Venue: YU Torah MiTzion Beit Midrash Zichron Dov YU Torah MiTzion Beit Midrash Zichron Dov

Machshava:

Teshuva 

Nach:

Shmuel 

Collections: R' Torczyner Shemuel

References: Shabbat: 55b ,  Yoma: 9b ,  Yoma: 9a ,  Keritut: 28a ,  Kiddushin: 81a ,  Nidah: 70b  

Description

What did Chofni and Pinchas do? If their sins are not as bad as they sound in Shemuel, why does the text make them sound that way? And did Hashem really remove their free will and their possibility of repentance?