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Michal Horowitz - Shiurim & Classes — Balak 5782

Выпуск: Michal Horowitz - Shiurim & Classes — Balak 5782. Темы: shabbat_laws, women_modesty, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: шаббат, законы шаббата, melacha, hilchot shabbat, שבת, הלכות שבת, מלאכה, цниют, скромность, tzniut, modesty, צניעות, недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. Norman Lamm z’l powerfully and timelessly teaches, “Soon after one of his truly eloquent prophecies, Bilaam begins by referring to himself with typical modesty as ‘‫יֵֹד֖עַ ּדַ֣עַת‬ ‫ עֶלְיֹ֑ון‬- he who knows the thoughts of the Almighty’ (Bamidbar 24:16). ‫ וַּיִפְּתַ֥ח ה’ אֶת־ּפִ֣י הָאָתֹ֑ון וַּתֹ֤אמֶר לְבִלְעָם֙ מֶה־עָׂשִ֣יתִֽי לְָ֔ ּכִ֣י הִּכִיתַ֔נִי זֶ֖ה ׁשָֹלׁ֥ש ְרגָלִֽים‬- And Hashem opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Bilaam: What have I done to you, that you hit me these three times!? After some intense negotiations, promises of riches of houses lled with gold and silver, and against the wishes of G-d, Bilaam and his donkey travel with the of cers of Moav back to King Balak, where Bilaam will offer sacri ces in preparation for cursing the Jewish nation. Upon which the Rabbis (Sanhedrin 105b) declare, in awe-struck astonishment at this empty brag, ‘A man who cannot know the thoughts of a mere animal (da’at behemto) can know the thoughts of the Almighty!?’ A man who has not the vision of a four-legged beast can boast of divine knowledge? Much more importantly: A man who can so mistreat and so cruelly abuse an innocent ass that the animal turns to him plaintively and says, ‘Am I not your loyal beast of burden upon whom you have www.michalhorowitz.com 1 of 2 fi fi fi fi fi A Short Vort - Balak 5782 (7.22) BS”D ridden all your life to this day, did I deserve this of you?’ (22:30) - can a man of such meanness and pettiness and cruelty dare boast of knowing the innermost thoughts of the Almighty G-d? This is the Bilaam-type, the kind who ‘talks with G-d’ as the Yiddish idiom goes, the kind who is ‘yodei’a da’at Elyon’, who professes great faith and great morals and great ethics, who speaks eloquently of his honor and lavishly of his integrity and sincerity, but con nes all this to the realm of abstract principles and lets the ethics and morals and faith suffocate into the thin atmosphere of the upper heavens, while in practice he doesn’t even know the thoughts of his own animal. This is the tragedy of great vision and detestable living, of high princip

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Michal Horowitz - Shiurim & Classes

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12 июля 2022 г.

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Темы: shabbat_laws, women_modesty, parsha_commentary