[Avodah] pinchas & kehuna

[Eli Turkel]

RET had asked:
> why Pinchas was not
included in the original establishment of the kohanim just as his
grandfather, father and uncles were <
You mean why, aside from it being a g'zeiras hakasuv (as noted, e.g.,
in http://www.ou.org/torah/tt/5760/pinchas60/aliya.htm [first-aliyah
section])?

R'Micha also replied:
> Perhaps he was simply too young.

Note that Aharon was 123 years old when he died and this occurred
shortly afterwards.
So if Pinchas was less than 30 there was more than 100 years between grandfather
and grandson (not impossible)

-- 
Eli Turkel