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Dispelling Popular Myths About the Torah

Jewish Philosophy with Rabbi Dr. Dovid Gottlieb

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The Truth About Picha's Disgrace

Some authorities were speaking of Picha's with disgrace and with despising him on the grounds that he stopped the crime when it was public in front of Moses and Aaron. Now they're looking from the outside and they say, we know why because his maternal grandfather was Yisrael, the Midianite, eventually converted to Judaism. So he has non-Jewish blood flowing through his veins and Midian is known for anger and aggressiveness. That's the explanation for why he did it and the others didn't do it because he has that aggressive, violent motivation,. which is precisely the false description that the people I mentioned six minutes ago apply. It's the same words that he was

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