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Balak (Shabbat- Sat 30thJune/17th Tammuz) -Laibl's Weekly Parsha Video

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Balak (Shabbat- Sat 30thJune/17th Tammuz) 
Drawing Fire from a Stone 
Laibl's Weekly Parsha Video

SUMMARY: When a leading shaman magician, King Balak, teams up with powerful wizard, Bila’am, to curse the Jewish people, except that the curse is transformed by G-d into a blessing. Mistakenly standing on a hill of flint stones proves their undoing. A flint stone always has the potential of fire by rubbing it with another stone, even if submerged in water for a long time.  Likewise the Jewish person, even if spiritually dormant like a stone, has the spark within which can be animated into a roaring fire of Jewish identity and expression

Notes:
• We are introduced to a powerful shaman magician, the King Balak, teaming up with a greedy powerful wizard, Bila’am. The alliance is made in order to curse the Jewish people and stop them in their tracks in their journeys to Israel
• In uttering the series of curses (which become miraculously transformed into blessings), Bila’am describes himself standing on an outcrop of stones made of flint. And that was his undoing. He didn’t realize that in the realm of magic where you stand, makes a difference to the curse.
• The nature of flint stone is to store fire. Rub it against another stone and sparks will fly. How is it that a stone, the most inanimate matter, can store the potential of a flaming fire? Even if the flint stone is stored in water, it’s potential for fire remains.\
• The flint stone describes the Jewish people. Even the most inanimate Jew, seemingly devoid of any spark of Jewish  consciousness, has the potential to yield a flame of Jewish arousal from his or her soul. And that spark Jewishness can be fanned into a roaring fire. 
• So make sure you rub your neighbour’s soul the right way and ignite the fire within.

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