Chelek 28, Balak 1 - Rabbi Shalom Moshe Paltiel - Sicha Discourse with Spreadsheet

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Shalom. Reviewing the volume 28 number one for Bulock. So um TA tells us Bak came to curse the Jewish people. It turned into blessings. We all know the story. Tremendous blessings. Initially Hashem or the Malik told him not to go. So he waited overnight and then he asked again and eventually they said if you want to go you can go and the Torah says arose early in the morning and he saddled his donkey and he went says Rashi says Rashi. This is the verse on the top. Bamma rules early in the morning and saddled his donkey and he went to go do the uh the the evil plot the evil mission says Rashi and he quotes from the verse and he saddled his donkey says Rashi from here we learn that hatred violates convention the language of Rashi is hashur you could literally translate it hatred violates the line there's a certain line a certain convention of behavior a person from such stature should not go saddle his own donkey. And here he woke up in the morning and he saddled his own donkey, which is extraordinarily unusual because hatred violates convention. When I have so much hate, the convention goes out the window and I cross all the lines. I don't care what happens, we cross the lines, said God, wicked one, that father Abraham already preceded you. He beat you to it as you might say. As the verse says, Abraham arose early in the morning and saddled his donkey. When Hashem told to get to the what does it say woke up early in the morning, he saddled his donkey and he too was a a very wealthy person, an influential person. He had many

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1. 0:02Shalom. Reviewing the volume 28 number one for Bulock. So um TA tells us Bak came…
2. 5:21wasn't lazy he wasn't lethargic he was elacritous he was moving quickly says God a their…
3. 11:15on the gamarra. How is hatred impressive? It's not. The gamarra is not speaking about it…
4. 17:10source? Again, let's go through it. Again, just looking at the parenthesis at the end of…
5. 23:06so he jumps up in the morning and he saddles his donkey translation he did something…
6. 29:02Hashem is not God's way of besting bum because according to Rashi, there isn't a contest…
7. 34:27convention. It speaks about joy to honor Hashem or to honor his father. It's interesting. It's…
8. 40:21tells us on thehat level that bum saddled his own donkey because he's trying to create…
9. 46:10and embrace the mitzvah. That's basically the two-step program of Judaism in a nutshell and it's…
10. 51:59that he gives a curse, Hashem makes it into a blessing and that transformation is very…

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