Parsha Perspectives for Today (Noach, 5783) - Don't Be a Lemech

okay good morning book yourself welcome back to our partial perspectives for today the first of the new year it's great to be back together again in person our our series is still sponsored by our dear friends Becky Navi cats and family in memory of Becky's Father David Grossman Leila nishmas David we remain very grateful to the cat's family this morning sure is also sponsored anonymously for the school to have a baby we wish simchas and good news and good tidings to all those who are looking uh mits Hashem to expand their expand their family just a housekeeping note we are off next week I'm traveling for a family so we'll resume two weeks from today they're a previous year and you could watch and listen to online and countless other people with better shearing that you could listen to online but we'll resume two weeks from today okay page 30 in the articles I always feel you know not only metaphysically not only spiritually are we turning back the clock when we start again beginning of the book there's something special about flipping back to the beginning of the Hamish being at the very end of dvorim and all the pages on the right side and then all the pages are on the left side you go back to the beginning I don't know if there are other Arenas of life or other examples or areas of life where a group of adults just keep reading the same book over and over and over again and you keep going back and it's so familiar and we know what's coming and we know how the stories end and yet it's as exciting as the first time you read it because the toad is so rich and there's so many layers of interpretation and insight that the text may be the same but every year when we revisit it we're different we're different the world is different our lives are different our Insight is different our wisdom is different our life experience is different our age is different it's something very exciting about going back to the beginning again and approaching the same text and seeing something else that jumps out at you something else that's new this year I know that when I look at my first time I look at perusham in one year ah that doesn't speak to me doesn't touch me doesn't resonate with me I'm not interested in sharing it the next year the very same Insider commentary to be like wow that's mind-blowing that's incredible that's the richness and the vastness of Torah should never take it for granted we should always appreciate it Ayla told us no this is our annual debate we won't put it to a vote poor Noah poor Noah has the an enviable distinction the name of his Parsha he is an individual every year this time the great debate around the globe are you a pro Noah anti-nowah is Noah relative absolute Sadiq are we praising Noah are we criticizing Noah you know is Noah only good for his generation relative to everyone else you know or is Noah even even great objectively in any generation rashif is some say with such negative influence such a Negative surrounding such a Negative peer group and you haven't yet nevertheless he emerges the Sadiq imagine just imagine if he had a great Hebrew imagine it'd be a great Rebellion imagine if he came from a great family imagine how much greater he could have been for his generation he lived among the most corrupt he lived among the most immoral he lived among the most unethical so yeah relative to them he was pretty good but in avram's generation he was a big nothing he was nothing special nothing special we discussed this many many times in the past when I can revisit it notice that when it comes to those who who extrapolate those who analyze and understand in the form of Praise it's yashmir abuse for those why because Arabia teacher always will see the good the fact that there are cynics who will see the bad their sarcastic cynical people looking to poke a hole to be hypercritical to see the negative to say ah not so impressed they're honoring him at the there's nobody else not because he's good she's amazing there was no one else if there was someone else they're a big cornished they'd never be honored that's not Ishmael that's just we've seen many many different interpretations but the question is why would you interpret it lignai if you could Le schwacht why would you interpret negatively why would you approach why would you analyze why would you understand Noah to the prism of negativity when you could when there is an alternative when there is the option of interpreting positively why would you even consider the opposite why was one predisposed why is the default to look critically rather than to look in a praising way the altar of the verdict says the truth is we tend to think one is negative one is positive one is critical one is complementary but they're really both complementary both of their conclusions are that is a sadak from his Capital to his feet that's a song I didn't make that up Noah has a big so Noah has a big tadiq from the top of his head to the bottom of his toes he's a big sadik Noah so both of them come to that conclusion the whole debate is what motivated him what inspired him what led to Noah being a Sadiq the conclusion both agree is the question is why also my darling is he internally driven is he internally motivated does it come from within or is he externally