Maharal on Parshas Noach 2026 Shiur with Rabbi Simcha Bunim Berger

Okay, good evening. Good evening to all those on anytime to to Reblazer for putting together such an amazing place. Wow, he has a heart of gold. Yeah, [sighs and gasps] >> no, this we're not in the wrong para. It says remember the years of the gen the early years generations and generations. Dar vador. Dar says Rashi den the d of dalog understand what happened in these generations in this week's parop while the main focus is da but if you go to the end of the par The end of the parad. The whole world was one language. means that they had words that was that unified them all together. Rashi says they came with one was that we're about to see in the Gmoran in a moment the says let's go to make a city. [snorts] We're gonna make a tower. The head of the tower will be in heaven. A skyscraper. It scrapes the sky up in Shmayim the lanu shame. And we will make for ourselves a shame. We shouldn't be scattered. He came down and looked to see what happened. I remember my rebi taught us that the says that if I don't stop them they are going to be successful says >> yes that means it won't be withheld means what they want to accomplish they will do it. >> But the idea sounds so ridiculous that >> what did they want to do? Remember were you here last week when I said I said it in my schul that we learnish at the age third or fourth grade and that's our initial understanding and unfortunately that's the way it is for the rest of a person's life how to and then I know the stories I learned it in third or fourth grade so as an eight-year-old or a nineyear-old that's your education and then you never think about it Again you know the stories right until you come here I was to go to my he taught us but yeah so what's going on over here what do they want to do say the san the garra says and it's quoted in your maharal the maral is where it starts That's where it is on your handouts. What did they want to do? What did they one opinion said? Let's sit there. What does that mean? That's all we're going to learn about tonight. What do you think? All we need to do is sit there. That's one opinion. We're going to make a zor up there, not down here. Up there we'll make that's evil >> competition. That's evil. That your mask already. Okay. Number three. >> Let's go up and we'll fight him. >> Make war >> up here. We're going to go to his place. We're going to make war and according to the they could have been successful. What does that mean? [clears throat] What does that mean? Okay. Now, the ones that said, "Let us go sit there." That means not just nations there for them scattered them. Nothing more than they don't have any more aus. Nothing more than that. Okay, that's what they did. Now the ones that said let's make a war they became monkeys they became right Darwin said that humans come from monkeys he didn't know this gimari he's right but it's the opposite way around the not the monkeys became humans the humans became monkeys so when he saw the connection was in the other direction. Reverse, right? Went the other way. >> And the one that went and h excuse me was there. He was he he confounded their language. He made them. He changed their language. You mention he said >> yeah that's one of the things it says he was this is the now we have a few minutes to learn the moral let's get a little bit of a deeper shot what what we can understand you know what means is individuality >> opposite of >> they exactly the opposite of they wanted to take how does the pics start means what language which language was it says wow Wow. That is one and only Lash. What's so important about what's so important? Why is it called? What makes it holy? >> What makes it holy? >> It's the right. What makes a human being in a different than all other creations? What does he have that everybody else doesn't have? >> Right. The kuzari says that there are four levels of creation. An an object that doesn't speak like dirt, stones, next is ve vegetation, plants, they grow. Look what's going on now over here in Muny. The trees are turning colors, right? The leaves are falling off. You see the And you see the fall that you see how >> the the the trees and they're they're not do they're not doing they're not doing nothing, not going anywhere. Then comes animals. Animals that are alive. They create they they they eat, they sleep, they fight, they walk, they go, they have babies. And then has the concept of is the a person has from his It's a [gasps] he breathed into his nostrils the breath of life says the fact that the person had the nephesh nan Nephesh the three lower parts of the soul the which was blown by the created nephesh the nephesh you can't eat the blood of an animal because you're eating the nephesh of the animal but in between that the fusion of the ne the into the gof creates a ru that's the kayak of spirit of speaking. So speaking is a ris what do we call in we call it to speak we al if al if the letter is the letter alf pelle you make a what's the pella when you go to the bathroom that should put in a shama and the air doesn't come out right you open up you have a balloon and your air comes out and the body is full How do you have a soul in a body and it's full of holes and then doesn't come out says the when you make the so the is that the stays inside the gash with all the holes and all the openings that's the and the when he speaks he's doing a the is that the is able to express the is the of creation. Their words were what the human beings decided to do was take all of the that Hashem put in humanity, gather it all up together and put our salim. You empowered us with the image of God with it. The entire world was on the same page. We're going to connect all of our Kims and we're going to make you gave us aim. We're going to use it against you and we're going to be ourselves. You gave us a kayak of bria. Every person can be bra. You know what our bria is? Our bria is to choose that you have no shas to this world. Okay, that's what we're going to do with our do you know what they did? He took it away from them. That's why they can't speak the says the mar that they became monkeys. You know what it means? They lost their talikim. >> Oh, you want it's mid. You want to use yourim against me? I never gave that to you. Okay. So, I'm take you don't that according to one shot they wanted to make. Oh, you want to make with me? Who gave you the salim? Right. So, I'm taking it away. Right. You don't have a kesher to me. But you can't have a salim and not have a kesher to me. You can't have it both ways. If you have aim, so you want to have aim and not of to me, I pull the plug. If I pull the plug, you can't speak. So what are you going to speak? You'll speak some other language. So you lost the language. So it wasn't that aish was looking to make some type of punishment. What should I do to them? No, where the kil was that's where fine-tuned exactly where you were >> my reb there. I was once driving the Reba back on a Tuesday from a shir that he had given [sighs and gasps] an I was taking him home to Bagan where he lived on. So I remember exactly where I was. We're making a left turn coming by to go on to I think that's where I was making a left turn. you know by the kisal year before they had the big thing on top. We're going back in the 1990s. So I asked