Maharal on Noach | Rabbi Baruch Taub

Okay, good morning everybody. Parshas Noach I have two pieces on the on the printout and one that I not on the printout we might have a few more minutes at the end which I I really want to share with you also. So the the first two pieces the first is from the Maral and the second is from Rav Schwab. Um they're taken not from the they're happen to be from my Hebrew safer on the parsha Kanfei Yona where I paraphrase these these the Torah but let's let's see the [snorts] let's see the Maral first. It's a classic Maral and it's a totally different interpretation than that which we are familiar with with a very familiar possuk. Okay? V'eileh told us Noach These are the generations of Noach. Noach ish tzaddik tamim haya b'dorosav. Noach was a um a righteous pure person in his generation. Emphasis on his generation that's where we're going to we're going to go. Es Elohim es Noach. He he um He walked with God. Okay? So there there's actually a kasha here in the in the parsha that in the possuk which I'm not going to deal with I'm giving you to think about which I thought about now when we read it. Why is Noach mentioned twice? Right? There's no redundancy in the Torah. Eileh told us Noach Noach ish tzaddik tamim. Could be that Noach himself is it Rashi gives three interpretations of what told us are. Right? One of them is that um told the same shalom masim tovim. That's why it says that Noach was a tzaddik, right? And his children's coming to give give his children also. But it could be that the the repetition of Noach that he that's also a tolda that I I have a responsibility to make myself different than when I was born. Right? When I once I'm born whatever I am and I start growing, but Ayla told us Noah Noah when he looked back on one one we look back on our lives, right? We should all live and be well. What have I accomplished? My my children, that's great. But my accomplishments also are a tolda. Are a result of me. So perhaps that's why it's it's repeated. But that's not what we're dealing with okay? Let's see the Rashi. Bedoro sav. He was a tzaddik in his generation. Yesh me Rabbeinu so le shvach. There are those rabbis who say this is in praise of Noah. Kol she kein, if in his generation he was a tzaddik, kol she kein, a fortiori, all the more so she ilu haya be dor tzaddikim, if he was in the generation of tzaddikim, haya tzaddik yoter, he would be a bigger a bigger tzaddik, right? That's the emphasis of in his generation. V'yesh dorshim oso le gnai, but there are those who give it a negative connotation. L'fi doro haya a tzaddik in his generation. In that generation with all those resha'im who were going to die in the mabul, he was a tzaddik. V'ilu haya be dor Avraham, but if he lived in the dor of Avraham Avinu, lo haya nekhshav le klum, he wouldn't have been considered anybody. I also just want to point out something else that you see it's interesting. The first opinion is yesh me Rabbeinu me Rabbeinu yesh from the khakhamim who darshan le shvach. And then it says v'yesh dorshim oso le gnai. Right? It's an interesting point. Khakhamim always look for the good, right? The other people yesh dorshim there are those who are dorshim, you know? Okay. Just a thought. Okay, but now, so yesh lasim lev. This is the Maharal's ex- this is what the Maharal is saying. Yesh lasim lev. You know the Maharal? I'm sure you all know who the Maharal is. >> [snorts] >> But the Maral until about 200 years ago the writings of the Maral were were very were almost unknown. Right, 200 250 years. And the same thing with the Arizo. Around the same time their writings became were discovered and the Maral you know didn't catch on so fast because the Arizo was on fire for Klal Yisrael, right? Um in our generation the Maral I have to say that in the 20th century the person who brought the Maral out for Klal Yisrael was Rav Hutner. Rav Hutner was the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Rabbeinu Chaim Berlin in uh in New York. Um he was talmid of the Alter from Slabodka in Slabodka and he went to Chevron. I mentioned I think I mentioned last week he was a young man in in a bochur in a Slabodka bochur in Yerushalayim and he had a developed a very close relationship both with Rav Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld who was the Rov of the Eida Chareidis and with Rav Kook. He was extremely extremely close with Rav Kook who offered him to become the Rosh Yeshiva when he was a young man of this Yeshiva that Rav Kook had a dream to make the central Yeshiva, right? Merkaz Harav, right? Which Rav Rav Hutner did not in the end take it but he he still maintained a tremendous relationship with him as the Rosh Yeshiva of Chaim Berlin. In the early years in his Sukkah Rav Hutner Rav Hutner was a fascinating person. Sometimes it's not what it's not a Last week we did a whole piece from him but I'm not doing it. But in his Sukkah in the early years he had two pictures in his Sukkah. Right, today we have all these beautiful pictures of you know. He had two pictures. He had Rav Kook and Rav Shimshon Raphael Hirsch, right? In fact in his first sefer that he put out Toras HaNazir on Maseches Nazir there's a haskamah from from Rav Kook also. Okay? But Rav Hutner brought the Maral out in our generation. Without a doubt he brought the moral out Um and his foreign of are learned today in all Yeshivas across the board in Yeshivas Yeshivas and Hesder Yeshivas. Everybody is the is the go-to safer today in in Hashkafa. Okay, now let's go to what he's saying here. When Rashi brings these praises of of um of Noah who Yesh MeRabboseinu. He says from our our Rabbis. Aval this is just my comment that I'm putting in. Aval what I already told you Rashi must give us the good night. Those who darshan negatively Rashi Yesh Darshanim. So that's all he says. Nitin seek me Rabboseinu him Asher MeHitRachetz Betov Shebechol Adam. That's the point we already made. Okay, now to the point. Aval the gufo shel let's see the moral. HaMaral Perush Chumash Gur Aryeh The Maral is divrei Rashi ben Kadosh shel Noah Or Chadash Minyan. He has a whole new approach of what this Machlokes is really about. Not what we think. Tchila First of all, he asks a question. We have to understand the the approach looking at this superficially there's a problem. HaDarshanim Darshanim One goes positive, the other goes negative. Mikach Pshuta simple question. Im HaDarshanim if the the idea of these people these Darshanim they're searching they're trying to understand the get to the essence of Noah right HaDarshanim LaMaral Social Noah right E they're trying to get to the Sidkus of Noah or the lack of sickness, piety or lack of piety in Noah. Right? Hurry. Shabbos both approaches Nathan limbs to show you only. In other words in other words I'll if the we want to be positive, right? Nathan one second. Me or higher rather than that. You're there. Who says that if he lived in the time of of the king that he would be a bigger be influenced by the second. Maybe he wouldn't. Right? In other words, there's two ways to look at both of these two things, right? If he lived in a generation of king he might not be a big as big as right. So, I don't I don't understand the right. There's a problem here the moral says. And maybe opposite he lived in the time of him he wouldn't be such a right. I read the both of those that he came. No, I don't know the right. I read as well maybe the common after all himself says later on in the that Noah was a Mona. Right? He was from the those of lesser faith which is a very big problem that we're not going to necessarily get into that today. But because why was he of lesser faith? It would be because he didn't he waited till the waters got up to his ankles until he went on to the on to the ark. He he hesitated. He paused. The told him go. Noah, it's time. 120 years it's enough, right? And Noah, [clears throat] you know, he wasn't very successful. 