Noach 5786: Don't Let the Evil Spread

Welcome to the shan all para for paras Noah and thank you Miami and kahalah of Miami beach for hosting this recording in this week's para the pusk at the end is very similar to the pusk at the end of last week's para but there's a critical difference and a critical question because it says here after the mul after the carbon of no hashem smelled as it were that pleasant smell and he said to himself I will no longer curse the earth. Why saying about why he will not do it is because the of a person is and that's why I will not curse them anymore. But what's challenging about this the Reb asks is that in last week's para describing the reason for the m the sounds very similar last week's para it reads saw that there was great evil in the land and the and the of a person was ra so here it says that hashem will not curse the world because he says the Yatesahara is overwhelming. And in last week's par, she says that he has to wipe out the world because the Yates is overwhelming. The Reb points out that there are distinct words and very important words that are found last week that are no longer here. In last week's para when it says that he has to wipe out the world, Hashem says that it's raayom. Both the word rack and the word co describe extenuating and extreme circumstances of how serious the problem is. and that the the ra was in the it was all the way into the land. Here it says yes it's called rah but not ra not to coal and not and theb says that there are two kinds of dominions of rah one is when ra is taking place and we can identify that there is a yahara there is a transgression there is a problem but it has not yet reached a place like in last week's parhip leading into the novel the cause of the novel that is called barit in the land meaning throughout the land and rock only and and when it says coal it's everywhere. You see, we know from Rashi in last week's para and from the very reality of the mab that the reun brought the mab because the level of degradation had reached so severely that rah will show it on the whole world in that even the animals rash tells us were completely involved in lentious behavior that's not common to animals and the land itself had to be reduced in its size because the rot caused by the human beings was so vulgar and so impure that it spread into the animal kingdom and into the land itself. When that happened, there's wipeout. But in this week's para, Hashem says, "I smell the proper smell. I smell what's going on." That man indeed is rav this means that the comes into a person before the and the Reb says that children we can know are inclined towards not listening to people. It isn't until later they develop a proper course of character that makes them follow the rules. And so it's not totally raw. It's not rock. It's not all the way in or coal, but it's still raw. And here the rabbis says that the same thing happened with Saddam. You see, Som's penetration of the rod did not go into the whole world, but it did. It was mispashed all the way into that place such that it had to be wiped out. Why was that? So because of the concept of what brought into the world of and his on account of that there had to be a corresponding negativity theory the the cruelty of Saddam and it became so manifest that so had to be wiped out and so stone was wiped out. Sometimes it can even happen to a person where a person does not catch himself and becomes totally spread into it the negativity and this is how the Reb learns about the death of heir the son of Yehuda in the coming parios but it's a very important idea for us because you see the Reb says someplace else and here indeed he says it as well but he says I say it someplace else that the says What does it mean that Hashem does not see any iniquity in man? After all, people do things wrong and we're not allowed to say that who is a vat that he just excuses things as though what we how we act doesn't matter. But the Reb explains that when is it true that Hashem does not see a person of the negativity in a person is when Hashem when Hashem is God is with him. The Reb says something so powerful here. We do a virus. We do things that are wrong. When we do things that are wrong, Hashem can still be with us there. When is that? When we feel we feel badly that we do things wrong. When a person sins, when he has when he has transgression, but in that moment, he doesn't say, "I don't care." He doesn't say, "That's it. I don't I'm throwing it all off." In that moment, he feels regret. That is in the moment of his sin. That is when Hashem says, "I can see There a person does not have the negativity that was misach that spread itself all the way into him and there a person remains like the rah that's described after the m you see the ra that's before the m brings a total wipe out it's spread all the way through but that's not us we may do things that are wrong but we can still do chuva there's still a fire inside of us that wants to be close to Hashem so much so that when we do the things that are the worst things We do we still feel bad about it and we have in that moment and there hashem your god hashem our god is with us bless that as we go through the challenges of life and as we go through the opportunities that present ourselves the things we accepted on ourselves after perhaps the things as we said last week that the whole learning should be and the things that we were mabble to do in order to awaken ourselves perhaps in his memory as well. those things we will fail sometimes we will make mistakes the important thing is that is with us in those mistakes and we don't allow the bad to spread and spread and spread until I can't remember that I wanted to do the right thing and I can't even remember that I am one of the children of Hashem who's commanded and elevated by his mitzvos may Hashem strengthen us that we although we admit that we have challenges although we admit that we do things wrong that we have the rah that is inside of a person that we're trying to overcome. That is the ra that's even after the m but in that after the mashem promises I know you have ra I know there's ra inside of you but I will not curse anymore I will protect the world forever the shirre alona should be with every one of us that we can realize our greatest potential have a great chabas