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Parashat Balak - The land of Israel and the covenant (Zera Shimshon 6)

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Rabbi Yitzchak Sakhai

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Also those that need children should um give them who says that he promises that he should he will that you will have children like like uh olive branches around your tables should be for all of the soldiers of Israel and the hostages they should be released. peace and back to their families safely. Amen. Amen. Let me see if the air didn't go on. Right. I don't think it did. So, uh we begin the parasa parashatab. We're going to do douch vav in the parasa this week. Very interesting douch in the zarashim. So we know what happens in the para this week. Uh Balak hires Bilam to go and to come and curse the Jews because he knew he's not going to be able to fight the Jews at a you know be able to fight the Jews at a you know uh war or whatever it is. He knew that he's not going to because he had seen what had happened before him to other kings. So he had a different way of doing things. So you hired Bilam who at the time was the prophet of the other nations. You had the Jewish nations and you had the pagan nations. So the prophet of the other nations was bil and he knew that bil had some powers of sorcery and he did speak God did speak to him. to him. So he wanted to bring him to curse the Jews. Bil comes tries cursing the Jews but every single time he opens his mouth blessings come out. It's only and he tells Balak that I told you you cannot curse a nation that is already blessed. Whatever Hashem tells me whatever Hashem puts in my mouth that's what I say. So that battle was lost. There are so many perushim on the bil gave so many commentaries talk about you

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  1. 1:06Also those that need children should um give them who says that he promises that he
  2. 5:33All right. I I want to see when to give you guys the introduction. Let's go
  3. 9:37original sin. So when Adamish sinned that was the cause basically so to speak for many
  4. 13:45we said the puk says the puk says the head of stones. this head of stones
  5. 18:24bring it into edit and keep it there and make a entire hill out of it
  6. 22:30says I say behold it is a nation that will dwell in solitude the ended that
  7. 26:36goes Israel and he goes Israel is correct you The guy's like, "That is actually the
  8. 31:12these rockets that these havens are throwing from Gaza and stuff. I'm talking about sophisticated ballistic
  9. 35:23the land of Israel has gone hand in hand. It's been conquered, reconquered, conquered, reconquered. Jews
  10. 39:25have work. Um, is it going to be any problem for you to do the Brit

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