Shnayim Yomi - Chukat - Balak - R'vi'i - #4- Rabbi Leiby Burnham - The Jewish History You Can't know

Welcome to the Schnim yomi. We are now making our way through parasukas balok and we enter the para of balok. The story of bum the prophet who tried to curse kra and hashem changed his words to blessings three times. Now what's fascinating about this para andamur points it out is that this is the only para in the entire Torah that we are not witness to at all. Every other story that happened happened to our fathers, our forefathers. They saw it. They saw what happened to Armis and Yakov. They saw what happened in Egypt. They saw what happened in the desert. The entire story of Balok and Bum. The conversations that they had, the attempts to hire this prophet to come curse the Jews. The way they built the mis the different misbehos to bring offerings to entice Hashem to allow Bum to curse his children. The whole story is all a story we never saw. And the only way we know it is because Hashem told us that. Why is it important for us to have that in the Torah? And perhaps one of the ideas might be is that Jewish history is so much bigger than what we see. We only see a small fraction of it. You know, in in Tahim it says all the nations, they're going to give praise to Hashem when Msiah comes. All the sovereignties, they're all going to give him great praise because his kindness was so great upon us. What does that mean? Why are the nations celebrating the greatness of Hashem's kindness on us? It's because the nations know so much more than us. They know all the times they tried to kill us. They know all the times they they plotted nefariously to hurt the Jewish people and Hashem somehow uprooted their plots. We know of one such story. We know the story of Bum. And we only know because Hashem told us, but there's really dozens and dozens of of more stories like that. And the nations of the world, they know that. And they're going to give thanks to Hashem for that when Msiah comes. But we should live with that knowledge that just like the story of Bum, there's many more stories of Hashem working for us behind the scenes, keeping his special people protected in all situations.