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we're going to start from the very
beginning of the paraa so if you have
your sources it's not it's not the First
Source from the beginning because I went
back to the beginning of the peric but
rather I direct to start
from it's per a told
noik now we're told two things at the
same time we're told
about a corrupt society and we're told
about a person who is going to be given
a
task to survive which is essentially all
all that
happens and as a background to this
there's also something must have
happened now I want to be very clear to
make this easy
today and that
is I want to try to figure
out why
what happened had
happened look I don't know the answer to
this question if we were watching a
society in front of us devolve or
Society become corrupt or Society
falling apart would we necessarily know
it if that's what we were as we were
seeing it I mean some of you would say
absolutely and and and some of us
perhaps would question how much
awareness people would have as things
are taking place
but in order to understand the
antecedence I think we need to First
have a better understanding of what it
is that
happened and For Better or For Worse and
the truth is 98% for better but you'll
see there's a
2% we we learned a lot of this as kids
we learned a lot of this again I don't
know how far back to go could be already
in
it could be already in kindergarten kids
learn this and and they learned the
story and they learned what people did
wrong and right there we're going to
have a little bit of a problem because
if you're going to talk to Children
about this then I think that one needs
to perhaps to sanitize things a bit now
Rashi actually does some of that there
is some discussion regarding who rashi's
intended
audiences which means is Rashi writing
to the adult is Rashi writing to the
child is RA again who is Rashi writing
or is Rashi writing to everybody and
then people can take Rashi on different
levels which I think is more often than
not the case thebi who did a lot of work
on Rashi he claimed that Rashi was
speaking to children and again that
itself is is interesting in this week's
par maybe we can appreciate that but
let's go to the beginning and then I'll
show you exactly what concerns me
so we're not told that much about him i'
I've many times have pointed out that
the word sadic is not if I mention the
rebbi then I can mention I can mention
the bov the word sadik here is not in
the bovian sense it doesn't mean that he
was in Admar it doesn't mean that he was
a sadik in a Biblical terminology in
biblical terminology means
innocent it is a legal term it is not
one which speaks about someone's Soul it
speaks about somebody's guilt or
innocence again in a legal sense which
means by saying that he was
innocent and only telling us that he's
innocent actually is telling us a lot
because then it's saying that everyone
else is Not Innocent remember when
Abraham argues and he says maybe
there he's not saying there are 50 in in
stone what he's saying is that maybe
there are 50 innocent people in stone
innocent
how could the judge of the whole world
you know kill the innocent with the
guilty again it it's a legal terminology
so we're told over
here and it's interesting he follows
elim he does what's right
or maybe even more so he doesn't do
what's
wrong and also to be honest we don't
know anything about them we don't know
at this point certainly not about their
innocence or their guilt but and that's
the first word that we're gonna have to
pay attention
to so as much as two verses ago we're
told that Noah walked with
elim now we're
told and there's only one problem right
now and that is that we don't know the
word but
means I would be sympathetic to say that
it
means became
corrupt the world became corrupt and but
I'm saying that right now out of a out
of a lack of an ability of saying
anything more and we're going to all see
in a moment that the word corrupt is not
enough and the world was fed withas
which everyone right now I'm sure has uh
some thoughts about but now we actually
have two words to contend with one word
is and the other word
is which then went back to that
word so again I'm just for argument sake
I'm happy to use the word corrupt and
God sees that the land has be or the
world has become corrupt
it's because because all of Flesh had
become corrupt on
Earth and God
tells Noah that everything has been
filled
with and here some nice Poetic Justice
so these two
words the
word are the two words that we have to
figure out and as I said we have to
figure out what they mean and then
perhaps we can go backwards a little bit
and then we could try to figure out what
it is what is the source for this again
what's the antecedent for this and
perhaps again where where all of this
came from
Rashi it's in source
to now again we need to take a look at
what what verse it was that he directed
us towards that's in S three
so what it talks about there is a
warning of not of not becoming corrupt
by virtue of making idolatry so Rashi
actually just now told us that the
corruption again I'm using that word the
corruption over here is a corruption in
terms of again we'll go in order in
terms of idolatry in terms of sexuality
and we also know that there's a
