Balak Part 1 Weekly Torah Portion according to the Kli Yakar Numbers 22 verse 2 5776

okay good evening everybody we're going to start with um par balak it's chapter 22 verse 2 and balak the son of saw all that Israel had done to the amorites they y balak this BS were saw at K also is that Israel did to the emites now we're going to have two major concerns number one is the first question he brings up we just had in the last week's para the whole fight with Israel and seon and which are amorites very nice this was really what frightened B right this is what frighten him what about what happened 40 years or 39 years years earlier leaving Egypt that was huge you know Egypt was decimated shouldn't that have brought on this fear but no it seems like at least from the surface surface it's what he just saw what Israel did to the amorites trust me that's not at all what it means and the next question he's going to ask is the fact that Israel in these three verses these two or three verses Israel is called by four different names which is very unusual so put on your seat belts let's go one more at a time is it not that the Miracles that happened in Egypt were much greater than these why was he not contemplating and dwelling on those great things those awesome things that hasem had done back in Egypt and something else to think about you know it's mentioned hereos that the name of Israel the people of Israel are called by four different adjectives four different names pronouns first of all it says is that's one that's two Isel that's three and kahal that's four I'll read the verses and then we'll go back into the clear Moab was very frightened of the people so we already said Israel follow saw all Israel had done Moab was right because of the people that's two right because it was formidable meaning great and mo was disgusted in the face of the children of Israel that's the third time we're mentioned as the children of Israel and Moab said to the Elders of midan now the congregation that's the fourth time we're mentioned will chew up our entire surroundings and as an ox chews up The Greenery of the field so that's really bothering the clear he wants to explain it and he goes on he says in the beginning it said as we said you know he was frighten because of all that Israel did to the amorites Israel and then afterward says V that Moab was frightened because of the people and then afterwards it says that Mo was disgusted because of and then afterwards it says [Music] now they're going to lick us up this congregation is going to lick us up so the fourth pronoun is the congregation H so he explains it like this the explanation is like this the way that the world works this is if you didn't know if you didn't know that the that the kings are privy to history because they have inherited Diaries they have a a library then they have people who can read anyway they have books called Chronicles in their personal Library which has written on them all that has happened in the past but the masses the general masses the uneducated people the only thing that they know is where their Bread's coming from today they only are exist in the presence they don't have a concept of History whatever they see with their own eyes or anything they hear even as rumors of whatever occurred in their day therefore remember he was a king he named y he already had these history books he already was aware he had the books that was by him um from time in Memorial he knew what happened to yakob yes Sabah who's yakob yakob is Israel our great great great grandpy our grandfather and what did he do to the amorites that's what he knew about right we can go back to Genesis and see in the story of sh sh was defeated by yob and his children in a scheme we have to admit but nevertheless a very small tribe a very small family defeated a whole nation people all that Israel you know we're talking about Israel yob we talking about one person he was just one person and even if you want to include his whole house was a very small number nevertheless they conquered an entire people like it says if you look in Genesis the yov we read this so yob says which I took from the hands of the amorites right he was talking about the the uh the success of the war and the land acquisition he took with my sword and my bow those are the words they used now what is what how do we understand my for a Jew what do what does it mean to have a sword and a bow according to kazal if you look in babash in the gamorra that's a the explanation of my sword and my bow isob Israel overcomes their enemies through their prayer shop here so that all works out well why what is it about prayer prayer is the power of the lips that saw how do you see through the through these Chronicles that the Jewish people that Israel Sabah that yov defeated the amorites through his prayer the all of the power of yob the Jewish people is in their [Music] mou this is the very reason that he was chasing after billum he wanted billum to come up and curse the Jews he wanted to defeat the Jews and he didn't see really a military answer but he realized that if he can find somebody who can counterweight counterbalance their power the Jewish pow is in the mouth find a person like villan who could use his power of the mouth to counter the Jews that's why it says it says balak saw it doesn't say balak [Music] heard why [Music] because all the history all that happened surely they were written in the Chronicles that all the kings of the world had he saw with his own eyes what was written in the saer in the book and enter this weakening or this cowardliness or this intimidation into his heart he know what to do it's true right he read the Chronicles that in the all those previous years a long time ago that the Jewish people yakob was able to conquer with such a small number so now he's looking at 9 million people how am I able to ever defeat these people who are just such a great mass of numbers that's why he does not say the words or but he uses the word because he's referring to meaning yob what he did to hundreds of years earlier of Mo when it when it comes to Mo they're considered part of that mass of non-educated peopleone name they did not consider they weren't really concentrating they didn't even really care about the past remember these are the the masses they only know about what Tomatoes cost today in the sh right they would have know what this was the only fear they had was what they saw right now what did they see they saw this Mighty group of people that's why they said that's why the text says that Moab was frightened because of the because they were Mighty now we're going to talk about two different um uh groups of people in the desert I just mentioned earlier there were 9 million everyone knows there were 600,000 men between the ages of 20 and 60 how does how do I how how is it that I'm saying there's 9 million people so we say that there were 600,000 men between 60 20 and 60 well they all had at least one wife and they all had many children so we're talking about at least 200 2 and5 million to 3 million Jews so the um the clear says and he brings a medis to back himself up in the Kila I'll read in a second but he basically says that the Arab the people that attached themselves that left Egypt with the Jews were twice that amount twice the amount of