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Balak ( — Hebrew for “Balak,” a name, the second word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 40th weekly Torah portion (, ''parashah'') in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the seventh in the book of Numbers. It constitutes The parashah is made up of 5,357 Hebrew letters, 1,455 Hebrew words, and 104 verses, and can occupy about 178 lines in a Torah Scroll (, ''Sefer Torah'').〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=July 7, 2013 )〕 Jews generally read it in late June or July. In most years (for example, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2024, and 2025), parashah Balak is read separately. In some years (for example, 2020, 2023, 2026, and 2027) when the second day of Shavuot falls on a Sabbath in the Diaspora (where observant Jews observe Shavuot for two days), parashah Balak is combined with the previous parashah, Chukat, in the Diaspora to synchronize readings thereafter with those in Israel (where Jews observe Shavuot for one day).〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=June 30, 2015 )〕 In the parashah, Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, tries to hire Balaam to curse Israel, Balaam’s donkey speaks to Balaam, and Balaam blesses Israel instead. The name Balak means “devastator,”〔Francis Brown, S.R. Driver, and Charles A. Briggs. ''The New Brown-Driver-Briggs-Gesenius Hebrew and English Lexicon'', pages 118–19. Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson Publishers, 1979. ISBN 0-913573-20-5.〕 “empty,”〔''NOBS Study Bible'' Name List.〕 or “wasting.”〔Alfred Jones. ''Jones' Dictionary of Old Testament Proper Names''. Kregel Academic and Professional, 1990. ISBN 0825429617.〕 The name Balak apparently derives from the sparsely used Hebrew verb (''balak''), “waste or lay waste.”〔See Francis Brown, S.R. Driver, and Charles A. Briggs. ''The New Brown-Driver-Briggs-Gesenius Hebrew and English Lexicon'', page 118. 〕 There are no derivations of this verb besides this name. ==Readings== In traditional Sabbath Torah reading, the parashah is divided into seven readings, or , ''aliyot''.〔See, e.g., ''The Schottenstein Edition Interlinear Chumash: Bamidbar/Numbers''. Edited by Menachem Davis, pages 154–76. Brooklyn: Mesorah Publications, 2007. ISBN 1-4226-0208-7.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Balak (parsha)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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