120 years not one over. 120 times I go to the Russia 20 whatever he did whatever he tried to do. No, nothing, right? So, go on the So, he waited So, he was Tanya Amuna. Whatever that means. That's That's a whole other discussion for another time, but Hari Lana Shahaya Dofi Bisi Katosha Noah. So, there you see that there's a negative side to this Siddiq. It's limited. So, maybe if you live in a Dosh of Siddiq, you wouldn't be so big. So, right? Vaei Heat Al Mido Fiza and all our Dosh of Mishnah. So, how do you How do you defend that Dosh of Shah? That if he lived in a generation of Siddiq he can be whatever he gets there. Not necessarily so. And the same thing the other way around. Meeda. The other side of of the coin. Al Hadush of Migana. Those Rabbi Those people who said that now if you would have lived in a generation of Avram Avinu, he wouldn't have been so big cuz of Avram Avinu would have would have eclipsed him, right? And it like how Shug he asked the same question. Minayan Lam. Shidor Shalsadiqim Lo and actually no clue. If he lived in the time of Avram Avinu, maybe he would have he would have been influenced Avram Avinu. Avram Avinu influenced thousands of people. The Rambam goes through the history in Hilchos Avodah Zarah of Avram Avinu and he he brought thousands and thousands of people. They were called Base Avram. Right? So, who said he wouldn't have become a bigger Siddiq, right? The Lo Madri Kumara We can skip that paragraph. So, you hear the question. It's a very He has a very good question. This approach that we always take that that the Rashi is is explaining that what what what Noah is is is all about, you know, from this Midrash of Not so Poshit. So, Me Khan Masika Maralki Lo Yitaken. So, the Maral concludes not doesn't make sense in Matara Doshim that the goal of this investigation this Drisha right? This Drisha this investigation Leshvach Uleginai whether it's positive or negative, La Model Dagato Amite shall know that it's about who Noah was what Noah is all about is incorrect. You see it's incorrect. Doesn't make sense. What is the what is going on here? So here the moral says, Mataras Hadorshim Lishvuach L'ganai Haita Acheres L'chaltin, something totally different. What is it? Next paragraph. Uvdah B'rurei, it would seem to be clear She Noah Nitzal Meha G'zeira She Nigzar B'nei Doro, that Noah was saved from the decree of destruction of Mabul, of flood, of total annihilation of his generation. L'he Obeyed B'mei Mabul, he was saved from that. Yesh Kan She'eila Ichronis B'darkei Hanagas Hakadosh Baruch Hu. There's a basic question, fundamental question we have to understand in the Derech Hashem, in the way Hashem operates and runs at Olamo, his world. Madua Noah Nitzal L'umas Shar B'nei Doro? Why was Noah saved as opposed to everyone else in the generation? On what basis? Efshar Udacha, one approach is, Omeir She Noah Nitzal, he was saved, Mikivan She Hayah Tzadik L'umas B'nei Doro. Because he was a relative tzadik. He was a tzadik based on his generation. Right? And for that, God will save him. L'fi Zeh Nitan L'mod, from this you can learn Mikach Limud Ichroni B'darkei Hanagas Hakadosh Baruch Hu. Right? Tziskis Hamugderes K'tziskis Yichasis Hainu Rak B'yachas Livnei Doro. Right? Uh, tziskis, a righteousness, a piety that is relative to one's generation, right? Must be That's enough to save a person from the the decree against an entire generation, right? And you can find proof of this Rashi later on tells us in this parsha talking about Lot. How was Lot saved, right? So they Lot said you know there's an honest self-evaluation that the judge Lot based upon the people who lived in Sodom and Gomorrah, right? So no accountable save Lot, right? So you could save Lot. But when I come close to a sudden I'm a Russia, I'm a terrible person, right? So that's one approach. That's what's That's the other It's the question is how we have to understand we're grappling with how a operates. Will he save someone from a decree against the generation because he's a relative sadik or next paragraph the opposite possibility. That the salvation saving Noah from the the flood If he would have been a relative sadik, not necessarily so. But he was saved because he was a sadik gomer. That's what the rabbis are trying to understand here, what the means. From here we can learn that the 100% pure sadik from a generation that is has a decree to be destroyed, right? Nimseinu lamdim lamdim the last paragraph. From here you see Shebemet ein lanu derekh lamod al tzikat Noach. There's no way of knowing the tzikkus of Noach. We're not looking for the tzikkus of Noach, right? V'haim haya nekhshav l'tzaddik b'doro shel Avraham. Hamachlokes hamuvaz hamuvaz between him and Rashi, the machlokes that that Rashi is bringing out for us, the Maharal says, mityaches akh v'rak l'darkei hanhagas Hashem es olamo. How does Hakadosh Baruch Hu run the universe? That's what we're