This week's Torah portion covers Numbers 25:10 to 30:1. The narrative is long and jumps through a series of events: Pinchas the priest goes on a zealous rampage when the moral order of the camp completely breaks down. A census records 601,730 men between the ages of twenty and sixty. Besides Joshua and Caleb, no one from the census that took place 38 years before in Sinai is still alive. It is an entirely new generation. The time has arrived for them to cross the Jordan River, enter Canaan, and launch a full-scale military campaign.
After Moses maps out the tribal lands, God instructs him to go up on the mountain so he can look out on all the land. Then the Bible laconically states that Moses was gathered to his people. He was 120. This moment is the most desperate in the entire Torah. It makes the reader who has followed Moses all the way from the burning bush to the rebellion of Korah scream out and beg God to reconsider. However, Moses did not protest. As a prophet, Moses knew that it was time for a transition of authority.
Messianic Lite: Pinchas
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