{"id":2862,"date":"2025-07-13T09:45:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T15:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2862"},"modified":"2025-07-13T09:45:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T15:45:50","slug":"torah-teaching-for-parsha-balak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2862","title":{"rendered":"Torah Teaching for Parsha \u201cBalak\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week&#8217;s annual Torah cycle reading is parsha &#8220;Chukat,&#8221; (Numbers 22:2-25:9) and represents a unique shift from the story of the mixed multitude &#8220;in the wilderness&#8221; to that of a pagan king who &#8211; much like Pharoah before the Exodus &#8211; is afraid of the people now lead by Moses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it&#8217;s a story that is part comedy, part prophecy, and a large part Today&#8217;s Headlines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Erev Shabbat reading:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/SSM-7-11-25-Balak-teaching-podcast-xxx.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sabbath Day midrash begins where the story leaves off. Can a nation once undeniably blessed manage to curse itself?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Balak: &#8220;How did an ancient pagan prophet tell us about TODAY&#8217;s plague?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/WT-CooH-7-11-25-Balak-Modern-day-AI-Bilaam-and-Midianite-Epstein-parallels-podcast-xxx.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The combined two-part reading and Sabbath <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/mark-call-torah-teaching-for-parsha-balak\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/mark-call-torah-teaching-for-parsha-balak\/\" target=\"_blank\">midrash<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s annual Torah cycle reading is parsha &#8220;Chukat,&#8221; (Numbers 22:2-25:9) and represents a unique shift from the story of the mixed multitude &#8220;in the wilderness&#8221; to that of a pagan king who &#8211; much like Pharoah before the Exodus &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2862\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,185,69,35,9,11],"tags":[105,46,88,2139,63,360,2138,104,964,965,805,1532,212,318,101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2862"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2863,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2862\/revisions\/2863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}