{"id":2982,"date":"2026-07-05T07:11:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T13:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2982"},"modified":"2026-07-05T07:14:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T13:14:45","slug":"torah-teaching-for-double-parsha-chukat-balak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2982","title":{"rendered":"Torah Teaching for double-parsha \u201dChukat-Balak\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Parsha &#8216;Chukat&#8217; (Numbers chapters 19 through 21) is mostly about the most enigmatic &#8216;chuk&#8217; in Scripture &#8211; the Red Heiffer. But there&#8217;s another in here as well, also about things that are red, and a bit confusing as well. But the reading schedule this week goes far beyond that, through the parsha called &#8220;Balak&#8221; (and Numbers 25:9) as well. So it&#8217;s a lot of material, and while Mark Call of SSM admits this is a lot to do justice to, at least there ARE some undeniable themes that REALLY should stand out today!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First, the Erev Shabbat Combined reading:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/SSM-6-26-26-Chukat-Balak-double-parsha-podcast-xx.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sabbath Day midrash is where Mark &#8216;connects the dots,&#8217; and points out just how deadly the connections, and the warnings, are today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it gives us better insight into why what Pinchas did was so important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;Chukat-Balak: Death is CONTAGIOUS &#8212; and PRIDE is an Invitation&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/WT-CooH-6-27-26-Chukat-Balak-Death-is-CONTAGIOUS-and-The-Substitute-podcast-xxx.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Service information:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship worship services and teachings are broadcast live every Sabbath, via Paltalk. (www.paltalk.com has both the link, and the app.) The &#8220;room name&#8221; is &#8220;Walking Torah with Shabbat Shalom Mesa,&#8221; and can be found via the paltalk search, then bookmarked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Erev Shabbat services begin at 7:00 PM Mountain Time Friday evenings (9 PM Eastern, 8 PM Central)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Live Sabbath teachings begin shortly after 11 AM Mountain time on Sabbath day (Saturday).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>email: mark@markniwot.com<\/p>\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-double-parsha-chukat-balak\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/mark-call-torah-teaching-for-double-parsha-chukat-balak\/\" target=\"_blank\">midrash<\/a><\/strong>, via Hebrew Nation Radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parsha &#8216;Chukat&#8217; (Numbers chapters 19 through 21) is mostly about the most enigmatic &#8216;chuk&#8217; in Scripture &#8211; the Red Heiffer. But there&#8217;s another in here as well, also about things that are red, and a bit confusing as well. But &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2982\">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":[5,69,35,11],"tags":[105,98,88,63,104,951,212,101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2982"}],"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=2982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2984,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2982\/revisions\/2984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}