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Matot | Moabite Daughters, a Midianite Princess and Pinchas
Matot | Moabite Daughters, a Midianite Princess and Pinchas, by Rav Yitzchak Etshalom
Balak-Pinchas-Matot. Why is the "war of vengeance" carried out against Midian, if the instigators and participants in the BaalPeor episode were Moabites?
The story of Pinchas's zealotry is famous, yet his action along with the subsequent Divine command to launch a war of נקמה against Midian is surprising, considering that Ba'al Pe'or was (evidently) one of the local Moabite gods and that the seduction began with the daughters of Moab - and that only one Midianite girl was explicitly involved. A discussion of…
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