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Parshas Balak
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Drasha by Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky
- Symbolism Over Substance (5784)
- A Never Ending Story (5784)
- Listen To The Mocking Bird (5783)
- Is Sincerity at Steak? (5782)
- Sorry for Nothing (5781)
- Partial View (5780)
Dvar Torah by Rabbi Label Lam
- The Blessedness Continues (5784)
- It Will End for Good (5782)
- We Dwell Alone… (With HASHEM) (5781)
- Our Hope (5780)
- Zeidy (5779)
- The First Cup of Coffee (5778)
- The Lingering Evil (5777)
- Before it’s Too Late (5776)
- Another Productive Day! (5775)
- Not Racist but Reishis (5774)
- Victory is With-in-Reach (5772)
- Wrinkles! (5771)
- Such a Rebbe! (5770)
- A Candidate for Blessings (5768)
- All Day Long (5767)
- A Real Yiddishe Kup! (5766)
- Found In Contempt (5764)
- In Order for Nothing to Happen (5763)
- Prophet Motive (5761)
- Straight From The Heart (5760)
- A ‘Well’ Learned Lesson (5759)
- Bilaam was a ‘Spiritual’ Man (5758)
- Coincidence? (5757)
Haftorah Commentary by Rabbi Dovid Siegel
Haftorah Summary by Rabbi Aron Tendler
Kol HaKollel by Rabbi Pinchas Avruch
- Reflecting on G-d (5783)
- Absolute Greatness (5782)
- Uncommon Courtesy (5781)
- Hear What You Want (5779)
- Putting the Cart Before the Horse (5778)
Legacy by Rabbi Naftali Reich
- Fruits of Passion (5784)
- The Epitome of Righteousness (5781)
- The Seesaw Principle (5780)
- Forever a Donkey (5779)
- A Fool (5774)
Lifeline by Rabbi Yaakov Menken
- Take It From Truman (5784)
- Imaginary Fears (5783)
- Preemptive Passion (5780)
- How Exciting! (5779)
- Bilaam’s Obsession (5762)
- The Good Tents (5761)
- ‘Kill’ Yourself for Torah (5760)
- Why was Balak Worried? (5757)
- Conquer the Physical (5755)
Parsha Halacha for the Shabbos Table by Joshua Kruger
Parsha Summary by Rabbi Aron Tendler
Rabbi Wein by Rabbi Berel Wein
- Beware of Poisoned Sweets (5782)
- Balak’s Blind Hatred (5781)
- Who Are These People? (5780)
- Words are Weapons (5779)
- Better Under Pressure (5778)
- Friendly Enemies (5774)
- Bilaam’s Killing Kindness (5772)
- Remember Balak’s Role (5771)
- Bilaam’s Curses Transformed into Blessings (5770)
- If Balak and Bilaam Were Here Today… (5768)
- Uses and Misuses (5765)
- Our Achilles’ Heel (5764)
- Ph.D. in Morals (5761)
Rabbi Zweig on the Parsha by Rabbi Yochanan Zweig
Short Vorts by Rabbi Chaim Flom
Table Talk by Rabbi Raymond Beyda
The Living Law by Rabbi Osher Chaim Levene
Intermediate Level
Beyond Pshat by Rabbi Yosef Kalatzky
Hamaayan by Shlomo Katz
- Bil’am’s Big Blunder (5784)
- Who Doesn’t Love Peace? (5783)
- Be Whole (5782)
- The Power of Speech (5781)
- Bar Kochva, Rabbi Akiva, and Redemption (5780)
- Recognizing Prophets (5779)
- The Uncursables (5778)
- The Segulah (5778)
- The Rock (5777)
- The Power of a Mitzvah (5776)
- Days (5775)
- Making the Most of Our Days (5774)
- The Segulot of Mitzvot (5772)
- Parshas Balak (5771)
- A Great Responsibility (5768)
- Tents Where Torah is Studied (5767)
- A Question Brings Hope (5765)
- Balak: Can You See It? (5764)
- Moshe’s Book and Bilam’s Book (5763)
- Bilam: A Perfect Tzadik? (5761)