motivated is it from the outside it's a whole new interpretation normally the annual debate ensues positive or negative complementary or critical but the altar of Nevada says no no both are complementary everybody agrees that we are recognizing Knox greatness is righteousness is that Sadiq so what's the debate what's Rashi quoting two sides the debate is what led to it what led to it is it internal or is it external is he motivated from himself or is he motivated by his as a reaction as a response to his to his surroundings to his surroundings but both conclude both conclude comes to Noah again big discussion Ayla told us told us not just his children before you get to his children plus agreeds very very clumsily Ayla told us these are The Offspring of Noah so the biggest offspring of Noah is before you get to Shane is is Noah who is Noah's father turn back because again the last expression gave us the lineage who's Noah's father who is Knox father in Yiddish what do you call Allah what do you call a reject icewarf failure no good Nick unimpressive reject Allah why are they called Allama poor lemon is Father what's his legacy that a loser is called Allama a loser you know loser okay go back to high school why why is lemon where does that come from the Weinfeld schlitter and Weinfeld says because accomplished didn't achieve lemak's entire Legacy is I may be in nothing I may be a garnished I leave no Legacy I have no accomplishments I have no achievements I've done nothing with my life whose coattails does he ride but do you know who my son Noah is so a person a person who gives up on themselves person who doesn't believe that they can make a difference a person who doesn't want to leave a legacy who lives vicariously entirely only through their children is Allama says that doesn't mean that we shouldn't have knocked us from Children of course we hope we pray we work hard to be able to have children and ultimately we Davin hard to get nachas from those children my uncle remember had a great insight and a birth of a grandson he said we say it a briskatan he said often parents say I want my child to be great I want them to do good things but I want to be exactly where I'm at I come to show at this time I don't want to come earlier than me because then they're a religious fanatic I don't want them to come later than me because then they're a religious failure what's going to be I come late this is exactly when they should come I talk this much during school they talk less they've gone to the right I don't know what someone recently told me they have a son who lives in America I don't know what to do I checked my mezuzahs I don't know what to do I don't want my kids to go too far to the right if I don't want to go to the left for me I want to be exact it's my uncle said he said no no for every parent should be many this child should be greater than me smarter than me more accomplished than me a bigger Sabbath than me should no more Torah than I do should live more righteously than I do should be more generous than I am should be more accomplished professionally and career than I am that is there's no competitiveness between a parent and child that's our wish that's our ambition said you know me ah I'm a nothing but do you know who my son is have you heard of my son you know my he's at Sonic he was only duration so a person who gives up on themselves Cesar Weinfeld a person who doesn't believe they could leave a legacy who doesn't believe they can have an impact who doesn't believe they can make a difference who doesn't believe that they're here for a reason a mission and a purpose who lives vicariously and entirely only through their children such an individual is a reject Allah is the losers of underachiever and that's why Ayla told us Noah is the opposite Noah doesn't say do you know who my children are shame do you know who they are Shiva they got into you know they are how much money they make a year you know they are how many followers they have online you know they are what kind of car they drive now what are the told us Noah Noah nor says me I have a difference to make I'm going to save the whole world I'm going to build a Taver I'm gonna put everyone in it I'm Gonna Save the entire world Ayla told us Noah you know what is the greatest Offspring and Legacy of Noah yes yes he becomes the father of the continuity of mankind yes Noah Saves the World but before you get to children and grandchildren great-grandchildren Mirch Hashem don't give up on oneself 70 80 90 100 years you could be 100 years old Hermann Wilk published his last book I'd love to tell you he was a hundred years old he published his last book it doesn't matter what age you are you're not done yet told us yet to create and what's his biggest toll the Ayla told us and what's the told of nawah Sadiq tamim that he was at sad that he was a tummy that he was that is his achievement so the contrast between and between Noah never Stop Believing in ourselves never stop believing in our capacity our capability and our purpose and our mission and the difference that we can make you darling how world is filled with Hamas I always can't help but notice the irony of the political movement Terror organization named after the very cause of the destruction of the entire world they themselves are Hamas they are chaos they are corruption