Flood of Noah: War and Destruction

Welcome to our T anytime viewers we are in par at Noah but after a episode that we all know happened in the time of we've been getting a number of questions so I decided to have a half half discussion about how to relate to the war that just occurred here on t t p which directly connects with par Noah and that is that many people were asking after the cruelties and everything that was going through that would happened a horrible day especially this occurred one or two days afterwards where people were still feeling the pain and anxiety of what was going on but even now a couple weeks later we still uh feel the pain of the shim also first of all the pain of all the families that are just getting up from Shiva but besides that all the people that are captives all the people that are captives in the land as I mentioned in in the the it says it's referring to that's what the says and many people are living in terrible pain and anxiety don't know what's going to be with their loved ones as we know and it's really a distressing time in the middle of a very big war we don't know Ma they say what's going to be with tomorrow and it's interesting to note that here in over here when it's discussing the uh building when it's discussing the building of the uh of the Ark so over there it is mentioned the idea of that when he was notm the whole entire year at the time that it was done the whole entire year of the of the um what does it mean in the when it says why does it separate them in different ways says based on the they would they would since the world was in a mble was in a bad situation they couldn't go ahead and be busy with doing things as Rashi points out of one place has to do with certain amount of tar a person has to be in tar when everybody else is together with tar and therefore it was inappropriate for them to do it Rashi repeats himself also in that over here at the time when he was walking out of the T it says go out go out you and your wife over here itly became permitted now that they can again go back and resume normal family life as it is so we see from here a concept of the idea of separation or if I could say in a more Global sense not having overabundance of enjoyments during the time when the world is in a time of s when many people or our nation is going through a very difficult time it would make sense maybe to or fast or to have certain separations that are necessary so one person even asked me if maybe he should be having meat they wanted to have some meat supper and they thought maybe this was the day after it occurred maybe we shouldn't be enjoying ourselves having a me me meaty supper and the question is is there validity to such a thing so this really goes into a in over there basically over there says that during the time of a starvation when there's a famine in the world so one is not allowed to have maral relations sh where is it learn from from ysep cuz it says ysep had two children he had his two children before the but once the came apparently he stopped that's the additional part in the P because they coming to tell us that he was not going to have it however the does answer does say does have any children then they are permitted because obviously for the sake of which is a so for that sake one is permitted to go ahead and have relationship and that's what the gar says however the gar seems to make a more Global approach about this whole idea it's not limited only to a famine and only to this one uh pre one separation because thear over there goes that a person gets when he separates himself from when he when he when he does separations at the time when going through so he'll be saved from a very difficult death and rash says like I mentioned before the rash says you have to go out of your way to says more specific thing he says that the world is being destroyed so you should not be procreative at the time when they're being that obviously is limited to relations but Rashi is much giving much more of an overall approach and that is you shouldn't be having any type of over abundant enjoyment doesn't have to suffer we not telling you to have to fast 24 hours a day but you shouldn't be having overabundance of enjoyment going on vacations in the middle when people are going through a very difficult time and that's continues over there when the a person should say I'm going to go to my house I'm going to eat and drink have great great time I'm going to go over enjoy myself they bring very serious things about it someone who says that I'll go ahead and meet enjoy myself and have a lamb and bu and drink he brings the classic line the P that says I will eat and drink because tomorrow I will die anyways in other words idea that I don't care death is here death is there it doesn't make any difference to me he is completely oblivious indifferent to the situation that is around him and such a person the says he doesn't even get a kapar until death very serious offense apparently for someone who is not himself even the r writes when he talks about the number of things of people who don't get a he brings one of them and someone someone who's with the rest of the so he himself will have a will lose his over there brings that an example of this which is what we want to speak about is mosu mosu at the time of aik it says they put his hands were up and they put rocks underneath his hands soar says what they didn't have car they didn't have pillows I me I there's all everybody's on rocks over there during the time of mos sleeping on rocks I don't know everybody's on top of rocks back then but apparently they had such thing as what we call a pillow and says they didn't have Kus to put under his hands he says no when the when the place is busy and everyone's in the middle of a war we're in the middle of a war of amalik even though and here's Big even though even though he knew that amalik was going to win even though he knew B was going to win knew it all he knew 100% that b going to win and he knew we're going to be on top and we're going to be successful still he made sure to be and even though there