BAAL EXPOSED: The Ancient Spirit Still Fighting for Israel

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

mad with uh Balaam. He rode got up early, got off of his donkey. Right? And where else do we see this? Amen. And it's like because they both did this thing with such like energy and like passion, that's why Hashem was mad with Balaam cuz he's like "You >> What are you using your What are you using your passion for?" >> Yeah. And it's >> What are you using your passion for? >> And and it relates to the story of like if you have if you have a flight to catch, people get up early and run to the flight. But if you miss a flight, then you just miss >> But you can't get back that shot. >> Yeah. So you should be able to you should move >> All the more so. >> Yeah. >> Beautiful. >> I think it's a good beautiful idea. >> Okay, so let's get into the sugya of the next two days of Pinchas, but in order to understand Pinchas, we have to take a step back to the end of Balak. And we have to go into the whole topic of what what was the problem that Pinchas had to stop? What was the problem? So it was the relations? Okay, so we have to understand what was the backstory of all this? And really we're going to see that this is all about the Baal. And this is all about rejecting the Baal. Okay? Now this is the topic that people are speaking about nowadays and we have to make sure that people

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1. 0:00mad with uh Balaam. He rode got up early, got off of his donkey. Right? And…
2. 5:25that they'll sin. So, he says, "I've got an idea. Boy Va'asi Eitzah." Balaam says to…
3. 11:05And then we go for a walk and they came to these tents. So, then the…
4. 16:27baal. A statue of the baal. Yeah. Woah. Think you want to be with me? He's…
5. 22:09in a holy way you are upholding the covenant. But if that area is used and…
6. 28:15horrible stuff like that. Is that a more modern example of that is a person then…
7. 33:39Horns. And instead of him finding horns, something which he already did have, he lost. [clears…
8. 39:33says as Balaam ben Beor hakosem, they call him the magician, which is somebody who has…
9. 44:50the ones that were >> They weren't. >> Well, the leaders of HaAm were. >> Of…
10. 50:33in absolute brazenness comes in front of the tent of Moshe to have relations with one…

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