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255 Balak King Of Pain 180716

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Rabbi Mashiach Kelaty

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previous shirum this week's para from five years ago there was a shir called the return of old one eye from four years ago angels of mercy from three years ago from the zenith of holy holiness to the native of depravity from two years ago Satan on the payroll and from last year evil incarnate ballad of the boneheads yeah go listen to them hopefully you'll find them just as interesting as the titles interesting as the titles hopefully. Um, and as we mentioned before, this week is the shoro. It's the week of my father's yorite. So, this year, among the others we just mentioned, uh, it's also dedicated in my father's memory. Yeah. It's 26 years this Thursday night. I was a very young man when it happened. Um, and my brothers were even younger. Okay. So Okay. So funnily enough, paras Balak is one of my favorite parachut in the Torah. How come? Oh, what about Beresit? What about even Votra? Why? You know, we shouldn't really have favorites. But I'll tell you why. Because for me, this parish, first of all, there's so much kusha at the end that came out of this Rasha's mouth. But also it's it reads like a really horrible horror story. It's it's a story of of

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  1. 0:00previous shirum this week's para from five years ago there was a shir called the return
  2. 5:36nobody. Then what did he do? He started spouting off about yesu this and that and
  3. 11:45have seen again. And it probably doesn't mean much to us because, you know, we all,
  4. 18:09Balak said the Jews have come out. It means they've already forgotten the fact that they
  5. 24:26Pinhas pounced on Bam. Pinhas because Bam the says Bam flew in the air. His sons
  6. 30:39need a little bit more of a carrot as they call it or a little bit
  7. 36:48a he's a fully grown adult." He says, "Today this boy had his britbilah and we
  8. 42:32Yeah. You should never this this well let me tell you the story first. There was
  9. 48:50Israel or Palestine as they called it in those days to go and kill all the
  10. 55:08orim the 15th of tamuz now you tell me all you if if you are an

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