were no casualties B he still said that I'm going to go ahead and be part of this part of this part of this so we see from here an incredible idea the fact that yes during a time of a famine specifically in thear but apparently from all other as the over there brings in so really the only talks about a famine but brings this idea that it applies even to every this is brought in two places in one place is in which is the at the end of over there brings this idea that it's not only they're equal to the that when they have a serious uh danger to our society so such a thing also applies that's the second place where it's also brought is in so two places in so we see that it applies in that over there also in it is brought this based Oni that one should be careful in a time of T not to do it now what's considered a time of T so the does bring which seems to say has to be similar to arav meaning that there is a famine maybe a m some type of plague but not necessarily War however all the P disagree with him the and others they say it's anything that is referenced to in in other words anything that a person would a a city or a place will sit a fast on and that is a number of different things which are mentioned and one of them of course is war if there's a lack of rain if there's a big earthquake that causes a lot of of a plague if there is a pestilence pestilence deor some type of deor in the world then is a few over there so also seems to go under this category but it applies to every single however the I want to mention which is the does say that even though the Yi does bring it it doesn't say the word assur it doesn't say the word assur by famine it says assur one cannot indulge overindulgences during the time of a famine however he says when it comes to uh other that's not written in our Bible it's brought in it doesn't also A and B it's also doesn't say the word so he wants to say that maybe it's a it's not and therefore in a case of need one can be make which we'll mention some examples of one can one can be lenient but says that's a reason to be to be lenient okay however even though the Mish says iTab famine other like a war however you should know that even in a famine it's not so simple that it's also over the asks he says I understand you're telling me that didn't have relations during the time of a famine but we know that was born when they were going into when they were going into was born that means that Ley her father and Le Ley had Rel N9 months before that and that was still during the time of the of the famine that means it was still a time of the famine so if it was during the time of famine how was able to do it he says from here it seems clear says that it's only that it's not this is a good thing to do that we're bringing you should do it even by a famine but who like we said even by says by that we should never have any type of problems but even by a famine according to T also applies brings these opinions that it he brings some opinions that say we are for other for other things that people go through and or or countries go through and he brings opinions that we're not for it but they all agree that it's at least a even though it's a famine is Up For Debate because there are different answers to that but we see both a famine and a are both considered things that are good to be to avoid extracurricular activities of overindulgence however we'll bring a few exceptions like I said however it's all all up to the r in the time and the in the place to know if it's something that should be done the RAB and like I said the quotes it also and that's over here in our para brings mentions it mentions before meaning it's not only it says and also that one should be mon so we see that this is really a question but since we said it's not so we find a tremendous amount of for this idea which we want to mention the night of if it's the night of so then one is permitted one is permitted the the brings that if someone's worried about his so then also it is permitted theel of brings and this if we put number two and number three together this is a heter for nowadays also that the says that it was during a time where there were captives during the time of that's about 150 years ago and there were captives and they were taking by the and they saw that it was a big tar and they wanted to make a of our gumar over here in t but he says if it's an extended period of times people can't hold up to that it's too much and it's also going pre-shoot too much PR and and also people are not able to be or to the and when it comes to such a situation and also he says our door is we are weak Ador so therefore that's a reason to be V that's of course a reason why it would be relevant for us which had happened today that we should be finished with this whole entire thing everything should succeed but even they are claiming and exclaiming that it will be a uh extended period of time you look how long it's taking them to go in for some reason it's taking them time just to go in and start the battle in the first place so we see it's not going to be a chick-chack thing as they say and therefore based on that that is a big heter we have so yes if someone would have asked a day or two or three days immediately afterwards right after we had the terrible terrible tragedies of 1300 people that were killed in a matter of hours not even one day in a matter of hours M Holocaust and in in a gruesome and horrific type of way so then we would have said that yes maybe it's kada to do a certain preo separation for a day or two or three in order to to recognize the situation but now that we are post and we're already two weeks later so yes there are captives but over here we have a situation where we don't know how long it's going to take and therefore we're not going to be M on you in such an extended period of time okay that is number three another heter which applies especially for people let's say it says it's only if it's in your area in your country let's say or in your ear in your city some people say but in the area that you're not far from I could hear bangs and Booms even