Showing posts with label Balak. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Balak. Show all posts
Thursday, July 14, 2022

Balak. Resorting to the Supernatural.

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Updated 8/2/22, 5 Av pei beis, with an approach submitted by Rav Avraham Wagner. In the year 1836, in Zolochiv, Ukraine, a dayan wrote a kvi...
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Monday, July 22, 2019

Pinchas. That Dangerous Moment

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Regarding Balak, (we will get back to Pinchas in a moment,) the Gemara AZ 4a-b: ת"ר אל זועם בכל יום. וכמה זעמו? רגע. וכמה רגע? אחת...
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Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Devarim; Shabbos Chazon, Haftorah: Kashanim and Kasheleg

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In the Haftorah: Yeshaya 1:18. לכו נא ונוכחה יאמר ה'  אם יהיו חטאיכם כשנים כשלג ילבינו  אם יאדימו כתולע כצמר יהיו What is the di...
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Tuesday, June 26, 2018

Balak. Reb Yechiel Heller explains why the war with Amalek was so difficult

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I saw a great thing from Rav Yechiel Heller in his Amudei Or 122. He asks, why did the war of Yehoshua against Amalek require such heroics...
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Sunday, July 24, 2016

Bilaam and Aesthetics

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It's an admittedly subjective evaluation.  Ironically, of all the poetry in the Torah - Parshas Vayechi, Beshalach, Haazinu, Vezos HaBra...
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Friday, July 3, 2015

Balak and the Shaar HaBechina

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Bamidbar 23:23 כי לא נחש ביעקב ולא קסם בישראל כעת יאמר ליעקב ולישראל מה פעל אל I'd like to suggest a new pshat in this passuk, conne...