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Life & Vitality vs Death Lifelessness - Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

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[Music] adish is in ganen and Hashem makes the following [Music] declaration it's not good for man to be alone Asar con let me make him a helpmate opposite him Hashem says man must get married but let's ask ourselves Le alone ad marish is not alone actually ad marish is in the company of myriads of heavenly Angels thean says marish was reclining the Heavenly Angels were roasting meat for adish they were pouring wine they were straining wine for him so how is alone why is this L why is this not good in order to answer this question we have to observe a very stark contrast between two prominent bodies of water in the land of Israel and AR isra we have the yamat the Galilee sea and we have the yam the Dead Sea the salt sea and these two bodies of water and these two regions could not be more Polar Opposites the Galilee the water is sweet there is fish FAA plant life animal life that exist nowhere else in the world there are fish that in inhabit the Galilee that are not found elsewhere it is one of the most Lush regions in the entire world P gar the fruits that grow there are from the most delicious of anywhere in the entire universe and you go a little bit South you go to the region of the Dead Sea and kishu it is as its name implies it is dead there's no plant there's no animal scientists debate whether an amiba a bacteria could survive in the Dead Sea and yet they're all fed from the same body of water from the yardin from the Jordan River how could it be that in the north this is one of the most Lush areas in the world and in the South it's dead Rak of laor explains that in this world there are two states there's a state of giving and there's a state of taking in a state of giving there's life there's Vitality there is energy in a state of merely taking then life cannot Thrive life cannot exist you see in the area of the kerat the kerat receives the water of the yardin of the Jordan River but then after it receives it it becomes a giver and it sends it off to head south and therefore in the region of the kinat there is life there is vitality a little bit South is the Dead Sea the reason why the area is dead is because the Dead Sea receives the water of the Jordan but it does not continue to give and where all there is is receiving and no giving then life cannot Thrive says this is the reason why yes adaran was in the accompaniment of the Heavenly angels and there is so much the Angels could do for Adam but nothing that Adam could do for the angels and in that sense Adam Harish is very alone if Adam can only take and he cannot give then that is not good that will not allow for life to thrive what an important message to a and kala to a groom and a bride one's home The Jewish Home always has to be is a Jewish Home in the Jewish people a house of giving a house of Illuminating a house of Nina where there's giving there is life in the introduction to the saer the sons of that their father would always tell [Music] them this is the entirety of man man was not created for himself but rather to help others as much as possible this is the foundation of the Jewish home when the Jewish Home is built upon this principle it is a home of life it is a home of Vitality it is a [Music] bias wishing everyone a wonderful [Music] week [Music] GL