Ari Goldwag - Noach - Times of Transition

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with Ari Gold wag recorded where the shims never-ending assistance in Hermitage in which Israel 5778 2017 this week's bar shows partials Noah and we have in our parsha the kind of the crossover years from under Maori show which we spoke about umbrageous and now we have Noah and we have the years in the interim till the door Hoffa laga to the time of the dispersion when the people of the world were dispersed over many lands and then we have the advent at the end of our part should we have Avram Aveeno coming on to the scene and Torah turns at that point starting with the beginning of life lock on to teaching us about Avram of you know his mission he is bringing God into the world etc but we have the foundation in our approach to practice no afraid the foundation of what went on leading up to our movie no leading up to the need for a person like avi new to come along and to start teaching about a one God because in order for their that to be necessary you know when other Mary Jean was around the first man was around he was the it's your capo he was the creation of God himself God created that man and other Marian experience God directly so to have any kind of fear any kind of non belief in God didn't exist at the time of admiration himself but as the generations went by ten generations until Noah and then another ten generations so Avram we had a degradation a degeneration that occurred so this part is foundational setting the scene for Avram Aveeno for Abraham to come onto the scene and I want to understand what happened in this interim period because the Torah gives us a description and so we need to understand that you know at its depth what was going on what was the concept here in order to do so I want to focus not so much on the flood and on Noah not so much on what occurred in his time but more so on a flogger on what happened at a time of Abraham himself which asthma fortune point out Noah was still alive at that time in fact Noah died when our Medina was 58 years old if you figure out the calculation the flood happened when he was 600 years old and he lived to be 950 if you make the flesh - as the more fortune do as the commentaries - you'll see that Avram Aveeno was 58 years old when Noah died so I want to focus on that point in time the point in time of the Huff lager of the dispersion I want to look at the Pacifica verses that speak about the dispersion I also want to share with you beautiful rim ban and Raveena bhai which talked about the contrast between the mob what was the mistake and why was it that in the generation of Noah the people had to be completely destroyed as opposed to in the time of the dispersion of lugga so the mistake that they made their the sin that went on there was such that it was only necessary that there be a dispersion but not they be completely destroyed okay so those are the the foundational things that we want to address here today I understand the the setting of the scene for Avram to come on to the scene and the the devolving of the world into idolatry and what that means in this context what does it mean that they were worshipping idols what is that what it's hard for us relate to that in our times even though there is idolatry in our time and according to Jewish law Christianity is considered idolatry because they worship a human being God has no form according to our teachings God is formless and he doesn't take form he manifests through us but he doesn't take form so it's considered at the Dollar Tree but at that time that ideology was it was a different form it was literal idols and they worship the Sun and the stars in the moon etc so we need to understand what that looked like at that time who was Avram Avena what did he come to rectify what was his mission which is really a mission that continues to this day in the form of the Jewish people throughout the really throughout the last 3,700 years since our movie know came onto the scene so let's see together I'd like to share with you the verses in regards to the to the a flogger which begins in chapter 11 verse 1 i he color arts applause Don McCallum the Torah is very opaque when it comes to the description of what went on what was the sin exactly of the door flag of the generation of the dispersion it's not so clear but let's read the verses and we'll see the explanation of the rom bond and they're a bit of a high and we'll see what was going on that the so the verse tells us that the entire land spoke one language which as the commentaries say was lush not Kadesh the Hebrew language which is called the holy language the holy tongue and devorah muharram they all had one they spoke about one thing and they were United which is unique about the generation of the dispersion interestingly although they ended up becoming dispersed before that they were excuse me they were united verse 2 via Heba no some Academy correction are by a shoe Shawn so it's not clear exactly who it's speaking about and who the dispersion effected it seems if you look around at the commentary is that it was it was only something that affected a certain part of the population the offspring of sham perhaps see over there but whoever it was that we're speaking