Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Balak

welcome to this week's torah lesson this week's torah lesson is partial's bulk the question of the week is what is the negative impact of hatred so in this week's torah portion parties bullock we learn about bullock who is the king of moab at that time and he was concerned he was worried about the jewish people god forbid attacking his country so bullock goes ahead and he reaches out to bilum who's a prophet and he asks him to curse the jewish people so that and the torah says clearly the giraffe minarets will get rid of them from the land so they won't attack us before bilaam who was a prophet could do anything so he has to speak to hashem assam says what are you going he says what do you mean the jewish people are going to attack moab and i'm here to go ahead and you the word he uses the garage should totally wipe the jewish people out so rashi says it's interesting but luck his message to billam was get rid of the jewish people from my land billam on the other hand wanted to get rid of the jewish people totally it's just being irrational it doesn't say only from the land so everyone says why is that that bilaam the prophet wanted to totally eradicate the jewish people only want them to get rid of them from his land and rubber explains when he shows something very powerful and he says like this if you give a look in the torah hashem says clearly al tatsar of mayof and don't make don't don't intimidate the moab don't wage war against them so in other the jewish people are commanded from hashem not to wage war against moab not to intimidate them so therefore was there a real threat that bullock could have from the jewish people no it says in the torah we can't start up with them so the fact is bollock what was he so worried about the german says bola he just didn't know that piece of the torah how should he know every part in the torah so he was worried bilham on the other hand who was a prophet knew what it says in the torah so when bollock says to him hey the jewish people are going to attack me he have to do one thing and say they're not going to attack you don't worry about it the torah says clearly you can't attack you so don't be afraid and the conversation would have been over there wouldn't have been a whole drama they wouldn't have the whole of excitement of back and forth and fighting with hashem and life would have been good why didn't bilham do that and rubber says something very powerful he says like this unfortunately the hatred that bilaam had for the jewish people was so so much that he lost clarity and he wasn't even being able to say the truth well he always had to say the truth there's no worry because he hated the jewish people so much even though there was no real threat and there couldn't have been a real threat because hashem said don't fight with him because he hated the jewish people so much and even though there was no real threat he was out to curse and hurt the jewish people so here you see to answer the question the tremendous negative power of hatred when someone hates somebody you lose clarity you lose foresight of reality and you can take something which is not even real and create a perceived threat into a real threat when in reality there is no threat so let's hope and pray we all get rid of any anger or hatred that we have towards anyone and anything so we'll have real clarity and with clarity comes the greatest blessings thanks so much for joining us for our weekly torah lesson this week's torah lesson has dedicated the memory of barak banari labe yosef and may your soul be elevated by a torah we're studying in their memory thanks so much for joining us for more information please see our website chabadswf.org have a great and blessed week shabua tov