though I live in bees so M I would call that still considered part of my area but if you're sitting over there comfortably with P Canal sitting on the banks of the Pacific Ocean Min you're not really hearing too much and it's not uh you know should bother you but it's not in your area so you're not obligated according to the there another one which is important and this is relevant in general it says that this is pasin that it's only a which is which deals with the taking life which is which could be taking life of course that's our situation right now but says that's why we don't have a ra these days we don't have such things as a famine because he says even though yes sometimes we have famine we have droughts and things like that but there's all bread on the table no one can say that their m is starving they're going to die from starvation except I don't want to say with the captive who if they don't feed them properly can be in such a situation and like I said that's a reason for us to suffer together with with them however it has to be a Sak of some type of thing so a for a starvation doesn't apply but for a war things like that obviously such as the one in front of us it will definitely apply the M brings in that's exactly in the year 1800 there was a tremendous amount of drought and very big an were not able to get even bread on their table and there were a big amount ofar there was no G no rain there was a tremendous amount of he brings down and he says there were big back we're talking about 1800 there he says he says we don't find any of the that were not to be to have preo to separate could be they made on the day of fasting if you will however they didn't make such a such a thing and therefore he says it must be the the I to which is a it's a that's why it is the way it is and therefore he says if one wants to be fantastic of course should not become at the expense of someone else you have to always have everybody in mind before your M but he says one can but it's he does quote based on just says just and that's it in a time of a famine or a drought and who could be by another or similar questions were brought to the to the in the time of the in the time of the Holocaust or the was in the time of the first world war the same question was asked maybe we should be PIR during this time period now lasted a good five years unfortunately and it was a long period of time that seems to be counterproductive and they bring some some of the at the time that did ass someone by the name ofik that he did Asser but they his Lan is very strong he says were very against him they even they said they completely were they mocked such a they were against it they said they didn't want to hear it you're going in in a time when we need to be building you're coming and destroying we don't do such things he says and therefore we are it's important to be connected to the situation but not necessarily to do the specific thing if there's certain other T that one can do that's a good thing to do like we speak out the or the culture also said say that it's of the Gul it's of the Gul if a person separates from his wife of course we always know we want to be procore procreative and we want to do we want to be active and therefore based on these things it would be room to be one last heter which I just want to bring out is as I mentioned before if someone was notash says that means you according to that we is a boy and a girl as we know however if that's true there's obvious the obvious question is what's with ysph only had two boys why did he refrain from relations with his wife if he had only two boys he wasn't if he didn't who cares starvation so the T from here no me that a person has zero children if he has one child is good enough one child is a reason actually to be thead which says that no like yeah of course we know likei and they held that two children two boys are enough to be is a more answer he says are only have to have one child their mitzah of having a child if that's one of the it's enough to have one child it's interesting because there's a question between the brothers and Y if there was a if they were according actually learns that y held that we are not b no we are actually Jews we're not b no but okay we'll leave that on the side the box says it's and and therefore we see that when a person's M so that is a reason to be but if not then he should be he should be the also over there in part Mikes asks a different question what about he says we know that when he was away he left it to gr because it was a famine and as we all know saw that he was I thought there was a star outside how was he able to do what he says because he was literally he had no children so a person it is permitted these are the different detarium that we have mentioned as we know and it's not Lo loyal local to this the bottom line here is that there is a like this it's good to me sort of speak obviously in the right perspectives and even if it's not in this specific subject which really should not be basically and especially we spoke it's an extended period of time and it's not good for people and not necessarily do we fast because it caus a lot of B Torah they bring for that even though he used to fast in the beginning for his father and mother on their yite but later on in life he stopped because he held that if it c b they'd rather you be learning Torah than fasting it's much more productive to be learning so if a person's going to cause himself Nez by fasting and causing himself extra it's not rather he should do what I mentioned before as the ra says that is that's end the same thing that if you want to see the this idea of being yes that is the of the we can speak about it's also true together and we're all together here but a person should know that everything boils down to the to know who the is the one is our Salvation the way to get the Salvation here is to be which has to do with but that means real it means having sympathetic feelings for the situation that is at hand over there to be able to know what is going on not just to if I could say the nose as they say