Noach - Right Intentions

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with ari goldwag recorded with hashem's neverending assistance in ramaphisha mississippi 57 82 2021. this week's precious part of noah i'd like to share with you a very powerful message which is the first piece first few pieces actually in the medrash on our parsha elitas quotes the verse the verse says these are the offspring of noah was a righteous and perfect individual very whole individual verse tells us he was perfect in his generation and he has three children shem khamenes and as we're introduced to noah our first interaction with him has to do with his children these are the children of noah and tell them so the magistrate wants to understand what is the connection between his sitchus his righteousness which the verse describes what is the connection between that and his children and managers tells us like this this is what the verse says the measure is going to quote us three different verses too in mishla in proverbs actually three i'm sorry in michelle in proverbs first one is in chapter 10 verse 25. when the storm passes and the evil one is no longer the righteous one is the foundation of the world kavor suffolk in russia when the verse refers to the storm that passes resulting in the destruction of the wicked siddharmable as a reference to the generation of the flood who is destroyed for their wickedness the righteous one is the foundation of the world that's a reference to noah foundation okay listen carefully to the message because the magic is going to build for us home it's going to build for us first the foundation you said i am the righteous one has the foundation he's the foundation of the world next verse this is in proverbs chapter 12 verse 7 the evil ones turn upside down and they are destroyed but the home of the righteous shall stand okay so first the righteous is the foundation second is there's a home that's built on the foundation we said the upturn the turning over of the of the russia of the wicked one that's a reference to the dura mobile again to the generation of sh the righteous ones shall stand the house of the righteous shall stand when we speak about the home we speak about a house so sometimes the verse refers as the fortune explain sometimes it's referring to a person's wife the home is the woman and sometimes it refers to the family the measure says another concept which is clearly related there's another verse in michele chapter 14 verse 11 which says that the house of the of the wicked is destroyed uh it's you isharimyafriach but the tents of those who are straight those who are righteous it will blossom [Music] baseball show me show me zidor mobile the house that gets destroyed the house of the evil which is destroyed is the generation of the flood well you shall know but the tenth of the righteous which blossoms is a reference to nach so clearly the majority in this piece in the first section here partial ahmed section aleph is teaching us that the ability of the righteous person and soon we're going to see where that bill that ability comes from because each and every one of us has the choice of which way to focus in order to either be righteous or to heaven forbid be wicked the ability of the righteous one to have the right intent to do the right thing to to do what's right he builds his home he builds something which will last forever however the home of the wicked that which they build is ultimately going to be destroyed okay so listen carefully so what is what is the determining factor here what decides what is it indeed that decides that brings a person onto the side of the righteous who's who are foundational and their their home lasts forever their children no is the example of the person who his children he's the father of all people no anyone who's alive today comes from noah his children shame khamenei we're the grandparents of all of mankind so what is it when we compare noah and his wife and his children to all the other people who were alive at this time who were destroyed and all of their generations ceased to exist what is the difference here's where we get to the difference measure says as follows another another concept which is really a continuation the verse says it's a verse in eo in job chapter 24 verse 18. who almighty in this context means a decree zero allah there is a decree upon the nation upon the world the the generation is the word i was looking for the generation of the marble of the flood that they would be destroyed by water okay that's there is a decree upon them that they would be destroyed by water to kula khal khasambharats their portion is destroyed is cursed in the land we find that there's a concept of misha paraff let's say somebody does a certain thing wrong which is not uh you know you can't take the person to court but he's done something which is inappropriate it's not right it's it's something which is wrong so we say misha paramidor mabul that the one which is god who who paid back the people of the generation of the flood so this person is going to get paid as well for example there's a concept of misha para if let's say a person agrees with the person he's going to sell ruvin and shimon agrees is going to sell an item to shimon and then ruben gets a better offer from somebody else so once he's already agreed even though they haven't written a contract even though they haven't you know they spoke about it they came to an agreement so there's a concept of mishapara which means that even though you can't bring him to court god knows god knows and there's going to be there's going to be uh you know a payment to the one who backs out of the deal that he made and what's it based on because we see that god paid the durham marble the generation of the flood [Music] okay so so to cool it the result of those people what happened what happened to them we lost them they were destroyed by the water not only that they represent someone who's cursed in the world and when we want to speak about someone who's going to to receive payment for something