We've been discussing the Middah of Savlanut , which means to tolerate or be patient . Another term for this trait is Ma’avir Al Midotav , which literally means someone who lets his Middot “pass.” Rashi describes it, in Masechet Rosh Hashana 17A, as Not being exacting, not being measure for measure to those that pain him. He lets his middot go, and he just keeps going. He just moves on. And if that is the way the person acts, then God's justice isn't exacting with him, it just keeps moving as well. So Maavir Al Midotav means to move on. You just move on. You don't get stuck. And what's reward for it? Number one is that his sins are forgiven. But there’s another reward: The Gemara in Masechet Chagiga 5A, discusses a person that, for some reason, dies before his time, as the pasuk says, “ Sometimes people go before their times.” The Gemara asks, what do we do with those extra years? And it says, If there is a Talmid Hacham/Torah scholar who is Maavir B’Mileh, (which Rashi says means Maavir B’Midotav ), they give those extra years to him. Unbelievable! Based on this, I saw commentary from the Maharam Shick (a student of the Chatam Sofer) that says that in the Torah, Pinhas is described with his whole lineage- Pinhas ben Elazar, ben Aharon HaKohen. Why do we give this whole lineage? It says, because the tribes were disgracing him, “ Oh, his father, his grandfather, fashioned idols for Avoda Zara…who does he think is?” Everyone was disgracing him, and yet he didn't respond. Here's a man that did the greatest act and saved the world. And yet everyone taunted him. What did he get? Et Briti Shalom . He got the Covenant of Peace, which the Seforno says is Peace from the Angel of Death. That's why Pinhas became Eliyahu, and he’ll live forever. Why was that his reward? The explanation is unbelievable – All of those 24,000 people died before their time because they sinned. They had been allotted a certain amount of years and died early. So what happened with all of those years they lost? We can estimate that was about 20 years x 24,000 lives, That’s tens of thousands of years! Pinhas, the one who was disgraced and didn’t say anything, got all of their years, and that's why he’ll live forever. Unbelievable! What a tremendous incentive to be Ma’avir Al Midotav! Have a wonderful day.