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This week's Torah, called "Sabbath" by the grace of God, is the Torah of Balak, a portion of the year Tishpa. The Torah of Balak is known to everyone as a portion that has several unique things in it. One of its unique things is that there is no mitzvah in this portion. This is a devilish thing about such a portion. There is no mitzvah in any of the portions of the Pentateuch. Perhaps mitzvah in any of the portions of the Pentateuch. Perhaps in the Pentateuch itself, education is not listed as a mitzvah, but it does have some specific mitzvah. But with a portion that has many good practices and virtues, or vice versa, as the Mishnah says in Tractate Avot, "Anyone who has these three things in him is one of the disciples of Abraham our father and three other things are one of the disciples of Balaam the wicked. Then we learn the corrupt virtues of Balaam the wicked. In wicked. In this portion, all the foundations of the Messiah are laid. There is no reference in the Torah to the Messiah the King, but only in hints. In our portion, in the prophecy of Balaam, all the matters of the Messiah and the Rambam are found in the Laws of Kings in chapter 11. When Ramed speaks about the matters of the Messiah, the Messiah the King is to stand and restore the kingdom of David to its former glory and the first government. He builds the Temple and gathers
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