Diamonds of the Maharal on Parshas Balak

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay good morning so uh ordinarily we learn um but it's visiting day sunday and uh everybody uh thinks they're gonna be having a good time in the castle the two things are gonna be suffering sitting through traffic most of the day so we get uh we get to sit here get to have a good breakfast oil marseille and also anyway so parshaz balak we know balak was afraid of claudius approaching he was afraid that we would uproot his country and therefore the pastor says may have said to the elders of midyan so rashu says what we're going to be doing today is we're going to be analyzing four ashes just four rashes and just learning uh the deeper meaning based on the morale and the gurarie so rashi says al-ziknay midyan he sent the message to his name were long rivals wrong long enemies there are tribal shanema there's possible racists who smith in the fields of maya shabbat midhyon came and attacked maya so midyon and maya are arch rivals they're each you know arch nemesis ella rather me you're awesome shall israel out of fear of klaus shalom in him they made peace they made peace listen to rashi of lithuanian what did maya of see fit to take advice from idyan so says rashid again they see claudius just barging in just knocking off country after country they go into a country they knock it off go into the next country they knock it off um they said man their leader grew up in midyan nishal mayhem mamidasa will ask from idyon what is his characteristics because they realize mashable grew up in midyan um so bilaam said his powers through his mouth um they said we'll utilize bilaam whose power is also through his mouth rashi says an interesting thing what was maya doing and seeking from midyan rashi says umara maya of lital was looking for itsa who told rashid who's looking for they were looking for itsa looking for advice does say in the past they're looking for advice maybe they're just looking to team up to destroy claudius thrall maybe they're looking for manpower maybe they're looking for ammunition maybe looking to join forces to attack but of all things why does rashi use the word itsa how does rashi know we are in the plastic do we see that they were looking for itsa okay that's uh that's issue number one so the morale says in the gorarier just to arreat you very quickly the inhumane rasa and also don't just say that because they were afraid they were they made peace the words of the posse comply they were seeking advice let's see who could figure it out what word in the pasta complies they were seeking advice it just says they said may have said to medion from where do we see they were looking for advice very good there's an extra word in the past it says median right why does it say it's just almightyon why i've said why does the the pastor utilize the word sickness answers so they're good that's uh because we know that in general zucchini are our mesugo for asa right the older you get you could have somebody who's uh very smart but if you need advice you need to go to someone's experience with life experience so so it's a rashi is madaik from the word zika okay not today's generation okay that's the first offering for today let's uh we move on yeah sure you know we move on yeah parak parak um cafes actually my old show there's always somebody to correct me it wasn't a donkey it was a she i'm not going to say that it was it right it was officially but either it was an asayn and there's there's some kind of interference there's an impediment here the first time he knocked his uh his uh there was an impediment on one side the second time i was dependent on two sides the third side he had third time he had nowhere to go and all of a sudden the donkey opens up its mouth which by the way is something that i encounter all the time god opened up the mouth of the donkey that taymir labylum and she said to bilaam what i do to you kihiki sunny that you hit me is that shallow gum these three times did i you know what do you have against me you smacked me three times sarah she says look around she's zes this is what the donkey says to bilham rama's lawyer the donkey is being maramised to bilaam atom you are seeking out to destroy a nation that celebrates the three holidays a year pesach you think you'll be able to destroy claudius claudius they celebrate pesach why'd you hit me what may allah what did i do to you kihiki sunny that you hit me zest shall israel golem these three times says rashi it's a remus the donkey is being miramized to build him you think he could destroy kaiso it's the three regal so that the question is how does rashi know that the donkey was telling bill anything about pesach survivors and sukis maybe the donkey is just telling billam why'd you hit me three times where do you see anything about the uh pisa with some circus here yeah so what would you say where is there a ram is to the pesach wilson suckers because it says right otherwise what would have said now what's the obvious question on this if you were a donkey yeah nafta if you were a donkey and you were trying to convince bilam not to go cursed claudia's well and you would want to tell bilham you know claudia was such a unique people what argument would you use you'll never be able to destroy clyde so why i mean there are a lot of things that donkey could say the donkey could say claudio they learn taira every sunday morning they put on filling every day they put on talos every day where does the donkey come up with all the things in the book that he could pull out why does he drum up shall golem like of all arguments that the donkey could use oh you know why you're not going to destroy claudius because