Shnayim Yomi - Chukat - Balak - Chamishi - #5 - Rabbi Leiby Burnham - Billion Dollar Paychecks

Welcome to Schnim yomi. We are now up to the fifth aliyah of this double paras. And here we see bum sending a message back to Balok the king. And he says if balik would give me his entire household filled with gold and silver hashem I cannot go against the word of hashem. Rashi says to us from the fact that Bum's talking here about entire houses full of gold and silver we learn he had a very very broad soul that invaded other people's places he wanted the money of others basically he wants everything he wants it all bum is a selfish person who wants it all now the strange thing is that there's a there's a Mishna that sounds very similar there's a Mishna in Perovvis that Ravios ben Kisma says one time I was walking on the road and someone saw me and said hello and I said hello and he said where are you from? And I said I'm from this city filled with and sofim and scholars and scribes and the man said to me rebi if you would only come and live in our city we we will give you millions of of of dollars of gold coins we we pay you tremendously well and I said back to him says Rioisma even if you would give me all the gold and the silver and the gems in the world any elabor I would only live in a place of Torah. So the question is was Reiosce Ben Kisma seen to be as a as as a person who wanted other people's money? No. So why is bum they both say a very similar thing. If you give me all the money in the world, I won't go against my principles. And the answer is says the Torah to Mima. The answer is you got to look at what they were offering. By revealing the man said to him, I I'll give you all the money. I'll give you so much money, millions of dollars. And he says, you can give me a billion dollars. I won't take it. By bullock and bum. Bullock never offered Bum, never said a word about giving him money. He said, "Come curse the Jewish people for me." And Bum started saying back, "But if you give me all the money in the world, wait, who talks about all the money in the world?" Ah, you're thinking about all the money in the world all the time. We see by what people talk about, what they're thinking about, what they're considering. Let's use that to make sure that what we're thinking about and considering is Torah and not all the money in the world.