correlation between those two things for
many many reasons I'm not going to
pursue that anymore right now than we
need to in Source number four it
actually adds another element but this
is
mid they were
idolators using that verse that rash
utilized so now it adds another
element that Hamas is is theft and if
you go back and look at Rashi I'm sorry
going back and forth if if you look at
Rashi back and Source two towards the
end so all kinds of terrible things come
to the
world that once the plague comes it
strikes both the good and the
bad so Rashi is
identifying with stealing
so or robbery so at this point we have
idolatry sexual sins and robbery going
back to Source Four M A it then adds
another element at the end of the second
line but there's another opinion what
does
mean that they were guilty of murder as
well and and It quotes the verse this
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so it speaks about again the word but
connected with the spilling of blood so
it it's by this point now that we talk
about a corruption that has taken place
we realize that the corruption is on
many different fronts what Rashi had
told us has its source in the gamorra
and sour five as
well so what does the corruption mean
again sexual sins and
idolatry so it's understanding that as
the sexual sins talking about Sin sins
of the
flesh jumping to that verse in which use
the word pesel as well so therefore you
see that the word is used in both of
these
contexts in uh in in Source number six
the
N
identifies that
verse with the destruction of the first
he's commenting
on but let's remember something else
again I want to take all these random
statements and make all of this a bit
clearer once the if took us to
destruction of the first temple there's
something else that we know and what's
that that the first temple is destroyed
because of three
things so
therefore when we've seen over here
strands of commentaries or midashim
telling us that oh corruption what is
corruption and pointing us towards
idolatry towards sexual sins towards
murder so none of that should be a
surprise to us because it's almost for
us the definition and therefore the N
again when he says he goes no that's the
structure of the first temple and that
then just ties all of these things
together in Source number seven this is
someone who's very well known in Hal
much not as well known in as a
commentary and that is someone who wrote
a book called The
TR very important safer in terms of Ash
here he's
commenting on the golden calf so there
it says they made a pesel AAR is Easy by
the way all of us know that there's a
there's another thing which is there and
what's
that because we know the whole backr the
backstory in terms of who tries to stop
them they kill so there is an element
there of both murder and of idolatry but
the third thing it says then
so what he is doing over here is he's
trying to explain what the word l means
and he points out in various context
that the word L has a connotation of I
don't necessarily say a sexual sin but
of sexuality and again we can read this
a little
bit and was killed as well
again because rash there
teases a simple reading of the
text it points more towards the sexual
sin
course there's a number of places that
we see the term made marry if you will
having connotations of sexual
sins as we find that that is looking
through the window and there we're told
is that we're told that so we see we see
it in in that context he then goes on
I'm going to skip a little B
the third
line but there's another indication that
it was really why it
says there it says your people have
become corrupt so therefore he's saying
but the word
corruption so therefore God is the one
who said that they became corrupt and we
see all over now by the way this is
really interesting because we kind have
had a line just now that maybe maybe
part of it was easy for us and the only
part was harder for us maybe would have
been the
flood let's start all over again if I
would have said that there's some kind
of a correlation between what happened
with the golden calf and the destruction
of the first temple I would have had
very little resistance to that I would
have pointed out the day that it
happened was y bamos right mosa goes up
40 days right he goes up around
the six seventh of Sian 40 Days Later is
yud bamas that's when Moshe comes down
that's when they're making the calf yud
bamas of course is the date that later
on will be the beginning of the
destruction of the first temple so I'm
saying all of that's easy not not only
that go a little bit further we know
that the first temple is destroyed
because of those three sins and now you
move backwards to the golden CF and you
say hold it the golden CF was not just
idolatry there was also murder there was
also a sexual outrage which took place
there which means to draw the
correlation between those two elements
and and by the way what is actually the
link that now we know that we didn't
know when we started today what's the
link it's the
word and that word is the one again the
N told us you know make sure when you go
to the land you're not going to do these
things he goes That's what actually
destroyed the first temple right that's
what the warning was about on the other
hand When God says no
