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in this week's torah portion we meet
bilam the evil prophet and sorcerer
our saviors compare abraham and philip
and the sages say these are the
characteristics of the disciples of
abraham a good eye a good heart and
others and our sages say these are the
characteristics the attributes of the
disciples of bilaam an evil eye a bad
soul and so on and the question is asked
if our sages want to compare and
contrast abraham and bilaam why not just
say these are the characteristics of
abraham and these are the
characteristics of bilaam why package it
why present it as a characteristics of
the disciples of abraham and the
characteristics of the disciples of
billam as explained that if you had
abraham and build on side by side you
might not know who's the righteous one
who's the evil one they both were
prophets they both spoke to god they
probably dressed similarly they had lots
of followers you wouldn't know by
looking at them who was the righteous
one
and who was the evil
and so it is today in modern day
political leaders religious leaders
we've got good guys and bad guys out
there and they all look the same and
they talk the same and they pitch in
good cell and convince you to vote for
them even though they have evil ulterior
motives
how do you know who to hang around with
how do you know who to vote for
look at the followers look at the people
in their circles
and this is why our sages compared
abraham and bilaam by talking about
their disciples because looking at them
you may not know the difference
but look who follows them and who hangs
out with them you'll know in a second
who's the righteous
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