graph- grasping look grappling with. The other year it's not going to help us because it's either way it can go either way. V'haim dai b'tzikkus yichusid, is it enough that it's a he's a relative tzaddik? Bifnei not tzav megzeirah muteles al hador, in order to be saved from a genera- a terrible generation, the whole world? Kulo o shema rak tzikkus gemurah? Me'efsharut hatzalah, or is it a complete total tzikkus righteousness, right? So, what would you say? So, how does the Ribono shel Olam operate? How does the Ribono shel Olam operate? So, we have in Hilchos Teshuvah we have in Hilchos Teshuvah um and if there were anyone to say anything, those who have just joined us because of the video we don't do it during the video, but afterwards you can say anything you want, okay? Uh with pleasure. Um in Hilchos Teshuvah we're we're we're not near Rosh Hashanah, but a person has to do teshuvah every every day, but in Hilchos Teshuvah the Ribono shel Olam talks about um the Asseres Yemei Teshuvah uh and he says that, you know, a person has to have an opportunity to do teshuvah during this period of time is because um the word a person is weighed right on a balance if he is if his um if his mitzvahs are more than his averas, so he's a tzaddik, right? By the way, that's the definition of a tzaddik. Even if one doesn't do teshuvah, but if his balance sheet is high on tzedakah on that that's officially is a classically a tzaddik, okay? So, but if he's of course the other way around, he's a rasha, right? So, a person has to go every time you do a mitzvah, you're bringing yourself to a higher level and the Rambam says, you're bringing the world to a better place. Right? Because when one Jew that we have to see ourselves that way, when one Jew lives his life a certain way, it affects all of Klal Yisrael, all humanity. Right? That's a bristling idea, but that's that's the truth, right? So, comes Yom Kippur, right? I you know, and that's where there's three sefarim that are open, right? Sifrei Tzaddikim Gemurim, Sifrei Resha'im, the evil people who are the tzaddikim and the the beinoni, the people in the middle, right? So, you're up, you're down, right? Comes the clock, the bell rings after Neilah, right? By you that's it, right? So, where where you holding? By the way, it's impossible that that's exactly what's being said here because this is not this is not um quantitative, it's qualitative. It's qualitative, right? It I mean, you it's not all fair. I mean, how does it work? You know, until now it was great. I you know, I did Shacharit, Minchah, I went to shul every day, I went to the three shiurim. I you know, I I did everything. I I bought my wife a diamond ring. I did everything, right? And then the last minute I said, you know, I got to get out of here. I got to eat something. Bang, you're finished, right? No, that's not what it means. It's not quantitative, it's qualitative. The man in the middle is not a guy who's 50/50. The man in the middle it's that he had he doesn't know which way to go. He has no two dots zehuts. He has no identity. That's the chart here. The man in the man has to discover am I going this way or am I going that way? So, if I decide to go this way with the ticket even though on my balance sheet is not so good, I am okay. Right? That that's a that's a what So, how does that work? Because the Rambam says, who decides this? How can you decide this? Again, there's no accounting firm that today we even the greatest accounting firms that we know cannot handle this case, right? And that's what the Rambam says. Only your day at a little mode, only a little knows the secret of man. He makes the decision. Right? So, you last like yesterday and we're sitting here here a bunch of holy people you deem to shame sitting and learning Torah living in Israel making a decision to come to our next election and to learn Torah and to live a Torah life, right? And there's some guy in Topeka, Kansas who does nothing except he keeps kosher. And he has a plane load of kosher meat that comes in every 3 months from Denver, Colorado which cost him a fortune. And he keeps kosher. Who's a better Jew? Can you answer that question? No. Because we're not your day at a little most come a little bit of a bunch of them is the one who makes these