Parshat Balak 5779
Parshat Balak תשע"ט Imagine you are driving along in your car one day, and you are a bit apprehensive about the meeting you are about to have, so you are gripping the steering wheel very tightly. Suddenly, out of the…
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Parshat Balak
Fire burning flesh. It doesn’t sound too appetizing until you think of cooking meat, which follows that exact recipe. And if it’s really good BBQ, it’s probably fire burning flesh really sloooooowly. Growing up, the word BBQ meant cooking hot…
Parshat Balak 5778
Parshat Balak תשע"ח This week’s portion, Balak, introduces us to בלעם - Bilam, history’s only legitimate non-Jewish prophet. Although many others claim to have had a prophecy, hence, so many religions in the world, they are all impostors. How so?…
Parshat Balak 5778
Parshat Balak The name of this week’s Torah portion is Balak. Balak is the name of the king of Moab who became petrified of the Jewish nation, after seeing how they decimated the two most powerful kings, Sichon the king…
Don’t worry, you’ll get used to it – Parshas Balak
Doing your taxes is about as much fun as a paper cut. As soon as tax season appears, the cut is cleanly sliced open, but the pain isn’t there yet. There’s an impending sense of doom, “this is going to…