The Crouching Lion & the Tattooist of Auschwitz - Women's Balak Class

What’s said in this shiur

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

the yeshiva dotnet the portion of Bullock relates that fascinating story that's recorded in safer Bamidbar the Book of Numbers chapters 22 through 24 of how the Prophet Balaam or Balaam who was an arch enemy of the Jewish people was summoned by another legendary Jew hater the king of moe of whose name was Bullock and he summoned the Prophet Bullock and he summoned the Prophet Balaam to curse the Israelites the fledgling young nation of Israel but when bilam opens his mouth to curse the people of Israel blessings come out instead she tries three times to curse them each time the result is the same the curses are substituted by extraordinary blessings so he finally extraordinary blessings so he finally finishes off with a prophecy describing the triumph of the Jewish people at the end of days Bacchus a young man you might think that since he planned to curse the blessings that came out instead were mediocre blessings but the truth is what blessings they are the verses uttered by Balaam who was attempting to curse the Jewish people are amongst the most delicious are amongst the most delicious eloquent exquisite and beautiful poetry in the totality of the Tanakh bilham's blessings include the famous verse motivo laka Yaakov Myshkin aya sofya sir all how good are your 10 so Jacob your dwellings of Israel a verse that we the Jewish people came to love so much that 365 days a year

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