Pinchas B’midbar/Numbers 25:10-30:1

Torah Portion: Pinchas B’midbar/Numbers 25:10-30:1

Haftorah Reading: I Kings 18:46-19:21 

Today we have an interesting Torah portion and Haftorah portion. I would like to begin with something that has been in my head all week. I pray you will be touched by the verses as I was. Please read I Kings 19:9-12. In the beginning of the Haftorah section we read of the confrontation between Elijah and the priests of Ba’al. Most of us know these verses well. Elijah met 400 of the priests of Ba’al on the top of Mt. Carmel in northern Israel to settle the question of who was G-d. Was it Ba’al or G-d Almighty?