Behind The Scenes Of Parshas Balak: 2 Earth Shattering Approaches - Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

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very important is almost mockingly refers to those who spend the majority of their time delving into theoretical or makshava that doesn't really come up on a practical level talks about somebody who's clearing a kakira what if you throw a get and she's a hundred hours away and you throw the get and it lands exactly 50 almost do we say migures says but when it comes to Iker of when it comes to the subject of Hashem who spends any time on that and when it's all said and done after 120 Mo hashem's not going to ask you whether what happens if they get landed cover of lawyer of law did you have the vehicles did you have kadusha and therefore says it's basically the manner of learning that most people are engaged in is incorrect to devote one's time to erichan I mean when was the last time you said Erich plain Eli do you do that on a regular basis when was the last time you made a tamura when you went out to your backyard and your makti shekel and then you exchange the I mean who does that and most people spend the majority of their life learning devarim many people just spent almost a year how many of them do you personally know on a personal basis how many khalitis have you been at and this is the question of is why are people dedicating so much time to this type of analysis and this type of study although there was nobody who is a greater advocate of learning and some Surfer began every single Shear that he gave by learning 15 minutes in fact some Surfers said that any sheer he did not begin with he felt the cooling off in about the sashem says that's not the way to go the way to have this lavas the way to have the vehicles is to learn in yanim in Tyra that may never be relevant that may never happen that are not practical this is the Messiah of Claudia Israel and by learning these types of subjects not only will one gain of halacha but one will be Miss David even greater than if somebody spent their whole day learning about Hashem so I know in the ergon shiratar there are many very important subjects that are discussed tonight we're going to give a sheer sheer Tyra on parasha's I want to take you behind the scenes on the parasha perhaps in a manner that we've never explored and let's begin by making the following observation 's balak enjoys a feature that can Matt no other person that enjoys namely you could read the PowerShot there's no stop sign in paris's bollock until the end there's no pay there's no sama there's no pause from the beginning of the Powershell until Kim at the end of the PowerShot there is no pay and there's no samachar who why is there no pay or Sama in parashat and this is an observation that the made and would say that the fact that there's no pay or Osama comparison is very telling and that is because balak experienced one of the most Supernatural occurrences in the history of the world he's riding in his car nowadays if your car talks to you you know you talk back it's an everyday occurrence if your car doesn't doesn't talk to you you bring it to the mechanic to get it fixed but back in the day your donkey typically would not talk to you and billum is riding his donkey and the donkey opens up his mouth and billum not only is not in his spoil he's not moved he's not taken he's not shaken but he talks back to his donkey like he'd be talking to his harusa [Applause] one of the most astounding phenomenon in the history of the world and billum doesn't say huh say what what was that you billum talks right back to the donkey why was billum not in a spile and that is because says was so immersed in his Thai voice he was so immersed in the busyness of life in the hecticity of life that bilam never stopped and paused to think for a moment to being a spoil to take in this astounding occurrence and therefore there's no pay or samach in Paris because a pair of samach is something that bilam never did that is take on why there's no pay or samach in parashats we would like to explore a brand new approach why there's no pay or samach in parashas balak this evening I want to examine one line of gemara in myself really uh very perplexing statement in Shas The Gemar is discussing the authorship of tanach who wrote the various svaram of Navia menk suvim and the gemara says the number two on your sheets um who wrote Maisha wrote his book presumably that means the Torah uparshas bilam and parashas bilam the EO if he also wrote safer now the fact that my shopping is very important to understand in uh one of the chapters of tahillim that wrote Ms Marshall in this chapter it talks about the age-old question that the Russian are successful but that's clearly this was a subject on the mind of La moisture so this is consistent with the idea that moshebenu wrote safer because this was a topic that moshabino dealt with especially because in maths the situation in mitzrayim was the quintessential example of Sadiq varaloy that means he wrote the Torah but what does it means what about parashas were a this is the question of all the reshine