Torah Insights of Rabbi Balkany: Devarim (Video 239)

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yehoshua Balkany’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Good evening. After we said chazak chazak venischazek, which was internal, and it was public, and for those who get the aliyah of chazak, there's a big shaila if they're supposed to say the words cuz they're in the middle of the bracha rishona and the bracha achrona of their aliyah. So, in the middle, do you say it? Most poskim that they do join in and say, and we should feel the join in and say, and we should feel the hischazkus, and we should see the uplifting atmosphere that we are encompassed within. Um This Shabbos is is um Shabbos Chazon. As we know that the Haftorah begins with Chazon Yeshayahu, then Amos, then Amos, and I've said to you, I think 2 years ago, possibly, I said over the Bnei Yissachar, who asks that in the generations when there was a navi, there was also a separate person called a chozeh, who had ruach hakodesh, and he had basko, but he didn't have the power of nevu'ah. Um and Um and uh Yeshayahu was one of the biggest nevi'im. So, why does the first word of our Haftorah say Chazon, which is like the word that's used for the chozeh, not for the real navi? And the meforshim explain that Yeshayahu knew that anything that he said as a knew that anything that he said as a Mar'eh Nevu'ah, saw something and he was told to say it and then he said it, it had to happen. But something Ahaz said didn't have to happen. So although everything in his whole life that he ever said was as a Navi, this was the one exception because he was predicting the Hurban Beis Hamikdash and he was hoping himself that it didn't

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