that there's corruption over there so
what is the corruption so so again I'm
just saying is that that was the easy
part to draw the parallel between the
golden calf with everything wrapped
around it together with structure of the
first temple so what did we gain today
we just did one more thing and what was
that we were looking for the
word because that word is used multiple
times in describing the background which
caused the flood to happen so now we
realize that whatever was taking place
place by the time of the flood has a
correlation a similarity there's
something over here connecting between
what happens by destruction of the first
temple and for that matter what happens
by the golden calf and again all that
we're pointing out then is that you the
use of that word which we may not have
been as sensitive to we would again we
read read the flood we just kind of read
it through okay everything's bad
everyone's corrupt but we again that's
my question what does corruption mean
now I was a one could be a little give
one second one could be a little bit
unfair because I said when they teach in
school what was that happened they said
oh because they would what was the thing
like Rashi said at the end they were
guilty of stealing and everybody knows
the ri yes the ri that's people would
walk into a store and everyone would
take a little bit to eat a little bit
less than shevo so no one could be but
by the way that's a very sophisticated
interpretation of what happened that
that assumes that there's a justice
system that ass assumes that there are
Judges around there's assume that
there's decency that there's laws
with all due respect it sounds to me
that that's not what's taking place over
there at all it sounds to me what's
taking place is much more of a situation
of power and might and the strong are
the ones who are in control and they're
just taking whatever it is that they
want and therefore even though Rashi had
told us along the way oh there are
sexual sins and there's idolatry again I
think especially when kids are taught
this they're saying oh no the main thing
is gazel if you're a teacher in it's
school you can say very good lesson out
of it and be careful not to take
something even of very little value from
anybody that's what ended up bringing
the flood and so on and so forth of
course the problem with the the okay
before I get to the problem the good
side of this is you said a very good
lesson the downside of this is it's
totally extreme and not proportionate
it's not going to be because somebody
took less than a Chev pruta that's going
to destroy the entire world that that
that does not really make sense and and
yes you can tell me I I can show you the
shami I know the sh me I I I know what
it says and nonetheless if you're
looking for it's your sh me and BBA msia
periced so yes it says that there but it
seems to be a little bit stronger what
we've been seen till now now everything
I've done till now has
ignored the larger piece of evidence
yes and
predictably the midashim on what it is
that yes did will offer all of those
possible
interpretations that he wanted to kill
that there were sexual sins there was
idolatry they'll do the exact same thing
in correct you're intuition first of
your memory is
good secondly the your intuition is good
because that's exactly what K do they
say because why because the word also
could have these things but again the
stronger word was and that was what we
saw in the Tres he goes no let's not
work on all that much let's go to that's
the stronger word and as I said I don't
have a good definition for it yet and I
all the word that I use was
corruption so we have corruption and we
also have Kamas Kamas till now we've
interpreted as gazel taking things
taking things that aren't there but as I
said we've ignored something to see what
it is that we ignored remember from the
very beginning we started and I told you
Let's ignore the first couple of verses
let's go to the beginning of the paraa
nonetheless our favorite
Archbishop Archbishop of canbury when he
made the chapters he made the chapter
start a little bit earlier for us it's
the end of braid as opposed to the
beginning of Noah but nonetheless it's
it's
peric and let's take a look because it
really is an introduction to What's
Happening Here
by the way completely unremarkable that
when people became more numerous there
were daughters that were born to them
yes 50% of the time approximately that's
what should happen which means what what
in the world is it telling you if it's
just meant to tell you something which
was
obvious now I would translate B Elohim
even though I hope you realize that just
trying to figure out who's who and
what's going on in this section is
incredibly challenging first of all
let's make sure we don't call this B
Elohim I think that would be much more
of a theological problem the Ben Elohim
what when we call God Elohim we're
saying what would be the best English
translation of that the
almighty why because the word l means
power so the Benet Elohim which means
the sons of the
powerful which means that we have
powerful people who were doing things
we're about to see which were
inappropriate
wow that's unique right I I said That's
Unique the sons of the powerful men saw
the daughters of
