Parsha Perspectives for Today (Noach)

good morning boker tova and welcome back to parsha perspectives for today so great to be together again and to be able to have the privilege of studying partial snow i want to thank our generous sponsors for the series for the year uh dear friends becky and abby cats and family loving memory of david grossman becky's father lila nishmas david menachem who's neshama should have and aliyah thank you so much if you'd like to sponsor a future class please be in touch with lee at brsonline.org okay let's jump in precious noah so much to talk about all safe vibrations is so rich not only with narrative and with stories but with lessons and ideas that we can extract and apply to our daily lives today told us now we're on page 30 in the earthquake this is the lineage these are the told us this is the legacy the story of noah who was a righteous man in his generation s high elohim walked with god the torah the torah tells us and promises us there are two legacies of noah and each year we we remind people of this and of course rashi famously quotes it was relative to his generation was he subjectively righteous or was noah objectively righteous is this something just compared to the corruption of his time but if he lived in a normal time with otherwise normally moral and ethical people there would be nothing special about now or no noah is extraordinary and noah is exceptional and noah deserves to be acknowledged for that it's an age-old debate it goes back till the time probably of noah himself and earlier this is not anything new to us and every year there are the noah haters and every year there are the noah lovers and the two perspectives of noah but i may have mentioned before the other high-end points out something interesting if you look at rashi rashi tells us among our teachers we have those who teach if in that generation that morally corrupt an empty generation noah was righteous all the more so he would be righteous in another generation some of our teachers some of our leaders dorsham they uh learn from the pastor and there are others who use the same puzzle to conclude the opposite kosher to say that what the feed sadak relative to his generation he was righteous but if he lived in the generation of avram he'd be a gornish he wouldn't measure up to anything does it occur to you does it occur to you the following why does it say ishmael the first interpretation says there are among our teachers who learn it positively and then it says yes darshan there are those who learn at lignai in a negative or critical fashion what happened to mir abbas no sorry stroll of koshnitz says that why does it teach us this because it's saying the following anyone who learns it lignai is not merabuseinu if you look at someone and you try to see what's missing if you look at someone and you try to come with criticism and hypercriticism to condemn to marginalize to reject if you look at someone and you come to agnai to find what's wrong you're not merabus anu so only the ones who are dorsham the shebach only the ones who look at and read the story and draw a conclusion in praise they are abu say no those who learn lignai are not made those are not to be considered among our teachers okay that is to begin ayla told us noah these are the offspring the generation these are the story line of of noah and then the torah tells us what are his legacy what is his lineage what did he leave he had three sons a shame on this from he had three sons and of course the torah here is identifying their names but says you can learn a little bit deeper a little bit differently shame khameneifes are not only descriptions of the names of his sons who are in fact his legacy but really they are the avodah hashem his legacy are his attitudes his personality the work he put in to living a virtuous and righteous life and how is that reflected in these three words these three words are not just names they are descriptions a shame and he writes allah hashem the king hashem shame he named one son shame it means he was committed to shame what a shame shame hashem an awareness a mindfulness a consciousness a conscientiousness that wherever and whenever we go hashem is with us noah lived that way what made him righteous what made him at saddaq is that his told those were shame khameneifes number one says hashem is opposite me always he's with me he's watching over my shoulder he's listening in he is recording number two person has to be hum you have to be warm you have to be alive you have to be vibrant you have to be harmed you have to have a van kite you have to have passion and enthusiasm so a shame one of our told us our offspring has to be our legacy our reputation has to be shame that we always walked with hashem before us number two hum we have to be alive and vibrant and warm and number three as jeffers you have to do good deeds kind ya fair beautiful shalam namah bamishna rebbie omer the mishna perekyavos koshi te fera slow soviti faires lo man adam person should be ya yaftly person should be beautiful inside and out should be someone should be able to identify and admire those parts so says that these three names are not just the names of noah told us these are their names but rather allah told us legacy is a commitment and devotion to these three things number one is shame that that he was alive he was vibrant he was passionate he was enthusiastic and number three is jeffers everything was jaffe everything was beautiful and methodical and admirable a very beautiful trait i want to show you now from ravdruk the great russian shiva virus is a magnificent status farm we introduced it last year in the pastures here and we often incorporated it it's called and i'm very fortunate actually he gave me my copy and wrote a beautiful inscription inside which i am very grateful and his torahs are magnificent his beautiful torahs his father was the drosh mordechai the murder his father was a great darshan of yerushalayim and he inherited that quality he has a satisfaction which are londos which are incredible and he has the aishtamin which is the drush and the parsha very worthwhile and i wanted to share a few pieces with you so he said the following