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It is incomprehensible why Balak sent Bilaam to curse our nation. Bnei
Yisrael were commanded to maintain peaceful relations with Moav. What
possessed Balak to fight against them? Just as the mitzvah of parah
adumah is a mystery, the reason for the hatred of the gentiles toward us
is concealed from us.
Hashem wants us to observe all mitzvot, those that we understand, as
well as those which we do not. When we fail to keep all of the mitzvot
equally, Hashem sends the nations to attack us. This irrational behavior
on their part will cause us to contemplate our commitment to mitzvah
observance and arrive at the conclusion that we must keep all mitzvot
alike.

“He sent messengers to Bilaam son of Beor to
Petor, which is by the River of the land of the

members of his people, to summon him, saying:
Behold! a people has come out of Egypt,
behold! it has covered the surface of the earth
and it sits opposite me”

(Bamidbar 22:5) # 26347-EYAL-6

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