Noach: Believing is Seeing

Welcome to Sheur and thank you for joining us to have Torahs of each of these parshas, of every parsha in the whole Torah. It's full of clues between the lines. There's obvious reasons that connect the Torah to the parsha. Sometimes it's a word, sometimes it's a theme. And sometimes there's other clues that are so beautiful. The Torah says this about the parsha. It tells a very dramatic story about a possuk in this week's haftorah. The possuk says that "Lo alecha ha'melacha v'sharaiyich l'avnei ekdach v'chol g'vuleich l'avnei cheifetz." That the stones are going to be the gates of Yerushalayim are going to be avnei ekdach. What's avnei ekdach? Dr. Gamarra made a drasha like this. As the parsha is going to be big stones of my galios and diamonds and shlaishim al shlaishim, 30 by 30 amos. And he's going to dig out esrim esrim and he's going to put them in the gates of Yerushalayim. When taught that liglig of a talmid, one of the talmidim was laughing and he said, "Rebbe, come on. How could it be? We don't see diamonds the size of eggs, the eggs of a chicken. You tell me there's no diamonds that are 30 amos big?" Not you talking. L'yamim the Gamarra says a fliga she nasah b'yam. This talmid who laughed at Rebbe Nachman was traveling on a ship and he saw malachei hashareis. And he saw that the malachei hashareis were diamond cutters. They were they were forming and shaping diamonds and building something with precious stones. He said, "What are you doing?" They said, "Oh, don't you know? As the parsha to make the sharei Yerushalayim, the gates of Yerushalayim are going to be made be made out of these diamonds." Lo alecha ha'melacha. Also like how may Rebbe Nachman went back to Rebbe Nachman and said, "Do I share my Rebbe? You could continue to darshan your your drasha on this possuk in the haftorah of v'chol u'sharaiyich l'avnei ekdach is really true. I saw the people, I saw the malachim that were building the thing." You think Rebbe Nachman was happy with that? "Oh malachei reika, empty one. You're an empty vessel. Ilmalei Eisav, you wouldn't have seen Amanta. You're malagleil divrei chachamim." And he looked at him and he became a goses al tamus. He cost him his life this talmid. It's a pella. whole Gamorah is a pillow. First of all, what did he do wrong? His Rebbe told him something. He saw actualization of it. He was all excited. He ran back to the Rebbe. He said, "Rebbe, I saw it." Second of all, if it was a tiny little thing they didn't believe, shouldn't he have been punished right away when he laughed at his Rebbe? I reckon instead of teaching based on this possuk Shira Hakavod and he laughed like like he mocked his Rebbe. Nothing happened. When he came back and he said, "Rebbe, I saw it and you're right." Then he got punished twice. I heard from my Rebbe he said that. A person can sometimes not be able to process something. They can't conceive of it. Everybody has a mind that's limited. It's finite. So, there's things that you just can't put into your mind. Different people have things that they can't do. The Rebbe is darshaning the possuk. That's a reality. Torah is a reality. You have to be able to have in your eyes room for a spiritual reality. If Torah says something, then that's a metzius. This Talmud couldn't conceive of it. He laughed. Okay. His brain wasn't able to process it. Your brain can't do calculus or has problems figuring out how to do how to how to how to figure out the taxi meter or how to figure how the fare works. Or or everybody currency exchange. Your brain doesn't go there. His brain couldn't process it. But then he saw it with his eyes. He said, "Oh, I got it. Now that I saw it, I am able to process it." The moment you easily a month of that means you you have no amuna. You're a person who's completely external. You could see it with your eyes then it's a reality. But I showed it to you in a possuk and you couldn't do it. You're reika. You're empty. You're devoid of anything inside of you. You have no inner world. You have no preemies. You have no gauges of preemies. You have no That means every one of us raises our children or we open ourselves with certain stories. Like did you anybody here see the Ushpizin in the Sukkah? I don't know. But we believe that the Ushpizin come to our Sukkah. We we raise our children the whole day that different things makes a difference that when you kiss them or something you're protected. Where? How do I see the protection? I don't know. But we believe that. The Rebbe was transmitting something that he didn't get. Reika, you're empty cuz you have no kelim. You have no barometer. You have no gauge. You have no way to build that. So, the Rebbe said that's a connection to the parsha. Noach was building a table for all those years 120 years. Bang bang. He's making the windows, the walls. Yeah yeah. There's never going to be a mabul. You you a mabul? Do you see the rain? Come on. We're okay. Nothing is going to happen to us. There was no world that they could go into to believe that this harsh of a harsh of a tall of a harsh of a most talking to them, this disrespectful person says there's going to be a mabul. Maybe he's right. Maybe listen to him a minute and see if you could process it. Now, we don't see it. We have no indication that it's really happening with our gauge. So, there's no way it could happen. So, of course there's no truva for somebody. The beginning of truva, and that's the message of the Torah, is when you hear something, there's a reality that you can't always see. And as believing Jews, we know that. So, learn how to see. Good Shabbos.