what does it mean ella told us noah this is noah's legacy and as i said at the outset we say each and every year noah people clearly line up and divide into two teams there are the noah haters and there are the noah lovers the people who see what's wrong with noah and those who see what's right with noah of course only the ones who are looking the ones who choose to look and see and focus on the merit and the virtue and the assets that's who our mayor was saying those are our teachers so what does it mean the end of the passage describes that no and how do we know because what do those words mean so the targets of target says if you look in your home on page 30 in the article the targum oculus translates aromatically and he says what does it mean is the infinite creator of the universe he walks with god it means that everywhere he looks and everything he listens to he sees and feels and hears hashem everywhere that's shot number one targum unclass number two the svarna it means that he emulated he imitated it what does it mean to walk out what is the greatest form of flattery imitation he imitated god as the gemara in shambhast of kfl gimbal learns from the puzzle exactly how do we praise god how do we glorify him by being like him how and then he tried to imitate and emulate him and says this forno that's what the positive is testifying with god it means quite literally he imitated god he walked with god that's the sworn the third interpretation is noah walked with god it means he was he was wise and judicious and thoughtful so three interpretations what is the torah testifying why did god love noah why did hashem consider why did he choose noah through whom to save and continue humanity and the universe uncle says because he had years the swarner says because he imitated hashem and the balatorium says because he was so if rook now goes and expands how did noah perfect each of these three qualities in the areas of their life it was life and it very much complement complements what we just saw from kabunim of peshiska and he says the following these midos tobos these three qualities of shanayam imitating hashem and acting with number one yirashimayim the guru writes on the rama the raman shalhanar begins the very first simon the very first that the righteous people walk around and our bumper sticker our motto would appear is on the mirror of our it can't be in the bathroom because it's a puzzle but what appears on our computer screen and what appears in our kitchen refrigerator and what appears in the back of our car srivici hashem negdy summit it's not that i see hashem when i'm in shul or when the sitters open but then i close it and i go on with my day and i left hashem outside of the gym and i left him outside of work and i left him outside of the supermarket shivisi hashem la negri summit hashem is opposite with me always consistently and constantly i take him everywhere that is a cloud guddell it's a major axiom and principle of torah it is not it's not that we're isolated or alone we're never away or apart from hashem we are always before him that has consequences in terms of our accountability to him he's always watching he's always listening he's always recording and it also has consequences in a very positive sense one can always lean on hashem one can always feel the love and support of hashem he's reliable he's dependable he is always there this is the way a jew is supposed to wake up and start today this is the very first halacha of the day we wake up and we say hashem you're equal and you're opposite me always and the grow writes on this writes the same thing in his commentary noah lived in this very first halacha this very first mandate of the that a jew wakes up and opposite him or her sees shibishi hashem le negdo summit hashem you are always before me before i choose what to watch and what to say and where to go and what to listen to and what to do i have an acute awareness you are always in the room when i prepare to collapse when i'm about to implode when i feel despondent and depressed and i'm ready to give up i know you're always in the room you're by my side and that says the guru is what noah noah excelled at and that's what the torah is testifying because noah always lives with hashem opposite hashem opposite him we also find this with avraham avinu as it says with avram that we see we see it with avram as well we see it with yaakov this notion of tamid this was the quality of our great matriarchs and patriarchs and this is the quality to which we aspire to be like noah not like mike we want to be like noah and what it means to be like nawah is to feel hashem's presence in accountability and in love and in support always and forever around us to feel his love that was interpretation number one to see hashem all the time number two we saw was the svarno and this forum says what does it mean that noah walked in the way he emulated and imitated hashem he felt hashem's presence in that way where do we see this sort of joke writes the following is loving and kind and we have to be loving and kind noah excelled at this where do we see this the madras writes in the majestic he didn't sleep not during the day and not at night why what was noah doing was he binge watching netflix for shalom what was nawak doing was he exercising like a madman no what was noah doing nothing that served himself nah was selflessly taking care of all the other creations and creatures in that tavo with him the whole time his eyes never shut he never had a sound sleep he was always responding to the call the needs of the animals who are with him says the mantra one time he hesitated it delayed to feed the lion the kishwari the attack and the lion the lion lashed out and hit him in the rim and the puzzle describes this and um and that knocked the wind both physically and spiritually out of noah that experience was incredibly devoted and dedicated to his family of course but also to all the creatures of hashem he imitated hashem in loving all of hashem's creations not just human beings who are betsalamalo but animals too a love a sensitivity a thoughtfulness a kindness shakola why didn't hashem save noah and the animals separately there