Moshiach’s Donkey: A Drama in Four Acts - By Rabbi YY Jacobson

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They tell an anecdote that there was a Jew who was selling a donkey, a chamor, in the marketplace. But this donkey cost $75,000. People wondered, "How do you charge so much for a donkey?" So he said, "This is a unique donkey. This donkey understands language very well. You don't have to strike it. You communicate it. You communicate with it communicate it. You communicate with it verbally, and it follows instructions like another human being." So a person, a customer, a gentile customer pays him the money, and then takes the donkey and starts talking to the donkey. "Good morning, how are you? Please go." And call me and know in there no give away power of the donkey is not responding. He comes back to the owner, the seller, and he says, "L'amore mi sono. Why did you deceive me? I'm speaking and speaking. I'm talking, communicating. The donkey is not communicating. The donkey is not moving." He says, "You don't know what you're doing. Come here." And the balabusta, the Jewish owner, takes a stick, whacks the donkey in the back, and says, "Go! GO! GO! GO! GO!" AND THE DONKEY STARTS RUNNING. HE SAYS, "YOU SEE? I TOLD IT TO GO. IT WENT." HE SAYS, "I I COULDN'T. FIRST YOU STRIKE IT." HE SAYS, "NO, THAT was just to get its attention." Oh, Parshas Balak, a major feature is of Oh, Parshas Balak, a major feature is of course the donkey. A unique A unique donkey. You see in your first source by Yalkut Bilam Baidker Vayakhbesh Es Asoyno Vayelech Im Sorei Moav. When the king of Moav hires Bilam, the great prophet of the time to curse the Jewish people, so Bilam fastens, saddles his asoyno, his she-donkey. Ason is a female donkey. And

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