him and all the what does it means Rashi by the way I'm going to make a small commercial when recording Rashi if anybody raise your hand if you've ever been to rashi's Keva I knew it now's the perfect opportunity you could come in two weeks we're going to France we're going to rashi's city towachroys on the yard side of Rashi testamos for the very first time you could come with us tarashi's Kevin and while we're there going to go to Rabino Tom did you ever visit Rabino Tam not yet now's your chance for being a Tom the rihazukain the rashbam the shages derivid you know Shakespeare said wherever there's a rambam the rivet is not far behind so anyway Rashi says Parish has been with parishes the prophecy of belam The Parables of the Lamb afore even though they're not needed by Taurus to say their massive but the reason why the gemara focuses on parisha's bilam is because it's sort of in a category on its own parish's film is different than the rest of the Torah it's Parable it's narrative it's not connected to tairas Maisha but still it's part of the Torah if somebody were to be kaifer in one let's say somebody would say I believe in the whole Torah except for the word kissamim I don't believe in Kasam because witchcraft it's kishov I don't believe in the word he's a kaifer so why are we singling out parishes bilam so at the end of the safer shout out skin this one was one of the all-time greatness he was known he could look at a tree and he could tell you how many leaves are on the tree remember in the carnival they have the big uh jug of jelly beans and you have to guess how many see if you would go you would want to bring RAB Yeshua laid diskin with you he would be the one who could nail the number of that was the specialty of Ruby sholay diskin but um of course he was one of the great all-time at the end of days of shout so she was my real diskin he says you know you can't leave the paper blank so he gives an in-depth analysis of this week's PowerShot so important that in the Avi esri he says since this these are yes quotes this whole chuva word for word in Hillcrest wants to know why exactly does the gemara single out parashas bilam why that more than any other parasha so comes the ritva and the SI unit likewise says like the ritva you want to know who's the tsunia Sonata is a very controversial safer rev Maisha has a chuva on the safer and rev Moshe is not a great advocate of the safer SI unitaira there are a few things in there that are somewhat controversial um one of them is about the subject of Mishka zakhar and it's beyond the scope of ergon shirei hattora this evening but ramosha says that the safer should be nigna's nevertheless it's a safer that is one of the cadmoinem of the mikhubalum and it's a safer that redacts as one of the classic Safra Israel but the it's unilatera and the ritva say you know what it means the gemara tells us that avraham avino had a Musa that was 400 prakim long you know they had a peric like on that big Dal how many arms he has how fat the stomach is you know all these different very important 400 prakam long so says it's uni says from here we see there are many great books of antiquity that we know no longer have one of them is avravino's another one is a long in-depth discussion of the Witchcraft of Bila bilam cut off a lizard's tail what kind of lizard how long was the tail three armles two Amos three amazing one tafach and then he flew on a broom what kind of broom uh was it linoleum broom a plastic broom how many what was the horsepower on the Broom all kinds of discussions on the various kischief of billama Russia this was a major book that's what it means powershell's billum it's not parsha's balak in this week's Powershell it's parasha's billum now by the way a very interesting thing is the name of this week's Parsha balak I mean since when do we name parishes after rashadam do we you know it's the whole topic of the names of the parashus is a fascinating topic there's no powership harshest avraham there's no there's no yaakov there's noisha but all these like interesting parishes Israel so why did kairak get in so Keim philaji said no don't call it it's not called parishes you know how to call it that another Cardinals say don't call it patches and balak well how did he get in there now the truth is bollocks your grandfather so don't be so quick to throw him under the rug I mean he's the great grandfather of uh Russ comes from balak so you're related to him so you know you got to give some credit to sir he says the power shares were made up by the printers but thy luck he got in he squeezed in but he got he got in because he's your grandfather and so this is a printer the printers just came up with a convenient name but on the other hand but these are names of parashoice they must have a to them so it's set over in the name of the morale even though the morale doesn't say this that if you take the parachute balak what do they all have in common they have a cuff the only thing is kairak the cliffs in the beginning stands for kadusha so karak was a big tadiq until he started up with moshabino and then he got swallowed by the ground so kairak the Cuffs in