manot how should we translate toot I
mean it's not exactly the same thing
when God looks and says
oh where I mean that's right over here
attractive we can do that as you
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want and they took for themselves women
whoever they chose now what in the world
do you do with that verse now some of
you may say wow that's really romantic
it's really
nice and some of you may hopefully say
no that's not as romantic as perhaps
some people think a matter of fact God's
response
is and God sees that that man's heart
does bad things all the time
and God now a lot I don't know how many
people wrote me this week it's as if
they never noticed this before how could
it be that God has second thoughts right
I guess this isn't buyer's regret this
is Creator's regret go God
by that's really interesting turn of
phrase and and I don't think it's as
simple as we think first all the root
it's
have we seen it yet in the
Torah yeah multiple times we've seen it
by the punishment of Eve and the
punishment of
Adam so that's that's interesting and
and he's also in terms of working the
grounds it's also the word ETV is used
yeah it's used you want me to take out
the it's it's used by both which is
really interesting because the word is
used as a result to sin so which isans
we're supposed to have I'm I'm getting
carried away it's okay I'm telling you
I'm getting carried away where did the
whole story begin in the Garden of Eden
I'm willing to say that Eden and ETV are
two opposites it's supposed to be a
place of pleasure instead it becomes a
place of ETV okay if again if you want
I'm I told you if you want I could say
I'm getting carried away but it's okay
I'm I'm allowed to but but nonetheless
that's going to
that you should notice the other thing
is I know the way to read the way that
everyone would read it the first time is
that God
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Mourns that
he of course the problem there is so
there are M that
say that maybe God should have just
created things that are create connected
to the heavens rather than us who are
made of Flesh because when made of Flesh
what follows sins of the flesh
follow so even again even though this is
really easy my job is to make it hard
who's hard a matter of fact go back not
so far one
verse and man's heart is totally obsess
with doing things which are
evil now that's such an interesting turn
of phrase now that God
has because of Libo because of how man
is using his heart which
means you all see what I just now did
and it wasn't complicated it's almost
staring at you when you're looking at it
because it's the previous verse and it's
this verse and that was the last La that
we were talking about which means
essentially God created us with Free
Will and God is is uh disappointed that
we keep making the wrong decisions and
I'm going to say it again the use of the
word where God has ET is interesting the
other thing which is interesting is the
is the other word which we saw over
here I mean am I the only one who sees
it or you see it also do you see what's
in the middle of that
word Noah right so Noah is kind of
hiding over there
God but there is something which is
hidden and that is someone like Noah who
does the right thing or at least doesn't
do the bad thing and again if you think
it's my imagination
but so again you see it
there also is really interesting because
it's Noah inverted the no
so you have this whole section of God
lamenting the state of the world that
the world has become someplace which is
corrupt the reason the world is corrupt
is because of man who's created with the
ability of making choices and God is
lamenting the choices which man has made
again this idea that man is being
mashit is going to be followed by God
doing which again that's the Poetic
Justice over here that the world will
become Mas as well and therefore
essentially there are consequences to
our Behavior which is really interesting
because there are quote unquote natural
consequences the reason why natural is
not the best word to use it's not really
that nature it's nature in the service
of God and at the very end God says I'm
not going to keep on doing things like
this because this is the way that man is
but um that's part part of I think a
larger thought about what really changed
from before and and
after having said all this we can now
move over
to try to figure out whatas meant Rashi
told us it me gazel if we go and look at
source number eight
Theus says
that means people are grabbing things
right are grabbing things
thei right
so so you have again you have gazel
things are being are being taken the
Ezra says something which is so good so
to the point and so correct because all
that Ezra does differently than uh than
we did till now is that he acknowledges
that we should have started by the
beginning of the chapter and he
writes which means when it says the
world was full ofas and everything
became corrupt all that he did is he
went back to the beginning of the
chapter of the powerful people taking
the girls or taking the women so he says
it's not just that they're going to a
store and each person is eating a grape
rather it's go by the way that this
lesson you know who really worked for my
wife she we go to the shook she won't