about they traveled from a certain location they found a place in a valley which was shin R which is also referenced above L which is Babylonia which is present-day Iraq verse 3 by llamo you shall rayou and each person said to the other haben LLL vanilla venom let us create bricks Vanessa for this raiffa and fire up the fire bottle I'm Ella vanilla Evan maje Mahalo hemlock Homer so they started to build this tower they were banking making the bricks they were involved in building a tower what's this tower will soon see by ya'muru next verse and they said Hovind even Ellen here amygdala ratio mushroom I'm let us build ourselves a city and a tower which is going to stretch up to the heavens and that's a lot of shame and we will make for ourselves a name and that's a lot of shame if these are those three words of the words that they're unban that'll be about hi speak about at length we will make ourselves a name what does that mean we'll find out PennDOT puts up a nickel or it's lest we be spread out upon the entire earth so they wanted to remain United they had a single-purpose what was that purpose will soon see by my sister here is something though God came down to see this city and this tower sure but a minute huh I don't have the people built and it's important as the mo fortune point out that the name here that's used is not the name Allah King which was used in the model when it came to the deluge when it came to the flood so the tour uses the name elokim the name of judgment of God but in this context it uses the name Hashem you'd cave of K which denotes God's mercy I am Hashem God said hane I'm Akkad they are one nation we suffer a hostile Coulomb they all speak one language isaiah Elam las seis and this is what they've begun to do vitally but sir mayhem Kashi awesome Allah says I'm not gonna allow them to complete that which they have intended to do verse 7 have an area of a novel awesome so for some let us go down God is speaking in the Royal plurals let us go down and we will ruin their speech surely your schmooze-fest made us that they won't understand each other verse 8 VF it's a sham I sum up any color art so you have to lose nice out here and then so God changed the languages they previously spoke one language and they were united in one place from that point on there became 70 languages for the 70 different nations and the 70 nations were spread out throughout the world two rather different locations and the verse finishes off by telling us alkane Karishma Bevelle and that's why it was called boville Babylonia what's the word Bevelle mean sheesh um Balala shrimps vascular arts because that was the place where God mixed up the word bevelle is from russian bilal which means to mix up that is where God mixed up all of the languages and the effect was muhammad saw mash em up nickel Eretz and from there sham spread them along the entire length of the earth and it's interesting as the commentaries also point out that it was God's will you know in the pot ship shot of it they were coming together they wanted to be united in one location but God wasn't interested in human beings only being united in one location rather Hashem wanted that the world should be inhabited the entire world should be inhabited by all of the people and that the people should go everywhere and so this is a foundational incidence we need to understand what was going on but it was a foundational incidence that created the reality that we see today which is that human beings are inhabiting the entire earth entire world and and they speak many different languages it's also interesting I don't know if we'll be able to address the significance of the depth of that that originally they spoke all one language and now they're going to speak you know 70 different languages also an interesting point which we won't really get to address but it's worth thinking about is the fact that Claudius or the Jewish people Abraham we continue to speak the language of lushniak Kadesh continue to speak the holy tongue the line of Israel we speak evil 8i Rama every it was called he was the Hebrew and we speak Hebrew in Israel and we continue to speak that language so that specific all-inclusive language which was really the mother of all languages Hebrew so that remained only by the Jewish people and the Jewish people as we'll see also represent the all-inclusive aspects as we mentioned numerous times in the past the whole inclusive aspect so it makes sense that we would speak the all-inclusive language which is the language of Hebrew but it's interesting that originally everyone spoke that language that was the universal language was Hebrew very interesting okay so that's the end of this little section of the Torah then it goes on to speak about the told us the the generations and brings us all the way down to offer Mabini to abraham and it starts to tell us about the story of Avram Aveeno and how he left his original place and there's a reminiscent hint to sew or costume the fact that he was thrown into the fire and this is the foundation onto the the scene is set for a dorama vino to come and to begin he's calling in the name of God now what went on here what was the story here what was this business what was what were they trying to do what was this tower that they