the beginning you have a guy he's Tommy so when he starts off without kadusha comes along the paraduma that has kadusha but then the guy who sprinkles him he loses his kadusha so they are the Cuffs in the middle it ain't it's not in the beginning it's not in the end and Bullock Bullocks to Russia he's busy with the Witchcraft at the end of the day he brings carbon ice and David Amal comes out of him so by him the cuff is in the end so you see that even the the letterings of the Parsha parashus have significance that is the shot of the tsuni and the ritzvah amazingly comes my grandfathers grandfather Goldman was a talmud of the yes and helped publish the safer she was Mark was one of the great goinim in Poland he says according to the tsuni we could understand the line in the rambam the rambam says that anyone who's A coiffer in the Torah or anyone who's the navua of moisha is a heretic so I asked Malco what's the difference between someone who is Kiefer and the Torah or someone who's the same thing no it's two different things you have the Torah but you have prophecy of moisha that's not in the Torah what prophecy of moishes billum is a book written by moisha benavua that never made it into the Torah however the marrow diskin says he never heard of this book it's not in um it's not in any of the bookstores it's not in big lies in it's not in this Farm World Mizrahi doesn't carry it where exactly is this book this large book about bilum's Witchcraft and therefore be sure live discon says this is not the shot in parashas bilam and therefore a visual lab discount advances the following incredible approach to understand these two words of gamara parashas villam sayskin we know there's a concept two prophets will not Prophecy in the same manner so what does that mean does that mean that they're changing the prophecy from does that mean they're not saying exactly what the Revolution was communicating with them what does that means disc in we have to understand how prophecy works Hashem doesn't come to a navi and say reviewed this is the Republic I am telling you now go to Boston at 9 00 PM go to Boston at nine and the guy sees in his mind like a typewriter g-o-t-o-bo God doesn't say words to another there's no communication of words there's no printed bulletin to a navi a navi sees an image and Navi sees a picture for example yaakovino goes to the harabayas he goes to sleep what does yakovino see in his dream he sees he sees a ladder now what are you gonna do with a ladder maybe I need to fix my roof maybe I need to and Aliyah maybe I need to catch a bird on do Shiloh hakane that's all yakovino saw he saw a ladder skin based on the rambam that aside from seeing the image the navi then has a certain intuition a certain instinct to be able to interpret that vision and recognize and realize what the Republic wants from him now what is this idea that say that who gave bilam to the um because otherwise they're going to have a taina the um are going to say well you gave moisture abeno to Claudius so we need uh we need a competitor we need somebody on par with moisture albino was billum really equal to my shopping was biliman par with my charbainu I mean we know like Israel commission nobody could in any way parallel the nivu of so in what way was bilam similar to the prophecy of my shopping comes to the navi and he gives the navi a picture but it's now up to the navi to interpret the meaning of that picture now how does the navi interpret the meaning of the picture the navi will then gaze upon the Navy's nephesh the navi will meditate and be Miss David and look at a screen what is the screen the screen is the nephesh of the navi you know it's very interesting we have an expression in chass that all the navian were in Miss Nave Bas baklaria was looked at a clear prism and the other prophets looked at an unclear prism what exactly is this clear prism on by the way it's very interesting the vilnegline writes on the first possible that the Navy shinim were of the category of not clear yes had a Clarity of the unclear screen and the Navy Macarena so what does that mean does that mean accurately and then see accurately they weren't interpreting correctly were they putting some of their personal bias into the navua says if surely disc and what this means is the navi saw an image he then would gaze at his own nephesh now the nephesh had some personality to it after all everybody has their own independent entity and that personality and entity didn't change didn't distort but we'll call it colored the vision of the navi that is why was told not to go to war against so instead of going to year Mia he decided to go to khaldah I mean if you're getting the word of God you're getting the word of God what difference does it make what prophet you go to the answer is the way the prophecy comes out will be colored by the personality of the navi and therefore there was this guy a Despicable grimy slimy creepy creep his name was billum and if God would show him a picture of the kayangada wearing they ate begotten with the SIDS that said raising his handsome bilham would look at his grimy slimy nephesh and he would distort the