she won't take a she won't taste a grape
she won't taste a grape and I would I go
to the guy the proprietor I said could
we taste the grape to see if we like
them oh of course of course like she
won't do it cause again this yeah this
this gu she does want to cause another
flood could be that if we need rain
maybe she'll start doing
it
so now on the topic of food
okay you want a
recipe there is an argument that people
are V vegetarian beforehand but by the
way years and years ago somebody heard
one of my classes I talked to something
about eating meat and he writes me and
he says isn't it true that in Judaism
the highest levels to be vegetarian and
he and he says because Adam and Eve were
vegetarians before the sin I said they
were also walking around naked like
what's your
point go
ahead yes yes
okay we're going to leave your question
and we'll find we'll find a good time to
come back to it and I have nothing
against vegetarianism I just have a
problem when people try to force it into
Jewish law or theology I find that
sometimes a little interesting I know I
and I
rev cook rev cook wrote okay we're not
doing this rev cook has a book on
vegetarianism that he didn't
write he didn't write it rather rather
some his son and another student the
Nazir they who were both vegetarians
they cut and pasted from some of his
other works and they put this book but
he uh it's just like when he's talking
about the topic in general terms if Cook
was not a vegetarian by the way
I don't know it's a
pseudo so yeah except for yeah if you
want to eat Olive leaves they're a
little bitter I think um rev cook in
this book one of the things that he says
is that the world isn't ready for
vegetarianism because the Europeans will
end up valuing animals more than they do
human
life rof cook was very depressed in
World War I beforehand he was much more
positive in terms of the world becoming
towards peace and if we can have an a
spiritual evolutionary process but uh he
was very when he saw that the world
going out can't even imagine what he
would have thought if he would have seen
World War II but uh some of his writings
dur by the way he didn't get to write
before him that much when he was younger
he did could we not talk that much R
cook but I just say he didn't have such
an easy life he he he got married his
wife died I think within two years and
uh and was left him with a
baby and then and then he remarried he
married her first cousin their fathers
were twins by the way twin
brothers and uh he wrote when he was
younger and once he got into the Raba
note he didn't have as much time to
write during World War I when he got
stuck in Switzerland than afterwards in
London he actually had a lot more time
to write so he's sitting sitting and and
and writing things there must let's get
let's get back
let's get
back so that's why I said the iban Ezra
is really good because he connects the
Kamas with the various things and the
violence now of course you're all going
to say Kamas the violence of taking is
also taking women which uh again that
that that's what the Ezra is telling you
I'm saying that that's what's really
interesting goes in the same direction
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so again we got we got to the mall over
here they're
uh
yes look what happens when Noah is named
in Source 12
again and so
on hasem so now you see the word again
again over there so I'm saying don't
ignore that word because that that word
was there with the sin it's there when
no comes into the world and then it's
there afterwards When God says okay it's
time to wipe things out all all of this
is not a coincidence now we're going to
spend as much time as we can now moving
over to what I think is the place that
we need need to look now that we know
everything because now we know
everything and that is to go back to
peric
doid first thing about peric doid where
were're up to P I mean this is a little
bit after Cen whole story of K in he
that happens at the beginning of peric
doid and then we continue with that line
because we don't have any other line yet
shet is not born yet that's going to
happen right afterwards so it goes on
and tells the story about the various
people that are being killed being born
sorry being born so and so many years
and so on and so forth then we have
something which is somewhat of an
outlier again I want to explain exactly
what I mean by
this it's an outlier in the sense that
it gives us too much
information it's which mean till then
it's really this person begat begat
begat begat and it just you know goes
down the line and whenever you're going
to have more information you have to to
stop and say why is it telling me this
the ramban by the way comments on this
and he says it has to be that there's a
really good reason for all of this
otherwise it doesn't make sense and
essentially again I'll
I'll I'll get way ahead of myself over
here either you're going to say that
there's something really good which were
being told or the other possibility of
course is that something really bad
being told but nonetheless let's take a
look peric it's Source 12 back in
peric sorry that was Source 13 back
in now my first question is is that good
or is that bad maybe that depends if
you're L if you're or if you're maybe
