Shnayim Yomi - Balak - Dvar Torah- Rabbi Mordechai Lebhar

[Music] But we have learned about the beauty and the tremendous advantages that kal Israel have. We learned about their opportunities. We also learned at the end of the parasa that they had a shortcoming. But one thing that we know is that everything is dependent upon us. That is the lesson that we learn from Balak. And the day of betamuz which is the Friday right before paradak is actually as we mentioned during the week the hulah of the one of the greatest commentators who inspires Israel till today. I want to mention to you about the makadosh that anybody who has the zik to visit his ke which is found inim will notice right away that there's a special there's a special there's a special aura that one feels when he's by his ke I once had the zahoot in but in visiting the kev river of another Moroccan called Ravid Wal in the north of Morocco in the city of Titwan. And when I was there, I felt something very similar. Theina, the holiness, the the kadusha that was there. And I found afterwards that mayor mentioned that there are two that one can especially feel the when one is there. And he mentioned the Kev of W and the Kev of the Madh. So this Kev of the Madh is something very special and one of the reasons is when one learns the the perush of the Makadosh he gets a sense of such a longing of of seeing the shina and and kadusha. And in this week's para, we mentioned part of what the explains in Bum's prophecy on the days of Mashiach when it says in the Israel, a star will come out of Yakov and a tribe will come from Israel. And here it's coming to explain to us says the there are two ways how Mashiach could come. He could come in and its time or we could bring it earlier. When it comes then says the Mashiach is going to come in a way and he quotes the We're going to see the Messiah in a way of great miracles coming from Shayim. But if we're not and it's going to come only at the end, then it's going to be one among us. And he goes on and he says that this is the opportunity that each and every one of us has at the end of times that we could bring Mashiach that are going to be able to reveal themselves the that's what it means that that when we come the are going to become come out of because we all became great and therefore we're going to have we're going to come out as And therefore, one thing that we see that could inspire us in this week's par is that don't take your potential for granted. Each and every one of us has opportunities to to rise above the occasion, not to be involved in pettiness, not to be involved in. And that was the lesson of all of we had pettiness and then balak comes and teaches us no we rise above that where the Jewish people when we have a chance also to learn we we we delve into the into the into the awesome essence of Kali Israel but also the the the depth of the Torah would say that somebody who wants to gain amuna, he should learn and one of the great Moroccan rabbis and I'll end with this says that when one learns the para of he says that a person should learn rashi and if he doesn't have a choice he should learn rashi because tarum a lot of people don't understand but if he learns rashi then he's going understand what's written in the Torah and even though the sayarum says that that even the would agree it's more important to understand what you're saying. So this unbelievable project of mikra is doing exactly that giving us an opportunity to understand what we're learning because if not easy come easy go but if you work on and you understand you're going to get the imun and you're also going to be able to delve further in all of the great great potential and depth that the Torah has. [Music]