Shnayim Yomi - Balak - Rivi'i - #4

[Music] in review of parshaz bella kabalak and bilaam have built seven altars and they brought up the bulls and the rams and they're all ready to go and bilum is getting ready to curse amiciral and he opens his mouth and lo and behold hakuras boroku brings out some of the most beautiful descriptions of amy israel that we find throughout tanach even from some of the biggest naveem and sadiq so much so that it becomes part of our daily te feel it's an incredible thing so bilaam begins with the following he says i see the banana israel from the mountaintops and i look upon them from the hilltops they are indeed a nation that dwells in solitude and are not counted among the nations of the world where do we find that amiso is distinct from the nations of the world where's the earliest source the tell us based on the passage is the world is created for the jewish nation and another place because i'll describe it as israel am yisrael arose first in the divine mind we are the reason that the world was brought into being once am israel was decided by a kardashro would be brought into the world so that hashem needs a world and he needs the 70 nations 35 that descend from asa 35 that descend from ishmael on either side coming from avram and itzhak but yaakov avinu is the essence of the jewish nation only yakov avinu's children and all of their children after them for all generations would be jewish unlike avraham's children and unlike yitzhak's children yaakov is the center point yaakov is the essence of judaism that draws all the way deep at the shirish at the root of akarashvarhu's mind that hashem thought so to speak to create the world to house the jewish nation but israel are connected to a realm of before creation and all the nations of the world are connected to a realm of once creation already begins so then we have um the nations of the world who are necessary in the world therefore hain amla vada disco and amisola is qualitatively distinct and different not just that we dwell in solitude and we have our torah obviously we have our unique culture and our unique behaviors and our unique mindset and perspective on the world it's much more even more essential than that at a root root level there's a fundamental distinction between amnesia who are rooted before creation and the nations of the world whose entire perception of the world is on the level of after creation before creation is israel after creation is already begins with abram right elohim is the letters so the world is created but that's already on abraham's level abraham and produced asa geshmal 35 and 35 is the seven nations of the world but they have no connection to yankovino yaakov avinu is the manifestation of that original thought that hashem had to create the jewish nation long before the world is created therefore the next pasa continues who can count the dust of the jewish nation obviously this is a reference to this that karasbaraku promised abram that his descendants would be like the stars in the sky unlike the dust of the earth but on a deeper level we can understand that afar that dust refers to this state where am israel is in a lowly place ram israel are not exactly living up to the most glorious potential and it's not clear to the world that we're shining that we're a nation of priests and a kingdom of priests and a nation of holy people it's not clear says the pasuk says bilaam and this incredible bracha amistral even though he certainly intended the other way is even when they are in a state of offer even when they are in a state where it seems that they're just like everybody else that they're lowly and corporeal and physical and material like everybody else in this lowly world like their offer me who could imagine their incredible greatness because me mana afar even when they're up are yaakov they're rooted in this central essence for which the entire world was brought into being yaakov avinu not avram not even yitzhak or abram yakovanu that comes essence is the giloi of the pre-creation vision that hashem had to bring the jewish nation into the world and that's from the highest highest place from hashems they're essentially different from every other nation in the world and therefore me mana who could imagine the greatness of amizural even afar even when they're in a state of lowliness because yakov because we're qualitatively different let's embrace that let's live up to it and let's have the most wonderful day looking forward to seeing you tomorrow with the chumps [Music] you