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Bilaam will always be called Bilaam Harasha. He perceived the truth, but
preferred to remain blind, cleaving to iniquity. Hashem made Bilaam blind
so that he should exert himself in order to see spiritually. Not only did he
fail to do so, but he even blinded his seeing eye.
The letters of the name Bilaam ( ) can be divided into .The
letters refer to the one hundred berachot that we are enjoined to recite
each day, and the letters refer to divrei Torah. Had he only tried, he
would have recognized the truth. But he preferred to deny reality. He has
gone down for posterity with the disreputable epithet, Bilaam Harasha.

“How goodly are your tents, O Yaakov, your
dwelling places, O Israel”

(Bamidbar 24:5)