Balak: Snuffing the Soulfulness out of Relationship— A Lesson from The Hideous Ritual of Ba’l Peor Worship

 Relationship is all-compassing, traversing all strata of thehuman condition: body, emotion, and spirit. However, it is so easy for it to losethis richness and become debased and animalized. This can be teased out from adeeper understanding of Ba’l Peor- the grotesque avodah zara, coupled with the alluringsnares of the B’nos Moav (Daughters of Moab).