Parshat Balak 5784 by Rabbi Baruch Taub

okay I think we're ready to go right okay so uh so I want to learn today did he put in a Coen okay let's start um with the Sham you know I didn't look at this for a week I prepared this last week and I I just looked at the last piece so I hope it'll be okay I have to make a laning as I go what all right this is sh I should have gone over this but okay so um what billum uh billum built seven altars seven for bam built billum built seven M seven altars um uh to sacrifice right to to God but Rashi explains why Why seven Alters it doesn't say with the definite article he built the seven altars so what's that reference to he said you the Jewish people between they built seven altars right and I'm going to do the same thing he wants to beat the system bam is going to have B beat the system by cursing us the put up seven altars to the Bon made sacrifices he's going to make seven altars right Abraham Bon arba Abraham we're not going to go through the but built four altars four made two one in one in say I want to ask a question when he was going to and he stopped at B he offered sacrifices to his father the god of his father so he left out one one altar really eight so why why did he leave why was that not mentioned here why doesn't Rashi mention that he built seven billam said seven for the seven we did right V n so he wants to make a suggestion there's going to be a difference between a Corban a sacrifice and the altar upon which it's sacrificed I think if I remember that's what he's going to say here the concept of seven seven altars which the which the a built this was not by happen stance it was not by accident that's exactly what took place in the time of the the essence of Theon was in this world the the divine presence was was not remove he didn't remove didn't remove himself yet from this world but when we started to sin generation after generation sin after sin so God removed removed his divine presence to the seventh heaven there are seven Heavens in shmay according to kazal each heaven in in in each heaven in heaven has a different purpose which we're not going to go into but he moved himself to the seventh heaven conon and conect ConEd the seven Heavens parallel to the seven Heavens zikim mayuu so he he gave us seven sadim seven Pious great leaders roim Shepherds each one representing one of the seven Heavens so he didn't leave us entirely obviously the but he gave a a holy representative here to represent him to us right so this was one second I slipped the line and then he brought the back down right through these Seven Shepherds so therefore these seven altars were built as an as an example uh not an example I guess a a semblance of having so the represented we understand that here the the the divine presence is coming through this altar right this right one for each heaven right this didn't exist mosu really you because until the Torah came right but the total picture of the the total presence of the only came when mosu brought the Torah down to us right but there was a semblance of the even by the even by our fathers and mothers right and the the the the basis of the Rabon the essence of the Rabon was in the the tent like the simar no it's kind of the O of the each of these that they built was a kind of Forerunner of the B mikdash that held the divine presence the M was a holy place the ran explains this okay so the seven altars represent the seven Heavens not only as a representative thing but actually held the kadosa of each of the of the seven heavens and which were also represented by the Seven Shepherds that came from Moshe to from Abu to mosha right including the aot right um so now he says this is what the shm is going to pick up here venar I want to say something else because remember he had a question he's going to answer the question there was an eth that he that AB that that um that yakob offered Corban on his way to MIT right that's not mentioned that altar is not mentioned but strangely the Torah doesn't refer to it as an altar say he offered Corban sacrifices so listen what he says here the altar the Corban the the the Altar and the Corban the sacrifice are two different diens dimensions of the presence of right the Corban is our making something doing something holy and sending it up to the Rabon the direction of kadus is coming from us to the Rabon that's what the Corbin is the smoke the corbon goes up to Theon right the the place of the that is the of coming down to earth right so to accept the Corban that's by the way why the mishan has two names mishan and mikdash mishan is the dwelling place of Hashem right and mikdash is the holy thing that goes up right so you have okay there was a fire that came from Theon on the on right just like that miraculously there was a fire constantly going in the in the mikdash and it was like a strong like a lion Corb and it ate the corbon therefore the the this idea of bringing the down to this world that's right without the cor with the fire represent the presence of the coming to this world there's no number for the Corban that the aot gave those seven right means right there's a number seven which represents the seven Heavens which represents God coming down in his shus now remember seven is completeness Right seven is a number that