Who are we? What comprises our soul? The Zohar addresses this, commenting on the disturbing story of Pinchas the grandson of the just deceased High Priest Aaron. Pinchas is enraged by the outrageous behavior of one of the princes of the tribe of Simeon who contemptuously disparaging the new faith has intercourse publicly with a Midianite woman before the Mishkan and his tent after both of them have defecated in front of a statue of Baal whose worship included such actions. Such abandoning of the teachings has led to a plague with many deaths. Pinchas skewers these two without spilling blood (another miracle) which blood would have led to tribal revenge, but even so, at first the Simeonites come to attack Pinchas. At this moment the Zohar says, in stress, Pinchas’ soul lifted out of his body and the souls of Nadab and Abihu (his uncles who had passed in an earlier story for, though unprepared, had wanted to be too close to God) – these souls came to merge with the soul of Pinchas to give him strength, and that they did, and the Simeonites retreated. Pinchas was then ready to be honored to become the next High Priest. May we in our passions for righteousness be assisted by the spirits of our ancestors.