Pinchas has an interesting story. I think there is a part of the story that we can use for our career development. Pinchas was born into the Levite profession, right? Everything going on in his life pointed to the career of Levite. End of story, right? Nope, Pinchas lived his life and part of that was creating a Kiddush Hashem (sanctification of God). As a result of that, God made this unexpected exception to the rule, which made Pinchas a Kohen. Did Pinchas expect this? Did he even think this was possible? The way I read the story, Pinchas never envisioned even the remote possibility of becoming a Kohen. Yet, he became a full-fledged Kohen.
So the career piece.
If Pinchas was able to become a full-fledged Kohen, defying expectations of how a Kohen is made, than can’t we expect the same in our careers? Perhaps there are certain career paths that we expect to follow in our lives. The lesson of Pinchas could be to expect the unexpected. Keep the options open even to remote possibilities or even impossible paths.
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