Pinchas

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Pinchas


it’s so odd

Pinchas, Aaron’s grandson,

born too soon to be a kohen,

yet priesthood a part of his bloodline

through the lineage of Yisro,

priest of Midian.


it’s too odd

this scion of Yisro,

earns his priesthood

by eliminating a flaming ember of

Midian burning within Am Yisroel,

which his forebear had, on his own,

extinguished within himself.


odd beyond belief,

Yisro, chosein Moshe,

Zipporah, Moshe’s wife,

both kin of Pinchas through his mother,

daughter of Putiel* of Midian,

wife of Elazar HaCohen…

This Pinchas must be the one

to break the spell.


  • see Rashi, Kli Yakar.  Puti -> Putiel -> Yisro




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