<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 10:32 PM Micha Berger via Avodah <<a href="mailto:avodah@lists.aishdas.org">avodah@lists.aishdas.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> It requires believing that the medrash about Pinechas's centuries long<br>
lifespan is historical. Then again, the Rambam did, and you don't get<br>
more rationalist than that.<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I don't think it requires a longer lifetime for Pinehas than is explicit in Navi -- he is still active at the end of Shoftim (20:28).</div></div></div>