they are they are destruction everything has become corrupt here the first tell us it wasn't just humankind mankind who were capable of a higher order a higher purpose Higher Living the animal world became corrupt the Teva itself it says that the rain penetrated into the Earth wipe off a layer of the earth the earth became corrupt Earth doesn't make moral judgment Earth doesn't have free will the Earth the soil itself became corrupt that it needed to be able to remove eliminate a layer of the Earth there was an article in the Washington Journal this week about how floods are good for the world not for the people who suffer from them people who suffer from them our heart goes out but ecologically our climate perspective scientifically the world needs to reset and renew and the Earth from the soil require a certain cleansing so flooding again we pray that flooding be victimless that nobody be affected but the article was all about the science of why floods are good so that's what it was Hashem wiped away a layer of Earth because it needed Rejuvenation renewal the Earth needed it no so explain when humankind becomes so lost so upside down and lost so morally corrupt and confused when the world is so chaotic so all of nature is Disturbed so even though animals and vegetation plant life doesn't have free will and doesn't make moral judgment they are pre-programmed by Nature when Nature becomes corrupt when Nature has a virus so every part of nature is affected and impacted even the animal kingdom even the whole world and I dread and I fear that we're seeing this that we're living through this even in our Even in our time even in our time there are gidola Israelis said that the moral corruption that led to the destruction of the world pales in comparison to what we're living in today and they said that before the internet and the Billboards TV and the images and the icons and the confusion that is absolutely infecting the world today can only imagine the mabu the flood because nature the very definitions of nature the very things we took for granted of the very definitions of biology and nature are becoming corrupted they are being impacted by a a virus and climb inside get Inside passage possuk says make for yourself hey tavanark out of what I'd say go for go for wood and make it with compartments and cover it with tar cover it with pitch make it waterproof and penetrable obviously if it's going to float if it's going to be if it's going to be effective if it's going to be effective what um I skipped go back to Pasta get out before we hit pause supposed to get out of but this is all about Hamas says the altar of kelm accordingly out of Nevada now the altar of calm says the author of calm but the world had become corrupt they were making terrible moral judgment decision confusion lack of clarity but ask the author of kelm we're looking at it through the prism and the perspective the glasses of a world that has been gifted the blueprint of creation the instruction manual of Life called the Torah but that generation didn't have it how were they meant to know right from wrong how am I they meant to know top from bottom how are they meant to know moral for immoral why can't you just take something from your friend why can't you be promiscuous with someone tell them you're not married why can't you all the things that they did wrong the moral chaos they introduced where does it say you can't how were they meant to know who told them where does it say what manual what laws guided them were they Bound by how did they know we take it for granted but how did they know how did they know the author of kelm says a magnificent and a critical insight he says there because mankind Common Sense dictates demands that the world live with order with purpose with respect with boundaries there are things that you don't have to be told there are things that you don't have to be instructed foreign because if you simply look at and contemplate analyze and understand if you observe the world you see its order you see its order you see its purpose you see the way it was designed that if you remove the boundaries and the borders if you remove the order we can't survive we can't live one moment if there is no beach if there is no Coast that's Naples Marco Island on the west coast of Florida which has happened with hurricane Eden when the water overrides the the beach what happens flooding destruction you can't survive catastrophe Crisis Death that's why Hebrew is called the Hof Robin says when a man and a woman get married and they create boundaries to their life that their relationship now is unique and singular that they share something and intimacy that they will not with any other and they've drawn a strong boundary what do they stand under just like the beach just like the beach the Hof protects the land from the sea it's a boundary so to the Chupa creates a boundary a home that the kala will live on that's a little bonus Torah for you a little bonus feature you don't even have to subscribe you don't have to pay you don't be a global member a little extra bonus the boundary so the author of kelm says you don't have to be told you don't have to be given a manual you don't have to be given a constitution or bylaws you should simply lose you use your own Common Sense your own logic look at this world