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Gut ShabbosDivrei Torah of Baruch Davidoff

בלק

Balak

Bamidbar 22:2 · parsha 7 of 10 in Bamidbar · 40 of 54 in the Torah

8 letters + 3 read together

2016 · 5776IMPRISONMENT ?This week we commemorated the release from Soviet prison of The Frierdike Rebbe in 1927.
2017 · 5777OUR ENEMIES AND A SOLUTIONHe had many ENEMIES through his life, but he stood up with complete fortitude to them all, and was instrumental in not only keeping Judaism alive through terrible trials of Communist Russia (Stalin), Hitler yimach…
2018 · 5778FINE BALANCEPesach and Chanie are in Eretz Yisrael, and I heard that they at the Kotel at the same time when Prince Philip visited!
2019 · 5779KINGThis week's Sedra is Balak, and it is interesting that a Sedra named after a wicked person, is one of the main places where Torah informs us of the coming of MASHIACH!
2021 · 5781INTRIGUEThis week's Parsha is Balak which is a most fascinating one, full of mystery and intrigue around every verse, especially if one reads the commentaries.
2022 · 5782NOT TO BE FOOLEDThen we celebrated the Chassidic Yom Tov of the release of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson (The Frierdike Rebbe) - Yud Beis Tammuz, where we had a Chassidishe Farbreng with Rabbi Chay Amar from Florida, which was also…
2024 · 5784ALONE BUT NOT LONELYIn this week's Sedra Balak, the powerful heathen prophet, Bilam, tries to curse the Jewish people at the request of Balak, the King of Moav.
2025 · 5785DYNAMICS OF OUR JOURNEYSSedra Balak is so rich with lessons and drama, and I chose an insight from Rabbi Steinsaltz ah , plus a beautiful connected incident that I saw today.

Read together with the previous parsha

In these years the two parshiyos were read on the same Shabbos; the letter is filed under the first.