him like this. I said you taught us that the salim in the expresses itself in two ways. Meaning human beings and animals both have spiritual components. A animal has a nephesh bahamus. We have a nephesh elkis with our nephesh bahamus. We also have a nephesh bahamus. We eat, we drink, we sleep, we do all the things that animals do, but we have a nephesh. And our job is to be mash the nephesh on our nephas. That's our job. Okay. How does the nephesh the express itself physically in the with two things in English means we stand tall. All animals are an arba >> or like arba which means they're connected to the ground >> horizontal >> horizontal in one way or another. We stand tall. >> That is human. Number one. Number two, we have a face. A pars. Animals have two eyes and nose and a mouth. But you have more than that. You're there's 8 billion people in the world looks different. What's that? Who's one? He's one and only, right? You're also one and only. You have aim. You want to know what is a and you're also one. There's never been like you. Nobody looks identical twins. Frag the mama. She'll tell you which one's which. You don't know but she does. The friends know too, right? Salim expresses it in two ways. One of those ways. One is the fact that a person has he can do what he doesn't want to do. His body wants to do one thing. An animal cannot fight with his body. If he wants to go eat, he'll eat. If he wants to go sleep, he'll go sleep. If he wants to mate, he'll go mate. Whatever he wants to do, he's going to do. But a human being has a say, "My body says I want to eat, but I'm on a diet." Or it's I want to have right cheesecake. I'm fleshik you have a kayak to fight that's right that's one the second thing a person has a punim which means to say a punim is pim you can see on the outside in his pim what's there's one place in the human being where somebody's sitting in the room They kick the moon. What are you angry? I said I said something. No, you're happy. I could see it. You could see it. How can you see it? Look at this punim. The punim shows you the punim. It's the one place on the outside you see what's going on the inside. Punim pim p means I can turn to something. It's one of those words in that has a double meaning. Okay. I can turn to and and and you can turn toward yourself. It's and it's also outside. That's the of the that a person has the to create. That's the of the right that the was has aim and he created the world says a person has a right. He has that he has a to make his own decisions and to create things took. So I said to my rebi darab was me the part of the spine. They ruined their goofisher and by living with every animal, by living with this, by living with that, they ruined the that part of the the fact that the person can choose what he wants. ruined the of the choices that they made to fight with Hashem. They ruined that of the that of the I said it would seem to me based on what the Rebi said he was talking about the two that each in this week's par both the part that changed the gives the person I can do what I want you're not doing what you want if you're just doing whatever your body wants so you're one big beha that's all you are so that ruined the of the stands tall, right? Because it's exactly what they became. They became like and the of the para which is theim that [clears throat] a person has upon him an individuality that he can use to choose. They use that to choose against the so they ruined both of their therefore they lost their and he said to me after seven years he says I see you're starting to understand [laughter] he said what a compliment you're already starting to understand you want to know what they're doing shame Right. They're using the to fight against the and we almost finished up all the time. We did the outside. But each one of these each one of these opinions they fought with the that means to say that they're using the of to be against. Why the says they would have been successful. They were they knew that if they the whole world will take the and they'll all unite in a way that they can take all of their as one and use it against the aish. They would have been successful. But that success, you know what it meant? That means that the world is not going to we have we have we have no to you. My said this when we're talking about it, we're learning. So we're learning in per the two. You know what they did? The first generation brought a The second generation brought a mumm the first generation brought a second generation took the through which a person can be I don't want the that the world had was was prepared that all of humanity should have took the whole you don't the only person left speaking was just >> oh there you go that is That's right. That's why he is Abraham. The whole world the told when the whole world said that we vote. It was election day in in in it was election day. They all voted against Hashem. All of humanity. You know what did? He pulled the ballots and he said zoo that vote you can't do. The only person who voted for the wasrau and he got it and he's the only one who speaks that language. He's the only one left and he's the only one who is left with living in this world with they brought a on their call. You're a child. What is the parro right? He's gonna He knows Abisha knows that Abrau will teach his children how to go Derek Hashem. So he got it. What did they do? They wanted to make tower with they were looking to make an alternative to heaven. They didn't want Hashem's type of heaven. His heaven, his tas they didn't want. We're going to make our own heaven. our roy of our tower will replace your shamayim. If [snorts] you think about it and we'll finish with this in the corporate world, the higher up you have in the tower, the more bashamayim you are. When they give an alternative of life, live in this world, mach guilt, have an office in Manhattan. You made it. Now you that you accomplish now you're in heaven. [clears throat] The the toma of what is called tless in the belt. what to live for when the of the world when western civilization retransates and tries to give us a whole new perspective of what's called successful that's called and that's making a with a you're fighting with him because you're saying he has a tal for you it's called and you're deciding with which has nothing to do with the was the that they did. You don't need it. What do you need it for? Why do you need to speak this language? So said, I'm taking it away from you. You don't want it. So if you don't want, I'm not giving it to you. That's the of the not destroying them, but spreading them out to get rid of. >> That's true. But but as the Gmorrah says, so there were those who made a So you used your you make a you're not going to have aim. You'll be a monkey. That's those those who just said we want to have well sit over there. We want right spread them out. The other ones who made you not you can't be goes through each one. We didn't have a chance to go through the but we spoke about at least want to know what they do wrong. Why were they going to be successful? So he wanted to know the basics. So we learned the basics. Now you learnish again. >> Now you learnish. >> Now they would have been successful if they would have taken his away. >> Yeah. They would have said that's right. We're That's right. In a castle.