they celebrate the three holidays somewhere else is very interesting shot that the sholish regalim represents something on a deeper level and that is all time has three parts time by definition of three parts it has beginning middle and end okay it has auratius and i'm sinus life and if time does have a beginning middle and end that means time is eternal time marches forward for all eternity connected eternity god gave us three regalum the three regalum represent that khalifa is an eternal nation why because if we have one regal in the beginning of the year pesach one in the middle of the year one at the end of the year sukis that represents the eternity of khalisol so for instance pesach we know is the beginning of the summer okay pesach is the beginning of the summer shavuous is the middle of the summer and sukis is the end of the warm season these three almond type interspersed through all three time periods beginning middle and end represent the eternity of kali israel so you say what are you talking about i can understand if you have one jumped at the beginning of the year rosh hashanah one in the middle of the year i don't know purim one in the end of the year that's eternity that's beginning middle end but why would you call pesach middle of n they don't even touch the winter so morale says the winter is not counted winter is actually not part of time morale says everything is dying then everything is dying then when something is dying there's it's not considered part of time so for example the the proof is so you say what does it have to do with the regalim what does it have to do with the regalim just say the answer is regal is the time of simcha simha is the full the fullness of existence as opposed to avelos avelis is is the absence of existence where a person feels the emptiness of existence so that's why winter winter is like when when the whole world is in the state of avellas there's no there's no existence there's no life so that's not part of time interesting idea so that's the message of the donkey the message of the donkey is you can't destroy cloudy soil cloudy celebrates the three regular the three regalim represent the eternity of the jewish people they have a reg and then what is called is called kufa sashana the end of the year the form is called sukkos okay that is the second offering third offering for today can i just say something and it's just interesting i just noticed that it says three times regardless yeah and um [Applause] and gimbal three times where nice deal very good very good you heard it here first okay okay so maybe that's another one that's not from michelin very good okay fine so let's um move on to park so now we're talking about the uh blessings the compliments that bilum is giving to call you so he says like this hen um behold the nation they get up like a lion cub like a mature lion yes nasa they rise they don't lie down till they eat their spoils the they drink the blood of the slain by the way claudius compared to the word hen hen heinen what's the what's the concept why the letter hey nun does not mix with other nations we don't mix we're by ourselves there are only two letters in the hebrew alphabet that don't mix that don't have a shadach you have aleph they get an elephant test they make a shidduch they fit together to make a hundred however the nun has no can't mingle that's the the matter says hen um claudia is like the letter hen hen 55 these are two letters that they can't mix okay by the way there's another letter then that can't mix in the in the final letters um what about a year what the one and the nine so the 10 has the 90. okay so rashi says like this take a look at rashi on this pasta kenam kalaviyakum says rashi what does it mean we get up like a lion kish when we get up from our sleep chakras in the morning hey miss gabriel can love you get like a lion right how does it you'd get up as soon as the alarm clock wakes up he says what snooze i don't know what snooze button is he jumps out of bed right sound familiar that's what we do the khari like a lion locked life is on its way to grab the mid slice little boy sits this to put on the titties some say no that's not the correct order for you got to put on the phone before you say shima because anyone who wears says without filling is like being made either but that's my okay they're different girl sites than rashi but rash she's learning what doesn't mean we get up like a line we get up to perform it's voice maybe it just means we're strong like a lion how do you know the possum means we get up like a lion before missus maybe it means that cause that cloudy swell or gee boy rim where mighty warriors like a lion maybe that's what the bus means hain um kalavi we're like a lion maybe we're powerful like a lion so the morale says don't explain the passage simply you know why shaheem ghibaryam that we're strong like a lion then it's because they cain lamaz it would not have to use the words yakuma and isla getting up getting up the words getting up imply that the strength is in the getting up not in our brute force baha'u'llah the answer is it's talking about mitsvice now listen very carefully what's the analogy that we perform mitzvahs like a lion you're telling me when i put on my tongue like what's the analogy to a lion you want what is the line got to do with anything very important let's say you saw somebody getting up in the morning waking up and pressing a button that unleashed a um a scud missile that attacked another country and destroyed a thousand buildings say wow like a powerful guy that's pretty impressive the guy wakes up in the morning and he's like knocking out the cities says imaral you know what khloe saw does every morning they do