image and he would interpret that to mean that he's supposed to curse the Jewish people because his prism was discolored and tainted and slimy so how is Hashem going to give prophecy to Balaam any image will distort the answer is there was a man by the name of and my shabino didn't see pictures got exact verbiage and instruction what he should do Hashem you know how many times more than 70 times it's the most oft repeated why does it constantly should just say this is exactly what the Republic said to my it's expressing the idea of usbach there is no room for moshabino to interpret to color to give his understanding of what was saying this is exactly Lamar Devore and berurim that is why it never says there's one person that does because so he also had a degree of Iran but otherwise it doesn't say to any other individual now so three bunderson is going to come along and tell bilam billum okay here's the picture think of the high priest is standing there with his arms waved to be mavarik billum would distort and completely change around the meaning of that image and therefore the ribosham did Cloud you saw a great favor and he elevated bilum to the level of moisture abenu that every word he said to billum was not a picture was not an image but rather was aspacular those words why because he couldn't trust him we had no confidence that by giving bilam the nivua like yerman he'd be able to interpret it the way how colors broken intended so Hashem had to give bilum the precise verbiage and message and not leave it up to his despicable soul to interpret it the way he wanted comes out that you know the story of the akedah I'm ravino on the third day he sees haramaria and he takes Yitzhak and he's about to shake this out don't do it is that Tyra is the arcade Tyra so yeah it's Impressions by Era but who saw it from is the nivu of avraham Tyra is either the answer is it wasn't Torah until the year 2448 we're on harsinai Hashem Hashem El moisha Lamar avram avinu saw the mountain on the third day and he was about to shut up what made it Torah is not that avraham saw it Israel that this is a story Maisha creates Tyra nobody else could make Tyra Maisha there's only one Parsha in the Torah that we don't need to make it incredibly if you're shya would see a prophecy it wouldn't be Tyra if you're shy you would tell us something happened it wouldn't be Tyra because he's not seeing it there's one Parsha in the Torah that we did not need moisturabenu for it to be Torah it was actually Tyra without Maisha tairo without Maisha yeah because in order for something to be Torah it has to be asked there's only one little segment of Torah that's aspakalaria without the vision of Moshe you know what that is parashus bilum how could it be tired without Moshe but I thought it has to be it was us but it wasn't so then what did we need Moshe for ah says if Roy Moshe wrote his book for parishes bilum we didn't need moishes we only needed him to write it but we didn't need him to see it everything else in the Torah we know because moisha saw it Mila bamila through hashem's communication to Maisha parishes billum is the only Gaelic of Torah the rabbit says is the only part of Torah that's Torah without Maisha how do I know this it's a gamara baba Basra we're says so wait a second so that means if it's not if it's Torah even without moisture then it's going to an enjoy a phenomena that no other passion the whole Tower enjoys every other Parish in the Torah has a pay or a summer what's the function of a pair of Summer Isha but if Parish says billum is already Tyra without Maisha so then you don't need to pay or a summer because moisture doesn't need to be missed by name because this is not his navua parishes billum is the only Parish in the Torah without a pay or a samach as bilam is Torah without Maisha Rabino ad Khan that's mahalak number one there's another way to approach this line in Chicago if you take a look on your third sheet which is the next number one let's focus on the first words of the gamara um who wrote the books of tanachev sifroy Maisha wrote his book what's his book what does that mean his book I didn't Hashem write the Torah what do you mean Maisha wrote his book so the Eon yaakov you know who wrote The Union of Reicher and if you join us you could go to his careerosa he's buried in the city of Mets review says sifri doesn't mean the Torah it means moshe's book what's moshe's book say for the varam so what does that mean is boracious not his book no gracious is not his book it's Tara sashem shamice is not his book vayico is not his book but midvar is not his book Devore him is the book of Maisha so now we're learning there's a connection between devorem and bilam what's the connection between the varum and parshas bilham I want to refer you if you look on your sheeta number nine to pasik and malachem base the posix says like this they didn't kill the murderers they didn't kill the children of the murderers you know why it was written in the book of the Torah of Maisha what's the Tower of Maisha what does it says [Music] where does it says look at number eight say it's very interesting the Metro says that there are three