and realize that it has boundaries that has order and that when you remove the order and the boundaries when you have corruption and Chaos you have destruction with cold and heat with with wetness and dry ashram fire and water if it overlaps and touches and bleeds into each other if you remove the boundaries and the order you can't survive you have destruction I know I harp on this and I keep coming back to this I'm not hung up on this but I'm very afraid of this we're living in a world that is increasingly trying to erase boundaries and borders between genders between peoples between nations between countries the whole EU is to say there are no distinct cultures there are no different currencies there are no different languages There Are No Boundaries or borders everything everything in every area and Arena of life there are no moral boundaries and moral borders there are no borders and boundaries of modesty of clothing of appropriateness of language there are no boundaries and borders and the altar of kelm says you don't have to be told any person with common sense looks at the world and realizes that when you erase those and blur those when you eliminate those it's the end it's the end of mankind it's a flood the world becomes a place that's a marble it's a marble otherwise says so where do you go how do you survive a mabu how do you survive a flood where do you go what do you enter the word Teva means an ark but the word Teva also means a word Teva means the table Torah says when you immerse yourself and you protect yourself you find refuge and you find security in the ark of Torah the Teva of Torah we don't have a table today we don't build a large boat today in the moral model that is flooding and that is violating the boundaries of the world we don't enter the tave of the boat ship we enter the table sheltera says we enter the the tave of the Ark not the Ark of a boat or ship the ark that's right behind me we don't actually go into it someone told me incredible story they say it's true about a community that a person on simplest or a night a man with so labeled and he drinks so much and he never came home his wife was so worried in the community that he had a search they looked everywhere for him couldn't find him they broke and they went to dive in the morning when they opened the arrow and they found them sleeping inside the iron kodus I love a true story not a true story that is not what this fasemas meant when he said enter the Aaron sheltera the ark the time of the table shelter that is not what he meant the ark it's the same word in English Ark a Teva Teva means word the olive Bay is the table the ultimate the highest words there are is the language the vocabulary of Torah the ultimate the first purpose of the Isle of base is to teach Torah that's where we enter so the author of kelm says you don't have to be told you see this in last week's Parsha too the conversation we don't have time for this right now at length Cain and Evil Sherman says hey kind any idea where your brother Heaven might be have you seen hevel recently it's a funny conversation satellites in the sky it's watching Always he knows exactly where heavily is knows exactly what happened kind any idea where heavilus and what is Kyan answer I don't know what am I now I have to I'm in charge of my brother I have no idea you're God I don't know where he is and then he says your brother's blood is calling out to me from the ground what's going on in this whole conversation the clocker says cayenne's answer is where does it say I can't kill my brother what does it say he was annoying he was aggravating where does it say I can't kill him when did you ever tell me that imagine the child beats up a sibling and then you punish the child she says well one second you never told me that rule you never told me I can't beat him up can't beat her up she's annoying it's aggravating where does it say where did you tell me this when did you sit me down and give me these family Rules where's the manual where's the guide the handbook what did you tell me says the conversation is beautiful next year Posh is precious take a look it's beautiful he says that's what God's responding some things I don't have to tell you some things you should know Common Sense Common Sense your internal moral compass should guide you to White right from wrong you don't need to be told not everything you need to be told my friend by Kenny Chio it says maybe that's why sometimes sometimes the gemara will teach you Allah and will say what's the possible what's the makkar where do you know that from what verse do you derive it from the gemara says you don't need a pass look why svara you don't need a pasok when do you need a pasok when you want to arrived at it without being told but when Common Sense would dictate when simple logic would get you to that destination so that inside of last week the author of come applies on this week who told the duramabu who told them you can't steal who told them you can't sleep with your neighbor's wife because you're interested who told them this who said who says there's moral boundaries and there's order to the world who said come says nobody needs to tell you Common Sense logic your internal moral accomplish should have led you to that conclusion you have destruction without it when he talks about the