The Philosophy Of Idolatry - Parshat Balak - Rabbi YY Jacobson

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graciously dedicated by Dina dornbush thanking the Reb for showing us the way back home with the help of his dedicated and inspiring schim thank you very much also dedicated [clears throat] to Aon benar fora and a Raa a complete and speedy recovery should be able to have him back at our men's classes not just virtually at the end of para's bok this week's portion there is a very enigmatic and disturbing and intriguing and mysterious story after bilum after bolock fails with his attempt to have bam balum cursed the Jewish people all the curses are transformed into blessings and at this moment there is so much uh positivity in the ear even the great enemy of the Jewish people balock and the great enemy of the Jewish people bam all that could come out of his mouth are some of the most beautiful poetic Praises in the most eloquent Fashion on the virtues the greatness of the past present and future of the Jewish people all the way to in fact most of the prophecies are Mah come from the mouth of bilum in para's B and right after that chapter 25 of the book of numbers byid which is the end of B and you see it here the tah shifts to a very disturbing Story the Jewish people settled in a place called shittim This is in the trans Jordan the Eastern side of the Jordan River and the people begin to commit adultery with the women with the daughters of the moabite nation Bak couldn't destroy them bam couldn't destroy them but people could destroy themselves they invited the people the daughters of mayv invited the people the Jewish people to the sacrifices of their gods the sacrifices of the pagan gods were often very grotesque promiscuous immoral and the people eat and they prostrate themselves to their

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1. 0:00graciously dedicated by Dina dornbush thanking the Reb for showing us the way back home with…
2. 6:15last book begins mha's final will and testament M's final presentation to the Jewish people during…
3. 12:31and then you'll forgive me he needed to clean himself so he used the nose of…
4. 19:08explanation it comes from the K I believe it'ses that I'm just saying as an intro…
5. 25:18apart this it becomes disintegrated the body has a PHD the moment you're born what's good…
6. 31:28but in any case so this is the process of digestion this whole process doesn't begin…
7. 37:40often be from things that are completely detached from their source of life in our world…
8. 43:51pour their dirt onto them it even it can even sometimes be just ified as part…
9. 50:01danger there is a message here that you're responding to your body is on high alert…
10. 56:14it's just I'm frightened to say no so if I'm afraid to say no there's no…

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