Pinchos stuck up for the Jewish people by killing Zimri amidst his adulteries actions. Whats strange is how he was rewarded. Pinchos became Eliyahu Hanavi, a man who has never died and is still alive today helping Jews worldwide in distress. Why did Pinchos merit this reward? Why was he chosen of all the holy people in our history to be our immortal savior? The answer might surprise you.

Balak was one of the worst men the Jews every encountered. He wanted nothing more than the deaths of every one of us, man women and child, and wouldnt rest until he succeeded. So why was he rewarded with having a grandchild named Dovid Hamelech? Why did God reward this evil man with having the greatest king in our history be his decendant? The asnwer might surprise you.

The Torah demands us to thank Hashem for the bad in our lives with the same amount of appreciation and love as we would thank Hashem for the good. How are we possibly able to pull that off? How is a man who just broke his collar bone supposed to thank God with the same degree of love as he would thank Him the night he married off his youngest daughter? This Parshah contains the answer and it might surprise you.

Unity is a tremendously foundational concept in Judaism. So isn't it odd that the Torah seems to divide us into twelve very distinct tribes each with different flags with different colors with different emblems and different logos? Doesn't that fly in the face of unity? The answer might inspire you.

Our nation has been through a lot. Wars, crusades, pogroms, exile, holocausts, expulsions. You name it, we've gone through it. With what energy did we use to forge ahead? Where did we get the strength to keep on keeping on? The answer might surprise you.

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Every Friday night we sing the song Aishes Chayil, an ode to the women in our homes. Why Precisely then do we sing it? Why not after Havdalah or on Rosh Chodesh or on their birthday? What is it about Shabbos that propells us to sing Aishes Chayil? The answer might inspire you.