different people will have different
attitudes to that
question and I'm sorry to immediately
put a value judgment on this asking is
this something which is which is good or
bad
but later on when we're told that Yakov
is in
yosal some of the com Aries are going to
go back and quote this verse and say
what does it mean to be a yosim it means
that you are a shepherd and you go out
with your flock to wherever it is that
you wander and you build tents along the
way as you spend the night wherever it
is that they go grazing because there
are no real boundaries that you're
concerned of you just kind of go
wherever you want now the thing that we
should notice about this is that this is
the cane line right why because he's
dead and what this individual yal is
doing is he's living he's
life okay anything you want to say about
this
psychologically fixing tikon it's in
right you just have to notice that I
mean that that's what he's doing and he
is again from the line of
Cen it continues and it
says now that must have really been
confusing Y
and and he's the first
musician which means how do he become
more of a Bohemian than a Shepherd
right you become a musician so we'll
we'll we'll we're going to have to come
back and think about this for a
second it's
you know as much as you know we talked
about the continuation of or he here
is Vel so G guess what he went into he
went into the arms manufacturing
business so here you have somebody who's
living the he life and now you have
somebody who is perfecting the cayen
life in a much more you know again he's
not even dealing with with what Cen did
Ken right
was a farmer the land is cursed why
bother working the land but Cen becomes
a murderer so here's a guy who's making
weapons and his sister is now the other
thing that we should note is there have
not been all that many women who've been
named and we just now had three of them
in uh in in really short
order and then we have something else
I have I don't care what any word means
over here I'm just pointing out that
this may be the first example of
poetry because he's saying he's saying
something which is clearly
poetic
so we try to unpack some of this first
of all kazal tell
us that what Le did it does not see it
in a kind way it says that we'll read
the mid we know this from Rashi as well
but look at
14 which means this behavior is the
precursor of the generation of the flood
which means I don't have to work hard
now and try to prove that in this
section we're going to find Behavior
which is going to be the antecedent of
what happens when the generation of the
flood
arrives the med already said this it's
not that's not good enough for you rash
in Source
14 which means we all should have known
this so when this narrative is
introduced The Narrative of lch and
there's two lchs by the way in case you
didn't catch that you you had a you had
a lch also in Source 12 who has a son
named Noah here you have a different L
those are two different lines you have a
l from each line so the L in chapter 4
from the cayen line so first of all he's
a
character there's all kinds of things
that you need to pay attention to he
talks of Murder By the way he talks
poetry but his poet is about
killing that itself is really
interesting he's the first rapper okay
so and and by the way there's some
misogyny over here as well just in case
you uh you needed that also just to
round things out why would I say that
there's misogyny well if you continue
with the midash in Source 14 it says
that this is what they would do why
so in case you didn't understand
anything see in today's world were I
really have to be careful about things
that I say but in today's world we're
far more
sophisticated th those of you who don't
know my parents celebrated their 70th
Anniversary yesterday so I called I I I
called I called my father I said most
people to get to 70 need at least two
three or four wives it's not that uh
it's you know one wife 70 years is uh
a you need many many things to make that
happen but in today's world people they
they tend they'll marry someone they're
young have a bunch of kids with them and
then marry somebody else inevitably
younger I'm just saying we're talking
generalities in the world not pointing
fingers at anybody
but inevitably they'll marry somebody
else who's younger so essentially
they'll have they'll have the wife who
Roar the kids and they'll have the
trophy wife afterwards
and lch doesn't wait he he does them
both at the same time so he has his wife
who has the kids who's that okay your J
by the way realize why he's misogynist
because his wives are only there for
utility they're not they're not in
Aero right that's the thing they're
they're not a partner right it's not a
sex there's again we talked about the
romance before so if I asked you was
that romantic well where did the
non-romantic behavior begin it starts
with lch lch is the one who divides his
needs and let me get a wife for each one
of my needs which means when we then
find later
on they took all kinds of women of
course they need multiple wives they
need all kinds of multiple needs and the
women were essentially there to serve
all kinds of needs but the thing there
is also was a connotation of force and
that's exactly what ianu were saying is
that you kidnap and you take and you're
