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Welcome to the Schneim Yomi. We are now making our way through Parshas Chukas Balak and we enter the Parsha of Balak, the story of Bilam, the prophet who tried to curse Klal Yisrael and Hashem changed his words to blessings three times. Now, what's fascinating about this Parsha, and the Chasam Sofer points it out, is that this is the only Parsha in the entire Torah that we are not witness to at all. Every other story that happened happened to our fathers, our forefathers, they saw it, they saw what happened to Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov, they saw what happened in Egypt, they saw what
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- 0:02Welcome to the Schneim Yomi. We are now making our way through Parshas Chukas Balak and…
- 0:32happened in Egypt, they saw what happened in the desert. The entire story of Balak and…
- 1:02is that Jewish history is so much bigger than what we see. We only see a…
- 1:33times they they plotted nefariously to hurt the Jewish people and Hashem somehow uprooted their plots.…
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