Not Reckoned Among the Nations
…frustration. Having been spared Bilam curses, however, the Israelites bring disaster on themselves through bad behaviour, adultery and idolatry. Twenty-four thousand people die in a plague that strikes the camp until Pinchas, in an act of zealotry and passion, rises up against one of the wrongdoers. The Core Idea Some of the most beautiful things ever said about the Jewish…