#1: Is God Watching?
Rashi on Parashat Balak, Bemdibar/Numbers 22:9
Gimme Some Torah #1
“God came to Bilaam and said, ‘Who are these people with you?”
Rashi says that God asked this question in order to delude Bilaam and trick him into thinking that the Holy One is not always omniscient. Rashi quotes a midrash in which Bilaam thinks to himself, “Aha! It appears that God does not know everything all the time. S…
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