were all kinds of other means and mechanisms through which hashem could have preserved the continuity of humanity and he could have spared the animals seven of each of the kosher ones two of each of the non-kosher ones he could have achieved the exact same result without having to make noah build the tava and noah live in the tava and have noah be the captain of that ship and the social planner and the chef and the garbage collector and every other position wonders the al-shah qaddash quarter of druk why didn't he do it easily more easily so we know the answer the zohar cutter says because noah didn't daven for his generation and he didn't diamond first generation and that's why the navi describes they're called maynah they associate the waters that destroyed the world they're called the waters the flood of noah noah is responsible he's accountable he could have intervened he could have interceded he could have advocated and he relinquished his leadership he failed he didn't save anyone other than himself and his family and the animal kingdom which of course preserved continuity but he didn't save the whole world he didn't stop the mabel from happening and therefore they're called the main what was the antidote says the al-shah noah did not step up and care and save others the answer was he had to go into this incubator he had to go into this intense place where all he would do was care for others he had to cultivate and refine and learn and realize this quality within himself that all he would do is respond and care about others namely the animal kingdom and that's exactly what he did he didn't sleep he didn't relax he didn't have a moment to unwind he didn't stop he didn't sit down for a minute all he did was care for others so that is the second interpretation noah was beloved and noah walked in the ways of hashem in the sense that he imitated hashem and he ultimately perfected that by being in the tava and in that intense experience and place caring so deeply and so effectively for everyone around him number three we said was the balatorium the balaturum said if you look at the last letter of each of the three words you get the word if you're in florida right now could be there's a mobile happening outside uh right now we've been having a lot of rain lately so there's mamash given a mobile outside so what was the third interpretation about what does it mean in the most positive sense where do we see that he achieved says we see the rama very very interesting listen to this vote from the from joke the rama is there's a mitzvah to celebrate it's an accomplishment it's an achievement i would have thought you finished a massage attractive talmud get back to work open the next massata start again but we say no pause end lean in pause and celebrate celebrate the achievement it's a very important idea secular research shows that what actually encourages us more is not always being on the move with ambition and aspiration but marking the achievements and accomplishments in our lives and setting aside time actually rewarding ourselves to pause for a moment and celebrate an accomplishment so the rama writes when you finish learning stop and make a siam and serve chinese food that's not narama neither are delhi hoagie sandwiches but that's the minute but serve some delicious food and make a siam and that's mitzvah number one next at the very end of the torah the rama concludes you're not allowed to learn torah you're not allowed to share torah you're not even allowed to think in torah in a dirty disgusting repulsive place and therefore a righteous scholar should not be in a disgusting place don't stand in a dump don't be in a smelly place why should you hire me torah because the talmud who knows so much torah by heart who's tempted to think and learning is forbidden is not allowed to do it in a place which is degrading which is disgusting and therefore don't go in those places in the bath house in the mikvah you're not going to there you're allowed to last to allah says i understand the halacha at the end of the torah that if you make a see them pause and celebrate and that's him as the status of the sudas mitzvah i get it makes a lot of sense why does that make a lot of sense because the end of torah is where you're going to be making a seam but why are you putting the halacha of don't ever frequent a place which is smelly which is putrid which is malodorous don't be in a place which is disgusting degraded repulsive reprehensible because you're not allowed to learn torah can't share torah i can't even think in torah there why would you put that at the end of hilkostamatora where should you place that logically at the very beginning of ilhostamatora that's where it belongs not at the end ask sir druk and listen to what he says he says what do you see from here that a person should become so committed to learning a person should become so connected and attached to learning that they can't bear to not think about learning even when they're in such a place that's why it's the end of the torah when you begin it's unrealistic and it's unfair to expect that a person will achieve that level at the very beginning but by the end of the torah our hope and our aspiration is that a person a jew a man or woman has a custom themselves to be so devoted to learning torah that they can't even stop thinking about it and therefore they have to be careful to avoid going to the places where you're not allowed to think about it so what does this have to do with noah you see that now also achieved this level of tamil torah zwai saba allah thinking and now we understand rashi when the positive says from all the kosher animals take seven why does he need more kosher than the non-kosher rashi tells us what does he do with the kosher when he gets off the table he offers carbonaceous bach so if you're going to create continuity you're not going to achieve it when you slaughter the ones through whom you need the continuity so we needed seven of the kosher because we needed to be able to bring them as carbonos as opposed to the non-kosher so the puzzle describes take seven by seven writes which were kosher which were non-kosher how did noah know says what do you see