Shnayim Yomi - Balak - Sheni - #2

[Music] in shaney of parshaz balak after bilum refuses to go with the men of bullock the first time and they come back and they promise him all the riches that he's going to receive if he chooses to go with bullock and curse amistrel bilham replies hashem even if bollock would give me his whole house full of riches and treasure houses i wouldn't be able to transgress the word of god la says to make small or to make great the audi seral of apt wonders why this terminology is used what's bill i'm referring to here why didn't he say i can't transgress the word of god to either curse or to bless or to do a good thing or to do an evil thing what's to to make big or to make small and that sadik says that bill was referring to a very specific mode of governance that belongs to akariz barachu alone and that is that akaresh barco as we referred to admire every night hashem is um brings down those that are high and he brings up those that are low because there are two ways in a relationship where one side can respond in a negative sense toward the other on the one hand there's the hash bala there's bringing down the other side down into the dust even though side number one doesn't really move but he's naturally going to be on top after having brought down the second side and then there's the elevation of side number one even though side number two doesn't move but mela he's elevated that's the concept of magbias falling to lift up those that are low and so bilam says this kind of effect that i'm able to have on other people is very very limited in the sense of whether i'm going to be able to either bring them down or lift them up only alone or as much and mashville only who can bring down those that are high or to bring up those that are low and that would be the distinction between losses katana to bring amisterol down or allah to bring ourselves up so that we outrank them neither of those things are in my capacity alone is the one who decides who is to be brought down who is to be brought up and all of our efforts to try to get in the way i needed to bring ourselves up to a stature that's beyond our right in terms of how karasbar who wants us to be positioned in this world or shalom to try to bring other people down that's not in our remit of influence that's just not allowed for us to try to go ahead and to have some impact on the world in this way last is katana we can do a great many things but this kind of mahalik that's going to impact the status and the nature and the stature of different people in the world that's akrishbar who's realm alone so none of us like billam understood can be la says ketana igdaila to make something big to make something small that's not what we can do we can deal with the world as it is let hakuras who take care of the status of people the status of communities the status of the world was in control of being fallen [Music] you