stronger and the powerful men did
whatever it is that they did and yeah if
only if only powerful men were no longer
doing these things which means that this
this goes right back to lch as the one
who's being blamed but I just want to
think about lch and The Offspring for a
moment we we had one who wants to live
the life of he that is really
interesting in terms of uh the the
lessons and the messages that he has
heard and he decides to live he's got
another brother with a name which is Str
strangely familiar and he be he decides
to become our our musician so but when
you see that he's the musician but L is
also one who's dealing with poetry so
therefore you realize that instead of
writing anything which is romantic and
so on he's writing about his misogyny
and about his murder and so on and you
know what again how hard is it that we
want to work today but if I had to go
find the antecedent to what takes place
by the time of the flood I'm looking
right here at l l is the which means why
is there all this discussion and I I
also I want to can be honest about
something else there were two different
approaches when it comes to there's one
other person we didn't really get into
and that that was Rashi tells you right
away that who
is see have to remember where where I
left that uh I left that Rashi that
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is rashi's in Source number 21 at the
very end right before
22 so see that's really what the ramban
was going to tell us why do we need all
this information is because that
something good is going to come out of
it which means just like I have the son
of L who decides let me try to fix the
world and become more more heav likee
there's also a daughter who becomes
someone who's very positive and she
becomes the wife of Noah and that
becomes the reason or the for all of
this to be uh to be taught again if you
look at source 21 in the beginning of
the
rash that he fixed and and took and he
became cayen 2.0 if you're going to kill
somebody don't do it in such a primitive
way let let's make some weapons let let
let let's do this in the right way which
means if we're going to then find later
on in the generation of the flood that
there was murder which is taking place
and that was part of the connotation we
saw
of one of the definitions was murder
again that that we saw moving forward we
understood that by the golden calf and
then we understood that afterwards by
the verse which the told us this
connected destruction of the first
temple and therefore we had
the so that's going right over here also
to this narrative the other thing is
there are those who claim that this
whole amama story is uh is a little
different from the way that we uh just
now told
it um first I'll look at source 22 is
Mida and I'm just going to jump towards
the end of it over here and part of the
thing which troubles some of the
commentaries is hold it if You' had two
wives for two different purposes how'
the other one get pregnant well well
excuse well I'm not going to explain how
they got pregnant I know why you're
laughing but just because just first of
all birth control doesn't always work
and just because you decide you're going
to take a wife for that mean that
doesn't mean that that's what she's
going to agree with which means she
still has her maternal instincts and she
still wants to have a child and so on
and so forth but um but if she is this
beautiful woman chosen for her beauty we
have every reason to believe that uh n
as well would have been somebody who had
some attractive jeer as well and and and
by the way remember remember the power
for men
the see I would have translated they
were hot but you would not have liked my
translation so I I would have had to uh
look for look look for some other
translation um but look at the end of
source 22 the end of the mid there so
we'll go two lines to the
bottom so that's what we saw what Rashi
said where we got it from
because she's such a nice
woman no that's it she he was married to
a
different that she borrowed her
brother's musical instruments and she
would play the to and bring them all
towards idolatry which means that it
much more is talking about her seductive
Behavior but in terms of idolatry if you
um if you look around a little bit more
you'll find that there are those who
will then say even worse things about
her is that she was a seductress
generally even going so far as to say is
that she caused angels to fall the whole
concept of Fallen Angels the end of
source
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25 now this way that it turns it she was
so hot I'm sorry that the Angels were
chasing her and she ran away from them
that's the way it goes in Source 25 in
source
26 why she mentioned because the or
theim even better theim the Fallen
Angels fell because of so essentially
you have over here ways of saying okay
why is she there so again we're going to
go back to our famous theory of
conservation of characters and therefore
if there is this positive woman here and
so on so she becomes the wife of of Noah
but by the way remember the connotation
of that that means that Ken's Li Ken's
line lives on in all of
us right even though Noah comes from the
other
line if it's this she comes from K side
that means that the children of Noah are
