Parashat Balak - A Close Neighbor Is Better Than A Far Brother

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

Good evening. A week after we have the decision of the Supreme Court in this country to declare a war against Hashem on a public on a open It reminds me about the people of Sodom and Gomorrah Sodom the people of Sodom and Gomorrah Sodom and Gomorrah that made their constitution on purpose everything against Hashem. No coincidence it falls on this time of the year just before we entering the Ben Hametzarim. Now we going to read now Parshat Balak which I want to focus on tonight. As you know from 54 chapters of the Torah 54 parshiyot of the Torah five of them named after a one individual. Five different parshiyot We have Korach, we have Balak, we have Noach, Pinchas, Yitro. The Gemara is speaking about the pasuk in Mishlei kaf zayin pasuk yud tov shachen karov me'ach me'ach rachok. Actually, it's it's in Midrash Tanchuma. Hazal is speaking about it. It says A close neighbor, it's Yitro. Brother that is far away, it's Esau. Brother that is far away, it's Esau. The question is, why the Hakhamim decided that the brother that lives far, it's Esau? And a neighbor that is close to you, it's Yitro. It could have been hundreds of other people. Who told them that we speaking about these two? ha-Melekh wrote Mishlei. Which was 3,000 years ago ha-Melekh lived. It was written way after him. By Hezekiah and his Yeshiva, in his Beit Din.

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2. 6:28to the Torah. Hashem added one more parasha named after Yitro. So, it's two opposite. Esau…
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7. 37:21So, I don't understand. If you go against Balaam What is the What is the ta'anah?…
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10. 56:00But if the chachamim that organized the Ashkenazi siddur put it in the first page, then…

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