Parshas Balak: The Depravity of Bilaam and the Supreme Court Decision

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baar shabba he lived with his donkey of all animals it's bad enough he lived with his donkey so you say that's it that's pretty bad but you're gonna say he's the most depraved man in history world well for that award we could uh rightfully give it to him based on what it says in perky advice it says if you have one of these three character traits you have made it to consider yourself a worthy disciple of bilaam and one of them is nephesh richard somebody who is immersed and entrenched in physical desire that is what a nefesh is and says the random how do i know that bilaam was such a baal taiva says iran i'm very simple because if bilum was not a ba a nephesh par excellence if he was not depraved and degenerate to the nth degree then he never would have been able to give advice to balak to be mafker to make all of the daughters of my of all the women i might go out and be misana openly with the jewish people who gave that advice who came up with that whose plan was that who's pla that was the plan of billam why only a corrupt evil degenerate depraved mind could ever come up with a plan like that so i think we have successfully proven that bilaam certainly was no wholesome individual he was a depraved disgusting degenerate man and yet in this week's parasha after trying two times to curse the jewish people he just and it was not successful he decided to use his most venomous venomous plot ever and that is instead of using witchcraft he's going to focus on an aveira that the jewish people did by yoshes which means he decided to focus on the game and he lifts up his eyes says that evil eye film was gonna shoot it into the jewish people give them his most powerful curse ever and what happened god did not intervene like the previous two times by isabel masinov he lifts up his eyes vallares israel he sees claudius role in camp by their shvatim that he allah ruach ala kim and instead of cursing claude israel ruach hakodesh descended on him says rasheed that means allah believes he decided on his own not to curse us wow what made him make that decision this depraved degenerate man well it says israel he saw the morality of the jewish people rashu says he saw each other by itself in he saw the entrances of their tents were not aligned that one person cannot look into the tent of his friend now i'm sorry to be even saying this you could just imagine are the kind of things bilum looked at billam the most depraved degenerate man ever you could imagine what kind of tummy eyes this man had if he sees the wholesome holy modest tents of the jewish people where their openings were not opposite each other so they couldn't look in could his filthy mind ever appreciate and be impressed and inspired by that i mean the torah is saying he wanted to curse us more than ever before and what stopped him he was inspired by of all things the man who was so disgusting and so degenerate and so tummy of all things that was he inspired by modesty you would think someone so corrupt would be so far gone in this area that would he ever be able to appreciate the subtleties of the majesty of the jewish people he would be the last person in the history of the world to be inspired by such a thing and yet of all things that changed bilaam and turned him around at least to not curse us was he was inspired by the subtlety the dhaka is the fine morality and modesty of the jewish people so what do you see from here that no matter how bad a person becomes no matter how corrupt a person becomes maybe no matter how corrupt society becomes truth is the truth and when a person sees truth and sees real modesty and sees real morality they will be impressed by it no matter how backward they are unfortunately a jew and the jewish people should be reeling from the decision that happened this week and this is not a regular decision it's not that the supreme court evaluated the case based on the legalities of the constitution this is a situation where all the experts say the norms of society and the desires of society twisted the judicial system to go along with what society wants and what popular culture wants and what the media wants in other words this is not a situation where they objectively decided this is what the law should be this is a matter of keeping the law in sync with what society wants and unfortunately this was the desire of the society that we live in now are we to blame it's hard to say we are to blame but one thing is for sure if the jewish people would conduct themselves on the highest level of modesty and morality there is no question that it would inspire and change the nations of the world you say that's impossible they're so corrupt they're so far gone they're so degenerate they're so depraved would they even begin to appreciate the way a jew dresses the way a jew guards their eyes and the answer is yes they would how could that be that's what we see from bilham the most degenerate and depraved man in the history of the world changed his course of action because his heart was inspired when he saw the subtlety of modesty of the jewish people which means that the jewish people could make a difference in this world and if we act on the ideal level and we act in the proper way especially in this indian it will affect the society we live in so especially at a time like now we have to imagine ourselves in the nyanim of morality and the nyonym of priesthoods may arios and we hope in that we will be able to open up the eyes of the nations of the world that this is something which not only is against the russian of hashem but this is a corruption of human behavior and a corruption of human attitude and it is only kali israel who are the ambassadors or a bunch from this world can bring and hopefully we will bring this message to the entire world until the great day comes you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com