represents totality uh in this world like seven days to the week right seven is a number that represents the totality of this world the ronam comes down right that's the so but not the Corban the Corban is what we we do for Theon so now bam thought he was beating the system right he wanted to be like the a I'm going to build seven altars like the the the the aot buil to bring the down to the Earth um right so the whole all the 70 nations are going to kind of take over right so he built seven altars right he's going to beat the system so he didn't he didn't think to bring in Yakov in Beva right who offered right doesn't say right and the reason is El the the Corban what Yakov did on his way to MIT was to bring into the world the opposite power the opposite uh Holiness not the Holiness of God coming down to this world right he did it was I guess hidden right he didn't build a he didn't want to build a he was it was really a demonstration of the greatness of the Jewish people right billum couldn't couldn't match that he couldn't match that he had no he had no relationship with that he missed it he missed that whole thing that was a whole different purpose it was the that we are going to survive mitzraim the the power of kadha from the Corban coming from the Earth to Heaven we're going to have that power Israel we're going to survive Gus MIT we're going to survive all of the dispersions and it's the power of CLA billum couldn't really beat us right that's says that's what he says that answers the question why the eighth one was missed by billum he didn't understand it and he didn't do it and really that was the that was the Home Run for us what what Yakov did okay next piece from rabak kineski um interesting idea imala now he one you know bill was back and forth with the with the Reon with bolock right times he's going to he's going to destroy us he's going to curse us but other times he says I can't I can't how can I curse who God blessed right I can't I can't do it right he says tells B if you give me all if you if you fill up my whole house your whole everything you have in your house you give me all the money you have you know I can't do it right if you look at this this statement of Bill very carefully there's a difference here between another statement in there a this is the season this is p season so there's a a mishna in um in P that RMA was traveling and and he met somebody and he told him come live in our city right so live in my city so he said do you have a Yeshiva there no you have a minion there no do you have right says listen if you give me all the gold and the silver and the Diamonds and the jewels in the world I will not live I will only live in a place of Torah so there's a difference Bill didn't say that if you give me everything in your all the gold even if you gave me the gold and silver in your house you know I wouldn't come he set up a limit for himself right didn't set up a limit right a limit maybe he gives me two Houses full of gold and silver maybe I will come right he was good we bargaining with bala he was bargaining with him right but Ros and kisma said no you give me all the gold and the silver and the Diamonds and the jewels in the world I will not leave a t oh he says maybe more he said give me more at pem then I'm prepared to go against the Ron right ofma you give me all the money in the world T right wonderful lesson for us and you see the Stark difference between bam and uh and us okay now over the page I have two pieces here I think a few weeks ago we did from ronas and David I've done it before who was the son-in-law of R hutner and uh this is a safer that came out very recently uh written up his his sh from from his talim from his students R David is the rash here in when R hutner was 70 years old most people at 70 years old you know slow down a little bit he came to Isel and he built yes here in yush and Ronis his only daughter is married to Ronis and David I think I mentioned last week or two weeks ago his daugh hutter's daughter rabbitson brewera David was the dean of basak BJJ basak of of yush kind of the the Harvard of uh of seminaries for uh for girls and she she was an absolutely brilliant person a very special person and her husband was at is is he should have AA he's no youngster anymore and he's um tremendous t they they have no children uh she was his only daughter and and only child they have no children but he has a lot of t Okay so he has two very interesting ideas here that I want to share with you okay um so how come just before we came into there's a whole review in right now in bamidbar of the of um uh of the greatness of the Jewish people right so that's what he's going to talk about is at the end of the 40 years that we're we we were in the desert is a repetition basically so the so dorim is kind of um a review it's it's the end of it's the end of the journey in um in in the desert so there there's going to be a major difference here there's going this is a um a watershed moment sort of between bamidbar is all the Miracles in and and the Jewish history in the desert and coming into where life is is without revealed Miracles right so but he's going to say there's a whole review that's the whole review in k m t in um but now he is a preparation for coming into is the The Inheritance the division