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Chelek 28 Balak 2 Rabbi Yosef Kantor

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Sicha Women Shiur - Project Likkutei Sichos

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is the ones book 28 the second of the paral and here the is going to delve into the uh interpretation of one of the first blessings that bam gives the Jewish people although he is intending to give curses but he's unable to curse and it turns to blessing so for many people when you read the poetic words of bilam it uh as many people do when they get to esoteric things they space out a little bit and look at it just as in general as allegory here the is going to take a deep dive into the specifics of one of theukim so paragraph we've already said many times that rashi when he explains the his point is to explain the simple reading of the Rashi said this about his commentary in various places where Rashi brings an ag brings a medish agotic material. So that's as rashi himself often tells us I come to explain the simple meaning of the p and I also bring which makes the words of the p understood based on the sequence of the p. Sometimes there's med which lends itself to the very basic meaning of the puss and those kinds of medashim rashi brings. But the first point the first choice for Rashi is always to bring the simplest literal meaning of the P means to say Rashi brings an brings medish only when either there's a difficulty in reading the P in its simple commentary and you need something to be resolved so which can be helped by an aada and he'll bring in the aada to resolve a difficulty in in in what the means or in the case with the Agoda is stating clearly the way the PK is to be

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  1. 0:02is the ones book 28 the second of the paral and here the is going to
  2. 4:52I see them from the top of the mountain because he was standing on top of
  3. 10:15maybe within that small sector of the Jewish people, there are people that have sinned and
  4. 15:08strength is the mo that's why says through the not that the voice are the fathers
  5. 20:28big people already fully grown is on the ground that's small so he's saying that who
  6. 25:54translates it as dash as allegory because it has to be a parable because bam said
  7. 30:41bring the Pik that says Tim you shall obliterate Malik why doesn't he just translate it
  8. 36:06He was the first guy to attack the Jews and in the end he will be
  9. 40:58and he's speaking like Jacob and his hands look like Asov. His father says famously call
  10. 46:30when we talk about the power to be unyielding for Hashem, what does it mean? Power

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