he's done wrong we refer to the generation of the flood because they receive their payment for what they did wrong and it wasn't something that was openly revealed it wasn't something that they could be brought to court for now what was it says the matrix that they did wrong that was not openly revealed the major reveals it that's the end of the verse the third section of the verse is they did not turn to the way of the vineyards what does that mean there's different understandings of the gears to hear but the bottom line of what it's saying the magician is that they didn't have the proper intent when it came to planting vineyards now planting vineyards is a mushroom it's an analogy it doesn't refer to actual vineyards but what it refers to is when the door hammable when they came to to have children and they did have children maybe not a lot of children it's not clear exactly my fortune have different understandings maybe they didn't have children at all maybe they wasted their seed maybe they had illicit relations but whatever the situation was when they came to have children their intent was just for taiva just to enjoy just uh to have that relationship with the other person in order to enjoy themselves and not to produce children and because their intent was off now listen carefully because this is what i'd like to speak about and focus on such an important idea because their intent was off they just focused selfishly on their on themselves and their own desires their own desire for enjoyment the result was that they were destroyed the result was that their children their generations didn't last they were destroyed by the water the verse in telling us in placing the two concepts next to each other that no these are the generations of and who who are these people who are the generations these are the people who are going to carry on the world the world will exist and they will be the great grandparents of the entire known world right who are they why are they the ones because nah was it sadiq what was this about his intent was only as the measure says his intent was only to bring human beings into the world muhammad bought him to have children his focus wasn't on his taiva on his desire on the enjoyment that comes along with bringing children to the world his focus was on bringing children into the world in order to and now this is me speaking it's not the magistraferish but in order to continue his siddkus he was a righteous individual he was interested in serving god and in bringing children into the world in focusing on that meaning not focusing on his own selfishness his own desires and his own desire for enjoyment his focus was you know to bring human beings into the world who would also serve god would also not be involved in selfishness what did they do on them on the tava the entire time they were involved in helping the animals giving food to the animals 24 7 for 365 days that's what the measure says the difference between the dora mabul they were destroyed why bad intentions that sadiq that sadik and his children that's and their wives they were saved because they had proper intent they had proper their focus the goal was right i'd like to read to you a little bit more in the medrish because first of all what we see here is that when a person has the right intent when a person's focus is correct the results are going to be something that lasts longer when a person has the wrong intent as i always say evil destroys itself evil destroys itself so the the negative intent even though oh wow you know a person could indeed think that they're getting to the right place in the end they might even say that oh i'm going to a good place and the ends justify the means but we see from this magician that the means are at least as important if not more important the intent that goes along with where you're going to is so essential if the intent is correct you're built building a foundation that sadik is the asylum that sadiq has the right focus he has the right intent and therefore he can build a foundation and he's going to build a house and the the evil one even though he may have a house his house would be destroyed because he didn't really build a house the foundations were off the intent was off it was just selfishness the message continues i'm skipping a small section the verse says these are the offspring of noah no it says his name twice in a row continuously he was a richest individual i remember the abu bakr whenever you have somebody whose name is doubled in the torah so it means that he has this world and he has the next world asi is that i'm sorry the measure says is that so a sibula we asked on this vlog you see the verse says the name tarak twice in the verse this is in genesis chapter 11 verse 27. so it seems we know was the father of abraham avinu he wasn't such a righteous righteous person person he gave over abraham to nimrod he was an idol worshiper et cetera um so the response here of rabbi yarabakahano who said the original statement is it's not a question terah even though he wasn't so righteous but avraham was told that you will come to your fathers in peace indeed his father did have a did have a portion of the world to come so even though he was an idol worshiper he produced avraham avinu abraham and so avraham is told that he's going to have indeed his father is going to have a place in the world to come and this is and indeed was told that his own child ishmael who for a period of time was not righteous would end up being righteous he's going to repent in the end it was very interesting so what do we see here in the magisk we see that no like avraham avinu no his name is repeated this teaches us that he has a place in this world and is a place in the next world and i think that what the measure is trying to teach us here is that the foundational idea here is that when a person has the right intent it's like planting a seed it's like planting a seed when you plant the right seeds in the right places those seeds produce fruit they produce trees they produce fruit the the