were trying to build so their Ambani I'm actually gonna read straight into the remain of a high because the the rom ban says things in a very closed manner it doesn't reveal a lot and and the the ribbon about hi tells us more and I'd like to share with you the beautiful words of the Robina bhai so it gives a few different shot him based on the posh of child and based on as is his way and then ego is finally to Alder haha ball and that's the way I'd like to understand based on the deeper understanding of the Tourette's also business or the verses been a salon of shame we said that the people said let us make a name for ourselves let us build a city let us build a tower in order to make a name for ourselves our head on hate a via Mauritian Shakur has been in tears there are be no bhai lays down a foundation here that the sin of the people of the door ha slugga of the dispersion was the same sin as their great-great-great great-grandfather 20 generations before Adam Irish on the first man and what was that sin it's called cats manatee is very interesting language literally it means that they cut off the plant links they pulled out the or they cut off the the branches what is the idea of cutting off the branches the idea of cutting off the branches is you have a tree and the tree is called the Tree of Life and it it's a spiritual tree all of our souls are attached to it each and every one of us is attached to the central column we are all the branches of that column and it attaches back to the root and who is the root of course God Himself is the root of all of our souls so now consoles vanity s means that they detached themselves from the root they detached the branches from the tree they looked at reality they looked at the branches what was visible visible reality and they said this is not connected to God they saw that God manifests through the Stars and through the Sun and he manifests in many different ways you know through nature etc and said all we have is what we see and they disconnected from the route they disconnected from the from the tree itself constance bennett TS and this was the same sin as other Harish on automation also detached in a certain sense he detached himself but he detached from he brought reality into a lower place where you can't see God okay and this is why the refers to them is Binet Adam right and the verse it refers to them as Binet Adam the sons of man the system verse five Ashur bundle Binet ha Adam that was built by the chopped the sons of man it refers them as sons of man because they repeated the sins of the first man Adam Irish um okay Canaan Ashima Ella cottage supernat es sofrito a premium huh Alon just like Adam the first man had separated the fruit from the tree right here taking the fruit which God told him not to eat he had separated from the tree Zellmer of an ass alone shame they also did the same thing they detach the fruit from the tree they said all there is is the fruit all we see is what you see is what you get and there's nothing there's no root killer Sean accustomed in our area by desert risk of a shame we find regards to generation of Enoch that it refers to the word shame is the words name right which refers to the fact that they were serving idolatry right if you think about what is a name a name is the outer aspect it's the way that you interact with me it doesn't it's it's it describes perhaps certain aspect of my essence but it describes only how you perceive me it's not the it's not the true essence of who I am my child calls me Abba dad right but that's one aspect of who I am so to only look at the outer aspect Plus who call the crib a shame a shame and speaks about the the fact that in the generation show Enoch they stopped calling out in the name of God okay Nathaniel became is a film associate uses the same language of election of who Kyle which means to become profane kms away Kailash M this was foolish Remy was a desecration or pro taking away of the holiness taking away it's like then we're Hill literally means hollow because you take away the inside and all you look is that is the outside you take away the soul and you want to look at the body all right so that's what it means to be profane to be profaned okay so he continues and he says like this I'm skipping a few words here that the idea is key how you awesome Haskalah men are safe they said at the end is the beginning is Eric Itza this is the idea of a disconnect cutting off okay and his collection was a alumni says that's why uses the language of this language Kalama awesomest column in a safe the word hockey alum can also mean to begin and so the ideas that the creating the beginning out of the end as the honey cruiser possession etc he Amina Lorena so this is the last of the Spheeris which is Mullis well mommy no no mana mana interestingly they believed in the last of the spheres they believe that there was some kind of spiritual realm and an interaction between us and a spiritual realm as we wanted to see it's gonna contrast with what happened in the Dora model but they disconnected the outer spirituality from the inner spirituality well he was an icon Somalia Smith name is Dana Marlena bhai he but not some akela Amador's Rozelle this what it means that it was when they traveled from Kenan he see