ma asim al-akim they do powerful things they get up and they put on a talus you know what when you put on your situation you know what it does in this world all the brock on this world comes down when you put on your tzitzis it it changes the whole world it it effectuates things in the entire universe it's a powerful thing when you put on synthesis that is a powerful mitzvah when you put on filling it's a powerful mitzvah when you say shema we we we don't view it that way yeah we wake up in the morning we throw on artists we don't really think we're accomplishing much we say shema we don't really think we're accomplishing much we we put on to fill in big deal no it's a big deal you have to understand the analogy is you're like a lion you're doing a mighty thing you're doing a powerful thing when you come out of show in the morning and you think what did i do what do you mean what you do you put on talos the whole world is protected because you put on your talents the whole world is changed because you put on filling things are different in this world listen to the words of the morale um when you do a mitzvah you are doing a wondrous act of god do you understand what you're doing when you put on fill in when my grandfather was in the concentration camps he woke up every morning to put on his villain so one time uh ss officer barged in he would wake up every morning put on tons of rush he would give it then to his brother so one morning he gave the ton to his brother's brother pronounced his brother put on tons of just then a nazi walked in his name was ficus he sees the tone shall rush [Music] picks up the gun but he hops at sitter he started to shake and fear you put down the gun and he ran out if you if you realize what you're doing you're putting on twill in you're you're everything in this world is dependent on the mysteries of cause you're doing massim you're doing paula therefore the passage says that every act of this nation are not lowly elohim these are awesome activities the mitzvahs listen to this let's talk about us now torah sages right me and you we're learning together but they're acting like men that means like this here we are we're sitting around doesn't look like we're doing much right we're sitting here we're saying over rashi and nobody has big muscles here right no the people over here maybe the most they could lift up in the gym is i don't know three pounds and what a bagel a bagel and we're sitting around it doesn't look like we're doing much says the gemara doing kenosha we're powerful you know what we're doing we're doing godly things we're effectuating the whole world we're we're creating the world we're making the world run look at torah kiss tara is godly it's divine the hashtag made when we learn um and we strengthen it is power says the morale also let me just tell you an amazing thing the morale ends off uh this is a very important principle of morale the drush of the passage is very similar to the simple meaning of the passage if you understand the passage truly in other words what morale is saying is sometimes you see there's a simple reading in the passage and then there's the drush and the ah it's just drush that's not really what the passing means no maral saying if you are perceptive to the nuances of the passage this is what the pasuk is saying hen um we are a nation kill love yakub we get up like a lion do you realize that when you're what we do in the morning is ferocious it's powerful it's gavura dom legit sarah says ah big deal so you're davin at home you put on your thoughts at home whatever you you don't have to doubt no yeah well this is the most powerful thing anybody could be doing imagine somebody had tickets to the game they said ah i'll listen to it i listen to it on the radio you imagine if you had box road tickets you had you had luxury box seats yeah who needs it you have ferocious activities to perform in the morning if you have power gabura that's what it means we wake up like a lion this is what the pasta is saying okay cures the word i mean they say like i mean colombia's like a very kalavi is like a young cub so rashi actually gets involved in that that there were two periods in our history um you know why why first it talks about lovey and then um and then kaari let's see i thought i had one more offering for you so we did zucchini we did the shallots with garlic and we did we did the um okay um what exactly was um what what exactly was balak so afraid of what exactly was about so afraid claudius was going to come and destroy them the language of it implies that he would completely uproot them from the what exactly was afraid of so that says like this that every nation has a life force and everything in this world has a life force has and the life force of everything is a kernel of kadusa and what's the kernel of kadusa of and once is rescued and freed adam mayoff that would be the end and the death of tamayo so balak was afraid klausa would come and what they would do would be they would somehow extricate from and that that would be the end of my because in fact once russ came from mayaf and america was born may have disappeared forever that that's what happened we don't have mayhem anymore so balak was afraid so the itsa that he gave was that bilaam gave us if you get claudius then we'll be taking even more nationalists to our side it would take them even much longer in history to free everybody that was the concept but basically what was happening here was but billam was advising bullock how to protect how to protect them from losing the nisham of davanamela which was the life force and the kiosk of the nation of okay have a wonderful day you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com