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Balaq?</a>'<br>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4su99-0-0"><span
data-offset-key="4su99-0-0">A lesson that can be learned from <em>Parashas
Balaq</em>….</span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3ldj4-0-0"><span
data-offset-key="3ldj4-0-0">Why is the story of Balaq trying to hire
Bil’am in the Chumash altogether? The Moavim don’t learn a lesson,
they remain our enemies. Bil’am certainly didn’t change. And the
Jews? We didn’t know anything about it at the time. And if it
weren’t in the Torah, we still wouldn’t.</span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ehl8n-0-0"><span
data-offset-key="ehl8n-0-0">My daughter once fell off a cliff, and fell onto a
rocky, dry, riverbed. Months later, when she finally was done healing, we made
a <em>Qiddush</em> thanking G-d for saving her.</span></div>
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data-offset-key="27gan-0-0">How many of us breathed a sigh of relief after a
child had a close call crossing the street as well as they should have. But
think how many times your child crossed the street and there was no close
call. Isn’t that a much happier moment? Similarly, wouldn’t we
have been happier had my daughter not slipped over the cliff’s
edge?</span></div>
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data-offset-key="6qded-0-0">And who knows, perhaps something distracted the
driver for a moment leaving the house, which meant missing a light, and
that’s the only reason the car didn’t arrive until 30 sec after
the child was in the street.</span></div>
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data-offset-key="mcd8-0-0">How many times did you take the family on a trip
and THANK G-D nothing went wrong?</span></div>
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data-offset-key="32lrr-0-0">Had the story not been in the Torah, indeed, we
would never have known that we were under attack and Hashem saved us. But its
inclusion can draw our attention to appreciating how Hashem is constantly so
thoroughly saving us, we don’t even know we had been in
danger!</span></div>
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data-offset-key="2qjg0-0-0">משה כתב ספרו ופרשת בלעם
ואיוב</span></div>
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his book [i.e. Devarim], the chapter of Bil’am, and [the book of]
Iyov.</span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" style="padding-left: 120px;"
data-offset-key="1ou5v-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1ou5v-0-0">– <a
title="Sefaria: Bava Basra 14b"
href="https://www.sefaria.org/Bava_Batra.14b.12" target="_blank" rel="nofollow
noopener noreferrer">Bava Basra 14b</a></span></div>
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data-offset-key="4vf74-0-0">Moshe is credited with three books:</span></div>
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<ul><li>The first is comprised of his final speeches preparing us for
“real life” after the Exodus, a world where things can go
wrong.</li><li>The second, included in our <em>parashah</em>, is about how
Hashem is constantly protecting us — even more than we could
know.</li><li>And the third, that Hashem has His reasons when He does let
tragedy reach us — but those too is beyond our ability to
know.</li></ul>
<p>And who is more apt to tell us about the limits of what we know of how the
Creator is there for us than Moshe Rabbeinu, the person who knew Hashem better
than anyone else in history?</p>
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