Balaam's Talking Donkey

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Good morning. So this week start with this week's para. This week's para is called is a double and hookas and balak. So two paras. Um again uh we're going to have we do we've spoken before about why we double paras in order to make sure that we finish the Torah by Torah and some some years there's more weeks some years there's less weeks and because of that there's eight different paras that we can double the particular reason we double this para is because shabus was on a shabas para is because shabus was on a shabas we didn't sh was on a shabbat we did not read the um para this year on shabus but we read about sh instead and so therefore we need to we have an extra para we got to throw in. So we're doubling this one. In the land of Israel where they only had in the land of Israel where they only had one day of shave, we had two then shabot was Friday over there. Sho was not on Shabbat. So therefore they were actually a week ahead of us for the last couple weeks since Shabot and they read last week and since Shabot and they read last week and they're going to be reading just Balak this week. We missed that week that Shabbat. So we in the diaspora so we're doing hukat and balak together. So hukat begins with a fascinating law about um someone who becomes tame ritually impure by coming in contact with a dead body by either touching a dead body or being in the same building as a dead body. as a result and in order to um cleanse themselves to purify themselves to be allowed to enter the temple or um eat sacrificial meat, they

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