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All Parsha - Incredible Insights on the Ba'al Haturim on Parshas Balak

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Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

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Okay. Welcome everyone to a special edition of all para paras balak the balhaturim on paras balok. I would like to share with you 12 amazing offerings of the balhaturum and paras balok and focus on two of them with uh a two complimentary sources. Let's begin in the beginning of the parl trembled they were afraid. Rashi says Moira says this is not the first knowledge that we have that trembled. This is old news in the we say this is what is being referred to here in the var. [Laughter] Now we have a word. Behold, what is this word? Behold adding says is numerically valued at 60 to say this nation that left Egypt. He there are 60 myriad. They are shishi. Let us continue. Perak and an angel of God stood on the road to interfere with him. observes the position of the words and says this is the source for the teaching of the all roads are presumed dangerous. That is because the Torah juaposes the word that means all roads areas dangerous. Well, we move on to The next on this bum hit the donkey. Wait a second. Bum is the master cursor. He's the why does he have to hit the donkey? Why doesn't he just curse the donkey? Says when God said in I will not curse again. From there we learn that one may not curse twice in one day. So since he was going to curse Kali Israel, he could not use up his quota of cursing and therefore he had to hit the donkey says in our fourth offering. We now move on to the fifth offering. The PC says which Malik was it the Malik says about the Malik is Gabriel Halak the angel Gabriel. Now we come to the sixth and seventh offering of the Balhhatim. Let us go to perk puk lammed per lammed gimmel and

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  1. 0:00Okay. Welcome everyone to a special edition of all para paras balak the balhaturim on paras…
  2. 1:05Now we have a word. Behold, what is this word? Behold adding says is numerically valued…
  3. 2:43hit the donkey says in our fourth offering. We now move on to the fifth offering.…
  4. 3:46lammed which brings out the same thing and that is [Laughter] Now this word is spelled…
  5. 5:18and I have relations with you at night." These are the six comments the donkey made…
  6. 6:18carbon? By the way, no also brought seven carbon says the min of Benyak is to…
  7. 7:54to cry out against his will a very uh powerful message. Namely Bum was forced out…
  8. 8:54pervert all the nations of the world. So Bum says make sure you don't stray after…
  9. 10:28Now let us see. What Bum was saying to Balak was how could we come we…
  10. 11:31in Abraham who rescued light and I am also because before Yakov came to the world…

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