#3: Hatred Makes You Smell like a Donkey
Rashi on Parashat Balak, Numbers 22:21
Gimme Some Torah #3
Having made an agreement to obey God in the previous verse, Bilaam gets up the next morning and saddles his donkey in preparation for the trip. Based on a midrash and a passage from the Talmud, Rashi teaches that hatred degrades the dignity of the hater. Had Bilaam not been so eager to curse Israel, he would have done the…
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