Torah Insights of Rabbi Balkany: Pinchas (Video 237)

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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. This week's parsha, parshas Pinchas, has in the upcoming week, unfortunately, uh Shiva Asar B'Tammuz, which is the third most stringent fast day that we have. First is Yom Kippur, then comes Tisha B'Av, then comes Shiva Asar B'Tammuz. And five things happened with the Beis Hamikdash and with the with the Beis Hamikdash and with the eigel that they made, all happened on Shiva Asar B'Tammuz. And the navi the consolation is that the navi Zecharya had said in his time that yehafkuhu yamim eileh, that these days will be transformed and transposed into yamim tovim. So, in shoyoresh, it's really a yom tov, So, in shoyoresh, it's really a yom tov, and even though it's not a 24-hour fast, many people say it is their hardest fast because, at first of all, it runs like 17 or 18 hours, which is a tremendously long fast, and if it's hot out, then it makes it even harder to fast. Um but we hope that there's still 2 days till Thursday, that means that uh Mashiach could come, that means that uh Mashiach could come, and we will do away with all of these fast days. Now, the parsha is parshas Pinchas, which begins with a follow-up from the last sedra, that Balak and Bilam were both very frustrated that he could not curse the Yidden and he was ready to go back home because he failed in his mission. he failed in his mission. And every negative thing he said turned in you know, even the mild things were not good for Klal Yisrael, but one remained in its full force and its emphatic structure and format and strength, full strength, was Ma Tovu Ohalekha Yaakov Mishkenotekha Yisrael. That's from last week's sedra.

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1. 0:00Good evening. This week's parsha, parshas Pinchas, has in the upcoming week, unfortunately, uh Shiva Asar…
2. 5:45the grandson of Aaron HaKohen, as the pasuk opens and says, "Pinchas ben Elazar ben Aaron…
3. 12:01which means anger or revenge, that he avenged the anger of Hakadosh Baruch Hu. That when…
4. 18:13dignity, as I said, of Kallah Yisrael. Levi went to protect Kedushas Yisrael. Dinah Bas Yaakov…
5. 23:56name, we it's not just huff puff that now you're called this and that. You have…
6. 30:16But they said it like to heighten the esteem of their family that our father was…
7. 36:30the possuk said like the Rashi brings that Moshe Rabbeinu said Yifko Keha Ruach Os that…
8. 42:08on chairs and we have we put we we uh we have a person that smokes…
9. 48:15from where you're standing, but you're never going in there, not alive, even though he davened…
10. 54:27Kippur, every day of the year was in the morning a tamid shel shahar and in…

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