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Michal Horowitz - Shiurim & Classes — michal horowitz — Chukas-Balak 5783

Выпуск: Michal Horowitz - Shiurim & Classes — michal horowitz — Chukas-Balak 5783. Темы: shabbat_laws, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: шаббат, законы шаббата, melacha, hilchot shabbat, שבת, הלכות שבת, מלאכה, недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. Perhaps the most famous of all of Bilaam’s blessings is the one with which we begin our daily te llos every morning: ‫ יִׂשְָראֵל‬,ָ‫ יַעֲֹקב; מִׁשְּכְנֹתֶי‬,ָ‫ּטֹבּו אֹהָלֶי‬-‫מַה‬, How goodly are your tents, O Yaakov, your dwelling places, Israel (Bamidbar 24:5). Norman Lamm z’l teaches (in a drasha penned and presented in 1954), “If all of Israel has accepted it (this verse) and accorded it such honors, then there must be something very special about it that somehow re ects an aspect of the basic personality of the Jew and a deep, indigenous part of the Jewish religious character. The Temple and sacri cial offerings were destroyed, so our forefathers reacted to the destruction with prayer, the ‘service of the heart.’ Jerusalem and its schools were ruined, so they decided that Torah is not dependent upon geography, and they built Yavneh, where they accomplished even more than in Jerusalem. And yet, the verse with which every Jew begins Shachris is from the prophecy of Bilaam ha’Rasha (Bilaam the wicked), mah tovu ohalech Yaakov… What lesson can be derived from this seemingly perplexing choice of words with which we open our daily prayers? A Short Vort - Balak 5783 (7.23) BS”D Parshas Balak: Blessing from Curse In the second of this week’s parshios (Chukas-Balak in Chutz la’Aretz), we learn of Balak, the king of Moav, who hired Bilaam, the Prophet/Sorcerer, to curse the Jewish nation. There are pasukim related to our Avos and Imahos (forefathers and foremothers), many pasukim related to the tenacity of Am Yisrael, and our Biblical heroes and heroines, beautiful and hopeful nevuos (prophecies) related to the geula and end of days. From the evil and diabolical intentions of Bilaam, for what he intended to say was, ‘May you not have any synagogues and schools,’ we molded a blessing of ‘mah tovu,’ which we recite just as we enter those very blessed halls of worship and study. British Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin refused to permit 100,000 Jewish refugees to immigrate into Palestine, so, having no choice, we proclaimed and built a State of Israel for over a million Jews… The Jewish way is blessing from

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Michal Horowitz - Shiurim & Classes

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30 июня 2023 г.

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Темы: shabbat_laws, parsha_commentary