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It's almost 5 on a Friday. The teaching has ended. Why am I still at work? One of my classes was here today and I was here for figurative handholding. That went till 2. Then I had to finish up my major Gemorah final to submit to the office today because it is to be given and taken on Monday. That took a while. Then I finished what are hopefully my last 4 recommendations (though if a kid needs to ask at this point I'll find it hard to add to their burden by saying no). Even though I did 44, I got a note from up top today saying that if I'm getting this note then I'm one of the people who's done most of my recommendations and yet...

It's cool that the parshiyot that I taught this year are the ones we're in now. I'm thinking ahead. Chukat is about two things - death, and on a related note - that everything comes from G-d. Perhaps when Chazal say that Bilam was a prophet for the nations the way that Moshe was for us they mean to say that they taught the same lesson - that all comes from G-d. This may be why Balak follows Chukat. (That's my words but Rabbi Yitzchak Twersky's idea)