Parashat Balak 5785 - Rabbi Leeor Dahan

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Balak. Let's jump right in. Wow. You guys got to see what Daniel put uh by that nice picture he put up there. Huh? We're going to get it. We're going to get it soon. It's not here, but he put it on the group chat. I don't think it's here yet. No, it didn't make it yet. Good picture to depict the Pakash. Great nation that we have. Okay, let's um make an observation. um make an observation. If you look at parasak in the Torah, you'll notice something interesting. This parasa does not have any siks. It doesn't have any spaces. Not a para not a par. Meaning sometimes in the Torah you have like you say okay you finished in the middle of a sentence you move on to the next line start from the beginning or sometimes you'll see space in the same sometimes you'll see space in the same line the word will start here and then the next word is going to be at the end of the line and there's a space in the middle that's doesn't have any of that and the commentaries point out there's a very specific reason for that because the topic the person The highlight of this week's para is Bam. He was the man, right? He's the one that everybody's looking and he speaks the most and he's the focal point of the parasha. And Bam had something very strange,

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1. 0:00Balak. Let's jump right in. Wow. You guys got to see what Daniel put uh by…
2. 5:12And the gabay was so curious. He hears him saying words. He can't really make it…
3. 10:20little a bit of confusion with it's it's very difficult to understand the thought process of…
4. 15:32essentially saying is that we're physically going to do the same things. We're going to have…
5. 20:50they'll sit in a it's the second day now you going to keep the second day…
6. 25:59also to get to that calculation. You like that? >> I I do. I actually like…
7. 31:13and were the were they identified as in the Torah they referred to which means angels.…
8. 36:22And who are they pro? They're pro people that are very backwards and very restrictive and…
9. 41:28when the Muslims pray they pray to they pray to as they refer to Allah same…
10. 46:39the level that you're afraid, it makes it easier to keep. So, love of Hashem drives…

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