gollum the camp and the flags and the way everything was laid out in order he quotes us out there of kelm and he says the altar of kelm order we gave a whole Shabbos to go to Joshua once about it spoke about the Seder we celebrate freedom with what order which is a bizarre way to celebrate freedom freedom is usually let's party party means no order we Have No Agenda we have no rules we Have No Boundaries let's just party that's freedom Jewish people we get together with freedom and what do we do we sit around a table and the first thing we sing is the agenda of the evening old business new business let's approve the minutes we're singing the agenda of the of the board that's Freedom says yeah that's Freedom he can't have freedom without order and review says about the altar of kelm hasaba Mikel mayakois is my children know this because it's one of my pet peeves drives me crazy drives me crazy when my kids get up from the table and the chairs are all over I was raised I was taught you get up and you tuck in a chair you push in the chair when you leave the table the table should look set orderly not chaotic chairs everywhere it's the author of calm would be as disappointed he would be as vociferous in his rebuke when a chair was not pushed in as if he saw someone be Mahalo Shabbos so the cynical say but the altar have come at OCD that's what my kids say I'll be so OCD what's with you hang up with the chairs OCD if he did there was nothing wrong with that no Stigma no shame nothing wrong Out of the Shadows our next episode on anxiety is coming out we're gonna do on an OCD nothing wrong but he didn't have OCD you out of kelm said order Seder it's like a pearl necklace what's more valuable on a pearl necklace the pearls or the string objectively if you go to the jeweler the pearls are many multiples exponentially more valuable than the string the string costs pennies pearls cost a lot more than pennies the pearls are worth a lot more but if you don't have the string the pearls fall on the floor they roll everywhere you don't have the pearls so it's not that the string is more valuable than the pearls but without the string there are no pearls the author of calm said that's the role of seder in our lives we don't worship seder order we're not obsessed we're not OCD with it but rather we see it function its role because without Sader you have nothing else and that's what the door hamable should have known when you remove when you blur when you erase the boundaries you have corruption you have chaos and ultimately you have an irrecoverable irreversible destruction okay now let's fast forward Hashem recruits Noah and he tells them make for yourself a that's a gopher make for yourself out of go for wood a Teva what's the word which word is extra in that possible no let's put on our thinking hats again when we started the partial Shear many moons ago I think I had hair when we began I used to try to get people to think among them they're always answering a question they don't offer a commentary that wasn't stimulated or provoked by a question they just didn't have the pedagogy to formulate it in a question answer format so they just gave a commentary that was helping arrive at the conclusion to answer their question but every foreign whatever comment you're reading them whoever you're reading you should ask what question are they answering what bothered them or even more basic when you read the Parsha read it with an eye towards questioning so go for what word there's unnecessaries extra excellent proud my proud of my tummy them I say I could have just said what I say go for make a Teva out of gopher wood what is the word why the word she says says it took a very long time to build the Tava and where did Noah build the Teva not in the backyard where the HOA president wouldn't see it where did he build that where did he build it on the front yard probably got noticed after notice after notice your garbages weren't put back in time and yosuka wasn't taken down in time and what's the deal with this Arc Noah what's the deal with this table You're Building you didn't get approval from the architect committee what's going on with it already tells us why why did Hashem instruct Noah can design in such a way that it took so much time it was so public so much fanfare attracted so much attention why what did it what did Hashem want he wanted all the neighbors HOA leadership and others to stop by and say nah what's going on here what's the deal what are you working on oh what am I working on I'm glad you asked you ice Farm's low life immoral corrupt lemons you guys Sean is about to destroy the world unless you turn it around unless you get it together unless you man up this is it so I'm building an arc because I'm going to survive but you're all done and why did Hashem want that conversation he wanted them to say oh that doesn't sound good what can we do about it how could we change that so again for whom was the Tava not for Noah who was it for the generation his neighbors the surroundings by the way the whole world or just the region I'll say something that might sound heretical to I once gave a hoshir on this topic where did the flood happen across the entire globe or Mesopotamia or in a particular region of the world which was the inhabited civilized area of the world at the time but not really