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Beit Midrash
- Torah Portion and Tanach
- Bamidbar
- Balak
The Lord intervenes with Balak’s scheme. Bilaam turns out to be completely unreliable as far as Balak is concerned. Bilaam gives advice to Balak regarding how the women of Midian and Moab can seduce the Jews into sinning and thereby bring Heaven’s wrath against them The Jewish nation is damaged by Bilaam but his main objective of destroying Israel is blocked by Divine fiat. The insults become praise and the malevolence of his thought is somehow transformed into a badge of honor by Moshe and Israel and so recorded as being in the Torah. Balak’s promising plot has failed in its objective and eventually he and his nation as well as Bilaam bring only death and destruction upon themselves. The destruction of Judaism and the3 Jewish people has been an age old object of many Balaks and Bilaams. They still exist today and are still hard at work at their nefarious goal. Yet somehow deep in our souls we know that the curses will be transformed into blessings and eventually enmity will subside and evaporate. May we be privileged to transform the current words of the Bilaams of today to words of blessing just as occurred to the words of the original Bilaam of long ago
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Various Events FOR WHOM NOT TO VOTE
Rav Zvi Yehuda Kook stressed that Israeli politics is G-dly, so I have no problem answering this common question on a Torani blog. Also, Free-Will is a G-d-given right and obligation, to "destine one's fate" (R. Soloveichik, Kol Dodi Dofek, 67), so I obviously don't tell others how to vote. But once not a few (especially young) have already asked, a couple of personal words from experience and thoughts from chazal & Rav Kook which may be of help to others, mainly for whom NOT to vote.
P'ninat Mishpat Fallout from Failure to Install Elevator – part II
based on ruling 85007 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts
