Will Evil Finally be Uprooted from Gaza? Lessons from the Prophecy of Bilam ע"נ Moshe Shmuel Noll

Heat. Heat. [Music] I'd like to dedicate the shar today to this young man Nol uh a boy from a very very very special family uh here in Ro She for close to 30 years. um extraordinary family, ties to Kabad, ties to the the great Rabanim here in in Bamesham and to the wider community, role models. And this young man in particular was a great role model of those boys who joined the Ked units of of of Sahal. He was in the net brigade and he was part he was killed Nebach in a booby trap set for these soldiers who were clearing away terrorists. He was a giore but more most importantly he was a bentora and he had the quality of sima and that quality can never be taken away from us despite his tragedy. his whole Mitsus who as you can see his smile if you can here you go was Mame his family and everybody around him said in one of his um um a shocking thing he said that sometimes he felt that Cly Israel could no longer wait for Msiah because of the acute suffering we are we are undergoing even in his day back in his day what he witnessed in Russia what he saw through the holocaust lived through the holocaust he saw in America and uh through his lifetime and that doesn't include even the era the last several years in particular but he said the only response that we have that can give us strength is three is the word simka will be the ingredient that breaks through this darkness and therefore I personally I'm taking on the goal that they put out in the Shiva in the Shiva house the sitting Shiva that you have a choice of mitzvah to do in his memory while I chose the mitzvah that I think represent him the most is try to make somebody smile every day I don't know if I'll be able to accomplish that uh all the time but as much as I can And uh we should just know that the great simra is coming. And his passing brings us even one step closer to the ultimate simra which will be the re complete reunification of Hashem with Kal is on Harabas in the B mikdesh which is a place of only joy. We're getting closer and closer. And I want to dedicate today's shir as well. Um to all those who are still in the clutches of of kamas that they should be returned and those that have perished that their body should get to cover and these days as we said last week should transform into simka. Okay. So today we have a very very important topic and I think it's very contemporary as well. And it's something basic that we all need to know although it's far from simple. I begin with a question. And of course let me just let's give you the context here. What is going on? What is happening in our world right now? Okay. As usual, our Shir's purpose primarily is to take the limuyomi, what Clai Israel is learning at that particular moment in time and look at the len look through that lens, the lens of Torah and see what we can learn from there, gain from there to help us understand and comprehend the times that we we're in and the various mitzvah that are therefore incumbent upon us. So Kai Israel every every single day learns a portion of the and as I said the limit of dafayomi has become almost uh universal among those who treasure Torah. So that supplements uh in a modern era fashion the the a daily learning program for all of Kalai Israel. And of course there's the moium and the that we experience in the various times of year as we've just entered past the gateway of the 17th of Tamos which was yesterday and um therefore we need to take a look at the events that are swirling around us. Number one issue of concern is what will be the end in Gaza? Here's this young man that fell in Gaza. Will we need to be there? What is the future? Will we cowtow to the pressures of the world and even the pressure the immense pressure that's coming from America to make an accommodation with with with uh with kamas or not? In other words, will evil be uprooted from that cursed place or will we still be battling it? As we say, when we when we battle a mo there's stages. The first stage is to weaken a Malik. But the eradication of Amalik, that is a far more challenging task. So what will it be? We're all wondering. We hear pronouncements coming out of America, the White House. Oh, the deal is imminent, but what deal would it be? And will it be a benefit for Kal Israel or a disaster? This we we need to do him for. I think it's interesting to note that on the day that uh Netanyahu Ben Netanyahu prime minister was invited to the White House this past week, the week before um Shabbas other words was yesterday Sunday. He was there and his primary meetings were Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Now those days are days of great celebration in many camps of the Jewish people. These are days in which the Labavature Rebby was freed from prison. The original um the the the days of redemption. the Babais different ones were were uh prisoned for their efforts to teach Torah under under the Tsarist rule under the later under the communist rule and that's a day of celebration but also the 15th of Tamos. So if Sunday is the 17th of Tamos then Friday is the 15th of Tamos was the day that Netanyahu came home. The 15th of Tamos is a very interesting day because it's a day of Daviding in honor of the great sadic the um that is buried uh in Batarat whose perish we are all familiar with and um or came to for a brief period for just two years But at the at the onset of a period of time which is critical for Kong Israel and that was in 1742 which represented the beginning of the final day a millennial day before Msiah must arrive 5500. Now 5750 which is halfway through was already back in 1990. We are 35 years into another 41-year period. And for those if we if we separate the years based on the idea that every hour of the millennium if you divide it into 24 hours is 41 and a3 years. We are completing the early afternoon the first section of the early afternoon which is uh substantial. Mina is here. We've already kav min on the day of Friday and and um we're passing through a transverse of time which has the potential to flip into incredible simka and moade and we're really really waiting for that. We're looking to see if these nine days that are that are in the future and the beginning of the three period that we have started are really a sign of of flipping over that the gilina is coming and the there shall be a complete transformation of the sadness and darkness of this era for celebration in Simka with what the eradic the eradication of evil to its core and also the the vindication of Clai Israel in its essence. Of course, in addition to those events, I I would like to suggest that when Netanyahu was in the White House uh on these days, there were two events that happened that prevented prevented the them from focusing and on Gaza completely. And that was the tragic flood, the tragic Texas flood. Um, which occurred Bo, the day that they were supposed to meet, the primary day they're supposed to meet. And then later of course the tragic death of these young men of uh Moses bin Davidid finest stars of the netuda brigade religious the religious brigade thei brigade which showed great aus in the Jewish people and brought so many people together in solidarity and outpouring of just support amuna singing. It was a funeral that I attended which was unlike any other that I had attended and descriptions of the praises of this young man and his simple faith, his wonderful wonderful sim, his resolve, his strength, his moral clarity and his ability to reach and touch others. I I think he's like a central point almost like a national loss but a loss that reminds us that brings out in us the necessary the necessary feelings that that we can that will help us overcome petty differences politics and even anti-semitism. Let me explain. There's another major thing that in in the context of of uh Bum and Bolock's efforts to curse the Jewish people. Those are not efforts from many many generations ago. They are ongoing each and every day of the year. In fact, Kazal were ready to include parasum the matu aliakov and all that into the regular dvening, but they said well it's going to lengthen the dabing too long. And in looking at the fact that the main question of this immediate period has been will we be able to remove evil and terrifying threats from the Jewish people that are coming from all sides and continue to come from Iran Aresh even after even after they're beating down. Now they're talking even more violently towards us. They've been hurt. militarily, physically, their ego, their pride. And that is something that they don't easily forego. So, we need immense protection from Hashem at this time, especially not to allow evil to reestablish itself as a threat on our borders. And Israel is continuously battling the the creeping arms of evil that seek to re reemerge from their holes that they've been beaten down to. whether it's in Lebanon, whether it's in Syria, um in you know, or Gaza or Iran. So, it's a it's a major major battle time. So, the fact that the focus was taken away and these two events, the the the Texas fire and the then the loss here served to highlight something very unique. the the rallying point of good because in response to these two tragedies there's been an outpouring of aus and muna and solidarity that is fathomable and even if you follow the Texas tragedy you will see that there were it was a faith-based camp there that was trying to teach good morals at least good morals to the gentile world and apparently uh faith-based communities are there being the responders. In other words, that tragedy that happened to children, Nebah, children swept away by waves, children in summer camp, small kids can't even, it's unspeakable, unspeakable horror. Uh brought out a response of solidarity and strength and faith. And it's noteworthy that that is a trend in America albeit the equal and opposite trend exists in the threat. So as this is such a poignant point that I want to convey is that as good good which comes from solidarity, caring, concern, love, rescue, help emerges in Israel continuously and in in in places in the non-Jewish world, the hatred, the division and the battle of of taking down everything that's good and holy also exists. The current the current um candidate for New York mayor, I look at him and say this is unfortunately the political future of of America as we know it. Unless the tide completely turns. This is this is a person who presents nicely, who's handsome, who's speaks well, he's got all the uh the qualities of a leader, but what he represents is pure evil. And what do you do? What are you going to do about that? and to present candidates that are ethically, morally highly compromised as his as his rivals who are the who have done despicable things unfortunately or at least been accused of such such as the former uh Governor Cuomo or even the current mayor who seems to be a good person and and wants wants the right things but has a little bit of a unfortunately checkered history in terms of his moral uh administration of of his office. How could you how could you put those candidates one or the other up against a person who's coming from what he calls a principal position principled and pre presenting evil in its most attractive terms. freedom, liberation, helping the poor, uh, communism, taking down the rich, letting people who are who are, uh, who are underprivileged, experiencing all the wealth that America has to offer, although we know that leads to complete ruination. So these and then in Israel too and I'm making these comments because this is all introduction to this year that there's a pitched battle on two incredibly difficult issues. One, the power of the Supreme Court and the attorney general which are fighting the sitting government of Netanyahu and his ministers and on two major points. One, they wish to topple Netanyahu from power for not any particular reason other than he's in power and they don't and they want to be in power and they have me immense power to dictate the political and uh how shall I say military political control over Israel. The Supreme Court has a tight grip. The attorney general is just a part of that tight grip and they have the ability to overturn whatever a Knesset would do. Whether it's to approve a law which would create a a wonderful compromise or solution that would bring peace between the Kedi community and the secular communities. Not that there's a difference but uh we help them find solutions that would work for both or to keep the pressure on uh to treat uh people who wish to learn as criminals. This is untenable for a Jewish people. We must recognize our true spiritual nature and at the same time be responsible for security. Those not those are not a steer and they never have been and there are solutions. But the will, but the unwillingness, the unwillingness to make peace, the unwillingness to stop fighting for control and allowing the will of the people to emerge in its goodness, in its highest sense is absolutely incredibly difficult, as is the government's doing quite the opposite of what it needs to do in Gaza. feeding the enemy, supporting the enemy, uh capitulating to pressure, renegotiating or renegotiating deals that to begin with are untenable. Feeding your enemy is something that no one in the world could comprehend. Imagine if Mexico sent morers into Texas and committed this particular set of heinous crimes that kamas did with the intent of destroying America, right? Would you then take the population over there and feed them and support them? You'd make everybody leave and you would obliterate that that area. It's logical. And yet the greatest injustice in the world. We are forced to feed and provide for our enemies who wish us only death, destruction, and suffering. It is mind-boggling. It is mind-boggling that we're dealing with it this way. It's reminiscent of what Rabbi Nakman said about how evil sustains itself in the world that it's fed through a back channel. It's literally a personification of what Reinhman said in his teachings. He said, "How is it that Hashem is Mafares? The people in the world who are most evil, his his greatest um uh contestants, his greatest crit critics, his greatest deniers. There's a mechanism by which Hashem doesn't provide Sheffa uh directly to them, but he actually provides it through a a a polluted channel, but nevertheless, it supports them." and Hashem is feeding our it's the same it's the same thing. Now why? So now let's ask ourselves why. Now, in order to to look at this these these uh this conundrum of of of this problem of when and can there be a unification around good versus the struggle to to dominate against the will of the people and the will of Hashem in the world. What what what's the break point? How do we understand this a little bit better that we're living through we're living through these moments so painfully each and every day but also with great hope because we know we're moving towards a positive resolution. We know who's going to win. We know that side of Tovo triumph as Balak and Bum were defeated in their attempts to uproot and curse Kali Israel. So too so there's there's much to look at in this past week's para to offer us both hope, encouragement, and insight. out. So, so I'm sorry for that long introduction, but I wanted to give everybody the context. This is what we're going through. We have to acknowledge it. We're in a very tough spot and and yet despite all this all this tightness and suffering, there is mamish mamish wonderful things that are happening. I'll give I'll cite you one example. This week, what happened was one of the most strident and evil voices of accusation against the Jewish people was slapped with sanctions. It's absolutely unheard of. The the power of the United Nations, its credibility in the world allowed it to set up systems, its courts, its raorurs, its presidents in the guise of doing good to promote some of the most venomous voices of hatred against Israel in particular. That's what the UN is and has become as it says in the Mishna in Sanhedrin Allah. when you bring together United Nations but for the bad it's bad for them and it's bad for the world it's not it's not good a United Nations is not a good thing is it's better for them not to be so united in in their causes because nothing good will come out from it not for them and not for the world so this woman Mrs. Miss Albanese she should be completely completely uh erased and her voice completely stopped and Adaba she like Bam should be forced to acknowledge the good of Israel. Miss Albanese is a representative of what actually took place in the para was taking place in the parha. She could only voice curses against the Jewish people. Her reports about the situation in Gaza inevitably were horrible critical voices calling for genocide. She wrote letters wanting to condemn, wanting to sanction. She is she was the mccantre being paid to do that of course very handsomely by the UN and who knows who else. But the main one of the main voices of Kitrug that had quote unquote legitimacy in the world and finally President Trump, God bless him, uh stopped her, gave slap sanctions on her. She can't come to America anymore. She can't appear in the United Nations. She's she's banned from New York. It's wonderful. I'm sure she'll go and, you know, in the H and spout her hatred there, but there's plenty of places to do that. But wow, a slap in the face. A slap in the face, a closing of the mouth. This is the bum experience when Bum Boak want to be Mikatre and want to destroy both the reputation and and the attitude when a Mam Danif was a candidate for the most Jewish town in in Kutzlar. It's in New York City, a home where there's so much Torah, so much Kadusha, and all the branches and all the yeshivas and Brooklyn and all the way down to Lakewood and so on. But in the most important and the wealthiest and most powerful city in the world to have a makatre at its helm who can only speak ill of the Jewish people is the pitched battle that's being fought and that was what's being fought in the para and the protagonist in this week's para were as follows. We know there there were three Adam, they spell out Adam, the soul of Adam. The battle within Adam for good and evil was played out in three glorious personalities that would champion the day and will continue to champion the day. Abraham, okay, uh Moshe who was a bikini and David who was also Adam spelling out Adam. So bum and bol which by the way their letters together scramble and produce the word amalik uh are the as it says in the para raius goal. They are the the polar opposites that Hashem created to Claudius Israel which is called races. Right? And this is the precise um battle that has become not subtle, not behind the scenes, which is always there, but now to a to a boil, to a boiling pink ever since October 7th when the anger and hatred spilled open like a hot kettle. and and and by the way has been burning around the entire world with few voices to condemn it but lots of miracles from Hashem and support and we we we are getting great support from the chosen leader of America who Hashem one year ago saved him from certain death was one year ago exactly this is the anniversary that President Trump was almost shot to death and Hashem preserved his life to do things like he did this week by shutting down the the the bilum dicka voice of the raptor of the United Nations to uh to be sanctioned from even appearing there. Unbelievable. But now the great test will be what will happen with Gaza. Now I can't go into what Gaza represents, what represent. We've talked about this in previous stream. I want to focus today just on villain B and take heartfelt uh encouragement from what happened because what did happen. What did happen was that Bum who Hashem created as a possible competitor to Mosher Rabenu himself but also a contrast to those two personalities to Aram and also to David and of course to Jacob Ainu who represents Israel or Claude Israel. Let me begin. We say inos in the uh in the uh final chapters, do you want to be a tal of Abrahamu who created the pathway back towards Hashem for the world that Noah could not complete. Then you have to have three particular qualities. All right. toba nephesha and ruy toba means a good eye. You want good for people. You look for the good and you seek the good bum on the contrast was exactly opposite. The Mishna says and if you have the other things the opposites of these three traits you will then be ask the Mishna what's going to be the end of the medium of which we are he says they will be um richly rewarded we're rewarded to to achieve worlds that are much more than physical worlds spiritual closeness with Hashem that's unparalleled and that's coming and um Sam and filled with wealth and good fortune. That's our pathway. What happens to the Tamil of Bilma Russia including this France Albany whatever her name is and every other voice of Kitrug uh that that screams around the world non-stop and has always screamed around the world non-stop till the final redemption is they are They have a yusha called ganam and they go down to the pit. Now usually is the afterworld. So what does it mean? That in this world they have ganam. They have no happiness, joy and satisfaction in this world because they're consumed by their hatred. All they can do is try to knock down the kak of Israel. That's their purpose and that's certainly not something that's going to work out too well because Hashem always so it's not going to be very successful just as bam was not going to be successful. So they get in this world because their designs are foiled time and again think about Iran. Think about its proxies. what they've experienced in this last two years, the death and destruction that has been reigned upon them from Hashem using the the um the Israel as its as its yad mak and other other yad yadim also that came in. So it's a losing cause. Bum is by definition a loser. His bum bolak's attempts to rival and up up upend the Jewish people are doomed to failure from the very beginning and that's what the Mishna says that he is the exact opposite of Aram who is doomed who is who is destined for success no matter what au is avaongy Abraham today we speak about the Abraham accords is still from since time memorial the voice of goodness brotherhood love, joy, acceptance of God, gratitude to Hashem, and rejecting evil. Now, when I speak about good and evil, I'm I'm going to paraphrase it in the language of the Mishna. What is evil? And of course it goes back to ganeden but the three primary problems of evil are spoken out in that Mishna which means are you looking to do good and see good in the world in others and yourselves is a huge point of Rabin Nman's teachings which is psychologically healing beyond belief both internally and externally because internally if you have a hatred voice towards yourself all the time you're going to be a crippled person you're not going to do anything or not reach your potential anyway. Because every time you have a good idea, nah, nah, you're no good. You can't do it. You don't have what it takes. Uh, you should be guilty. You're ashamed. You did bad things. You get nowhere. You go nowhere. You got to be a a bima. You gota you gota look for the good. The only way is through finding the good in yourself. As says, focus on the good things you've done. Focus on the the the joy that you have to be a privileged member of Israel in the era of Msiah. That's not so simple. I have a dear friend who's very spiritual person and um went through a long beautiful path of chuva and he said to me he said we cannot begin to appreciate the fact that the Jews who are alive in this generation are actually the ones that made it all the way till the end. Imagine all the families of the Jewish people that were assimilated and lost, destroyed, didn't bear fruit, didn't have continuity, didn't have children. They were cut off. They were cut off from the gener from from having representatives of their own bloodlines here in this year of Msiah experiencing. And we didn't. What did our families do? What merit did they have to get us here? Incredible. Every single Jew in the world has incredible merit just by being alive. Hashem has given every Jew in their our world a chance to make these choices to choose to align with Hashem and the Jewish people with empathy and with concern and with charity and with respect for tradition and respect for the for the for land of Israel for the people of Israel instead of focusing on honoring our enemies, feeding our enemies, politically backing our enemies and trying our best to affiliate ourselves with the Mamanis of the world. Yeah, there is Jewish congressmen who even represent from neighborhoods and congressman assemblymen who say, "Yeah, yeah, this guy's great. He's going to help the poor and he's going to do all kinds of good things." We know we know what chaos is coming if he wins. We have to really do for all our friends in America, all our family that he doesn't because it will be it is it is a breakthrough of evil of major major it's a major pure because uh already already Chicago is fallen Los Angeles fell a long time ago but if New York falls then uh then maybe we have to then think about what's the destiny of America despite the attempts to write the ship that have been going on and the good things that have been happening. Will it be overwhelmed by evil in the end? We don't know. We hope not. But um so the the characteristics of having an evil eye, remember Bum lost an eye. Why did he lose an eye? Because in part of his blessings of Cla Israel, he tried to say, "I want to examine their Roa Israel." Ro Israel means that literally their reproductive uh uh acts. That's just disgusting. And Hashem said, "What are you looking at the conception of the Jewish people?" What was his purpose? Of course, he wanted to terminate the future of the Jewish people by by cursing our very ability to create children from the core to put a curse into the conception of each and every Jew. But for that indiscretion, for that unchased un unsanua thing un he lost an eye and yet that's the that's the that was the physical manifestation of ra literally he tried to put in har in the zer Israel into every single Jew that would ever be born in the future. He failed because Hashem does not low he beat a bacov. Hashem has a good eye towards the Jewish people. Hashem is extremely patient, generous, and kind with the Jewish people. For we have an important mission to represent Hashem's name in the world and create kush Hashem. This young man created a massive kush hashem just with who he was and how he fell. That is a a story of the greatness of the Jewish people. So, Hashem looks Hashem does not look with a bad eye at the Jewish people. He tries to be he gives the opportunity of every we always have opportunity to pick up dust ourselves off and do better. But that is the counterbalance. Would you have so number one root of evil is the evil eye rainto? Second one is Ru Gavoa versus Ruinu was humble. When parro came to take Sarah, he said nothing. He said he doesn't rise to battle. Yet when it comes to protecting his nephew Lo, he defeats the army of four of the most powerful nations ever to walk the globe, including umar Omar and and Nimrod. Unbelievable. With a handful of people, he defeated empires. How could this be the same person? Because for himself, Aram was like this. I don't want to take anything. I don't need from Saddam one shoelace. I don't need anything. I just want to do good. I want to plead the case of Saddam. Even if they are the personification of every mida that is is bad. I'm going to plead for them. They're in my land. I will try to help them. I will try to correct them. Okay. Aram says I don't need the money. I don't I don't want anybody to say I need a is on the take. He's doing it for the money. He's getting paid. No. So means I don't I'm not arrogant. I don't believe that I'm entitled to the entire world. Whatever Hashem gives me, I'm want to be honest. I want to have integrity. I want to bring my activities in line with honesty and integrity. Abram says, "No, I don't even need a shoelace from you. That's the level of my integrity." And then at the same time there's the there's Bum who sought Malay Baso. He said to he said to Boak, "What I really want is immense wealth. Give me the immense wealth and I'll do for you that favor. I'll put my bad eye on that one tiny instant when Hashem is angry at so to speak and I will not curse." We had it recently also. Okay. So focusing on the evil is the core of Lashinhara and this is what is characterized by some of the things that are now being upended. Let's be grateful to Hashem that number one that Albanese has been sanctioned. Let's be thankful that the ICC court has been sanctioned that was speaking liel and genocide against the Jewish people. Let's be grateful to Hashem that the press, especially the New York Times and especially places like Harvard University, intellectual, so to speak, um, origins, wellsp springs of hatred for the Jewish people, you could just laugh. I saw a headline in New York Times, not that I'm looking to read it, but it said, "Okay, Israel killed x amount of people of Gaza, including children." That's all they have to say. They have nothing else to say but evil. Nothing. And have ever never uttered a kind word or the righteousness of the Jewish cause in Erit Israel and of Judaism in Central. The founders of the New York Times, including Arthur Arsberger, and I know this from my from Balabatin, from my shel on the Upper West Side, paid a false chaplain in Columbia University, one of the seats of hatred to be present and make sure that if a Jewish chaplain, so to speak, got paid a salary from the New York Times founder to see if that if any Jews seem to be getting close to the religious community in Manhattan, there were certain rabbis and people are having a Ashbon kids to make sure that they they don't bring that Yiddish kite to Columbia University. And I had one one congregate, very wonderful person who said, "I want to make Shabbatonim. I want to do Kiru here." And this chaplain called him aside and said, "We don't do this here at Columbia." And then he said to me, "What's going on? Who are you? What are you?" He says, "Yeah, I get I'm a quote unquote chaplain. What what what's your job here?" Oh, you know, I'm getting paid. I'm getting paid to make sure that there's no Yiddish guy taking root in Colombia. even though there's so many wonderful wonderful wonderful from people including many of my dear friends and myself included who were supposed to attend Colombia uh but made the decision to rather go learn in Israel. Okay. Okay. So the New York Times is embattled. The the media CNN lost a lawsuit for what I think 12 or $16 million for doctoring the de the the words of the former presidential candidate Camala Camala whatever her name was to make her look intelligent and compelling and to defeat Trump. And he he sued them. They're being sued. They're being outed. Their false reports are being uprooted. The media is in shambles. The the the government itself, the Democratic Party is in shambles because of their of their collusion theories. And and not only that, but it goes to their connection. in the Democratic party with the FBI agents, people like Comey or somebody who manufactured falsehoods, these dosier, the Russian dosier against Trump to defeat him from power. And that by the way includes in Israel the the parallel of the forces from the opposition parties who just for for the sake of being how shall I say destructive attack Natao keep throwing cases at him whether it's this gate or that gate or Qar gate or or or that he got cigars or that he got a bunny rabbit. I mean, even Trump has called him out. And there's another friend that Israel has. It's a triumvirate. Trump Bi and Bolsiniro who was a who was a ofi. They're also trying to get rid of him in the worst way in Brazil. A horribly horribly um you know uh attack on a person who's bringing blessing indecency over there. And uh Trump called that all out too and threatened sanctions there. So see he is speaking good. He is at least trying to stop up the voice of evil and that's very good. The big problem is can he tap down his gya? Maybe the anniversary of his bullet shooting will be the difference. He'll remember that it's not his job to save Kamas and to support the rebuilding of that place. There's one future for Gaza. complete desolation until such time as the Jewish community returns. Period. End of story. It should be desolate of all population except when the Jewish people will return and cause it to flower and blossom. That beautiful area will return curse place to the place of incredible braha. For those you remember visiting the Gushkativities, you know what I mean. Okay, so that is one protagonist. Bum versus a bum is also pitted against Moshe. The cphere teaches us and this is onarium in the very end of the Torah we say but but there was a person who was a parallel creation to Moshe who had the potential to go the levels that Moshe went but actually went in the exact opposite d direction and we identify bum as Who is that person says who moi? Let me explain. Bam and bor were the two figures bes we say it to seder. Lavan was a pro protagonist against Jacob Vainu and of course tries to prevent him from creating the 12 tribes which are above the curse of Bum as we shall see and um and then he came back in the form of a fellow named Kushan Ramsay claiming that Israel belonged to him again the same story love and thinks everything belongs to him and he came to reclaim it in the period of the shaft and that's really bilharami so he is the opposite it personality also of not only Jacob but Moshe. So how is that? Let's understand. Mosha Rabbenu and Bum both had immense potential. Except as Moshe rose in greatness, Bum descended. In fact, I'll tell us that Bam at the end of the day, it says Maniko Bak tells him, listen, you not only didn't curse the Jewish people and get your reward, but it turns out you even lost your ability to see that one time which to curse. All Bum knew to do was to bring curses for money. And that's the combination of ra the the rua the arrogance that desires great wealth and of course nepes the third element that he's compared to in the mission contrasting to is seeking uh illicit gratification and pleasure and that's why kazal have this incredible incredible perish that the bilum the donkey of bilum was uh and by the way I have to say the dafyomi of this week confirms the fact that the idea of riva or relations with between humans and animals is the norm among the non-Jews if they're not being supervised left to the devices or being taught by their leaders that this that this is evil. It's unbelievable. People developed these keshers with animals. Bam and his donkey. They were much more than transportation according to kazal. So the ultimate seeking of low gratification whether it's food or relations or whether it's just a lust for wealth or whatever it might be it's degrading. Mosherenu goes in the opposite direction. Bum goes. So that you might think of them as points that started here potential. As Moshe ascends higher and higher, Bum goes down to the lowest level where he's not even a ni anymore. He can't see anything in whereas Mosherenu was available at all times. penny mal penny there's a lot of articles written about what this phrase means of the cifray what do you mean and what was the purpose of creating bum and the gar tells us on hedin that it was because the again we had in dafomi just recently is about that the nations of the world will come for their reward for learning Torah right but um but will be denied will be denied because they they they came for their reward because they had maybe helped the Jewish people in a backhanded manner but certainly not the photo to Torah. Okay. So, and so also this votar that we just had a couple days ago confirms the fact that what bum was involved with was is not uncommon and it's uh I don't want to mention it but there is a a very famous very degraded film coming out that came out America a number of years ago was very famous which made an which which um made reference to the fact ironically these people were all from Texas. In this movie, the lowest lowest um forms of murder, adultery were common. Just common, including including that perversion of being with animals. It's unbelievable. It was just Yeah. Yeah. That's what it is. Moam had a chance to raise the non-Jews of the world. But what Hashem in his infinite infinite wisdom and irony said, "I'm going to pull some good out of this desperate place anyway. I'm going to pull some good out of bum. I'm going to have him prophecy and speak the good. I will force him to do precisely the opposite of what he wants to do. His curses will be transformed into brahos." And by the way, his blessings were also blessings laden with curses inside. And we got time to go into that, but they were all reversed for the good. And Hashem will use the voices of the non-Jews to testify to the fact that Hashem has chosen Israel and they deserve to praise us and praise Hashem and they're going to be forced to do it like it or not. Okay, that's the message of Bill. Now I just want to conclude a couple minutes about a little more detail about what Bill's prophecy represents. So let's just recap. We have to be extremely grateful for how on so many fronts the eradication of evil to its core is going on but with equal and opposite push back for the com condemnation of everything that is good. But the good news is is that we're winning the war step by step by step and quickly this pitch battle is going on. And just like in the end, Abum is forced to bless the Jewish people. So to the world will eventually and perhaps pretty soon and it's already turning recognize the greatness of Hashem and the greatness of Kalisrael and support our return to instead of fighting it to the Harbay without fighting with every fiber of their being. And this is a dra pash but just very quickly Bum's donkey stopped three times. One was in a sada where it could go two directions, one was in a karam where it could only go in one direction and one in a makamar which was no nowhere to go. So say mashim say that the these are called three times but that is reminiscent of the three holidays and sukus which represent our abos. So the first time was representing Arainu. The mala says stop you cannot curse all the children of a only two thesh and the children of coutur later on but not straight ahead which is fine. So bum says I can't attack from there. Fine let me find another weakness. Let's look look at ysuck's children. says the malaf to the donkey to to bum you're now in a mish of a of a kum karum is going to be only a wall and then there's no other direction to go there's only one way to curse and that will be in the student in the children of yak there will be uh um yakov and as you can only go the only negative is going to be on the as side bum says okay well Maybe I can go and get Yakov then. But Yakov became a Makumsar and he's loving, right? He's Yakov's main protagonist. So much so that love and Jacob made a pact and they put Gal as it says in a separation line that loan should stay in and he should stay in Israel and say that the wall was a was a stone wall like the stones that divided them called galade and that's what the donkey crushed the regel again the foot of of bum onto the wall and to show hey you love one remember you can't touch uh the children of of uh of Yitz. You're not Yetsz and you're not as good as the children of Yitsak. And then when he goes to attack Yakov himself, there's Makamar. There's nowhere to go. He's stuck as it were. And my son who's a wonderful young man, God bless him, came up with a beautiful har and he said, "Billam brought seven altars. Rashi tells us to negate the carbonos that are listed in say verb bracious um by armu four by yak one the isle and by yakov um two okay so that comes out to seven seven altars and each one he brought a par in an aisle he said look hashem yakov brought yach one IO. I'm going to bring you a par and I a big bowl. Wow, much better. But Yakov uh he doesn't even discuss what happened to Yakov because he can't even touch Jacqu. So my son pointed out it says shri by by bum. If you look in the in the carbonus of the shaolm of specifically about the first reg pes it's a standard carbon it's also brought in two bulls two not one two bulls right one is and seven sheep that yakov he says that's a was the was the two and is connected the pariet is a and yakov against the seven sheep doesn't try to bring sheep as a Carbon the sheep represent the souls of the Jewish people. The complete multitude. Every Jew that would ever exist came out of the flock of Lavan that Yakov protected them and eventually they would be they would be redeveloped into the souls of the Jewish people in Mitam and go through that refinement and eventually stand in Torah can't touch Jacob. And if you look at the bum, you will see that's exactly what Bum's lesson is. First of all, he says, he