from here that noah learned torah so why is rashford telling us the third interpretation of what it means why he was beloved why he was at sadiq why he was chosen okay let's keep going now tell us of course it's not lost on me or you or anyone whenever we read partisan that how do we describe corruption hamas hamas the terrorist organization that is bent on destroying israel and driving all jews into the sea shares the same name as the most corrupt generation that god decided to wipe out and bring a flood a coincidence i think not so good come before me why is it just come before me it should be category or just it's come to my attention says the almighty it has come to my attention that there is corruption in the world it's come to god's attention everything comes to god's attention sort of druk says there's so many beautiful pieces one of the time to read them all but he says what was the generation guilty for what was the maques what was the what what put it over the top that hashem says done they've so violated the purpose through which i created the world they're so corrupt that they so don't deserve to continue that i've got to press reset not a soft reset i've got to do a hard reset a flood wipe it all out and start again what drove hashem to that conclusion gezel because they stole and rashi tells us they stole less than a shadow putta now ashoka pruta means a penny a minimum amount what does it mean when you steal less than shavaputa when you steal something that has no value if you steal something of value you're corrupt it's terrible we should criticize you but the reason maybe you stole is you were unsure of how you would provide for yourself you were jealous or envious you were driven by temptation or lust or desire you so badly wanted that thing of value that you stole it but what does it say about you when you're willing to steal something that has no value is there a greater corruption in the world than you're taking something that belongs to someone else that objectively has no value to you what does it mean about why you took it because hamas you're just corrupt you're evil you're wicked you're just a terrible terrible terrible person it's not that you're taking something which then has functionality it's pragmatic it has utility for you it is value you're just taking something to take it from the other you're a low-life ursula reject terrible human being that's what it means kate's bottle of wine because a bayesian will only hear a case of gazelle that is shavaputa it has to rise to the minimum amount of value for the bayesian to adjudicate upon it so what does hashem mean that kids call basar bollifanai it's come to my attention that's so morally corrupt are they that they're even stealing things of no value that you cannot try in a base then but hashem to come to my attention it's not lost on me it's kashmak no ishtami you got to get the status form of drugs interpretations are are beautiful but what does it mean bolaf and i what came to him and what was the thing they put it over the top we said rashi tells us says beautifully i want to share a torah with you says why was gaza put it over the top they had violated all the three big cardinal sins they had been murderers idolaters and they were and they were gilearis and they were promiscuous so they violated the three big cardinal sins gesell they also stole something of no value and that's what put it over the top that's what drove hashem to do a hard reset what's up why ghazal why guess i'll listen to this interpretation of the origami ashore i love this he says you know why it's geza what does it mean by gesell it's not the ghazal that they stole from one another you know what the ghazal of the stealing that they did is says the organelle stole the very purpose of creation hashem gave us this magnificent world and he deposited every one of us in it and he said enjoy it enjoy it there's a beautiful world explore it and conquer it and enjoy it and derive pleasure from it make barbecues and learn to enjoy delicious food have relationships and experiences enjoy intimacy and physical pleasure enjoy this beautiful world just follow my rules follow my guidelines live moral and ethical lives have respect for yourselves and others and in that framework and in that context and with that set of rules and regulations enjoy my beautiful world you know what happens the generation who violate the rules and regulations the generation who squander their time here on earth who waste it on nonsense and narushki and worse who rob and steal from others who take their talents who take their skill sets who take that strength and stamina and energy who take the resources and they use it for negative things they have stolen the ultimate gift that hashem has given us which is life itself when we abuse our lives and forfeit our lives and concede our lives and waste our lives we have stolen not in the sense of stealing from someone else we have stolen from the rebona shalom when a day goes by that we didn't maximize when we have talents and skills and potential that we squander and waste and don't realize we have stolen from the almighty every one of you every one of us i don't care how old or young you are i don't care whether you're in the middle of work or whether you're retired from your profession whatever stage of life we are here for a reason we are here for a mission we are here for a purpose it's to enjoy hashem derive pleasure enjoy the world but also contribute and give to the world repair the world mold and shape the world in hashem's image and when we don't we have stolen from him we've stolen from above and says the top is hashem organization look terrible egregious but you know what i'm not going to do a hard reset of the world because of them but when the world has become so corrupt so absolutely corrupt have so lost their way that the whole reason i created the world is now being violated and not realized i've got to do a hard reset guess they've stolen from me why i created a world and therefore i have to do an entire hard new reset the cliaka writes that the term kate's kobasar kate's kolbasar the end of all basar the end of all flesh is referring to the yom hamisha