Bamidbar Chapter 25

This lecture covers Bamidbar Chapter 25, the story of Baal Peor and Pinchas’s zealous response. The chapter addresses the spiritual threat of Israel’s neighbors through intermarriage and idolatry, showing how Israelite men strayed with Moabite and Midianite women and began worshiping Baal Peor. When a plague broke out and an Israelite prince publicly defied Moses by bringing a Midianite woman into the camp, Pinchas took decisive action by killing them both, stopping the plague and earning the eternal covenant of priesthood for his family. This Shiur Also On Watch on YouTube Watch on Website Read Transcript Hebrew Transcript Yiddish Transcript Listen by phone: call (732) 627-4332, press 6, then 30072#