doesn't talk about. He says, I tried to get maybe I could have gotten him a little bit, but I can't touch your modesty, your honesty, right? your integrity, your your sanctity, everything that he's not can't touch him. Loheed and bianov, Hashem does not look with a bad eye towards Jewish people because the Jewish people don't have a bad eye and hopefully never a bad eye towards anybody anybody else. And also he says Jacob does mitzvos with even dirt. We can even take dirt and cover it with the blood of a fowl. That's shifted. He says the Jews, you can't touch them because they bring Hashem into the most simple things. And we bring on the other hand tuma to the most simple things. And bam attacks the Jews in in afterwards by sending those who are connected to Bal Por and a vodor that's about going to the bathroom for goodness sakes and making it a visor and and and in in that way kills 24,000 Jews mostly from the tribe of Shimon because right after this episode he says go bring the daughters bring the opposite of a let's Let's bring the Jewish men into the Oel of Midan and Moav. Can't go into it, but there's a very strong connection between Moav and Push that we're seeing played out today in the modern day uh Gaza who live in the land of the Pushim, but that's for another time. The Nva Bum therefore constantly constantly references Yakov because Yakov is the untouchable, pure and holy Jewish people that are a benefit to the world and will never therefore be allowed to be destroyed because the world hinges on our coming through on our generating our rufa and our nephesh kitsara and and and um are with humility, with kindness, with not wanting pursuits of desires, but with seeking spirituality and Torah and help. And so the last point is so my so my son pointed out, look at the holiday carbon of the holidays. It's the par and same as what Bum brought, but no in Bum's world, only in Regel because that represents Yakov and Yakov is untouchable. I'll add perhaps that there's two pim on the on the carbon of rodish which is also called a moade and why not just one and one equal to bum. So I've thought perhaps there's two to show that um no we are we are going beyond what bum saw. Apar generally represents the nations of the world and the ay represents the father of Jacob who built his 12watim. No, we're going to take it on double and we're going to have the responsibility of the world on our shoulders like in sukus we bring 70 but in we bring two two one for ourselves and one for the rest of the world which will eventually come around to sing our praises. And uh and finally finally perhaps the most important thing of all but this will end. Bum saw the future redemption through Msiah. Um the Rambam quotes that the ver verses that came out of Bum's mouth predict two Msiah two messiahs. Who were the two messiahs? Not mashia Ben Ysef, Mashiah Bened as in more in the Zohar Kabala circles, but rather David and Bened as if to say is to say that in the era of David and Schlommo, we tasted Msiach. And we're going to elaborate on this in great detail perhaps closer to Shabb. We tasted Messiah. The era of David and Schlommo was a preview of Messiah. And that's what it says. It says, of a star shot forth out of Jacob. That's a reference to David Behudah is the eventual Melik Melik Mashiach which will be only a descendant of David. So bum's dual prophecy and it's explained by the Rambam in goes through the text of bum which we cannot do more today but how he saw shortterm the messianic era of David Schlommo but even all the way to the end of time to our era the era mashem where we return to Israel and we're in the throws of the the unfortunately the birth pangs of Msiah but everybody knows knows that a birth pen will lead to a massive masletov. So don't be concerned as much by all these voices against us. They eventually will turn in our favor and they're a necessary step that we will survive just as we survived the attempts of bum as we began and entered our way towards Israel. Have a good week. We should and thank you for for listening >> rabbi. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. The only thing that troubled me from the you said the bra the clothes were reverts to brahas >> and I remember learning that they did not endure only one managed to uh to to maintain it. >> That's not true. That's not true. Bum's words are part of Torah. In fact, parha's bum. This section of the Torah was given to Mosher Rabenu word for word. He wasn't even present. Nobody nobody was present when this was written. It was Bum's contribution. In fact, when you write a safer Torah, you say that you know the to it has a different status than the rest of Torah because it was contributed from the nations of the world. They too will make their contribution and the blessings will be nay. We don't have time to talk about it now, but you can connect with me a afterwards and you can show me what source you're referring to. But this is Torah. It's eternal. And uh and wanted to show that even from the depths of depravity, which is what bum represents, utter evil will also be joining in the good. Blessed love, which is a very very encouraging thing. All these people will eventually turn around and uh join our voices. they will learn the error of their ways and and um love of the Jewish people and love of Israel will come as long as we do it as long as we have internally the kawak to love each other and to love Israel to love to mitzos and not compete with each other and have a bad eye on each other and and and detest you know the the growth of Torah and spirituality the amrael is heading in that direction those who are trying to prevent it are are losing and will continue to lose hashem just like Iran just like just like Nasala just they'll suffer the same thing. Okay. Got to stop here. All the best. Call me if you wish. Okay. Bye-bye. Thank you. My birthday [Music]