things that Hashem said and Moshe said you're wrong and Hashem said taka you're right what are they so the matter says to be banish some said about him said what you're going to punish children for the sins of their fathers how can you do Tara you're going to punish avraham was it Sadiq you're gonna put you're gonna punish him because of his father was going to punish him because of Ammon it's not right you can't punish children because of their father you're right I'm gonna change it in the in your book in your book it's gonna say it right in my book it says that's wrong says Hashem you're right in your book it's going to say loy yum so we see from this madrish that they're two books there's hashem's Torah and there's moishes Tyra hashem's Tyra are the first four books moishes Tyra seems to be that which Maisha taught can we say such a thing that's what the matter says look at number 10. said you know what you taught me this and interestingly this is a common refrain throughout the navient where the ribana Salam refers to Safe air tairas Maisha I'll give you an example look at number 12. foreign [Applause] where does it say and say foreign or let's take a look at number 14 it says this is about how they divided the but they are voice in the base to different families of kohanim and it says what is the space from here we see anytime the navi refers to the contribution of Maisha to something that moisha taught Hashem it refers to it as safe on the other hand whenever it refers to something that it says in the Hamish it says the binella VM carried the Orion Hashem [Applause] there is quoting a plus Again by mid bar because that's not safer moisha that's the safer of so from here we see a very important idea there are two parts of the Torah in the navient when it refers to Something in say for davarum is called save ferrimoysia when the navient refers to Something in the first four books that's called Hashem that if you're reading the you can't pause you can't interrupt you can't stammer you can't Mumble you have to read it clearly says the gemara that's only the tiger because that's barucho but Omron remember that Camaro look at number 26. the gamara says that when you read the name that you'll let us stop that you're you're not allowed to stop you're not a stammer you're not a stagger you can't interrupt my timer on foreign what's going on saying that tairas saying from God saying on his own that's another gemara can we say such a thing could you say that davari Moshe is saying on his own Moshi didn't say anything on his own the whole Torah is and we have no record in all the writings of the gra that the gross said this other than the report the eyewitness support report of the Magid says that the Quran explained to me the difference between the first four books and the fifth book the first four books of the Torah we have the principle of groin which means Maisha typically when he spoke Maisha was a cavade he was a stammerer he was a stutterer he did not speak clearly did not articulate well but when he taught Torah it was perfectly clear because it wasn't him speaking it was moisha spoke out of the voice box of my sharabino that is book boracious by ikrab amidbar moish opened up his mouth and Revolution spoke directly out of the voice box of moisture albino yeah God never spoke out of the voice box of ishaiah Jeremiah writes that um had a lisp and therefore when he would say nevua he would say boy lace instead of boylesh what do you mean but he's saying but the the answer is only my shabanu was privy to srina Granite nobody else was okay to that every other Navi Hashem came to yeshai and he said okay here's the message and then yes I would relay it Hashem came to hear me out here's the message then he would relay it thank you says the villanuein says I've only gone the first four books moisha opened up his mouth and Hashem spoke out of his voice box safer de varim moishra abena was given a message and he related like every other book of nabua Shaya even though safer davarum the revolution gave it to much like every other navua it's still toira because it came from moisha as opposed to charnavi that's the vilna going now fasten your seatbelts it was worthwhile to come to Boston Monday evening July 11th just to hear the vilna Goins comments on the tikkune zihar okay it was it was worthwhile actually to come down to this world to make the trip from takas they said get down to this world I don't want to go you're gonna hear one time the garage okay fine I'll come the tikkune zayar famously writes 50 times in Hamish it says that's what it says ask the going in his contact again Isaiah what do you mean it says it 90 times answers the coin yes but only 50 times were said to Maisha to say over to claw Israel and then the going counts them and the going says 25 of them were said by Hashem and 25 were said by moisha the 25 that were said by Hashem are in voracious and 23 in davarum but that's not 50. 