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Shnayim Yomi - Balak - Sheni - #2
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Featuring: Rabbi Yaakov Klein Noted Author, Musician, and Lecturer Jerusalem, Israel Click below for today's text of Shnayim Mikra: https://shnayimyomi.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/balak-2-compressed.pdf ShnayimYomi.org
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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
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