Aliya Summary: Balak takes Bilaam to another location, hoping that
this new venue would be more inauspicious for the Jews. They again build
altars and offer sacrifices, and again G‑d dictates blessing for the
Jews which Bilaam repeats. "G‑d does not look at evil in Jacob, and has
seen no perversity in Israel; the L-rd, his G‑d, is with [Israel], and
he has the King's friendship..."
After Balak takes him
to a different location, one where there might be weakness (he took him
to the spot where Moshe would eventually die), Bilaam explains that he
has no choice but to say what G-d tells him to say, and G-d instructed
him to bless the Jews again. He then goes on to bless the Jews by saying
that G-d does not see evil in Jacob, nor perversity in the Jews. How is
this a blessing? It sounds more like a fact. But the blessing is that
although we know evil and perversity does exist, G-d overlooks it long
enough for us to correct our mistakes, demonstrating His love and
friendship (Passuk 21: Rashi).
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