Boloks Curse On To Himself

When Balak asked Bilam to curse the Bnei Yisrael,
he said ארה *לי curse me.

Mori V'Rabi Harav Hagaon R.S.Miller shlita said,
In Parshas Lech Lecha, Hashem said," those who bless you will be blessed and those who curse you will be cursed".

Balak knew of this but still insisted to have the Bnei Yisrael cursed. even though he himself will be cursed as a result of this.

The שונאי ישראל attempt to harm the Yidden even when they themselves lose out in doing so.

The Nazis Y.m.s. at the end of the war, instead of using
their  trains for the war effort and save their army,
used the trains to
transport the Hungarian
Jews to Auschwitz.

Bilam wasn't the one who
blessed the Benei Yisrael.  

It was Hashems Brocho coming out from Bilam's
mouth therefore he wasn't
entitled to be blessed. 


see Orach Chaim

A Powerfull Story For Aseres Yemei Teshuva -Reposted From Last Year

Lz"n R. Yitzchok Amram Eliyahu ben R. Avrohom Ashi Zt"l
(who was a Holocaust Survivor*)Yahrzeit 2nd day Rosh Hashanah

A holocaust survivor asked R. Itzikel zt"l (Antwerp) . We say the Avinu Malkeinu "harugim al sheim kodshecha- t'vuchim al yichudecha.

Why two leshonos, sheim kodshecha and yichudecha.

R. Itzikel was stumped and had no answer.

The holocaust  survivor said "let me give the rebbe my answer".

When the nazis ym"s marched into the town, they assembled 100 men and lined them up in front of the river.

The nazi with a machine gun started shooting from the right side and moved his gun towards the left till he killed all the men.

When the  shooting began, all men started to say the shema together.

The people on the right died when they said hashem elokeinu.

They did not manage to finish the posuk(harugim al sheim kodshecha)

The people on the left managed to stay alive for the extra second to say hashem echod (yichudecha)

R. Itzikel zt"l couldn't stop crying after hearing this pshat.

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I heard this story from R. Menachem Hasenfeld shlita who heard it from a close source.

*R. Yitzchok Donath zt"l (my uncle) was Moser Nefesh and risked his life together with the Veitzener Rav zt"l to blow Shofar for 1,400 children who were destined to the crematoria the following. day in Auschwitz. He enabled them to the last Mitzvah in this world with

Tekias Shofar. My uncle too was Niftar with his last Mitzvah of Tekias Shofar.

יהא זכרם ברוך.

The German Antisemites

The שו"ת דברי מנחם  (R. Mendel Steinhart z"l ) writes, "Germany is a civilized country and friendly towards the Yidden, therefore there is no reason to say (Mondays & Thursdays) "כי היינו לעג וקלס בגויים" and should be removed from the Siddur since it is not true and this might even create antisemitism". A few years later they also removed the תפילה of אב הרחמים from the 1831 edition, of the Heidenheim Siddur.  In its place, they printed  in German " The tefillah was made for the times of the Barbarians  therefore we removed it." The next edition of the Siddur, Heidenheim put it back in. It is very likely they did so  because the Reform Siddur was published at that time and they too removed the אב הרחמים.