Balak: Torah Without Moshe

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

to the Nevi'im? What is the main difference between Chamishah Chumshei Torah and the books of the Nevi'im? So, if you listen to look in Parshas Balak, you'll notice that there is a phenomenon in Parshas Balak that cannot does not exist in any other parsha. And that is from the beginning of the parsha until close to the end of the parsha, there are no interruptions in the parsha. There are no pays and there are no samachs. Um So, what's a pay and what's a samach? They're not So, it's an they're not They're not So, it's an they're not stumais. In other words, a pay is when you have an open parsha where the next segment begins on the next line. And a samach is when you have four spaces of letters in the in the Torah. And an amazing thing is in Parshas Balak from the beginning of the episode until Vayakhel Lishnas until the very end of the parsha, there are no openings and there are no clo- there are no open parshas, there are no closed parshas. It's one continuous parsha. One of the only places in the Torah where you have this places in the Torah where you have this many psukim and it seems to be just one run-on one run-on episode. So, what's the meaning of that? Why would that be? So, this is a phenomenon that the uh the Chofetz Chaim uh picks up on and the Chofetz Chaim observes. And the Chofetz Chaim points out that there is a very important reason why there are no pays and there are no samachs in Parshas Balak. And that is the Chofetz Chaim says the reason is because you see, in life, everybody knows their

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