decisions. So, really I would say that the bottom line is the relativity. This is This is the Jewish theory of relativity. Right? The theory of relativity. I think that's the way the national operates, okay? But there you have then you would that's the moral. Let's move on to the second piece and this is also something special, okay? This is from Schwab. You know Schwab was uh the rub of the the uh German Kahila in Washington Heights. He was a great Talmud Chacham, a very special person. Um he learned in Europe. He went from Germany to the Lithuanian Yeshiva. He was also in the Litvish Yeshiva. He was in and he went He met the Chofetz Chaim. There are stories about him. When he went to Chofetz Chaim, he was a very um a very special Rov. In fact, I can just tell you one quick story about Rav Schwab together with my Rosh Yeshiva, Rav Ruderman, Rosh Yeshiva Baltimore Yeshiva in Baltimore. That he was a Rov in his first position, he was a Rov in Baltimore, in the German Kehilla in Baltimore. And he was walking once with Rav Hutner. They were both young men at with Rav Ruderman at the time. And um and Rav Ruderman said to him, "You know, uh how big is the Yeshiva? How are you making a Yeshiva here?" Rav Schwab said, "It's going to be hard to make a Yeshiva in Baltimore." He says, "No, no. One day I'm going to have a Yeshiva and there's going to be a dormitory with at least 500 beds in it and a Bais Medrash for 1,000." He says, "Look, Rav Schwab said, 'Okay, you know, I hope so. I hope so.'" There's a similar story with the the Ponovezher Rov when he went to Bnei Brak, right? So, someone said to him, "You're dreaming." He said, "I might be dreaming, but I'm not sleeping, right?" Anyway, this is the Rav Schwab. So, Rav Schwab um Now, he Here's another Here's Let's do Rav Schwab inside. Okay, enough uh ma'ases. Vayakhel Noach Ish Adam. So, we know the story of Noach. We know what happened. He was saved. He comes out of the ark. Right? And what happens? Terrible thing happens, right? What happens to him? He uh he makes a vineyard. He makes wine. He drinks wine. He gets drunk. Right? And his children come in and they find him naked. Terrible moment. What's going on here? Right? Here's the pasuk. Vayakhel Noach Ish Adam Vayeeta Kerem Kerem. He made a um a vineyard. He planted a vineyard. Vayai'sh et hayayin and he drank the wine. Vayishkar and he got drunk. Vayigol b'toch ohalo. So you know he was he was unfortunately it was a terrible scenario, right? Now one opinion the Medrash says Rashi brings it actually you know why did he plant a kerem? He should have planted a why did he plant a vineyard? He should have planted a wheat field. Right? To make bread, right? Okay. But listen the Hashkava Rishona the Rav Schwab says it's going to say something which is so totally counterintuitive. Very special. Hashkava Rishona at first blush psukim elu ainam matirin et Noach b'ofen chiyuvi b'lashon ham'ata. Noach does not look very good here, right? Hamedrash achain shoel madua l'Noach panale l't- l't- l'tot kerem b'lo zero sado. He he quotes Rashi here. I brought it in here. Okay. But why didn't he plant a wheat field? Chitim l'mashal for example. Hagana of Shimon Schwab we write shem mitz ma- makid aval lo nosei shichruto shel Noach b'toch otav muskar b'parsha. What's going on here? L'chora hatir hanal einam mitiashevim aposik. The fact that Noach drank he became it was in a drunken stupor and he was naked, right? And he was defiled by one of his sons by Cham, right? But but this is Noach ish tzadik tamim we just finished learning that, right? That pasuk he was a tzadik tamim a pure tzadik, right? It doesn't doesn't jive with this all thing, right? Hanemar al Noach. Anam nachona davar she'al yayin nemar nichnas yayin yotzei sod. On the contrary the rabbis say the gematria, by the way, the mathematical equivalent of sod, secret, which is the secret and yayin are the same. So, nichnas yayin yotzei sod. When you imbibe wine, the secrets come out, right? What does that mean? Well, we know Reb Alter said once that there's a mechitza between the mouth and the heart. And when you drink, right? It breaks down that mechitza. So, if you're a I don't want to, you you know, some prosta guy who goes to the bar every night, right? Once he drinks, his what comes out, you