַל בְּ נֵי-יִשְׂרָאֵ ל, בְּקַ נְאוֹ אֶ ת-קִ נְאָתִ י, בְּ תוֹכָם; וְ לֹא- generations to come. The power to Shalom? Maybe to Kabbalistically hint כִ לִּיתִ י אֶ ת-בְּ נֵי-יִשְׂרָאֵ ל, בְּקִ נְאָתִ י...... לָכֵן, procreate is the manifestation of infinity that Pinchas is the “Yud of the Zeir אֱ מֹר: הִ נְנִי נֹתֵ ן לוֹ אֶ ת-בְּרִיתִ י, שָׁ לוֹם Pinchas, the son of Eleazar, the son of within the finite context of the created Anpin”: a prototypical Yesod connecting Aaron the priest, has turned My wrath human being. Each individual man is his finite entity to the infinite. Or maybe away from the children of Israel, in that “small” relative to all generations to it is to teach us how Pinchas was allowed he was very jealous for My sake among come (from him). The yesod is referred to be a zealot and cut the peace them, so that I did not consume the to as the “small limb” of man, the “small (symbolized by the cut-off vav): because children of Israel in My jealousy….Wherefore say: Behold, I give that holds the large [infinite].” The his Yud was small in that it was never unto him My covenant of peace! yesod is the “small” and “narrow” bridge about his own pride (“yud” always (Bamidbar 25 11-12) between the infinite potential of denotes self) and when he cut the peace, Yud procreation that flows into it and its he was able to succeed because he was a“/יוּד זְעֵירַ א Questions: There is a THE MYSTERIOUS .שָׁ לֵם Zeira” (a diminutive yud) by the word actual manifestation in the progeny of selfless Vav Ketia” by the man”… Acc to Wikipedia, Ze`ir Anpin SMALL YUD AND CUT-OFF VAV“/וַיו קְטִ יעַה and a פִּ ינְחָ ס is a revealed aspect TEACHES US THAT YOU CAN ONLY (זְעֵיר אַנפִ ין :What is the significance of (Aramaic .שָׁ לוֹם word IF YOU (וַיו קְטִ יעַ ה) the small yud in Pinchas and the cut-off of G-d in Kabbalah, comprising the 6 BE A VAV KETIAH !(יוּד זְעֵירַ א) Vav in Shalom? This is unlike the typical emotional sephirot attributes: Chesed, ARE A YUD ZEIRA Kri/Ktiv that we are more used to: that Gevurah, Tiphereth, Netzach, Hod and is when one word is pronounced one Yesod. Is it possible then that the “Yud Community News way and written another. This is a Zeira” is possibly referring to the distinct phenomenon and is seen only “Yesod of the Zeir Anpin” and hinting one other place in the Torah (hint: that Pinchas’ everlasting contribution to Recipients of the new Family Parshat Haazinu- if you actually read the Jewish people is that he was a Empowerment Scholarship are this, please show me if you found it!). prototypical Yesod, in that his very being expected to be notified next The small yud of Pinchas is actually not although limited in time and place was week. For the first time in Florida, state funds will provide mentioned in the Gemara at all leading able to channel G-d’s infinity for others income-based scholarships to many scholars to say that this is actually to see! 18,000 nonpublic school a mistake. (if it is a mistake, it’s only a If you are like me and not quite ready for students. Your advocacy and small one anyways; i.e. small yud)! If kabbala, one final alternative approach support of Teach Florida was you are older than 40, hear out the that actually nicely connects the Yud critical to the creation of this new scholarship. To get involved with Zeira with the Vav Ketia:… a Yud added forthcoming 2 Kabbalistic approaches: Teach Florida, email One Kabbalistic approach is brought to any word denotes possessiveness. I.e.: [email protected]. is my book. By סִ פְרִ י but םֵ פֶר down (tks Rav Pinchas Winston) from a book is a the Sha’ar HaGilgulim, Ch. 36, that adding a diminutive yud to Pinchas, Pinchas has a small yud specifically perhaps the Torah is hinting that ,גַאַ וַה because his soul was actually conjoined Pinchas did not act out of his own with the souls of the holy Nadav and pride, but purely for the sake of Klal Vav Ketia” by“/וַיו קְטִ יעַה Avihu when he was a hero in slaying Yisroel. The may be hinting that the only time שָׁ לוֹם Zimri but then the Vav of Shalom was