Parashat Pinəḥas: קִנְאָתִי | qin’ati

G-d is full of shame and self-loathing self-recrimination, and realizes there’s an easy way out of all this: Just burn the whole Temple to the ground and abolish the priesthood, and then there won’t be this constant reminder of reprehensible zealotry. Don’t bother with the patient, agonizing work of grappling with poor past behavior; much easier to just roll the Roman army thru town so the streets run with blood and starving parents cook their children to eat. You can’t say the priesthood is founded on xenophobic murder if there isn’t a priesthood anymore! Easy peasy, mission accomplished, we are not taking questions at this time.

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