- Bilam’s Big Appetite (5760)
- Why Didn’t Moshe Enter Canaan? (5759)
- Pray for the ‘Right’ Person (5758)
Olas Shabbos by Rabbi Eliyahu Hoffmann
- Building on Shaky Foundations (5766)
- Money Order – Getting Our Priorities Straight (5764)
- Because He Said So (5763)
- Living Through Death (5762)
- Don’t Take it Personally! (5761)
- Building With Failure (5760)
- Behold! A Nation (5758)
Parsha Insights by Rabbi Yisroel Ciner
- Jewish Dwellings (5784)
- Welcome, Oh Honored Me! (5783)
- Donkey Talk (5779)
- You Can’t Pick Your Cards… (5778)
- The Fourth Patriarch (5761)
Perceptions by Rabbi Pinchas Winston
- From Balak to Rus (5784)
- Bad Combination (5783)
- Swallowed Pride (5782)
- Destructive Hope (5781)
- What We DON’T See (5780)
- BDS, Bilaam Style (5779)
- For the Right Reason (5778)
- Where There’s a Spark . . . (5777)
- What Goes Around (5776)
- Facing Facts & Avoiding Destruction (5775)
- Lishmah or Lo Lishmah? (5774)
- Unusual Circumstances (5772)
- Only A True Magician Succeeds (5771)
- Have Faith! (5770)
- Bilaam… Reincarnated? (5768)
- A Local Call (5767)
- Window of Opportunity (5766)
- A Good Kind of Cover-up (5765)
- From Amidst The Ashes (5764)
- The Sod Of A Best-Seller (5763)
- Storm On The Horizon (5761)
- Mixed Multitude of Troubles (5760)
- ‘Balak’ Magic (5759)
- G-d Doesn’t Play Games (5758)
- Bilaam: A Hard Act to Swallow (5757)
Rabbi's Notebook by Rabbi Aron Tendler
- The Red Heifer Reality (5765)
- Forgotten Oaths (5764)
- It’s All Free Will (5763)
- Without Cover! (5762)
- A Generation Repents (5761)
- Working on the Outside (5760)
- Conspiracies and Lost Opportunities (5758)
Rav Frand by Rabbi Yissocher Frand
- Bilaam Lost His Shock Value (5784)
- Two Interpretations of Why Bilaam Could Not Curse (“Mah Ekov Lo Kabo Kel”) (5783)
- A “Tense” Exchange and the Limitations of Bilaam’s Power (5782)
- The Best Things in Life Are Different When They Come for Free (5781)
- ALL the Silver & Gold (5780)
- The Nations’ Non-Prophet (5779)
- The Best Things In Life Are Different When They Come For Free (5778)
- The Apter Rav: How Do You Spell Ahavas Yisrael? (5778)
- If It Can Happen To Bilaam, It Can Happen to Any of Us (5778)
- Bilaam’s Blessing – Thanks, But No Thanks (5778)
- The Power of Lishma: Doing it For ‘The Cause’ vs. For the Money (5777)
- Not From Your Honey And Not From Your Sting (5776)
- Three Differences Between Bilaam and Rabbi Yosi ben Kisma (5771)
- Mistaking The Angel of Mercy For The Satan (5770)
- The Apter Rebbe Bends The Rules For Ahavas Yisrael (5768)
- The Sin of “Not Getting It” (5767)
- If It Can Happen To Bilaam, It Can Happen to Any of Us (5765)
- Bilaam Lost His Shock Value (5764)
- Those Who Will Not See (5763)
- Red Heifer and the Death of the Righteous (5762)
- Was G-d Bilaam’s Agent? (5761)
- Miriam’s Death (5759)
- It Could Happen to You! (5758)
- The Parah Paradox (5756)
The Shmuz on the Parsha by Rabbi B. Shafier
Advanced Level
Abarbanel by Rabbi Dr. Meir Tamari
Be’eros by Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein
Gal Einai by Gedalia Litke
Gur Aryeh by Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein
- Out of One, Many (5773)
- The Three Weeks and Parshas Balak (5779)