Friday 19 July 2019

Re: Shabbos Tzetl: Balak + 17 Tammuz Fast

Correction: Fast is from 6:03am (not PM)

On Fri, 19 Jul 2019, 8:12 am Emmanuels, <emmanuelsgroupmanager@gmail.com> wrote:
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5:04pm - Candle Lighting, Friday.
6:05pm - Havdalah, Saturday.
These times are for Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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FAST - Sunday 17 Tammuz (postponed)
6:03pm - Fast begins
5:53pm - Fast ends

To mourn the breaching of Jerusalem's walls and the other tragic events that occurred on this day (see "Today in Jewish History") and repent and rectify their causes, Tammuz 17 was instituted as a fast day. This year, however, the actual fast is held tomorrow (Sunday), due to the holiness of Shabbat



YESHIVA SHULE TIMES
Please click here to view the Yeshivah Shule Tzetel for Parshas Bolok.


PARSHAH IN A NUTSHELL
Numbers 22:2–25:9
 
Balak, the king of Moab, summons the prophet Balaam to curse the people of Israel. On the way, Balaam is berated by his donkey, who sees, before Balaam does, the angel that G‑d sends to block their way. Three times, from three different vantage points, Balaam attempts to pronounce his curses; each time, blessings issue forth instead. Balaam also prophesies on the end of the days and the coming of Moshiach.

The people fall prey to the charms of the daughters of Moab, and are enticed to worship the idol Peor. When a high-ranking Israelite official publicly takes a Midianite princess into a tent, Pinchas kills them both, stopping the plague raging among the people


HAFTORAH IN A NUTSHELL
Micah 5:6-6:8.

This week's haftorah makes mention of the incident of Balak the king of Moab hiring the sorcerer Balaam to curse the Jewish people — the main topic of this week's Torah reading.

The prophet Micah prophesies about what will occur after the war of Gog and Magog, the war which precedes the coming of the Messiah and the Final Redemption.

"And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoples — like dew sent by G‑d, like torrents of rain upon vegetation that does not hope for any man and does not wait for the sons of men." The prophet describes how G‑d will remove the idols and sorcerers and how He will destroy the Jews' enemies.

The prophet Micah then goes on to rebuke the Jewish people for not observing G‑d's commandments, calling as witness the "mountains and hills" — a reference to the Patriarchs and Matriarchs — and reminding them of the great things G‑d had done for them. He took them out of Egypt and replaced the curses that Balaam son of Beor wanted to utter against them with blessings.

The Jewish people respond by saying that they do not know how to serve G‑d and ask for 


PARSHAH IN DEPTH
And [Balak] sent to Balaam... "Curse me this people, for he is mightier than me" (Numbers 22:5-6)
The Hebrew phrase, atzum hu mimeni also translates, "he is mightier from me." For in truth, the might of the people of Israel is Moshiach, who is descendent of Balak (Ruth, the anscestress of King David, was a Moabite princess).

(Shaloh)

And she crushed Balaam's foot against the wall (22:27)
This was the very heap of stones which Laban and Jacob had erected as a testament that "I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm"
(Genesis 31:52). Balaam, who is Laban, was now violating this covenant by crossing the heap to come curse Jacob's descendents. Therefore the wall was punishing him, as it is written (Deuteronomy 17:7): "The hand of the witnesses should be first in [punishing] him."

(Midrash Tanchuma)



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