Thoughts on Parashat Pinchas
Moses spoke to יהוה, saying, “Let יהוה, Source of the breath of all flesh, appoint someone over the community who shall go out before them and come in before them, and who shall take them out and bring them in, so that יהוה’s community may not be like sheep that have no shepherd.” (Num 27:15-17)
A midrash comments on these verses as follows:[…]