Chelek 18, Balak 1 - Rabbi Moshe Gourarie

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and dissect literally line by line and see how each and every word and sentence and nashi is precise and necessary and this is actually an interesting rashi because rashi deviates somewhat from his normal order of sutra mikra sticking to the basic understanding of the passage in this case rashi is expanding a little bit into the area of drush and the reason as we'll see in the sikh is because the whole nivua of bilum or the whole parasha of billam is actually a muscle the isa mashallah it's allegorical and therefore you can't limit your understanding to the basic understanding of the words you have to expand a little bit into drush and remes into the other understandings of again i i did make a chart this time more like you know breakdown of the words of rashi and the questions on them and ultimately the answer according to the beer of the sichu it's been spoken many times although rashi generally explains the pseudo-nichola the basic understanding of the psukem verb in those areas where rashi brings droshas what she brings the homiletics or the other non-shot explanations is only when they are necessary according to shot fundamentals that is unusual totally unusual to rashi in the rest of his peers he has varying them but the explanation is understandable very clearly says in the literal passage that that uh bilaam began his muscle is moving so since it's a muscle it's allegorically spoken it's understood that you can't limit the understanding to the simple meaning of the words there's an analog to it

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