that's what make had my initial om what does it mean they traveled from CAD M they were ketamine's from the east but it can also mean from before it's from the one who's the source for the one who is before at all they removed themselves from God g'day levar yeah hate has eschel him who had to show them are we showing so okay again I'm gonna skip here but uh but it's a similar sin to other variation who also disconnected himself from God he moved away from godliness they did as well okay Weezy okay so it's very interesting so here is where he gets to explain the point which we brought up earlier which is why is it used the name you'd cave of K and in this context why does it you know use the name of Rafa me we said like Tim so departure zoo she asked you she only came she escaped a partial Sam marble when it comes to our chapter when it speaks about the concept of the flag of the of the dispersion doesn't use the name you lurk in the name of judgment which are used in regards to the mob of the flood Kedar Malkoff roba me dahana the generation of the flood denied even the last of the Spheeris even the aspect of malice they didn't believe in any aspect of spirituality they completely disconnected Lehane Nishka sumin hearts at athena and the last of the meters last of the series which his mouth was corresponds to the land so the land itself had to also be destroyed they had to be completely destroyed within Heyman Alyona akasa names are uni maka Mademoiselle hey boss so they were erased from this world and the next they were completely destroyed because they completely themselves destroyed themselves we need some meat Okanagan me the hut to be low-key vanished Isola hammer Archie Miller came so they therefore had a measure for measure got respond with them to them measure for measure they were destroyed they were completely disconnected so they were completely destroyed I will draw a flag a covered wish mm you could but the generation of the dispersion so they just denied the inner aspect of spirituality lecithin evesham Ishmael gold over Harlem color so that was the name the inner aspect the name you cave of cake the name of Mercy which is the inner aspect of God's manifestation in this world was what they were denying in the generation of the dispersion so that was the name of sham used when it came to bringing about justice upon them the zealous invalid worship call even an atomic hot a boy each each person each group was punished based on their sin okay trying to see here [Music] so so it's very interesting because what you see by and I believe I saw this in the before Shahir that what you see by the generation of the flood what could be this is my own idea I'm not sure by the generation of the flood so the aver the sin that they had was Hamas it was they stole from each other they were completely moosh Qasim in their relationships between each other not just in the relationship with God but also in their relationships with each other the dispersion that that generation so they were united they had a full relationship with each other but they did not have a relationship in the proper sense with God so they did have some spirituality some kind of perhaps overriding okay either connected to the universe or something but they didn't have a true relationship with God they weren't interested in God's will they were interested in defying God's well they were interested in building a tower to escape God's will I'm a fortunate speak about the fact that they were they knew that to draw a model to flood so they had been too short with water so they tried they said maybe God next is going to try to destroy us with fire so they built this this tower in order to escape the fire see the before shouldn't speak about that and so the idea here is that there was a different type of kuvira a different type of denial that was going on it wasn't the denial of spirituality was a denial of godliness of a higher spirituality of a deeper spirituality and in the durham novel in the times of the flood it was a complete denial of anything we're not connected to each other we're not connected to God okay and now what's interesting is I was thinking about this question related to the thing I just said the point I just made which is that the flood happened after 10 generations 10 generations from Adam turn off Tom turn off 10 generations from Noah until the tilt to add/remove unit to Abraham and in his time was Dolph laga was the dispersion so they were afraid it's very interesting they were afraid that something was going to happen they knew something was about to happen some kind of justice from God was about to have and indeed that is what happened they thought it would be through fire and ended up being through a dispersion and but it's very interesting that there was a culmination that occurred after ten generations first in the time of Noah and then in the time of Avraham Avinu in the time of Abraham but there was like a degeneration ad evolving that occurred over ten generations and every ten generations it seemed it would be repeated and it's also interesting as we mentioned earlier is that avril lavigne who lived in the time of Noah Noah was about to pass on from the world the last 58 years of Noah's life Avram Aveeno had already been born and