kate's call basar the day of death came before me hashem tells noah the day of death has come before me and it's complaining he says nobody thinks about me nobody's thinking about their mortality nobody's confronting their fragility nobody is realizing that they're not going to live forever everybody's just living like they are like they are immune not in the good sense but like they are not vulnerable they're not confronting their mortality kate sullivan says hashem death came before me and said nobody is confronting their mortality they all think that they are going to live forever and therefore hashem says i have to destroy the world i have to remind them that they're in this world for a very short period of time everyone's in this world for a finite amount of time and even if you live 120 years it's a tiny blip of time in the context of eternity we are all mere mortals we have mortality and therefore we have to take advantage of all of our time here and all of our gifts and talents and skill sets and all the resources we've been granted here and when we do we fulfill the reason that hashem created the world and when we don't and when we fail then we have violated gezo we have stolen from the almighty we have stolen from the ribonus shalom he has no tolerance for that and therefore he resets the world moving right along paraguav we are turning the page now we're flying paragraph base page 32 in the art scroll stone hamish so hashem tells them build a tava take a long time everyone's going to ask you what you're doing it gives you the opportunity to stand on your soapbox on your table box and to preach to the world now failed to preach and that we said he was accountable they're called but he does build the teva does as god commanded him so he did notice anything strange or funny that formulation it's a very unusual possible which two words do you not need in this passage reached with some attention mindfully vayas he complied according to everything god had commanded so he complied what do you need the words kanasa what are they adding so he did you know when we started this parsha sheer many years ago we used to go through and read sukkam one by one we'd take a different section every year read it and we'd raise questions and then we'd examine rashid ramban banez with this foreign how do each of them address the same question and give a different answer and we point out that the mafashion the medieval we've shown him their style is not to actually ask the question and give the answer they don't write in a and answer format they simply give a commentary and our job is to realize what was driving them what was their question and we are to emulate them and to learn in the same way as them namely to read the succumb and say what's our question things should jump out at us we should be bothered we should be stimulated to think to explore and to use our minds shouldn't panama torah and to offer our own novel interpretations to torah there's room for our own innovation and creativity and interpretation of torah we're encouraged to do that so read this passage again according to everything god commanded him so he did you just told me so he did so why are you telling me so he did again when you already told me so he did this is the question of druk writes in his ishtar mid by the way i don't get a cut of his farm not yet maybe i should negotiate it but as of now i'm not promoting it because i get a cut out of any of this farm i tell you it's because i've fallen in love with them and i want you to love what i love so i tell you but i don't get a cup and yeah cuz of cafe atmos no crucial to us we are not the first to wonder this we are not the first to ask this the ramban also was bothered by this and the ramban also asked this question and the ramban says why the repetition of us you know why the redundancy you know why the repetitiveness in order to emphasize that noah did not omit he did not leave out any detail it's not that noah just accomplished the big picture he didn't just do the gist he didn't just do the bare minimum he did every single detail he did what he was asked cain assad so he did to every minute detail to every specific focused detail that's the ramban however of drug quotes his great father adonai avi mori varabi zazal his great father the drosh mordechai who says differently and he says the following and he slept in he didn't have express movers he didn't have help he did alone he schlepped in all the animals all the food and construct and schlep everything in and supervise an ark why did he do it she'd ask me i'd say you know why he did it because he wanted to survive there was a massive storm there was a flood it was going to wipe out humanity he wanted to survive so therefore he built the teva he got in it in order to survive says the joshua says rabjuk's father the hostage is coming along to tell us that's not why he did it you know why he did it because god said so look him when god says jump we say how high that means to say that even the mitzvos that we do that are rational and that are compelling and that we can understand the reason behind it we should be driven to do it not because it makes sense and not because it enriches our lives but we should strive to do it because hashem said so that should be the reason because hashem said to do it and if hashem says jump we say how high maybe that's the shock of why i no why it says this redundancy came and then rabjer quotes that he leaves the tava listen to this evidence that he brings to this interpretation of when does he leave even though the ground has been proven to be dry even though land is now safe noah only exits the tafa descends when when hashem says semen ateva leave the tava why did he send out the yonah why did he send out the dove and the raven to see if the water had withdrawn what's the nafgamina who cares if the water had withdrawn if he wasn't willing to leave until god said it's time to go to manhattan so you can explain and so on and so he wanted to know had the land dried up is it safe to leave but ultimately why does he go out only when hashem says so maybe the extra words are to teach us that even when things make sense and we have a compelling