25 in the first four books 23 in davarim and what about the missing two the missing two are impartial's billum says the going why because in other words what the girl is saying it's the same way we say that say for devarim was not talking but rather Hashem just gave moisha the message emotion related as opposed to the first four books where Hashem spoke out of moshe's voice box there's one Parsha in the Torah environment that's like devorem that Hashem was rather he just told Maisha and I should relate it and therefore these two appearances of yutiasmatrium are categorized with the other 23 in davarium and now with the other 25 in the first five books first four books in other words the garage saying that parashas villam has the same status as safer dvorim says the grow word I get this from says the gra that's the meaning of the gemara Baba Basra um who wrote the Torah says the Quran we're not talking about voracious we know who wrote those books Hashem wrote the Tyra what kind of question who wrote the Torah the question is who else besides Reborn says the going up [Applause] there are two things that are not Smitha one is davarum and one is parishes balak this I consider the authoritative perush on this these this line above his book is devorem whenever in Navi it talks about save Fair Maisha it's always referring to the murum up because this is so I know you're all bothered why would it be by the way just as an aside interesting did anyone besides moisha Rabino ever experience other than Maisha yeah there was one occurrence of this we are we know that all Navy and prophesied with the word za with with the word Hashem foreign did anyone else ever Prophecy with that Zach Haley vianvejo at the yam they said why is it possible for 600 000 people to stand in one place see a miracle and everyone have the exact same reaction can you imagine two Jews three opinions so imagine six hundred thousand Jews imagine okay let's all sing a song one guy is gonna sing this version one guys anything that song I mean in a show you say sing a song you'll have five thousand different how could everybody together sing us yes the answer is because Hashem elevated them to the navoo foreign How could an Uber say Shira they don't have the faculty of speech but neither did Maisha when God speaks out of your voice box you could still speak to the mouths of claudi Israel so one simple question here the going is saying that's safer divarim is not that I understand it's mayama why would parsha's billum be the one Parish in the Torah that Hashem did not give moisha through I know it seems random here it is we're middle of that mid barshas next week why is Hashem in this week's parasha not talking at emotions voice box I think that's a legitimate question you could ask on the villanue so we come back to how this year started that the only part of Tyra that's Tyra without moisha is because we didn't need Maisha because [Applause] so the two approaches to say fair to Paris is Bala namely Rebel and the Grand Theft Isaiah really fit together like a glove in other words why we could ask on the gra why is Revenge I'm not talking out of moshe's voice box Empire why does Hashem need to talk adamo's voice box because needs to make this information Tyra otherwise it's not Taurus says I've already done it I couldn't trust that guy I couldn't leave it up to him I couldn't leave it to his interpretation so I already talked out of his voice box so it was already Torah so it was already Tyra I don't need moisha for it to be all I need my should to do is to write it so we have this incredible Parsha a parasha that's Torah believe Maisha that's why the ramam categorizes it was already told without Moshe therefore there are no pays and passions we don't need to give Usha it's already Torah and all we need moshabino to do is to write it like he did for safer davara and this these are two incredible approaches to paris's Bullock from the Maureen hadoy ricegan and the Villa going in his perus to the tikkune very interestingly the madrish tells us that when bilam said his brother Israel his voice Was Heard until the makhana Israel to at a very large distance the matter says if you look at number one the yako shemini Israel we have the exact same phenomenon safer davarum it says why do we have this emphasis that there are two parts of the Torah that when they were stated they go they went 60 mil safer and he quotes and the gross commentary to the tokenazine he says the rest of the Torah which was it goes without saying that it was the resounding voice of Hashem that the madrush needs to tell us is that even when Moshe said parishes and even when Moshe said that Divine voice affectation existed and Allah's voice and the voice of belam to ReSound throughout the makhane Israel so thank you everybody for uh joining us this evening this is Hashem to see in the Flies thank you very much response tonight perfect lasting for the very inspiring Joshua like the biggest regards to the sponsors of tonight's year Blazers starmus and wise paint and Balaam shame leadership 718-851-8651.com this forum from grastine are available on the back table the English Pharma 25 and it is from 20. great opportunity pick up one of his very popular storm the table near the door please help support the English of your tire and make use 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