Parsha #40: Balak

JPS 1912 English Translation
Torah: Numbers 22:2 - 25:9
Haftara: Micha 5:6 - 6:8
Rav Aryeh Kaplan's The Living Torah:
Chapter 22 • • Chapter 23 • • Chapter 24 • • Chapter 25

OU/NCSY Israel Center Torah Tidbits
SEDRA STATS
40th of the Torah's 54 sedras; 7th of 10 in Bemidbar
Written on 178 lines in a Sefer Torah (The MEM of Ma Tovu heads a column)
2 Parshiyot; 1 open, 1 closed (very long)
104 p'sukim (ranks 34th)
1455 words (ranks 33rd)
5357 letters (ranks 35th)
Ranks 8th of 10 in Bemidbarin all 3 categories
Balak is close to average for the Torah's sedras but is on the small side for Bamidbar
Balak is one of 17 sedras in the Torah that contain none of the 613 mitzvot
  1. Menachem Leibtag (warning: there will often be repeats in subsequent years)
    1. Questions
      1. Questions 5759
    2. Parsha
      1. Balak 5759 (revised from 58,57,55)
    3. Haftara
      1. Haftara 5759: Balak & 17th Tammuz
  2. Yeshivat Har Etzion
  3. Yitz Etshalom
  4. MJ-Ravtorah - Rav Yosef Dov Baer Soloveitchik Zt'l
  5. Nechama Leibowitz Gilyonot - JNF/KKL Balak Warning: Some of these links may not work
    1. Balak -Gilyon
    2. Balak -Study Guide to Gilyon
    3. Balak -Answers to Gilyon
  6. Nechama Leibowitz Gilyonot - Jewish Agency
    1. Gilyon - Balak
    2. Balak: Answers & Insights by R' M.Shpigelman
  7. Eitan Mayer
    1. Balak 5759
  8. Judaic Seminar
    1. v6n49
    2. v5n52
    3. v4n47
    4. v2n56
    5. v2n55
  9. Bar Ilan Professors Balak
    1. Did Balaam's Ass Speak to Him?
      Prof. Yitzhak Levine (1999)
    2. Balaam and His Ass: The Significance of the Story
      Jonathan Jacobs (1998)
    3. "The Remnant of Jacob Amidst the Nations" (Micah 5:6-6:9)
      Prof. Samuel Vargon (1997)
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