Peace from Pinchas, the Broken Man

PEACE FROM THE BROKEN MAN This week: Iran attacked a tanker near Hormuz, the US struck back, Israel still hitting Hezbollah in Lebanon, envoys in Doha ending talks without a breakthrough. Another peace pressed on from outside, already cracking. This Shabbat we read Parshas Pinchas, and it explains why. In the middle of a deadly plague, a Jewish prince openly defied G-d and Moshe. Pinchas grabbed a spear and killed him, and the plague stopped. G-d’s reward? A covenant of peace, spelled in the scroll with a broken letter: the vav cut clean across. G-d’s Presence is in exile, hidden in a broken world. Pinchas felt that pain so totally that nothing was left of him but the mission. He did not stop to think about what would happen to him; his own life meant nothing. A person that emptied of self rises above the letter of the law and doesn’t just carry out judgment, he sweetens it, rectifying it, from within. The vav is shaped like a single vertical line, a channel drawn straight down: the letter of connection. When the Torah writes it broken, it tells you what kind of peace this is. Moshe’s whole vav: light drawn down whole from Above. Pinchas’s broken vav: peace made by going into the harsh judgment and transforming it from inside. Not damaged, but harder-won. Which is why the ceasefires keep breaking. The nations’ peace is neither vav, just a deal made of self. And the man of the broken vav becomes Eliyahu, who heralds Moshiach. To read the expanded article — link in bio 👆 . . . #Pinchas #Parsha #Torah #Chassidus #Israel #AmYisraelChai #Moshiach #Geulah #Eliyahu #TheRebbe #Chabad #ShabbatShalom Sources: Bamidbar 25:12 · vav ketia, Kiddushin 66b · Pri Ha’aretz, Pinchas 1 · Targum Yonasan · Malachi 3:23

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