across the entire globe there's a debate among our commentators on this subject not modern commentators about the subject how far and wide did the Glo did the flood actually occur was it the entire globe or was it Regional maybe just there to show there's all discussion just not answer all the area Mesopotamia banana Etc it's a big discussion about it but the point is it was for Noah's contemporaries it was not for him which just makes the question more compelling if it wasn't for Noah because for his contemporaries then what word is extra what do you mean for you build a table out of go for wood for you on answers the following he says was sent to awaken to arouse his generation his contemporaries to the chuva is because you know the best way to inspire others is to be inspired yourself don't get up on that pedestal don't get up in front of that podium Don't Preach to the world unless you start with yourself I say Begin by looking in the mirror show first begin bye criticizing ourselves self-awareness self-improvement the greatest way to inspire others is Inspire yourself Inspire yourself to inspire others so I say it's true that the reason the goal was to inspire the contemporaries methodology the best way to inspire others was be and fire yourself when you're on fire it'll spread it'll become contagious and you can light the fire of others this new status Forum that I really enjoy I think somebody oversook us had a feature on the author otsurplo Satora I don't get any royalties he's a big Veer is a very very successful very wealthy businessman philanthropist aguir who also is and he used to research fascinating things on the Parsha I was encouraged by godol Israel to combine them and put them out in the Swarm and he did it's fantastic stuff fun stuff he says on this pasok I said go for he says the following isden of solanaki born in salonica he tells a hole in the footnotes he gives a biography of each of these obscure Fascinating People he digs up says copycat he did not register he did not copyright his Teva so what happened to the other guy there was someone who watched and listened there was someone who said you know what I'm gonna hedge myself he's threatening there's going to be a flood he's building a table saying he and his people will survive unless Our Generation turns it around you know what I don't have to turn around I'm just going to build my own Teva so what happened to him nitbull his boat sunk in the marble and that's what it says later says only Noah survived and those with him always comes to exclude what is it coming to exclude says foreign that we should know in the storyline that there was someone else who built an ark but he drowned he didn't make it he didn't make it you see from here was not the first to build the ship ships already existed in the days of nawak as we see no one of them was a captain of a ship you see right in the time of avram again it's a fascinating historically when were ships invented when did sailing begin mankind is born on the Earth who was the first who said let's build something and test if it floats and travel with it somewhere who was the first when did that start where did that come from already in the generation of Noah can happened first time we find them in tanakas in what book not Teva but svina Yona again wow the Book of Jonah they would say so we see it there we see it there anyway again it goes on and on really fascinating stuff that he has here but there was somebody else a copycat who tried to there's always a rip-off there's always the rip-off it's probably from China the table it's a lot cheaper but you see what happens when you buy from China and you don't pay the real cost what happens boat fell apart didn't make it no offense China if you're listening from China sorry please forgive me peroxide peroxide let's go we're gonna go speed round a little bit so many more give a toy to share here the final call what happened foreign why do they enter the table because of the flood what does that mean they entered because of the flood what was the alternative why they enter again you got to read the text of the night towards critical thinking asking questions why does the Torah go out of its way to tell us that when it was time to enter the table Noah entered and he entered why because of the water the rain the flood what could it have said why else could he have entered because God told them build the table and get inside that's the reason so Rashi again was clearly bothered by this question Russia says you see from here that Noah Noah was diminished in his faith he believed God he built the table after all he was at Sadiq from his Capital he was tamim yet is on the other hand he was not a Believer because the only thing that actually got him got him into that table was what when the rain began to fall so what does that mean how could it be the lepstein is that the last person in the manal of Torah or say for horos he says it's a story this doesn't appear in the safer it appears in the southern once entered came to him and they asked him for hisak is insulted foreign you asked me about my amuna what am I like first year best magic a seminary girl what am I in middle school you're asking me if I have faith my Muna I'm a big time aggressive are you asking me so yeah but how I mean I don't have a Muna so if they'd