Comments on: Parsha Balak 5768: Expedient Toleration of Evil in the Camp http://www.sefer-torah.com/blog/2008/07/11/parsha-balak-5768-expedient-toleration-of-evil-in-the-camp-3/ The Implications and Consequences of Expulsion for the Jewish People Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:37:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on Parsha Balak 5768: Expedient Toleration of Evil in the Camp by: Israel and The Sin of Expulsion » Blog Archive » BREAKING NEWS: Another Israeli-Arab City Employee Terrorizes Jerusalem in Bulldozer http://www.sefer-torah.com/blog/2008/07/11/parsha-balak-5768-expedient-toleration-of-evil-in-the-camp-3/#comment-31256 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:22:24 +0000 http://www.sefer-torah.com/blog/2008/07/11/parsha-balak-5768-expedient-toleration-of-evil-in-the-camp-3/#comment-31256 [...] We have no one to blame but ourselves, for “tolerating evil in the camp” while Israeli kablanim (builders) rake in windfall profits through employment of inordinately cheap Arab labor while Jewish unemployment rises. [...] […] We have no one to blame but ourselves, for “tolerating evil in the camp” while Israeli kablanim (builders) rake in windfall profits through employment of inordinately cheap Arab labor while Jewish unemployment rises. […]

]]> Comment on Parsha Balak 5768: Expedient Toleration of Evil in the Camp by: Israel and The Sin of Expulsion » Blog Archive » Parsha Pinchas 5768: Zealousness and National Leadership http://www.sefer-torah.com/blog/2008/07/11/parsha-balak-5768-expedient-toleration-of-evil-in-the-camp-3/#comment-31157 Sun, 13 Jul 2008 01:29:23 +0000 http://www.sefer-torah.com/blog/2008/07/11/parsha-balak-5768-expedient-toleration-of-evil-in-the-camp-3/#comment-31157 [...] To repeat a quote from the Lubavitcher Rebbe as noted in last week’s Parsha HaShevua (Studies in the Weekly Parsha, by Yehuda Nachshoni, Parsha Balak, page 1113); “He impailed the woman through the belly”; “He aimed his spear between their male and female members, proving that he did not kill them in vain.” Wh would we think that he had killed them in vain? Rather, the Torah here alludes to the law that a zealot has free reign only while the act is in progress. [...] […] To repeat a quote from the Lubavitcher Rebbe as noted in last week’s Parsha HaShevua (Studies in the Weekly Parsha, by Yehuda Nachshoni, Parsha Balak, page 1113); “He impailed the woman through the belly”; “He aimed his spear between their male and female members, proving that he did not kill them in vain.” Wh would we think that he had killed them in vain? Rather, the Torah here alludes to the law that a zealot has free reign only while the act is in progress. […]

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