Parashat Balak, 5774/2014 edition

I sound like a fog-horn, and, if my nose ran any faster, it might win a medal, so I'm sleeping more than blogging, but here's a link to my previous Balak posts, at least.

~ Conservadox focuses on the political/military aspects of Parashat Balak and responds in kind.

~ Rav Shai Held posits that one doesn't have to be perfect to be chosen by HaShem for godly purposes.

~ Rav Shlomo Riskin reminds us that the tents of Israel, praised by Bil'am, represent the passing down of the Jewish heritage.

~  Rav Jonathan Sacks thinks Bil'am's fatal flaw was that he was a prophet for hire, with no concern for anyone.


~ Rav Daniel Z. Feldman (among countless others) memorializes Eyal, Gil'ad, and Naftali.