Balak & Pinchas - Challenge at Redemption

What’s said in this shiur

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.

coming in to save the day doing a radical act not something that we are accustomed to hearing about in our modern day in our western thinking but in order to stand up for licentious behavior to stand up for god in the face of improper behavior so pinchas stands up and he kills zimri and the woman the evil midjianite woman who was causing these terrible sins amongst the jewish people twenty four thousand people had died from a plague because of pinchas pinocchio's brave act he was able to prevent the plague from continuing also not an idea we're used to hearing we think of a plague we think of corona we don't associate that directly with sin we don't associate great things that happen in the world with our spiritual condition our spiritual state but the torah teaches us not that way i'd like to share with you what the measure says before i get into the medrash i want to point out something which i mentioned previously and i want to mention it again and that is that we in this story in the description of events of the torah we are currently about to get into the land of israel the jewish people are on the cusp of entering the land of israel it's been 40 years that they were in the midbar 40 years that they were in the wilderness and they're about to enter into the land of israel moshe urban is about to die yahushua joshua is about to take over

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1. 1:07coming in to save the day doing a radical act not something that we are accustomed…
2. 3:43how it relates to us because whenever we have a transition time whenever we are moving…
3. 6:25case and wanting it to be revealed in an open way which of course is always…
4. 9:02even deeper because there are ways to deal with this how do we face off with…
5. 11:40they knew this they knew that that was coming and and and that they were going…
6. 14:49a foolishness there's a foolishness when a person does a licentious act when he's with an…
7. 17:26mishka of zachary they wanted to have men and men together which is a terrible hash…
8. 20:06character traits so as long as they held out to that they were able to hold…
9. 22:40still had their language yes they still had their modesty but it was able to be…
10. 25:14tremendous courage when we see people who are famous even if we think that they're not…

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