reason to do something we should be driven to do it ultimately and we should try to learn to do it ultimately because hashem tells us to that's sort of joke the rather best of achievement in the rough homicide also jumps on these words and listen to what the rubber band says that it you followed everything i told you you and your whole family entered because i've seen to be righteous before me in this generation and says there are so many the following avram's greatness was based on his firm belief in hashem's promises many events occurred in his life that seemed to contradict the promise that the land would be his and his children would inherit it avraham often found himself in situations where he was ridiculed due to his faith therefore with all of his accomplishments the one attribute that hashem explicitly praises is his pure belief that he believed in hashem and he accounted it to him as righteousness belief was similarly tested he built an ark for many years explaining to onlookers that god was set to destroy the world while they derisively laughed at him despite all the obstacles and the taunts of his contemporaries noah did not deviate from hashem's command once noah clearly demonstrated his belief by completing the ark hashem remarked on his righteousness says you know what causes hashem to respond sadduce before me in this generation what causes hashem to react and respond to give his approbation to give his his uh his support in that way his endorsement in that way what causes it is when hashem sees that we're willing to follow what's right and what's righteous even in the face of ridicule even in the face of opposition and this comment of the rav i find it very empowering gives a lot of strength in our generation in our time because you know not all of what we believe not all of torah's moral values and code are synonymous or easily compatible with the world today it's hard abram is called an ivory he's willing to live maeve when the whole world is on this side seeing it this way and the jew is asked to be on the other side seeing it a different way and it's hard it's hard to withstand the pressure it's hard to withstand sometimes the hate it's hard to withstand being labeled or boxed in or called the name because we maintain or preserve a certain torah or jewish value and yet that says the rav is what hashem ultimately will endorse is what hashem calls it when we're willing to do what he asks of us even in the face of ridicule even in the face of adversity even in the face of opposition it's difficult but ultimately it is the greatest testimony to us perixx exact perique design pause the paragraph and possibly turn to the next page page 34 in the earthquake the mobile this flood was for 40 days on the land excuse me 40 days in the land by your buddy what happened the water increased and it raised the ark and it was lifted above the arets above the land so the simple understanding of the posik is that as the rain fell and accumulated and as the flood spread the water caused the ark the tava to raise to rise and it rose above the land that's the simple understanding however i saw a beautiful hasidis says read it this following way this is not the pasha it's and the jerusha is to read it this way ready it lifted the ark but and it became elevated may allah above the ground that word tava tava can mean two things tava means as we've been translating as teva means an ark teva means ark what else does teva mean is a word so he says the following we see the power and the importance of being careful and mindful with our words shaking shadow when we sanctify our mouth and our words when we lift speech how do we rise above being physical beings how do we rise above the lowliness of earthliness among being mundane profane how to achieve holiness let's raise speech let's elevate you know they talk about and we need to talk about right now when you look at the rhetoric and the hate and the vitriol that's going on not just in the election but the divisiveness in general in our world over politics corona sports any topic in the world there's divisiveness and horrific vitriol and rhetoric and what's the in the vernacular what do we describe it when we call on people that we need to elevate the conversation we need to elevate the communication we need to elevate that the way we talk to one another we desperately desperately need to elevate what we talk about and how we talk about it with whom we talk about it and when we talk about it where we talk about it and that's the beautiful interpretation of this passage lift speech lift the word lift the power of communication and when we do may allah we will all be elevated as a result we'll all be exalted we'll all transcend the lowliness and the earthliness will all be elevated as a result wow how how important for our time how beautiful how very much not the shot but how very beautiful nonetheless this way of understanding this what happens on the tava he's done everything he hasn't slept he hasn't been with his wife he is exclusively dedicated to this project to this cause to this commitment on page 36 chapter 8 verse 1. god remembers he remembers all the animals everything that's within the teva kim and hashem passes a wind over the earth and the water begins to recede recognize those words unfortunately anybody who says yes recognizes those words those are the opening words of yiskar at the cal malay that we say together but yisk or proper the yiskirtz fila begins with the words vais kor elokim which is very interesting why are we invoking noah by his corolla kim is noah to start ysker much more peculiar is why are we invoking memory with hashem hashem is immortal he's omnipotent he's immutable he's perfect he doesn't have a failing memory he doesn't struggle with memory loss dementia god remembered noah what does that mean why yiskar again this is not the time to talk about yiskar so on my list of books one day that i want to write but is you who is yusuke four is yiskar for is jessica for the deceased is this good for us we start yscore by saying it's for god you score elokim god could you remember my loved ones as if he could forget for whom iskar that's a separate question see my