regular regular with one foot on top of the other in your lazy boy chair and just uh you know watching the sides and going wow this is horrible it's a lot more than that you have to get down and feel get on the ground feel the pain feel the pain of the situation that is going on to make you feel and that's why that will be maak a person to be able to get there out into the Ula who is the Sal who is our mashia that we know so far M he was the mhi that we had in the meantime as we know took it out from and what was he his was from all the of everything he was the he did everything just to be he went outside he saw their pains and he went outside and he felt the that was within them he went outside and he didn't just look outside of his aristocratic window inside of his Palace he went out there and carried stores on top of his back as Kaz bring us in order to make him feel the pain as we mentioned from thear over there by he didn't just put he didn't put pillows underneath his hands he went and put some rocks underneath Rashi says when it's referring to he didn't just look he didn't just feel bad not his heart in his eyes to feel the pain to feel where they are you should erase me from the book that was written he was willing to get rid of that's just one about it's not like me saying okay okay I just get rid of me no no a mosu he said the mosu the one who will never stand again he was willing to get rid of it just for the sake of clel that was his my neish that was his love that was his empathetic I mean but real real honest to goodness feelings about is in this incredible person that we call M is willing to do it when we know when the MIT was being hitting it's refers to the p as his brother he went out to go and protect him by the SN it says over there the reason whym turned to him by the SN by the bush and was willing to speak to them is because it said I will go now and look at this Mar because it had to do with feeling for the pain of CLA Isel he knew that this had something to do with CLA Israel and what it had to do and he was looking he was painful far away in M but it didn't bother him he was still there he was still thinking about him he closed his eyes and B and was still feeling the pain he felt the pain of the soldier that is sitting on the dirt outside or has to go inside of a and has to feel it felt the pain of those in ER Israel that have lost so many loved ones and we talk about 1300 dead people about how many people are alive who are suffering from that over almost 3,000 people are are injured besides the fact all the loved ones we're talking about tens of thousands of people that were by affected I don't know almost anyone that doesn't know someone that lost someone that's how serious this this this event is an incredible thing we that we all protect each other I know who just went to a wedding yesterday and the wedding was supposed to be in in the South and they made him is the biggest platform in in and they were given the whole entire for free this is a that cost 60 70,000 shek to be able to go there without anything and they were given the whole place for free to be able to do it in order to protect our people in the south in order to be that's what we care about and the mar brings down over there that from the L of the that it's not just enough for a person to feel the pain there's the over there in but you also have to do something about it and even if you don't feel it you have to do something and go ahead and feel he says y wasn't pain ysf was sitting very comfortably the the rav was not affecting him the hunger was not affecting him at all he had a lot of food and he still went ahead and was perished from his wife and he said also M knew that he was going to win aik like I mentioned to you before and still we see that he went ahead and did it this is the MAA of of the uh of the Gul and if it was that mosenu and not just mosenu it was also the mhia himself M himself in theim in gim and per gim and the ran explains explicitly there and I can't go through all of it because it's a lot of it's a whole peric but basically over there it talks about he's an what's going on with this guy he's the one who's going to take over the world he seems like in pretty bad shape but the answer in he buries the burden of everybody else he's all the an and All the Troubles of everybody is going to be on his back and therefore he's mashia that's how mashia comes why says the M Cutler says in page that the reason is because we imitate the names we imitate ways if does something we want to do it also and you know what it says in the goes through we go through don't think that he's sitting up in a prop far away of course we know that he's everywhere but the idea that he's not affected by it that's how it is and we see it all the time by the snap what it say I saw that the pain the iniquity that my that my that my nation is going for him says on the what does mean the same L that we saw by not to make comparisons but gives a which is obviously a anthropomorphic type of expression he didn't take his eyes away he paid attention he connected he related to the situation by incredible that when is were able to see they saw underneath him a stone what does it mean they saw underne him a stone there's many obviously cabalistic ideas behind it but Rashi says it's not enough that remembers doesn't have to remember we all know he future there's no in of remembering but he took a stone and put it underneath him to feel the pain to be part of it too to be there together in the mud together with everybody else to be there in the SAR with everybody else to close their eyes and try to push myself a little bit more to be able to know what I can do for the where this is and this is this is this is the source of this is the way it's going to do sometimes to take myself to push myself a little bit more a person's comfortable at home he doesn't go out to DAV in in a minion are you serious there aren't people right now going out and fighting and doing what they need to do outside in the crav and not exactly as very comfortable why don't you push yourself a little bit