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ALL PARSHA - The Chasam Sofer on Parshas Balak

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Welcome everyone to a special edition of all para on parasal theam paras very excited to share with you an amazing observation of theam this is found inv where theamer says he wants to point out an observation something unique about there is no there's nothing comparable to it in the whole tyra says there's nothing in the whole that we ourselves, every single Jew was not witness to except for the parasum, all the miracles of mitzim, everything that transpired in the midbar, everything that took place in the traveling, the moragim, the ma of kak, we all saw with our own eyes. It was all done in front of 600,000 Jews. Nobody was not present says except for the opinion that Israel came after Matyra. So the Ben Moshe were not present at Matyra. Everything else we saw all the miracles. You could point out that the episode of the Maglim while they were traveling through Israel only they saw it. But the was talking about the miraculous events, the divine revelation. And what about regarding the stories of boratas? The stories of bacas. This is the tradition from our forefathers. They would not give over, they would not bequath falsehood to their children. Even the creation of the world and the story of the snake in Ghan Raan writes in his in the beginning of says that Marishin woke up so to speak he was created and he sees he's there without a father without a mother he saw with his own eyes he's of and he was chased out of Ghana then he spoke to shame and shame was the rebi of Yakov Jacob was 50 when shame died and he received from Shane all the stories of antiquity from the beginning of the creation of the world the dha or the dha mabble he gave it over to his children heard it from Ley and he gave it over to Mosh a and that entire generation heard it from their forefathers. So whatever is recorded and transcribed in the Torah, we are all eyewitness to with one exception parasam. Who told us what took place between Bam and Malikav and Balak? And who told us that they came to Bum and then Bum decided to go to Balak and what they said to him and how they persuaded him and who brought him. Who told us that they built altars and that he tried to curse us and it was transformed to Braha. Who was a fly on the wall in that conversation? We were in the Midbar and they were standing on the top of the mountain overlooking us from afar. How did we know they were looking at us and they were contriving against us and they were divining? Even only knew because Hashem told him like says so therefore parasum is a unique para. It is the one para that we are relying on the prophecy of moenu instead of the rest of the Torah that we are eyewitnesses to every single event that transpired. This says is a unique facet of paras refers to the story not as paras but as paras bum. The garra says mosha parasum mosha wrote his book and parasum. This may give us insight into why the gumar calls it a separate name than the rest of the why does the gra break it down into parasum. After all, isn't param part of but according to this perhaps it has a different status in the sense that it's the only that we have to come on to the just to know that it happened. Maybe that's why the gumar refers to with a separate name. In any event, this is the amazing observation. Wishing everyone a beautiful, wonderful Shabas.