Pinchas and Eliyahu are biblical figures who are rewarded for their zealousness. For many of the later Rabbis, such zealousness is problematic, and they read a degree of rebuke into the biblical text.  What results is a shift in the notion of what is heroic. Listen now to Rabbi Leon Morris in this week's Pardes from Jerusalem podcast on Pinchas.

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