BaMidbar 22:2 - 25:9
Parashat Summary
- Balak, the king of Moav, persuades the prophet Balaam to curse the Benei Yisrael so that he can defeat them and drive them out of the region. Balaam blesses the Benei Yisrael instead.
- Balaam prophesies that Yisrael's enemies will be defeated.
- G-d punishes the Benei Yisrael with a plague for consorting with the Moavi women and their god.
- The plague is stayed after Pinchas kills an Hebrew man and his Midiani woman.
Video Shiur by Rabbi Pinchas Winston on Parashat Balak
Rabbi Winston discusses the reason why Balak and Bilaam were compelled to stop the Jewish people from entering Eretz Yisrael even though Moav and Midyan were not part of the nations destined to be conquered.