of the land you mean shua how Yeshua is going to divide up the land and all about the cor the sacrifices it's a review of the whole 40 Years Journey of in the desert and all the places that we travel to right we have that here why is that why do we have this and and and the greatness of CLA Israel through the story of B he wants to say also points out you know the the greatness of the Jewish people and it's going to it's going to farewell with us it's kind of a premonition and a preamble to going into right God wanted to establish and to reveal the greatness of the Jewish people before we came into AR Israel was kind of like an introduction of before the speech you know you introduce the the the speaker and you tell about who he is and what he is and his accomplishments so the ronam wanted to to to make a statement about the accomplishments of CLA Israel who they are who they were who they are and who they're going to before we came into and also what has to be repaired by the Jewish people before if you want to look at the total picture you have to be outside right when you're inside you you don't see the whole picture you're subjected right a person great artist draws something and you know in every painting there's every little thing has so some great meaning to it right but if you want to get the total picture you know you go into an art gallery you look close and see but you have to stand back to get the the total picture of this of this work of art you know the not just the proin but the the whole the whole scope makes sense we understand this right he name MOS M was the man he was the leader he he was he was inside the kishkas of is he took care of all of the specifics the pr of of of of every single Jew the needs the the details right bam stood outside he wasn't he wasn't inside Israel he was a visiting prophet of the right but he could see the greatness of CLA Isel from a distance he had that ability to have that objective of course it was a very negative objective view but he had that objective view of the picture of clausel from a distance where mosha was in inside right and that's the BR that eventually he gave us of the total picture right that's what is is the total sweep of clel right and he says now for and that's the reason the paru which we call it Bak because that was the first word one of the first words in the par right but the rabbis refer it to as par it's called to the par right listen anyone was learning DYI we had this gamorra about 10 days ago right no a little more about a month ago Moshe parad B mosha wrote his safer and he wrote par B what's going on here what do you what you have the blessings that yakob gave to CL Israel were also from Yakov not from Moshe shiram the the song of the sea was Yash m is it wasn't just Moshe right right but doesn't say right Moshe wrote his safer and Bam and right what's going on here why does he have to make that point he wrote everything these things were said by other people not M right so what what he saying the whole Torah the whole Torah is called MOS Torah that's how we call it how come the rabbis put billum separately he wrote the whole Torah and pares billum but par B really part of the Torah so what what what are the rabbis what does kazal mean by that statement okay so this is what he's B he's GNA basically he's built up to that we can sort of feel what he wants to say all of the Torah even though they were written by other prophets it's all t m it came from Moshe through MOS spoke through through Moshe right this para was the exception that proved the rule mosha this para did not have anything to do with the essence of Moshe rabenu this is the objective outside the outside view of Cl Isel M was not outside right these blessings were required that was Bam's utility that was the utility of his level of Prophecy to give us a br from the outside the grand sweep of Cl is and the world is going to have to accept this right in order to establish the greatness of in completeness that's why it says mosha wrote his safer and he also wrote safer billum that's the essence of what that gor is telling us of course it's part of the Torah it it stands apart from the rest of the Torah because it is the objective BR from the outside viewer looking at the picture in the art gallery from taking a distance and he few pukin that he throws in to to show you that everything is here past present and future in all of the bras that he was forced to make right so what the greatness of Israel the praise he gave in part of his BR he was forced to give a br on the past of Isel you see in theu those two Rashi tells that represents the aot our forefathers and the M represents those Hills represent the IM our mothers right the aot and the that's what the that's our past the greatness of our past that was part of his BR then because our strength comes from the and the that part of our blessing our past and his BR also included the presenta afov we are we are you can't reckon us you can't count us right be we are we we are unlimited you can right in the future right we're we're we're not reckoned together with the nations of the world we are in a league we we we stand in a league by ourselves right right look at look at what God created look at what God created right the first king Sha Sha conquered he