love she didn't answered him he said if you look in Hamish braces you'll see Noah the same person the total called but sadik and a tamim also said mikate you see you could be a big Sadiq you could be a tummy you could be a TAMU but a moon is so difficult it's easy to have a Muna in the abstract in theory conceptually it's easy to have a Muna and to say of course I believe your challenge they take a census you believe in God absolutely I have faith part of the faith community I'm a Believer please God thank God every formulation you could think of absolutely I'm a Believer okay then what happens when your neighbor has something that you want you get envious where's your Ramona what happens when you have a crisis a challenge do you believe that God is navigating he may be closing a door he's opening another what happened to your amuna where's the emuna when a competitor opens up and you get ruthless and Cutthroat what happened to your emuna that Hashem is the one who provides your child is in the world of the area that we're supposed to have the most amuna than any other the grow rights grow rights it's so backwards and paradoxical upside down you know all of life we're supposed to do histadless and not rely on the faith in Hashem but Hashem isabricious what's Hashem busy doing making matches so when it comes to minimize the histadless the initiative get out of the way and let us make the and what do we do we do exactly the opposite when it comes to parnassan work and life we say yeah Hashem should provide and then when it comes to him over initiative excessive initiative we take it's backwards so you see from here says you could be a tamim you could be and moon is hard when push comes to shove on the rubber meets the road when you're running late your flight's canceled or the competitor opened or the shutoff is taking a long time where's the ramuna then do you have amuna or yumikatne amuna it's hard to have a Muna it's hard to have a moon says you see this elsewhere who's the father of our people avram avinu because holds the avram accountable because of a question that avram asked held us accountable 210 years in Egypt and slavery having a clean for pesach every year is our punishment because avrah mavina said two words what were the two words come on tell me them what were the two words God said a promise about a future and a people and a continuity an avram looks at him and he says foreign How will I know how can I believe how do I know Hashem says oh boy seriously but may die seriously no get in the table not until starts to rain seriously Hashem looks down here and says to us I'm so in your life I'm so present I'm so obvious and when you don't see me Hashem go seriously seriously you don't see me so we today is by the way so what do we say in halal we say how do we grow in a moon we're going to talk about a Muno talk about Hashem Phil Hashem Hashem thank Hashem hey Monty when will we grow with our moon you see how challenging it is to maintain and to live with a great and a profound sense of slavery it's like I've told you this before the cat neemuna says it's not that Noah didn't have a moon in Hashem in whom did not have a Muna and himself and that's why he got up in that Ark and he pulled away but he never stood up and really proclaimed he didn't realize one person can change the world and save the world right that's the contrast Alvin gets up on a soapbox he changes the world Noah Retreats into a Teva he saves himself he didn't have a moon in himself he didn't believe in his ability to change the world to save the world not only to save himself per example for example design page 34. Hashem I never noticed his words till this year I'm embarrassed I'm embarrassed to say they came male and female Hashem commanded them they all came into the boat who closed the door of the Ark who closed the door by score Hashem Hashem closed the door why what's going on foreign close the door do you ever notice this plastic before Hashem closed the door why didn't oh good why didn't you want to close it what did it have to do with the Moon is this really gonna happen it's flood I don't want to close the door I don't want to believe it I don't want to close the door on the world the way I know it now beautiful I have sleep possible possible foreign that Hashem tells them I want you to put two of each non-kosher animal seven of each kosher animal male and female you need to have enough to be able to bring carbonos and for the for them to promulgate repopulate the world two of each species each animal huskuni says sends them to the table nor Standing On Top of the ramp they're coming two by two seven by seven he's registering them in checking them off it's like a cruise you know they gotta wear their bed don't forget your ID they're all checking in go find your life raft they're all checking in did you order the kosher they're all checking in and Noah says I don't know when to close the door why why how does he know when he's done how does he know if they're not more animals to come says again that's what I was telling you before the way we started you could read the same Parsha every year this apostle that you've read the parisha for how many decades you never noticed by his closed the door but though on his behalf why says he didn't recognize all the species of creation we didn't know