Get the Point? - Parashat Balak - Rabbi Dovid Kaplan

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Take a look at page um 866. So, 864, [clears throat] two lines on the bottom. Just move over just a bit cuz you don't block the block the camera. Everybody got Chumash? There should be There should be plenty of Chumashim. Okay. So, for those the story so far is that Balaam is hired by Balak to go curse the Jewish people. And uh he he says these curses in a very cryptic way. He tries to curse. He starts out uh with yesterday we called it a parable. And the reason he doesn't just say what he's thinking is because uh the problem the reason he doesn't say what he's thinking what he's thinking is that if God is favoring the Jewish people, he can't just go straight up against God and say something directly uh to just go curse directly. Uh so, he he tries to use something that could then be interpreted as a curse and even that doesn't work. Even that doesn't work. Now, we had mentioned yesterday that um the prophecy he actually achieves a level of prophecy like Moshe Rabbeinu. That's a very strange thing that a guy That's a very strange thing that a guy who's a pervert and he's a he's a an absolute absolute uh uh degenerate. That's the word. He's a degenerate certainly for his attempt to to achieve the negative forces. Uh and and he's a disgusting person. So, why should he achieve the level of prophecy of Moshe Rabbeinu? He gets all the way up to the level nobody else achieves that level. So, the answer is like this. Why is it Let's ask a different question. Why does Moshe Rabbeinu achieve such a high level? Why

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