conquered the other kings he conquered AAG and amalik that's what he's talking about right um and and he was appointed King and all the kings came afterward the tum on this um the tarum on this [Music] um there's much more but the tarum says on this P you know that Yakov it will be told o of Yakov I think Rashi brings part of the tarum what did Hashem do there'll be a future time when when we go through all of the the the tribulation of Jewish history but he will Embrace us and we will have Torah and we will be a people with Messiah Etc so the past present and future was all inclusive the total picture in in Bam's BR so that's why it's a separate it was really billum right but part of moshe's Torah but it had to be separate because it was that outside view that the that billum gave and which was incorporated into torus motion okay the next piece on I get you I think you have it on the third page um also from Ronis to what's the essence of the the miracle of the the talking donkey right now he opened up the mouth of the he spoke to B right three times right he kept knocking the bill the on the third page right you got on the other I think it's in the back right you got it okay so um three times you know the donkey took him off course right into a wall and this and finally and then he starts say what did you do to me right I've took taken care of you all the time well how do you deal with me this way right what is the essence of this miracle right so he says like this there are four levels there are different levels of the creation of the world the created world do you have do right mineral you animal do vegetable um animal life right what is it um and M is this human beings because this is classically we refer to human being as M because that's what distinguishes the human being from all other the other three areas of Creation The Power of speech right the the the coming together of who blew into his nostrils AR nost through Adam and then the theum says the power of speech is the physicality and the spirituality the Nish and the Goof coming together is the power of speech only human beings have that power of speech okay not not um animal mineral and uh right no just and vegetable right so now but what's going on here we got a talking donkey right each one is higher than the other right um each of these are higher than the other right you can't say that the donkey I mean for I don't know if I'm aging myself you remember Mr Mr Ed remember there was a television program in America called Mr Ed about a talking talking horse right anyway right so this this is very important Torah so um he says obviously the the donkey was not a human being so how do we understand it k a parrot right a parrot talks right but you can't everybody know knows the parrot's an animal whatever you want to say the parrot Is Not a Human Being right he doesn't have the the level and the the advantage of a speaker of of a human being right here also this this donkey is not what was understood what he said even though he understood what he was saying even though he understood what he was saying and he had to talk he was a he was a donkey period he was a donkey who happened to be able to speak right let's try to explain it to you person is created with two things his Spirit his material thing material physical and Rani his spirituality and goof he quem created created man he took dirt dust from the earth that's our physicality that's our physicality says it he blew into our nostrils right that is the power of speech that is the rather we get there yet that is the Nish together says we became a neish a living right this is the the superiority of man that he brought together the physicality and the spirituality of um of man I've often pointed out and stop me if you remember this but I'll just share it with you that the in the morning bras that we say we say uh Asar which is a broa thanking God for human Plumbing the miracle of human plumbing and then we say El thanking God for the soul that he gave us right now in in ashur they're not together you have Torah the blessings of Torah in the middle in it's correct you have you have followed immediately by why do I say that's correct because the r in the CH and actually he brings it in the the says you should say it one after the other and let me tell you why what he says because at the end of as what do you say you are the doctor of All Flesh and you created us miraculously right so and the next BR is El sh you gave me the soul so everybody makes the mistake of thinking that that um Roo BOS he the doctor of All Flesh miraculously created the human Plum Plumbing it's a mistake Ru hutner has a whole mimer on this we want I did this many years ago I went through this from ru hutner no that's not the in the RO is on right is the the the bridge that immediately from from the our physical Miracle is the spiritual the Nish that they the miracle of creation is that he Blends together this is the the joining together of body and soul so is the bridge between and so it has to be said immediately after because is a Continuum from that's the miracle of creation that were together the the physical and the spiritual are created together right okay now let's continue where do you see this where is this miraculous Sim coming together of um physicality