Connecting Parshas Pinchas With the End of Balak

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Recording in progress. >> Okay. Good afternoon everyone. Hope you're having an easy fast. We're having the Shiurim today instead of tomorrow. We're going to begin with Smoochum Miyad explaining the juxtaposition of the Parshios connecting Parshas Pinchas with the previous Parsha, Parshas Balak. And here away we go. Parshas Pinchas. Now, the juxtaposition of the Parshios would be very obvious, which is probably why the Balak Turim didn't comment. The end of Parshas Balak, we read the story of Pinchas that he prevented the Magefa and he saved the Jewish people. And the story continues in the beginning of Parshas Pinchas to tell us about the reward that Kodesh Baruch Hu gave Pinchas. And that's why there's no explanation in the Balak Turim for the juxtaposition of the Parshios. But, we could add a little bit further explanation that the reward of Pinchas was Heishiv es chamosi. He reverted back my wrath. Mayal benei Yisrael bikanoisi when he avenged my vengeance. Diloi chilisam es bikinoisi. So, we have this uh description of Hashem's anger and his vengeance. He protected Klal Yisrael from the cheima and the kinah of Kodesh Baruch Hu. Well, how would we describe that kinah? How would we describe that cheima? Well, that's what it says at the end of Balak. The last pasuk of Balak, uh it was vayiyu hameisim bamageifa arba ve'esrim elef, 24,000. Namely, the cheima and the kinah was so great that 24,000 people died because of it. So, therefore, it's a big deal that Pinchas was able to turn back that wrath and that vengeance because look what it

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1. 0:00Recording in progress. >> Okay. Good afternoon everyone. Hope you're having an easy fast. We're having…
2. 0:30would be very obvious, which is probably why the Balak Turim didn't comment. The end of…
3. 1:30Well, how would we describe that kinah? How would we describe that cheima? Well, that's what…
4. 2:3224,000 members of the Jewish people were were killed in the magefa. But it could have…
5. 3:33them, and therefore he took a spear. Now, Chazal say that we have 224 248 limbs…
6. 4:33a Roymach and the Midas Chayrem, the Tzur HaMar says, um, was the Midas, the the…
7. 5:03Chazal say he saw a floating Mem. You know, the doctor tells you, "If you see…
8. 6:07that mean? He took the mem of the malach hamavet. And he combined it with the…
9. 7:13So, therefore says the Tzur Amar, because Pinchas took one letter from the malach hamavet and…
10. 8:15and Cozbi in the zachrus of Zimri and the nakvus of Cozbi. He slaughtered them with…

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