Live From Jerusalem: The Amazing Relevance of Parshas Balak to Shiva Asar B'Tamuz

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Rabbi Goldstein, who's visiting us in the old city of Jerusalem. Tell us what you're up to, Rabbi Goldstein. >> Uh well, first of all, Rabbi Yitzchak, uh this this has to be one of the landmark destinations in the entire world. I uh get a special nachas ruach visiting you and visiting your studios. I think um [music] when Mashiach comes, that's not Mashiach, that's chatzei salayla. So, to be here overlooking the Har Habayit at chatzei salayla b'yom rishon, [music] that's also a very big zechus. When Mashiach comes, I think it's going to be broadcast from right here, 107.9 FM, from your studios to the antenna in uh Lakewood, New Jersey. That's how everyone's going to find out about it. Uh it's uh I'm here in Eretz Yisrael for a couple of days, and uh it's a real treat to meet to meet you um in your studios. >> Thank you very much. Can you tell us more about your trip? >> Okay, so, you know, our first stop, we got off the plane, it was Tisha B'Av, and uh it was the yahrtzeit of the Klausenberger Rebbe, and it was either we were going to get to our where we're staying, or we go to be at his kever on the yahrtzeit. We didn't want to pass up the opportunity, so we went straight to the kever of the Klausenberger Rebbe. And my grandfather worked with the Klausenberger Rebbe in the DP camps after the war. My grandfather said they worked together like brothers. They buried those Jews who passed away during the Holocaust at great personal risk.

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1. 0:00Rabbi Goldstein, who's visiting us in the old city of Jerusalem. Tell us what you're up…
2. 0:30Har Habayit at chatzei salayla b'yom rishon, [music] that's also a very big zechus. When Mashiach…
3. 1:33You know, the bodies were infested with typhus. So, it was they risked their health to…
4. 2:37halayla, I'm at 107.9 FM studios. So, that's a good midpoint of our trip. You know,…
5. 3:07shalsheles. So, I figured, okay, whoever's willing to listen, I had my family with me, so…
6. 4:07to share with the uh the viewership, the audience, that Rav Chanan, his father, said something…
7. 5:14that's a form of it's a blood libel. But, the false messiah is also something that…
8. 5:44is the day they Klal Yisrael made the Cheit HaEgel. And all the ramifications of the…
9. 6:47of Kozbi and Zimri was in a way a pre- a um premature attempt to bring…
10. 7:49and that's the appropriate parsha to read in the week of Shiva Asar B'Tammuz. So, I…

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