more maybe make a Seder which is not so comfortable 10:00 at night I have to go to bed now I'm not saying to ruin your day but it's a time when I'm just want to be comfortable home wrap up with a newspaper take that extra 20 minutes just during the war just during the war I'm asking to all time to go ahead and do something what I can do people who are in arel and leave I don't know ask sh everybody has their own specific situation of a person going through trauma but here is the time of this is the time to be together and to stop and like I said be mire of the situation get yourself on a cold floor feel a little bit of pain maybe even fast for half a day I'm not saying to fast to make yourself ruin but just so you just feel a little bit hungry and try to think of those people that are suffering right now in the uh in Aza that are not able to get out that are surrounded by that just close your eyes and put yourself in their situation I'm not asking for traumas and I don't want people to come in and tell me that they went through all this terrible uh you know uh recognitions because of of what occurred but everyone according to the level of where they're holding should be able to know how to make it and of course if we don't going to visit maybe if it's going to visit a sick person going to visit a person who's going through a difficult time going to help someone else again this comes when I'm leaving my comfort zone that's the point the point is to do something over and Beyond I leave my comfort you give it 10% give 11% 11% stuck it comes out of my because 10 I have to give but 11 I don't and when you leave your comfort zone that's the pain then you're able to feel the pain then you're able to connect because the whole of the G is built on this one new cabala one new thing that I can do to actually feel the pain P not just to go and help with the pain not just to know of the pain not just to be informed we are raised as being takers a notel instead of a not we have to instead transfer ourselves to being a taker from a giver I have to tell you I did hear a lady on the radio I think to you know I don't know her level of relig they have to say but her whole she says she wakes up 9:00 in the morning till 11:00 at night going and helping people and I say said a good person that's probably part of her job or whatever but you see a person that her whole life was devoted just to being able to help people and she's she's going out and telling people go out and help people she goes speaks to people why was I taken back specifically by this interview when she was talking about how much she gives her her life and how much she cares about each person she said there was one woman who was standing on her her peset and she told her I'm jumping she was on the phone with her and she says I'm jumping I had one child I had one son and they took him they took him and she knows that he's uh that's it he's he's not around anymore and she said I can't I can't live anymore I can't live anymore and she was already uh not not married she was n men already and uh she said I can't live in and she says what do you mean do you think that's what you're son would want you to do is that really what your son would ask you would he be happy and proud of you mommy for doing that because I was taken away so I want you to go with me do you think that's good do something to make him happy make a cabala make something new add something new to your life that you haven't done until now that's the way to improve that's the way to do something that's what we do we finish a safer but we start a new and we finish we start with a bra immediately we started meeting it immediately because there's never an end in the Jewish World we're always finishing with a beginning we're always finishing and there's always a beginning that happens afterwards that is how we go that is how we feel that is our life and that's how he is and I'll end with a quick story of a story of a person who was a big Rob in the town of the he was the in the town he came to the the story who said it was with rman that he came and knocked on the door of the wealthy man and he came to give a pitch about a few number of an of of poor people that were there it was very blizzard outside very cold so so he opened the door for him said oh the rub of the Year bet invited him in come to he said no no I just have 2 minutes I just have to talk to you for a minute please get all right so he started talking and telling him his pitch about you know this Hy or that Hy or this situation after one or two three minutes he said listen Rabbi I really I have no problem listening just come inside I have a fireplace we'll sit down with some marshmallows let's enjoy ourselves why do you have to do this he go I'm finished that's it let me just finish up one more minute and I'm leaving and he continued for another 2 three minutes he was out there six seven minutes he said I'm sorry I can't do it he took the rabbi by the hand and he took him inside of his house closed the door went by the fireplace sat next to him and goes okay now we can continue and he told him I'm done he said what was wrong why did you have to do it outside why do you have to what was the big deal he said no no no there's a difference when a person gives sta from the behind his fireplace when a person goes outside in the cold and feels what it feels not to have that fireplace yourself all the people all the poor people I'm speaking back they also don't have a fireplace they're also sitting and shivering outside I want you to be I wanted you to feel the pain and maybe then the gift would not be a gift that comes from an external hand but from an internal hand someone from beim a family member not just someone who's a rich person who has has the capabilities someone that can do it and maybe a you'll push yourself a little bit beyond your your your comfort zone but even more than that when you give you'll give from a place of reality and it comes that we all are because if we take a part of it though it takes half of the all off of them when there's two it takes half half the burden sh