[From an e-mail:] Dear Friends, In this week's parsha, Balaam blesses and praises the Jewish people. Following are two insights into one of his praises, selected from the Kehot Chumash. He does not look at evil in Jacob, and sees no perversity in Israel; G-d, their G-d, is with them. The reason G-d does not look at the evil "in Jacob" is because He looks at the Jew as having already fulfilled his potential to reorient the animal concerns of his consciousness (his animal "soul") toward Divinity. He thus transforms the animal soul into a positive force in his Jewish...