HaMaayan / The Torah Spring - Parshas Balak

Can we do תפילות prayers for:

Shlomo Katz and Torah.org
That also through them The האור Light, רפואה The Healing and The ואהבה Love of ישועת יהוה Yeshuath YHWH may come back to הארץ The Land of Israel?

Hamaayan         by Shlomo Katz         Print Version
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Parshas Balak Volume 25, No. 40 Sponsored by Dr. and Mrs. Irving Katz on the yahrzeit of his mother Sarah bat Yitzchak Hakohen Katz a”h Martin and Michelle Swartz in memory of Martin’s grandfather John Hofmann a”h Today’s Learning: Tanach: Tehilim 121-122 Mishnah: Shabbat 14:3-4 Daf Yomi (Bavli): Chullin 13 Daf Yomi (Yerushalmi): Eruvin 56 The most famous verse in our parashah is undoubtedly Bemidbar 24:5, “How good are your tents, Yaakov, your dwelling places, Yisrael.” The midrash states that the “dwelling places” referred to are the batei knesset / shuls and batei midrash / study halls where Torah is studied. Accordingly, writes R’ Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor z”l (1816-1896; rabbi of Kovno, Lithuania), we can interpret our verse as follows: In what merit will our tents be good, i.e., in what merit will we dwell in G-d’s “tent” in Olam Ha’ba forever? In the merit of our dwelling places, i.e., in the merit of the Torah we study in this world.