A Torah class on Parashat Balak discussing the source of blessings and salvation.
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Welcome back everyone to our weekly show on the parashah with the parasha of the Zera Shimshon. Thanks for all all of you being patient and coming back this week. This week's parashah, we're going to do parashat Balak. I know that we just read parashat Balak, but we missed a few weeks and parashat Balak is so intense. I felt this was a message that we really needed. So, we'll use parashat Balak today. obviously, it is for sure dedicated in the zechut and the merit of the Zera Shimshon himself. Um may his zechut be a melitz yosher for all of us. Those that are that are single, may Hashem grant them a zivug hagun bekarov uvizmano. Amen, ken yehi ratzon. Those that need children, Hashem should give them children. And those that need success, hatzlacha rabba in the zechut of the Zera Shimshon. Also, leilui nishmat Cyrus ben Ezra. Okay. So, here is a very interesting um question on the parashah this week. So, Bil'am comes to curse the Jews. He is hired by Balak, yimach shemam vezichram, to come and curse the Jews. And we know how the story unfolds. He's not able to because every time he wants to curse the Jews, blessings come out. And Hashem had warned him beforehand like you you can't do anything I don't want you to do. You're not going to be able to say anything I don't want you to say because ki baruch hu this nation is blessed. But he goes on and he does what he does anyway. Those of you that listened to my lecture this past Shabbat, we had a really new twist on really what was but Bil'am's problem. Here we're discussing we're going to discuss a new aspect here.
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- 0:00Welcome back everyone to our weekly show on the parashah with the parasha of the Zera…
- 4:43It's beautiful. Even though it's a small little thing, it's such a beautiful drash. He says…
- 9:03>> I have a >> Yes. >> Isn't it possible that they tell me that word?…
- 13:55No, I'm not blessing. I want the curse to actually have an effect. Because why? According…
- 18:11they're collecting what's really due. Do you understand? Are you following? Faraz, you're not following. I…
- 23:10So, the Midrash says, "What brachot is the Torah talking about? What brachot will Hashem always…
- 27:21Bil'am really wanted to still use from his mind. And I was the one who was…
- 31:35he saw in the future, the mistakes that we would make and take the negative energy,…
- 36:19We're a nation as a whole. Can I come and say today that we learned our…
- 40:43the brachos are there. The blessings have been given to us. Hashem wants us to have…
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