parshat Balak
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Bilaam was a brilliant, critical, and pessimistic person who knew how to identify a weak point at any given moment.
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“Shefi?”
As Bilam prepared for what he hoped would be his first curse of Bnei Yisrael, the Torah describes how he proceeded, using a highly unusual word. The Torah says: “He went shefi”. We will try to understand that word. -
The phenomena of sight
The subjective phenomena of sight is based on factors related to the intellectual and emotional background of the viewer. -
A People Who Dwells Alone
From Parashot Chukat and Balak, we are able to learn the way Israel, as a nation, should relate to the rest of the world.