and spirituality where is this synthesis what does that translate translates the ability to speak only man has the power of speech speech is the exclusive the exclusive synthesis power of the coming together ofof and it doesn't exist comes about through speech once you speak so you know that that's the joining together with the Goof that's why the you know the when a child starts to speak you try to teach him Torah mov you try to teach him very holy things to say right um a person doesn't understand what he's saying person speaks and he's not doesn't understand what he's saying he's not really a m a person is babbling away right he's not thinking about what he's saying that doesn't that's not defined as debor according to the Torah right if he's not thinking about what he's saying it's just you know because that means the soul the soul the and the and the Goof are not attached right so certainly by Adam most of the time we speak it's you know it's that attachment is is there right but if by an animal right but by us the debor comes out from both of them together the parrot it's called AI right even though can say you know paully wants a cracker whatever whatever the parot says it doesn't have a right right he doesn't have you can't call it de it's not speech so by the donkey it didn't become some holy Heavenly uh animal um you know kind kind of um you know donkey mermaid kind of a thing right that's not it's not speech to attach the body right to synthesize this it was a miracle it was a plain and a miracle from that he opened up the mouth of the donkey to speak and the words came out of his mouth but this was a miracle that was that was set in motion by the Rabon it is not part of the process of creation did not come from the of the of the donkey right okay so now he wants to save this is the purpose of this miracle opening the donkey to speak I wanted B to understand Shing the Isel cl cl the Jew the world the nations of the world now I I left out a lot here because might not be politically correct to go through what he talks about the nations of the world their Nish is not the same Nish is the Nish that CLA Israel received that's that happens to be the truth it's the fact right but I don't want to go into it he he comes in very strong the nations of the world whatever they say like the things that people are saying today the she that's coming out of the whole world today against CLA Israel that's not speech right that's not speech that's a donkey talking that's a donkey talking right because the Nish they don't have the level Nish that they have aish there's a lower level but then it's not the it's not the ultimate the ultimate fusion and synthesis of of of Rus and gmas of spirit listen to listen to what they're saying how they speak against how they SP speak against us right right so that I I left all that out but you got the picture this is what he's going to say I couldn't get it I could I couldn't leave it out with you you guys are safe right okay but unfortunately it's going to be we'll figure we'll figure what to do the nations of the world don't have a right your power of speech compared to is you're like the Don talking donkey your power of speech will have the power unless I make it something unless I make you say something if I make you say something like like the donkey then what you say is going to be good right pardon about I you know I didn't I didn't want to say it I didn't want to use that word but you a y thank you very much I'm y this is censored so you know he doesn't he's not he's not called not the donkey and not you right you don't have that you don't have it connect them you cannot defeat us with your with your speech just like the donkey he has speech but that's I put those words in you so and that's really what happened in the end that truth be told when blessed the Jewish people atmo the words did not come out of Bam's mouth on his own they were not the words of billum right God put the words in his mouth right he put put the words in his mouth this what this is what I'm going to put in your mouth this what you're going to say to B Rashi says right put in a um a bridal and a bit into his mouth like like a fish H he he forced him to come out with these words like when you catch an animal right you put a bridle in his mouth to get him to go to walk and he can't talk right I tell I take him where I want to take him so the ronam spoke Theon these were the rabon's words the objective picture the total bro of Cl past present and future didn't come from B it came through bam the donkey bam right that's what it but it was now go back to B okay just ends with this from the he said you know L you know to the bee said to the you say to the be almost like the be Bel we say in English I'm not interested in your honey and your sting not your sting not the sting and not the honey right not the sting and not the honey this comes from K not the sting and not the honey we don't I don't want your BR your BR is meaningless and your curse is going to be meaningless right the BR is mine and your curse will not take place that's the essence I'll bless and all curs B say that's the essence of the donkey what beautiful no okay ladies and gentlemen thank you you gave me the opportunity of learning Torah again after a week of Shiva thank you