book hopefully will come out in my lifetime but i want to go to a comment of rabbi salaveczyk on these words vais koilo kim and by salvation says the following this posik is the first sighted in the intersection of rosh hashanah we know it from musker but those who don't say yes also should recognize it from where from the first part of the zekrono section the musa family the longest i mean of the whole year is divided into three sections must have divided into the chronos so the first pussok of the middle section zacharonis is one theme of zachronos is divine providence hashem sees and remembers everything he's concerned i'm reading it from him by salvation he is concerned simultaneously with the universe as a whole as well as each person individually the moral corollary to this idea is the notion that one should never discount the value of the individual just as hashem exhibits both universal and individual concern so too should man one should thus not dedicate all of his efforts on behalf of the communal needs while ignoring individual needs hashem is concerned with infinity itself both in the historical sense regarding all the generations of mankind and the physical sense regarding the boundless cosmos at the same time he remains concerned as well with each and every individual noah was rescued from the flood for two reasons first through now humanity itself was saved second no was saved because as an intel he was deserving even had humanity been saved by another means noah himself would have been spared of his own merit so it's a beautiful interpretation says the rav and the ref says this in many places the raf says that's why there's a whole parak of icha dedicated to yoshiowa melech because the destruction of the bayside make darshan the temple is not just about the millions who were murdered and the exile of our entire people but we have to remember the individual and the rav says this in his commentary on kinos that we have keynotes that are dedicated to the crusades and the holocaust we have kinos dedicated to the loss of countless and then we have kinos dedicated to one or two individuals because we have to simultaneously pay attention to the whole to the community to the people and not lose perspective or sight of the individuals who comprise it and it's true both in directions in mourning and in grieving and also in supporting and in caring and loving and that's what he says on these words by express core eloquence god didn't just remember humanity as a whole god didn't just tap noah through him to continue humanity because he cared all about this experiment called the world and the people and humanity vice coral kim as now god cared also about noah specifically he cared about he cared about both and we too part of our mission on mandate to emulate limited hashem is to simultaneously live in both places and to simultaneously care about both we care about the collective but we also have to care about the individual and i think about tattoo in terms of a contemporary message and our partial perspective for today i think about that because you know with corona we hear these statistics i don't know rahman al-islam it's up to 230 250 000 in america and the number in our beloved israel in israel and the number around the world it's growing to a number in a magnitude which is beyond our comprehension and we can lose the perspective of what it means and that's why it's so important to remember the individuals every life every individual that's lost what that means and the impact that it has and so this notion of israel kim this message of simultaneously being focused both in mourning and grieving but also in caring and supporting for the collective but simultaneously also seeing and caring about the individual is particularly important and relevant in our time moving right along peric test passage aleph peric test possible noah comes off the table he saved humanity and he saved all the animals hashem says again and his father seymour teva he doesn't get off because he saw it was dry because the raven and dove confirmed it he only exits when god says because when god says jump noah says how i and what does he do when he gets off what he does when he gets off is he plants a vineyard and he harvests the grapes and he produces wine and he drinks from it and a disaster ensues this notion of means means profane mundane no goes from being holy to mundane or profane moshe goes from being an ish mitzvah to an ishalo kim nawak goes from being an ishalo kim to is exhausted he spent he spiritually implodes and collapses and noah becomes mundane profane vayaghulen and he plants a garden and he drinks from the wine the kriyaka and we're going to run out of time but the kliyakar here draws a lot of analogies and parallels to none other than adam ahrisha then now goes through a similar process to other marishan noah is regaining paradise loss adam and are born and they marry one another and they have children on the very first day in ganeden an opportunity to cash in this is a new beginning it's a fresh start it's a new ability this hard reset that's done on the world and the kliyaka here points out that just like what was adam's downfall in ganeden he ate from the eight zadas and there's many opinions about what the itadas is we know one thing it's not what is the eta dust not you can thank medieval and renaissance art and christian leaders for corrupting what the itadas is one thing it was not is an apple we know it wasn't an apple i enjoy apples a nice honey crisp apple dipped in peanut butter i love apples but it wasn't an apple what was it it might have been a fig it was wheat it was a grape there's a lot of there's an s-rogue there's a lot of other off suggestions that are offered so the clyaker here he creates all these parallels to adam rishon adam was the beginning of the first creation and now is beginning the second creation and there are a lot of a lot of connections and overlap and parallels between the two but here the cliaka writes the opposite of you know why is why is becoming intoxicated why is wine ruling and the opposite of kedusha because when a person becomes intoxicated they misbehave they become morally depraved and