Vigilantism - Balak (Rabbi Dovid Kaplan) (Weekly Parsha)

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Okay, we're on page 1036. No, no, no, no, no, no. Way off. Way off. Way off. Oh, way off. We're on uh Buzz Gimmel. Uh 860. 860. Thank you. Okay. So, uh Bum starts. This is I I don't remember what what what the last thing we did was, but we'll just pick it up over here. Bum is heading off to curse the Jewish people and uh he got this the Jewish people and uh he got this issue with the donkey. So we said, did we mention last time the three places that the donkey veers off? Did we get to that last time we spoke about that? Yeah. Okay. So the donkey the first time he he veers off is in a a a wide area. Then the second time is by the wall and then the third time he could barely turn around. Now part of the idea here is that uh part of the idea here is that that there you heard some of this yesterday already but some of the part of the idea here is that a person when of the idea here is that a person when you start doing an a vera a vera has become habit forming and when you first do it it's easier to turn back the second time you do it become a little more conditioned to it. It's easier that more difficult to turn back and by the third time you do it you're already you're already caught. You're you're already caught. It's already something that that that that's uh for both uh habit forming it's it's a habit but even more than that there's a spiritual component here only go explains that when you do an aa any a

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