Shnayim Yomi - Balak - Shishi - #6

[Music] in shishi of parshas balak bilam continues to try to go ahead and to curse the banana israel of course only the deepest sweetest most glorious blessings emerge and one of the most famous of these curses turned blessing bilaam says how goodly are your tents your places of dwelling israel the jewish nation the diver of shin of sees a very deep and relevant message for all of us today until the end of time he says the word taiva can mean good how goodly are your tents matui but it could also connote preparation like the passage in his preparing the candles to be lit it's a word that implies purification to go ahead and to make something better and the word oil can come from the word tahel to shine says that's there are two kinds of jews there are jews that are called yaakov is a lower level and then once yaakov avinu battled with the sarish al-asa with that malach he inherits the name israel israel is a higher level lee rush is the letters israel it connotes the head it connotes the top whereas yaakov has the word akeb in it which is the ankle the akav is a lower level and israel is the higher level yaakov avinu is talking about and referring to the simple jews and israel is talking about the sadiq says that sadiq let's read the passage in the following manner how does the level of yaakov the simple jew how does he become how does he become tivo prepared to do what to shine to make this lowly jew shine what can the jew do to prepare so that so that even the lowly levels within himself or even himself on a lowly level of the katniss the constricted consciousness will begin to shine and the answer is unequivocal implant yourself by israel by the tsaddikim learn their torah go visit them spend shabbat with them dabbing with them watch them be meshamish and if you're covey i yourself there mishkin israel you make that your place you're a person that's running to give it sadiq your person that wants to touch some level of holiness that's being revealed through the tadikim that's that's how even us on our lowly level we can begin to prepare ourselves to shine like this if we will mishka yes if we will make the the dwelling places of the sadiq our home and it means again consistently studying their torah trying to connect with them to be mukasha ourselves to look toward them as our heroes as our ideals as those that we want to be like that we strive to become like and in that way this is how we prepare ourselves to shine yaakov even when we're on a more lowly level looking forward to finishing the parasha with you in the next video with hashem's help [Music]