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Category: Parshat Hashavua
OPEN MY EYES and I will see the wonders of Your Torah” (Tehillim 119:18).
THERE IS THE story of a philosopher who, while contemplating the secrets of the universe at the base of a mountain whose peak was in the clouds, was interrupted by a scientist running past him. “Why so fast?” the philosopher asked him.
RASHI COMMENTS ON the Torah’s pointing out that Bilaam was killed by the sword: He came against the Jewish People and exchanged his craft for theirs. They (Jewish People) are victorious only with their mouths, through prayer and supplication, and he (Bilaam) came and adopted their craft to curse them with his mouth. So they…
PINCHAS WAS A hero. Who knows how many souls he saved the day he “saw, arose, and took his spear in his hand” and avenged God.