children of both Cen and of shet so just
just think a little bit about the
implications of that on the other hand
if sh Noah's wife is some other again if
that's indeed is her name then this is
seen as being again two ways some see
her being really positive so I guess
then you make her more like one of her
brothers the other one says really
negative there there are those also
claim at the end I think of uh in Source
23 it talks about how she may have made
some of those weapons together with her
brother right Al
that she was involved in the killing
trade together with her brother which
means again it sees this n as being
negative I'm going to say maybe one
maybe two more things to finish this up
today one
is this was the problem that some of the
commentaries had why is there so much
information here so one way to spin it
is to say there's so much information
because it's going to be part of our
continuation and and then somebody even
coming from the line of cenne can turn
her out ofy positive and that we should
understand because we saw an example of
one of them who takes upon himself to
live the life of he which itself is
really interesting on the other
hand we have this possibility that this
is the continue of the cayen
story which now perfects murder perfects
all the negative traits and all the
negative things which then metast
excises in the hearts of men all come
out of over of this story and that's
really what it's telling us over here
and then when by the time you get to
that couple of verses prior to the flood
when God is looking at the heart of man
and how negative this has all become it
all comes back to this story over here
in terms of again all types of the
corruption starting with the taking of
the multiple wives and taking women and
that was in the second place going over
to this place of uh of of other types of
corrupt corruption the idolatry you know
what it really is it's it's the music
and it's it is
Hedonism and it comes from L as well
because L is a he's a pleasure Seeker
that's what he is L is a pleasure seeker
and that's why he needs a woman just to
satisfy he doesn't want a partner he
needs a woman to satisfy all of his
various needs and that's why that ends
up later on by the flood as well which
means the pleasure Seeker lch is what
causes a hedonistic Society to emerge
out that's what they see as being the uh
the epitome of what life should be life
and then we can look at TH those who are
making weapons on the one hand now you
can force your will and control others
with your weapons and on the other hand
those who are in the industry of making
music so you can say hold it but the
music is wonderful but the question is
what the music is being used for and
over here we find the the music is being
the drums which were being pounded are
being used for idolatry and not being
used for any kind of service of God
which means that it's not so difficult
to tease out this section all the
negative kind of behavior that we end up
seeing as the beginning of the flood and
as I said I want to say one last thing
you know what I find really interesting
the insistence when Noah gets on when
his children get on it's Noah and his
wife his children and their wives it's
all the animals two by two God doesn't
say l would have had to make a choice if
he was allowed on the if he was allowed
to get on Le come on but it's is and and
that term is a term which is which is
used even by The Animals if you look at
source
31 again two by two come so I find that
the two I know someone's going to tell
me but later on there seven I know I
know you don't to remind me I I got that
far in my mikra this week I know but
it's this emphasis over here and that's
what I'm saying we we started with the
flood we went back a couple verses
beforehand and I said as I said from the
beginning we asked we asked ourselves
one question so where did all this come
from so essentially we had a narrative
which was a little bit more developed
than other narratives so we decided
there must be a purpose for that must be
a reason for that so we started looking
in that narrative and what do we find
that narrative we find some very
interesting Behavior we also try to
explore how that interesting Behavior
may have caused a Devolution and caused
this corrosion of morality and caused
the Society of people who were Pleasure
Seekers and using force and using
weapons and using all kinds of things to
get their will because the most
important thing is the powerful person
because that's the only one who can
really do this to fulfill their own
particular needs and then when I frame
it like that and I ask myself so where
did all this come from the answer is by
Le and his couple of wives and then I
read the verse again God says no no no
two by two two by two that that that's
that's all that we're interested in
right over here and any questions you're
going to ask me and say but he me none
of that interests me because I hear
God's words very loud and very clear
it's about creating society which is a
just Society following the word of God
not abusing others not taking advantage
go going back to our Yi even taking a
grape without paying for it no a just
Society it only can work that way
otherwise Society itself will become
completely corrupt