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Short Message:	I thought you might like to read this article on the Israel Center website: ---------------------------------------------- "He Zealously Made My [G-d's] Rights Valid" (Bamidbar 25:11) - part 3 Zealots, fanatics and vigilantes are usually considered negative since they are connected with taking the law into their own hands and dispensing summary justice. Indeed, we read (Sanhedrin Yerushalmi 9:7), “The Sages were unhappy with Pinchas’s act. Rabbi bar Pazi taught that the tribes wished to excommunicate Pinchas, saying, ‘see the grandfather of this one fattened calves for idolatry [referring to his grandfather Yitro, priest of Midyan], and he kills a prince in Israel’”. http://www.ouisrael.org/tidbits/detail/702/
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