know, he swears, he curses, and then becomes an anti-Semite, right? You know, joins the club today. Rachmana litzlan, Kodesh Boruch Hu should save us from this nasty nasty moment in our lives, and he will, Hashem. Um but a tzaddik, the more he drinks, what comes out, right? Nichnas yayin yotzei sod. I mean, you know, if you ever Purim seudah, I sat at a Purim seudah with many great gedolim, many great rabbonim as a bochur, right? And everybody was drinking, and they would could drink b'vakesh more than they can put away any by any of the bochurim at the table. Although in those days bochurim didn't drink like bochurim shouldn't but do there drink today. And they would speak for an hour and a half to give a shiur at the table. They'd speak for darshan for an hour and a half, right? So, what's going on here? That's what should happen with Noach. Reishit chachma yirat Hashem. Hanemala Noach. Anam nachona davar she'al yayin nemar nichnas yayin yotzei sod. Aval k'she'am medubar b'tzaddikim asora yotzei kodesh boruch Hu should save us from this so what's going on here, right? So, and now here I just quote Reb Alter in the next paragraph. We're skipping it. I said it already that the mechitza, right? Yadadada. L'fi ha'omer, based on all of this, ha'yayin she'shasa Noach haya moreh l'galot et zich k'tov v'lo l'eifa. >> Is this wine should have brought out something good in Noah, not something bad in Noah, right? You know, so I have a question now, one more question. Before he gives the answer shall a partial when the partial continues Should Noah meet Nave? I am he he he was a Nave. Later in the partial Noah prophesied about his children, who they were going to become, what Sham was going to become, right? So, Noah didn't lose anything. He was sort of elevated to a certain extent, right? As as we move on. So, how do we understand this strange inexplicable moment? Right? A cave called a more based on all of this on the heels of all of this. We have to relearn this partial in the Torah. So, listen to what he says. I have one more question to ask before I get to it. Before I give you this new interpretation. Noah is called Ish Adama. Now, that's generally understood as a pejorative, right? It was an earthy person, right? Right? And and what it follows afterwards, right? He planted the vineyard, etc. etc. That's how he was called after the marble, Ish Adama. Now, This is what he says. To answer all these questions. After the flood, remember the Hashem promised him, I'm going to bring a flood. I'm going to I'm going to destroy this world and I'm going to start all over again. And you're the man that we're going to start with you and from you to Avraham Avinu. Right? And maybe we'll talk a little bit about that next week. But you're the man, right? So Noach had concluded that the world this is a complete tikun that we're going back to the beginning of Adam Korach and Chet of Adam Harishon before the sin. And and the evil world would be completely gone. Noach had batua. Noach was positive he was convinced that what the Hashem did is he became now the second Adam. Adam two. He became the second Adam Harishon Hashaini, right? Why was Adam called Adam? Because Adam was created from Adamah. Right? The pasuk said last week and Hashem God created Adam afar min Adamah right? From the earth. And then he blew into his nostrils nishama and then he blew into his nostrils because he was made from both afar and nishama but guf and and spirit. Right? But Adam Adam from Adamah. This conclusion of Noach Adamah. And that's what it means that it Ish Adamah. He was the second Adam. Dafke mishum kah. Therefore, because Adam this how this is how Noah viewed the whole situation. Not ze Noah Karem. He planted a vineyard. Mishum shel if he shita ahas etz hadas tova haya karem. What did Adam mean? Eating from the etz hadas tova the tree of knowledge good and bad. According to one prominent opinion in chazal, it was a vi- it was a it was a a vine. It was a grape tree. It was a karem. He planted that was the fruit of the etz hadas tova was wine. Which we know can go either way, right? So, it was Noah because the takane et chet Adam Harishon. Now he wants to be do a complete takana. A complete rep- repair and reversal of what Adam one did. I'm Adam two and I'm going to we're