Year: 5771 - Balak - audio

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On Being Bil'am - Bil‘am is the מקור of our understanding and level of belief in משיח וגאולה, the source of Ruth, the only solution to the שבירת הלוחות and as such appears together with Moshe in the closing words of the Torah which remind us of the greatest moment of Moshe’s shattering that the only way back is to remember that there was an alternative to Moshe among the אומות, an alternative which, when subsumed by Moshe as ספרו של בלעם, allows the escape from the religious limitations which lead to the עגל and to the limitations on כיבוש הארץ, to the attachment to מחנה and ethnic Judaism which lead to the מעשה המרגלים and the rejection of שלשה דברים the desire for alone is the only way to גאולה. The alter ego ויקר-ויקרא must be joined in the end to provide a Quantum Torah that can conduct a multi-leveled game, where playing one game is justified only because it is embedded in the other game of Creation itself, the משחק עם לויתן. This is the introduction to י"ז תמוז, to איש הישר בעיניו יעשה, to an אלו ואלו דברי א' חיים that will allow an emergent מלכות which alone is the nature of Yisrael-identity, in whose context alone is קנאים פוגעים בו necessary, in whose context Eliyahu is created to be the מבשר הגאולה—never before was identity on the table other than as ethnicity.