Parashat Balak

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yehoshua Landau’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

good afternoon uh this is a devart Torah on pares Bala this uh is a very interesting para a number of ways first of all this is the only par that is named after somebody who's not a member of B Israel bebak was an evil king um they say he was the king of Moab actually he started as the king of M the prince of Midian and eventually he went over to Moab and that's why the two over to Moab and that's why the two kingdoms worked together they were terribly afraid of um what the Jews had done to um uh a and seon to kingdoms and one other nation and because of that they wanted to um try to curse them so they hired belum who was or tried to hire belum who was a um Prophet or became a prophet was um Prophet or became a prophet was totally evil and Not only was he evil he got made a living uh curing Nations that he got paid properly for for cursing them and three times hasem told them not to come with the people from Midian and uh and then what happened finally Hashem said you could go but you're only allowed to say what I tell you you cannot add one word you tell you you cannot add one word you can't do any adling because Hashem knew his intention was to curse he then settles up with his donkey goes and suddenly the donkey halts disobeys him first tries going to the left tries going to the right and goes forward and then when he can't go any further he sits uh sits down and squishes uh bm's foot and then belum is ready to kill the donkey but very interestingly what happened

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1. 0:02good afternoon uh this is a devart Torah on pares Bala this uh is a very…
2. 1:36tell you you cannot add one word you can't do any adling because Hashem knew his…
3. 3:45back to his old ways even though he was terrified of hasem that R he soon…
4. 5:20nahem and um that translates the was one who heard the sayings of God and knew…
5. 7:22of Kum will sail Assyria and afflict the other bank but it to will be destroyed…
6. 9:26all what is it have two meanings why there's three double Expressions here first of all…
7. 11:01what does it talk about a Septa Bearer and a star the star will be if…
8. 13:08is what um ban was alluding to is that that um the first mesiah will ingather…
9. 14:44romeus will kill him we don't know who that is either but that will only be…
10. 16:49and the Nations will be purified because what's going to happen uh they're going to get…

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