Balak - Secret of Redemption

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The opening of this shiur, in Parsha Podcast with Ari Goldwag’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

You're listening to the weekly partial podcast with Ari Goldwag, recorded with Hashem's divine assistance in L'amp B'shmish, Israel, 7/8/2024. This week's parsha is parshas Balak. And as I say every year when we get to parshas Balak, it's the completion of another cycle, of another year of the partial podcast. Baruch Hashem, we've been doing this every single week for 17 years. It's very exciting for me. And I'd like to encourage you if you get something from this podcast and you want to help it to continue, can help any of curses as I'm giving blessings, he advises Balak, he advises the Midianite people to to the Moabite people, the Midianite people to try to cause the Jewish people to sin by getting them to behave lasciviously. And sadly, there's success in that. 24,000 people die. And in the process, one of the leaders of the Jewish people is named is to be revealed in next week's parsha at the beginning, Zimri, Zimri ben Salu. So, he is sinning So, he is sinning with Kozbi bas Tzur, princess of the of the Moabite people or the Midianite people, I forget at this moment. And the Torah tells us something and it's very interesting, Moshe Rabbeinu's reaction versus Pinchas's reaction, the contrast between them, the inability for Moshe to figure out exactly what the halacha is in this situation, Pinchas jumps in and stops the plague stops the plague through his action by getting up and

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1. 0:00You're listening to the weekly partial podcast with Ari Goldwag, recorded with Hashem's divine assistance in…
2. 3:04more about that soon. But let's for a moment read the Midrash together. At the end…
3. 6:11very good smack, but at the end as it's about to be vacation so people get…
4. 8:43But the men But the measure tells us something very uh I would say shocking. Lefishanis…
5. 11:46in order to do the will of his creator. That's the first in the very beginning…
6. 14:51the last moment what was he involved in? He wasn't involved in packing up his house.…
7. 17:24uncle Yosef is still alive and he is the the the leader, the moshel of of…
8. 20:37Moses says to Joseph, "Ask God to help you and help us that your coffin should…
9. 23:10not going to reap the benefit, you're not going to get there to the goal, you're…
10. 26:18plague because he put in every effort. Moshe Rabbeinu got stuck at that moment. In the…

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