starting again. I'm going to use that karem. I'm going to eat from that karem. Ba'achila etz hadas, I'm going to drink eat this etz hadas and I'm going to drink the wine. She chashav she lo yihe ba'achila so kol pegam. Nothing bad's going to happen. Machmas ha'olam ha'ra all because of the evil la'achar ha'mabul that because of everything was destroyed and ha'olam ha'mut rather rather ha'olam ha'mut destruction of evil after. There's no more evil. There's only tov, right? Gam ha'uvda she haya arum. The fact that he was naked. That he made himself naked kashur l'machshava nishkar she lo this goes back to his his mindset. Noah haya batuach she he gila da'agas Adam ha'rishon. Adam and Hava lifnei ha'chet were naked, right? They live They live naked. God sure he'll go a room in the garden. They were naked in the garden. All of the zoo. Nova is today the word has a negative connotation, but it was a very pure positive connotation, right? All of the zoo Nova Madre got some hot even naked because they were so pure before the sin. The after the marble after the marble Noah he was sure he was 100% of my grandma my bubble who spoke very little English used to say when I would say Bobby are you sure? She would say I'm positive sure, right? Noah was positive sure. Should he seek dog a show dog a show dog a show dog a show? Did he reach this level of purity? Adam He's born in the bushes with this new approach may a partial novel or Kadash the Halloween totally different approach the partial. Something special something special from Brookline. Okay, now. We have a few more minutes. So let me know you don't have this, but I want to share it with you. It's also a masterful piece of drosh actually. And I'm sorry I don't have it in in on your sheet. I think I had I had prepared it for last year sure we never got to it in time. So here we have a little bit extra time. So I'm going to share it with this is from Rub show alter. Anybody know Rub show alter is? Yeah. He is the gear Russia Shiva. He is the gear Russia Shiva without going into any details. There was a few years ago. There was a breakaway in my locus in gear itself and Rub show alter was first cousin of the gear Reba was the Russia Shiva. He broke off and started his own his own situation and um Both the gear Reba and Rub show alter very special people, but I would have to say using some modern terminology, the Ger Rav Alter is is a rock star today. That he is in B'chol Yisrael. He, Ger Rosh Yeshiva, visited family after family in Be'eri down south. The whole whole period of the kept in touch with people. I mean, he has been visiting shuls in America uh and yeshivas and not only he's been visiting modern Orthodox shuls and speaking there and giving shiurim everywhere, right? He is a Klal Yisrael. Gadol, right? Real Klal Yisrael, right? The way it should be. No clubs. Doesn't belong to any club. He happens to be the Ger Rosh Yeshiva. That's how his salary is paid, okay? But he's a special person. Listen to this idea. Vayetzei Noach uvanav. You know and his children uh came out of the ark. L'mishp'chotam and the animals, l'mishp'chotam according to their families, yatz'u min ha'teivah, they came out. Now, incidentally, as a very chashuve chaver of mine who left this world too soon, Rav Uziel Milevsky zatzal, pointed out the tremendous chiddush that this is the first time that mishpacha is used in the Torah. Because this is a watershed moment. Says said Rabbi Milevsky. It's a watershed moment. Because until now you weren't dealing really with families, you were dealing with individuals. When Noach comes out, this is a new period of the development of man and Klal Yisrael is mishpacha. Now mishpacha becomes of consequence, right? In my But that's that's not Rav This is somebody else, right? So they came out. Now, let's continue his thought. The Zohar in the Gemara says l'mishp'chotam, yatz'u, they went out. Here's the Here's the Gemara. a very strange Gemara. Gemara says like this, they went out they came out Tom Yatzu Velohem and not them. What does that mean? Their families came out and not them. Right? Hadvaram Stumin. This is a This Gemara, these words in the Gemara are a mystery. What does the Gemara mean? Right? Umi Masha Rashi Eino Mefareish My Rashi himself doesn't understand what what's