so it's very interesting that it's like Bazaar Hashem mish-mosh imesh like the Sun rises the Sun sets Casals speak about the fact in the context of tsadikim of great righteous people when a righteous person passes on from the world it doesn't happen until a new righteous person was already born that would come to lead the Jewish people and in in a similar way you see there's a completion of the previous ten generations with Noah there's a punishment that comes in the world the destruction that comes on the world because of their separation from God a new beginning devolving for ten generations and again with Avraham Avinu there's a new beginning now what's interesting is that Avraham now he becomes like the he is and he becomes the soul the Jewish people who are his progenitors we are from him so we are the soul of the world we are the soul of the seventy nations and Adam Levine was the soul of the nations at that time the seventy nations that began at that time the 70 languages and he retained efreeti retained Hebrew leshawna Chi there's the holy language the only tongue so what is this all what is it coming to teach us was the idea here so to me what my take-home is that that you see that every certain amount of time and I think in our times whereas in that time so 950 years that was the amount of time that person lived lived to be almost a thousand right naka lived to be 950 so that was the ten generations that was that amount of time which was a completion of the circle in our times we know then I'm a king David writes you mention I said I'm Shiva Shauna might have shown a person live 7080 years that's the average lifespan so the seventy years is the completion of a circle we've spoken about this also in the past and and so every 70 years there's a new a new completion no it's especially significant that we're reaching a time now seventy years since World War two seventy years since the beginning of the Jewish people having control over the Land of Israel seventeen years you know so like you know we have this completion we have a certain upheaval that's going on in the world today and that was what was going on in the world at that time so when we read these certainly read these verses it's teaching us something profound that we can have a take home from and I think that the take home is that at the completion of each Kufa of each time period time span there's a there's like a rumbling an earthquake that goes on and there's a change that's about to happen and people sense that change something is about to change and turn over and a new person comes on the scene and it's an Avram Avenal and Abraham and his job is to now bring the people back to God and he begins their mission the Torah is setting that stage for us to see that and it happens also in the times of Noah he also did that in his time with with you know the cataclysmic event that occurred in his time and so we also need to be sensitive and realized that we are living in such a time as well I believe and so what's the what's the message what's the lesson the message and the lesson are that we need to see what's going on we need to see the devolving that's going on in the Western world throughout the world and there and there the earthquakes to the to the things that are going on on a spiritual level on a very high level and we need to be massacre selves as we read the sukham as we read we have set the stage we have set the stage with this cataclysmic event there's a new world and now Avram Aveeno whereas before you know it was like Abraham was on one side but he's called a drama every also because he was on what the word aver means on one side he was on one side everyone else was on the other side but his job is to bring run over onto his side of godliness everyone else was idolatry separated from God as we spoke about Avrom job is to reconnect us to the essence to the soul to the you'd cavity which is inside to the death to the godliness that's what we're here to do and so we have a mission each and every one of us has a mission to reconnect to God as it has to look at what's going on in the world on a social level on a physical level at every level and we need to recognize that we are members of the Jewish people and that we continue the legacy of Avraham Avinu of Abraham and that is to reconnect to the spirituality to the you'd cave of K which is the essence of all of reality and despite all of the forces that are against that it's our job to learn from our own video and to as we read these circumcised does kindness that's his main meda we see how he's carving did with his meat of gore and Yaakov of eating with his meda of to Ferris and MS and so this is this these are foundational sukham foundational parshas with which we ourselves can infuse our lives with new meaning so I wanna bless you and please bless me I should help us that we should take the lessons we should see how the stage was set then and how the stage is set today for us to be able to come into the world and to search out what is our purpose what is our mission and how can we infuse godliness into our lives and into the lives of all those around us thank you so much for listening have a wonderful Shabbos this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www.rkphotomagictrix.com [Music]