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<div style>The  Baal  Pe'or worshippers are gone!  You the great majority overcame the temptations  - you attached yourself strongly to Hashem - can expect  Divine Protection as before!  One worry nags our serenity. How will  we  guarantee that we will not back-slide and chalila do the worst? Included must be the confidence that we can all avoid Pe'or worship.  But how to make safeguards that we  can do all in our  power to avoid even the temptation? </div>
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<blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div style>At first he suggests it is akin to the medicine bottle message - "Effective only when taken as directed!"  Part of parenthood is repetition, even to children not paying fervent attention. Is that the magic elixir? </div>
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<blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div style>I repeat - "Do not stray - keep within the boundaries of the law"  or - "Do not count wrong"! . What would be the temptation to count wrong?  We know, we heard them at Har Sinai, then from Mosheh Eved hashem,. These are the exact words even letters pronounced by Hashem to Mosheh! I will review my lessons assiduously! If I am lazy, I could mistakenly go off track, admittedly so. Does the Torah envision somebody in the shadow of Har Sinai being  foolish enough to Add or Subtract from Hashem's words?  Would such a person find a following? </div>
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<blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div style>Write his speech - "  I want only Eight Commandments - Ten is much too heavy. Take out Kibud Eim, it so passe and outdated. Make Shabbos a workday. We will meet at  4 PM and we will erase some!!"  This sounds absurd.  Where is the realistic scenario that needs special desperate warnings? </div>
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<blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div style>Pharaoh arrogantly substituted himself for the One and Only.  As SunGod Par'oh "made" the sun rise and the "Nile-Creator-/Inventor"  "made"  the annual floods. His Ministers  promoted him as an independent self-contained substitute for the One Hashem. </div>
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<blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px">Legislation  against  One-Only-God took many forms. It may have obligated immorality, the flaunting of any potential for Faithful Family life in Par'oh's "advanced" empire. Strong families were suppreessed  as they weakened the grip of the Dictator/Idol.  Development of modesty and self-control were outlawed as as potential breeding grounds for Commitment to Par'oh'sarch-rival, the One-Hashem. With abandonment of Family Life  worship of Hashem can have no foundation. . <br>
If they were successful in destruction of families, it necessitated strong action - Otot Umoftim b'admat Bnei Cham, the first  Land of Immorality.  Mitzrayim had been associated with the "Loss of Signal" of  Hashem's presence and involvement  - itself on the Divine Scale a deterioration of Family Values. A necessary part of the transformation into Am Kadosh Atah Lashem Elokecha - was restoration of the strong structure of  Family Life. The way a child sees his Avraham-AVinu-microcosm l father is the model for his relationship with Hashem.. Discredited was  the crown-prince, Idol to Be, Par'oh's Bchor-God.</blockquote>
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<blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px">The Jewsactions connected them with the Avos, and developed them into the Priestly Seed of Avraham.  They had absorbed Avraham's lessons well. Their seperate uniquely modest life-style announces and reflects the mutual commitment to each other. So as a nation yisarel i s connected to the OneGod.  <br>
 [Specific mention that Hashem is King of the Wold is already implied once he is entitled "Elokei Avraham". Tosafot bases the Kingship of Hashem on Avraham's bringing the awareness of Hashem into the world. Melech Haolam would be duplicative. "Elokei Avraham" is permanent and foundational. The Jewish People are  the main foundation and expression of  Kingdom of Hashem - which is the Commitment of Hashem. ] It is one relationship they are - Zera Avraham Ohavo.  jAvraham created commitment  to Love of Hashem. <br>
The Zera Avraham, even as powerless subjugated captives still maintained  Modest Language and Modest boundaries, despite the ceaseless oppression. Included was keeping  the backbone necessary to discipline bodily desires.  <br>
Mitzrayim - the non-Family self-worshippers - are contrasted with Hashem's Kedusha. Torah repeatedly warns of the abominations that were promoted by the Mitzrayim Kingdom. Chasing immodesty weakens and distracts from  commitment  to Havayah the One Almighty. Tefillin express and strengthen the commitment. <br>
<br>Bil'am first dissolved the mutual trust and comitment of the man wandering outside the Clouds of Glory. I looked quite innocent, then the  old lady was suddenly a young lady. Once he lost his family trust in himself, his trust in hashem collapsed also. When he gave up on being able to return to Camp, she would demand that the men sacrifice to Pe'or including exhibiting their "connection with nature"  by  defecation. </blockquote>
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Thus the fiery mutual trust and commitment to worship the God of Sinai would be replaced by an embittered and shattered self image. <br>Bil'am's plot attempted to undermine the confidence of Bnai Yisrael that they themselves can long-term worship Hashem faithfully  without straying and  evoking Divine Anger.  </blockquote>
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"Chezkuni Vaccine" counters that you will keep to Kedusha within your family structure. Then your strong connections separate you from Pe'or and its destructie potential. Zera Avraham continues in his footsteps.  Kedusha and commitment in the Family Home, leads to security in worship of Hashem. You are secure in your own dedication. It is strong and stable and will last evermore. Permance and Trust in Hashem is the Attachment. <br>
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<blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px">Staying secure and strengthening family bonds at home - and with Hashem lead to the strength of the Jewish People.  It begins with believing in Hashem's untilateral permanent commitment.  We reply with our commitment to accept Hashem as our Father Provider Protector. </blockquote>
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<blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px">A person who thinks he will worship Pe'or, feels rejected.  he will be tempted to join the surrounding nations. Most ancient people quickly were assimilated  until they completely lost their unique identities. They became part of  the surrounding majority culture.  That was the expectation of  Par'oh. <br>
The goal of Bil'am's "White Paper" was to remove  Dor Hamidbar from their Ananei Hakavod. t Hashem's commitment  to bring them and permanently keep them in Eretz Yisrae;would be voided. <br><br></blockquote>
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Fractionally, Bil'am succeeded in enticing some to worship Baal Pe'or - thus leaving Hashem, self-destructing as part of Tziv'os Hashem, those who are attached and committed to Him only. <br><br>Exercising the "muscles" of commitment - to the family we live among, to our neighbors and to Hashem - that is the Chezkuni Vaccine. They use every opportunity to  show their cleaving Dveikut in  Hashem. They feel no need for "surrogate fathers" or substitutes. They  are all alive and strengthened.   </blockquote>
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