The Parsha In My LIfe - Pinchas 5770/2010 - Holy Hypocrosy.

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The opening of this shiur, in The Parsha In My Life - Rabbi Reuven Wolf’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[singing] [music] [singing] [music] [singing] [chanting] [chanting and singing] [singing] [music] [singing] [singing and music] [music] [singing and chanting] [singing] [music] [singing] [chanting] whose birthday uh was 8 Tammuz. Both of them share the same birthday. Um it's a big big big zechus for their neshamos. Um and uh as a reciprocation for this great zechus, may they send lots and lots and lots of brochos for him. Her name The names are Yaakov ben Moshe and his mother's name is Malkah Leah bas Refael Zalman. May there be lots and lots of brochos in his life. The CD this week hamati et mitratati me'al Bnei Yisrael amongst the Jewish people bekana'o et kinati when he avenged my vengeance besokh benei Yisrael Welo hitili et benei Yisrael and I did not destroy the Jewish people bekina'i and my rage and my anger. So, what is this referring to? We're referring to the story which is at the conclusion of last week's Torah portion. As we learned last week, Bilaam was hired by Balak, the king of Moab, to curse the Jewish people. When his curses failed and he wasn't successful he resorted to cheap and vicious uh um plan, something very very very very shrewd and cunning where he consulted and advised Balak by telling him that if you can't beat them militarily and I can't curse them but uh you can turn God against them. Hashem hates immorality. And therefore, if you are going to cause the Jewish people to sleep or to fall into um sin involving immorality then uh God will punish them or at least God will turn away from them. So, um this is what Balak did. He sent the Moabite and Midianite girls into the Jewish camp in a provocative manner in order to entice in order to um tempt the Jewish men. And sadly, this plan

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