product is a result of how you planted the seeds if a person plants the seeds in the wrong way in the wrong earth the wrong place in the wrong environment at the wrong time so the result is that those trees will never produce fruit or perhaps the fruit will not be as as sweet or as plentiful as it could have been if it was planted in the correct locale if it was it was planted in the right environment the measure is telling us is somebody who is able to with his carvana with his intent with his proper focus on what's really important he was able to plant those seeds in the right place he was able to plant the seeds that would indeed produce fruit and would last for all time all of us are his great-grandchildren not only is that representative of the fact not only do we see this idea represented in the fact that in the physical realm all of humankind today is from noah but it's also represented in the fact that in allah the world to come which represents the culmination of all of the deeds that we have done throughout our lives that all of humankind has done throughout their respective lives that place where we reap the rewards we see the truth of what was valuable and what was not and we bask in hashem's light to the extent that we have indeed aligned ourselves with his will so if a person has alma no his name is repeated twice this teaches us that he has a place in this world we see the fruits in this world and we also see the fruits in the next world that means that he did something real that lasts in the physical realm forever so to speak and last in the spiritual realm forever as well this represents that the foundation of what he did was real it was real the righteous one is the foundation of the world it's real makes a real home the home it lasts forever the reshame the wicked the hornet they create the foundation that they create is faulty from the beginning it's all just selfish it doesn't last forever it doesn't have any staying power it doesn't continue to exist there is shine the wiki don't have a place in this world they're destroyed in this world as you see in adorama and they're destroyed in the next world basement the verse says that in the future world the evil people the wicked will be like dust underneath the feet of the righteous individuals of the tsaddikim who will be able to enjoy and bask in the light of our kurdish borough so we see what's the foundation here the the cavanaugh the intent the the thoughts that we have why are we doing this and of course this is talking about a very high level a very righteous individual and we're being we're regular people but the difference is that the wicked their focus is solely the enjoyment their focus is solely their own personal benefit they don't care anything about the results and and as a result what do they do they won't have kids or they want too many kids or they'll be in relationships which don't can't physically produce children which are considered an abomination by the torah they will they will be focused on themselves they won't be willing to have more than one or two kids as we said that's the that's the result of a selfish focus what do we see in those who are keeping the torah we look at the families the families of them as we say they're blessed with many children families with five six ten more can i know horribly so many beautiful souls brought into the world the jewish families the from families to the extent that the focus is outwards and not selfish you can see the result in the size of the family the desire or the size of the desire for the families we can see it in the results we see it in the pre what's produced you see it in you know you can see after a certain amount of time the results just like the result of the dharma was destruction the result of sadiq is life and more life and more life and for us of course we're human we're regular people but the question is where do we put our focus where is our kavana where is our intent is our intent in order to benefit ourselves to get something out of this world to get wealth honor prestige to to have enjoyment have fun all these things are okay in moderation but what about the other side what about the sun the kindness to others the desire to give to others the patience with children the patience is required when one has many children that willingness that patience that willingness to be committed the commitment which involves patience the commitment to a spouse the dharma they were involved in all kinds of licentious behavior they weren't willing to be committed they wanted instant gratification it's a scourge of our generation this instant gratification wanting it now wanting my desires now even in a way which is unacceptable to the torah what is the focus where do we find ourselves on the continuum are we leaning towards the size of the side of goodness are we leaning towards the side of unselfishness of giving of being willing to have more patience or are we leaning to the side of selfishness and give me and what can i get out of life those are the choices and we see the end of wickedness the end of selfishness is destruction evil destroys itself and the end of righteousness is foundational the righteous creates a foundation the righteous builds a true home the righteous his righteousness lives on for all time so i want to bless you ask you to bless me hashem should help us that we should be able to make the right choice to recognize these two polls that are in front of us should help us to lean away from all the desires that we have it's not to say that we can't also enjoy life of course we can the terry wants us to enjoy as well but where is the main focus do we lean towards the side of unselfishness of giving hashem should help us to indeed lead lean toward that side and indeed we should have this you soy oil and we should be able to create a proper foundation for ourselves and for our homes thank you so much for listening have a wonderful show miss this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www.ariegoldwag.com or search on itunes ahri goldwag [Music]