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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
 “How goodly are your tents, O Yaakov, your                                                                       fail to do so, but he even blinded his seeing eye.
 dwelling places, O Israel”                                                                                       The letters of the name Bilaam (   ) can be divided into    .The

 (Bamidbar 24:5)                                                                                                  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)
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