corrupt they're not in control they have poor judgment he's called an ish adama because now instead of striving for lofty he just wants the physical pleasures of this world he craves and he lusts for what is here and that's what wine does intoxication and wine draws us to be able to live in that way it corrupts us and noah's legacy ultimately is not that sadiq and it's not the ish elokim he is and he is the ish adama but here's something incredible the metris british ramba points out look at the pasuk has anyone here planted a vineyard i proudly planted a garden during corona and i've been talking about it non-stop to the point that my kids think i only planted it so i would have things to give to russia's about that's only partially true but it's also partially because i'm enjoying it the first pepper has emerged it's beautiful i'm in love with it i understand the mitzvot bikram even more now so we have a beautiful little garden and i'll tell you that every day we go out and we look at it and we wait and it's been several weeks a couple months and we're still waiting if you plant a vineyard how long does it take to get a grape i started to say the etadas was a grape the downfall of adam was a grape and the downfall of noah has a grape the parallels run all the way through how long does it take to plant a vineyard i don't know because that didn't make it in my garden i'm not ready to make wine yet we'll put it on the list after i publish my book so it takes more than a day but look at the possible test pasta gala what happens what happens sorry look a little bit longer where's the passage he comes out and he plants the garden and immediately he gets drunk doesn't it take time for the vine to grow it doesn't take time before he's going to get the grape and produce the wine where's the pasta why can't i find it in one process it's in one moment he plants he drinks he becomes drunk it didn't take weeks or months ask a vint or ask if someone who runs a vineyard how long does it take before you can produce that bottle and doesn't the bottle have to age that was noah so you know what the measure says it was a nace it was a miracle hashem did a miracle that noah planted the vineyard and a moment later it only took one moment until it grew asked magid why in the world would hashem do that miracle of all the miracles hashem could do hashem made that the miracle i've got some suggestions of miracles he could perform people who are sick who i want him to miraculously cure peace i wanted to bring to the world to miraculously make this election go away make this corona go away that's the miracle no i was really thirsty really craved a nice bottle so hashem made a miracle where what he planted and he was able to benefit and produce the wine immediately and right away that's the miracle it's a bizarre miracle so i saw this quoted from my friend rabbi usher brander arov out in l.a and he says the following he quotes this goblin and the div says the following he gives the following muscle i'm going to read it to you in rabbi usher brander's um the way he quotes and modifies the magi magic often gives a solution by quoting a parable a mushroom a poor chosen yonko pleads with his rabbit to grant him a brock of wealth and the rebel responds by assuring him that the first endeavor he invests in will be wildly successful hustler comes home to person with excitement even counting the guilt but when he enters he rushes to his wife demanding access to the last few coins hidden in their hovel his wife refuses to give it to him she knows what a schlemiel what a schlemazel what a failure he is and she doesn't want to squander those last few coins to him he's surely going to lose them but he persists she refuses and they get into this huge fight this huge baklokas he snoops around and he finds the money he takes it he goes to the market he buys carpets he sets up a booth and yonko waits one day two days two weeks no business and he has nowhere to turn but the rebbe he goes back to the red but demanding the return of his money the rebel listens to his tale and he says rabbi i did exactly what you told me i came home i got the money i invested it and no hats i wasn't successful so mr yanko and he says have you given me the complete story are you leaving something out so yakul says well the whole story is not only did i not succeed even after i invested the money the way you told me but in fact i got in the biggest argument the biggest fight i've ever had with my wife we have amazing shawn bias we've always gotten along and this actually precipitated what became the worst fight that we ever had the worst fight so the rebbe looked at him he said yanko the bracha i gave you was that the first endeavor you would have would be wildly successful but you know you squandered it because instead of the first endeavor being in the investment the first endeavor you had was a fight with your wife it was the most wildly successful the biggest fight you've ever had with your wife the bracha was the first thing that you put your cocos into should be extraordinarily successful and it was but the first thing you put your kokos into was to fight with your wife and it was extraordinarily successful it was the biggest fight you ever had so says the dubna magid kudizbarco made a miracle and he said to noah when you come off that tava and you hit the hard reset in the world and you're starting from scratch and starting from fresh i give you a bracha that you should be wildly successful the problem is that noah the first thing he did was plant the vineyard so the bracha was khal on the first thing he did but the first thing he did was hulen so it's not that hashem chose to do a miracle in this bizarre unusual place and way it's that this was the place that hashem that noah chose to put his energy and therefore was wildly successful instead of which should have been the first place which was to reconstruct and to rebuild the world that that was lost as it is every week we have a lot more to get to that we did not share but hashem we're going to read partial again next year thank you for joining us until next time stay happy stay healthy 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