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The Parent Speech for Parashat Pinchas

If your child is reading Pinchas, the speech you give that morning shouldn't be a book report on the portion — it should be about them, with the parsha giving your words weight. Pinchas hands a parent three honest ways in: daughters who speak up, stepping into leadership, passion guided by peace.

What happens in Parashat Pinchas

The daughters of Tzelophehad win their inheritance, and Joshua is appointed to succeed Moses.

1. Daughters who speak up

Five sisters stand before Moses and the whole nation to claim their inheritance — and God says: they're right. The law changes.

The story to findWhen has your child respectfully challenged a rule or norm — and turned out to be right?

2. Stepping into leadership

Moses asks for a successor and lays his hands on Joshua before the whole community — leadership is transferred deliberately, in public, with blessing.

The story to findWhat leadership has your child stepped into this year — formally or just by being the one others follow?

3. Passion guided by peace

Pinchas's zealotry is answered with a brit shalom — a covenant of peace. Intensity needs a rudder.

The story to findHow does your child channel their intensity — competitiveness, conviction, energy — toward good ends?

How a real parent speech comes together

The speeches that make a room go quiet aren't essays about the parsha — they're two or three true stories about your kid, with one Torah moment placed where it lands hardest. Pick the single theme above that made you think of a specific dinner-table moment, answer its question honestly, and resist the urge to attach a moral to every story. End with a blessing in your own words — that's the part everyone remembers.

Nachas writes it with you.

A ten-minute interview about your child, and you get a speech plan that pairs their real stories with Pinchas — then three complete drafts in different voices, for every speaker in the family.

Start with Pinchas — see your speech plan

The interview and speech plan are free. No signup.