the Jews so we're talking about 3 million now we have 9 million okay that's how I came to that number those two groups of people were not like each other keep this mixed multitude the reason that was so afraid they were afraid on account of their Mighty numbers because this is the that the that the cleart brings down thato they were two times the 600,000 regarding them it says that's why the verse says that they grew frightened they were afraid because of the people because they were great so first of all we have to look at the word am we said that was one of the four um pronouns used for the Jewish people but I want to tell you something it's not referring to the Jewish people at all it says look that when we talk whenever the clear says whenever the word is used except for a few exceptions it's always referring to the mixed multitudes K who they were frightened because it was great it was so many there really were a lot of them but when it comes to they didn't they weren't as many meaning they were one3 they weren't afraid because of the massive amount but it was from a different aspect that there there was a fear of Israel on the the Moab because it says it says that the Moab was disgusted because of B is so that's the Jewish people there was aat there was a dread a disgust now we're going to talk about this word because a coat is a thorn if you look in Exodus 1:12 I'll on the verse you Isel right over there it says that the Egyptians were dreaded because of the Jewish people sh we're not going to explain it that Israel was like thorn in their eyes no thear because if you're going to say that the Jewish people had thorns in their eyes it should save Y and Israel but it doesn't says with n Israel in the face of Israel so rather it's the opposite way we're going to explain it that the Egyptians compared them own selves as if they were thorns in value to the children of Israel who are compared to clusters of graves so that's how they thought about themselves in relation to us into relation to the Jewish people as it says if you look in Psalms 80: 9 and 10 and we read this verse already in the other part of thear right the G and the vines from Egypt he is mobile bringing up to G and to um exile to get rid of the Nations that are in the land of Canaan Canan and then planting the grapes in its place in order to make a open area and then no free it up and then you can root the um the good stuff which is the gra Vines and then it would fill the whole land how does the world work I'll tell you when the owner of the field who wrote he wants to plant The Vineyard in his field but guess what it's the field is Full Of Weeds what he needs to do is then to uproot those roots from the um the root he uproots upro it's a verb he uproots the plant from its very Roots the [Music] n and only then can he go ahead and plant the seeds in order to plant the the the good stuff in its [Music] place this is how the Egyptians saw themselves that Israel was implanted in the land of Egypt like Gein like like a a Vineyard they Y and they were afraid that they were going to be pushed up out of the land right like in in that's 2 Samuel uh 236 um like a he Thorns the Canaanites like a heap of thorns and also it says in Exodus 1:10 Al art right the Egyptians thought that they were going to be kicked out of the land doesn't say us talking about d That's why it says here the were they dreaded they were disgusted because of that they realized they were going to end up being removed from the land of Canan on account of the children of Israel who are compared to the V the Divine now we know why here it says says we Moab Israel so the last P I read was actually referring back to um and here we're talking about Mo here they were afraid mus Les there will be Moab like a thorn that is thrown out of the earth out of the ground meaning they were really afraid they were going to be chucked out on account of because of Israel on account of the which will be that took up out of Egypt in order to expel the going from the land of Israel and to plant the Jewish people here in the land that's why it says Israel not as Israel or or kahal the children of Israel because this is now hundreds of years later and Israel are grandfather is no longer with us he already went onto his world and the children now going into the promised land AR but it wasn't on account of the AR that they had this dread because that they had a fear of because of the masses of the people people it's a great question what advantage was there what great Advantage was there that the that there was for the Arab amongst you know in comparison to all the other nations of the world she that the go are going to be taken out of the land of Canan the makomo and they are going to be planted in place of the of the amorites or of the go the seven K Nations even is was only because of Ben Israel they were like I'm not going to say parasites but they Klingons they were like uh I'm not even second class citizens they attached themselves they converted at Mount Si but they were still trouble for us even until today we call them te they're not the e Israel they're not the prime Jews but they are nevertheless part of the nation but it wasn't on their account that the go were expelled it's on account of the Isel that the Nations the seven seven Canaanite nations are exp then it says then Moab said to the Elders of Minion now they wanted the congregation wants to lick us up like an what exactly did Moab see to in invite and to incite the midianites to join up with them to right know what was the um Inception what went through their mind to think that we can get an ally such as the midianites I'm sorry the minites were thinking what can we do um yeah no I think what did Moab think to that we can get the midianites to join up with us since we see in rash explains inas if you look in numbers 316 it's talking about the U the war and they went out they had 12,000 people 1,000 from each tribe and P sh L this is against the midianites shiko that went for the sake of Vengeance who pinus went for the sake of Vengeance on account of his not his father's father but his mother's father his father's father obviously is not is um we're talking about Pinas we're talking about from the line of kohanim so we're talking about y his mother's father is from the line of ysep sh says in L Zion in Genesis 3736 I know it goes back and forth between the m and the and the in the end the y that sold him to Egypt so they were involved in we understand that he believed everything came from God but nevertheless these people still deserve the punishment and a Vengeance Nik and since he was taking Vengeance for his mother's side that's why we see that the b y they're called kahal says in also there in L and alive now it's Lam and hates but the end of Deuteronomy where Moses is blessing the different tribes okay so go to Deuteronomy 3736 uh wrong sorry 3511 where he says go a nation and a Congregation of Nations Rashi is explaining K is specifically referring to Y and that's why it says that Moab spoke to the zik midan he figured I get the midianites involved because they know that the Jewish people have a Vengeance for the midianites for selling y down the fight to Egypt so Mo was trying to convince the midianites you also have what to fear from this congregation who's that the Ben