being said. He at least he says that. He does not Mefareish. Rashi doesn't say anything. Which is a un- a mind-boggling. That Rashi doesn't say anything, right? That by the way means that there is a minefield there. Right? Not that there's nothing to say, right? Mefareish Mashma Shelo Hayah Lo Girsa Zu. But he wants to say that maybe Rashi had a different Girsa. A different text in the Gemara. And in fact, Ach Kach Is Lo Fanino BeGemara. Be'er Sheva, one of the great commentaries on the Talmud, Katavi writes, Lo Yadano Perusho. He writes, I don't understand what the Gemara is saying. Verabo Aperushim And there are many many ex- attempts to explain what this phrase means. They came out in families, but not them. Right? So, Uma E- Emut Um Vezavot Shelo Not Hazam. He says he wants to say the dread and the horror and the rage. Right? Bimei Milchemet HaOlam HaShniya, after the Second World War, after the Holocaust, the terrible what the terrible dev- devastation Um Shechayu Kol Yemeihem Tachas Hashgacha. Those people who survived the survi- He's talking about the survivors. How survivors have to live with the with this the nightmare of of of the Holocaust and what they went through. Those who survived. Shechayu Kol Yemeihem They they they're living survivors are living with the the memory of what they went through. They they came out of the ark, so to speak, right? And they started to build families. The The miracle of what survivors did, the miracle of the Hesed of Hakadosh Baruch Hu, that these Jews recreated their lives, they recreated Klal Yisrael, right? Built a medina, right? No true It's inexplicable, right? Until their last living day. Talking about a survivor. They they they They never got over it. They never got over it. All right, it happens, it happens, it happens. Um They never got over it. Right? So, when they when they live with this, right? And you know the all the psychology the psychology today about survivors and children of survivors, right? The The because the survivors never talked about it, right? This whole business and there's been a change, of course, the whole thing, right? Um but they they they suffer, right? know who ban of Right? Let's call it post traumatic stress syndrome, right? Which we see today never from our holy ones, right? After they saw the whole destruction of their world, their families, right? Right? Atzmo. Our good day Hakal that for Hashmad at call all on call on. Like the whole world was destroyed. L'chaim, now let's compare now after Mabul. I think they came out after Mabul, right? After the flood. No through Hema Tacha Rosh Mabul, they still were living with the flood. They were living with that with they, you know, Noah and his family were still living with the devastation, right? Lo Sarmelium the Rosh, they never left them. Zeo Sham, this is how he understands this Gamorah. Sharak Mishpacha Sam, only their families came out Sheik came out after that that they built what they built afterwards. Yatsu V'lo heim. But they didn't completely come out of the generation of the flood. Right? They still they suffered, they had it this dual dual personality that they lived with. So that's the shot in the Gamorah he wants to say. The brilliant shot in the Gamorah. Yatsu Mishpacha Say Am, Mishpacha Sam V'lo heim, but not them, they didn't completely come out. Kia Cain heim Kavi Yokol Lo Yatsu min a table Olam, they never really left the ark. V'ha Gam She Gam Zaram Acharem Hevenu at God all of Costa, even if their children understood what they went through. Sham R' Chazal She May Az V'ele Goru Atzman min Harayas and they did the generation became pure, they didn't do the Averas. Right? Me Kol Mokem Ben Noah U'banav Haya Haroshem Chazak B'yoter, with Noah it was it was still there. Still the survivor's children also, right? Right? They still are suffering the off to a table Lo Eetna Haik Aroi. Over Clark, okay, then he goes on another another beautiful idea. Power powerful idea? Okay. I just have my wife showed me in I think last week in Mishpacha they advertised that I think article came out. Somebody translated some of his Torah. There's a an English safer of his Torah on the parsha. If you're interested, there's also plenty of stuff in Hebrew, but I'm just mentioning it. Okay, thank you all. Okay.