Forgetting the halacha: Pinchas, Moshe, Rav and Joseph Caro. Sources from a shiur given at the National Synagogue on July 16th 2011.
Pinchas’s act is first regularised into halacha, then constricted in its possible re-application, and finally the halacha is “forgotten” by three sages, each of them leaders in their own generation.
The Broom Tree 