Bemidbar

A brief Dvar Torah on the Parsha, based on R. Samson Raphael Hirsch’s Torah Commentary

Does God create only positive things? Is the night an existence or absence of light and what about the devil?

The Rambam explains that Moshe Rabenu's sin in the waters of dispute [Mei Meribah] was anger. A person should stay completely away from anger, but there is a place behavior like anger.

How can we explain that Pinchas received the gift of peace with the fact that it came following a violent act and later he commanded wars? Many explain that Pinchas received an "inner peace with himself".