“Mi l’Hashem elai!” In every generation, there are those who respond and take a stand for Hashem
Four years later, I’d been studying in Neve Yerushalayim for about a year, when my friend Gail and I headed to Tel Aviv on a day off. The afternoon found us at Dizengoff Center, a shopping mall in the middle of the city, at a large kibbutz fair featuring produce and crafts and products from hundreds of kibbutzim from all over Israel.
Including a booth from Kibbutz Mizra, selling pork products, smack in the heart of Tel Aviv. Smack in the heart of Eretz Yisrael. Hitting me smack in the heart.
It was a heart that hadn’t yet heard of Pinchas.
A heart that didn’t yet know the significance of being a bas Kohein, and carrying the blood of the only tribe that not only refused to worship the Eigel Hazahav, but who, under the rallying cry of “Mi la’Hashem elai!” killed those who did.
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