when to close the door this is by the way how did I shouldn't close the door but it's Gore Hashem that's worth a miracle closing the door that's worth is coming down while we're on the subject of my pet peeves when you have children who are growing up half the time you go to sleep before them I say whoever's the last time to go to sleep turn off the lights and lock the door when I wake up and the door is unlocked and every light is on whatever author of calm I who was the author of count to raise my children anyway so the door is closed how did Hashem close this door Hashem he closed it on his behalf why says when when all the animals were in how did you close it went a wind could close the door when could open a door that's how he did it says Cooney that is what's going on now the flood rescinds finishes moving right a long um flood is over and Noah wants to know how we doing how does he find out he sends out a why don't you send sorry the o-riv and the owner both of them what made knock go into the Tava the rain but aside from the rain why did he build the Tava who has been guiding him all along telling him exactly what to do Hashem so why didn't you wait for Hashem to say you're good to go we've landed another joke they have on the plane lands to those who are still seated Merry Christmas to those standing in the aisles happy Hanukkah right everybody that plane lands everyone waits for the ding they time can I be the first if they're going to get off any faster as if it's going to help them get their stuff off the out of the overhead everybody's in such a rush to disembark and you've heard my routine about the miracle 70 wheelchairs lining up to get on the plane the miracle in the sky the same people into the wheelchair to get on the plane Chapel Hill you land in JFK they're running like no tomorrow off the plane who needs a wheelchair there's a smorg somewhere waiting for me I gotta get to the buffet the early bro I'm in I gotta go okay you heard that routine so everybody wants to disembark so the ribonacial Alum he's got the loudspeaker he's the one who said buckle up we're about to take off on the on the on the ark it's about to be a flood he's the one who says we've landed don't get up till you hear the ding till the captain says we're safely at the gate yada yada yada don't get up yet so why is Noah preemptively prematurely sending out the O Rave the Yona what's he doing what's he doing all of a sudden he's not listening and waiting for the captain what's he doing and by the way the captain ultimately says it what does Hashem say we're going to see that Posse in a moment Hashem says it's time to to some bark time to get off so why is he sending them out on some scouting Mission so back to representative this is going to say foreign he had a great goal and a mission right now to repopulate the world to build the world Anew to start it from scratch to build it correctly to last so he waited and he longed and he looked forward and he wanted and when a person feels a mission when a person feels a sense of purpose and a sense of mission they don't wait for instructions they're ready to go upstein this was a reflection of his thirst of his yearning you're right if you're just like I'm going somewhere I'm waiting I'll do it I'm told I'll follow but if you are the Lone Survivor the designated Survivor if you are tasked with the mission of the purpose to save the world then you don't wait you're eager you're running you're looking you're scouting you're planning you're getting ready to be able to you're getting ready to be able to go what happens the owner comes back turn to page 38. the honor comes back in the evening and Leona has an olive leaf in its bill it's only an olive leaves in its mouth and Noah the waters had subsided enough that the owner the dove now had access to this Olive Branch Rashi says this was no ordinary Dove this Dove had a message for God the dove says to Hashem foreign Branch sweet tasty delicious what is an olive branch taste like it's bitter it's wood as opposed to what was the dove fed in the Teva sweets something delicious the dove comes back Dove says you know what I'd rather eat something bitter that comes directly from your hand God then eat something sweet that has to be fed to me by a man I'd rather be sustained and nourished I'd rather come from you than have to live from man said the great Heaven said the following knock gets smacked twice in the Teva in the marble story takes it on the chin twice he gets smacked twice when was the first time foreign the lion you know the lion kicked him knock took one on the chin he got hit hard when is the second time when the owner says to God I'd rather be fed something bitter for you than even something sweet and Delicious By that guy Noah took it on the chin once physically and once emotionally which one was more painful which one was harder to heal here the bullying number two was harder mysterious a whole year he's working he's providing he's feeding he's cleaning and after all that the Yona who's so ungrateful says I'd rather be fed something bitter from you Hashem playing sweet from him that hurt even more says foreign every day he provides for us every day is so good for us and we forget we forget to have that akara satoven to thank him we forget where it really comes from we forget to acknowledge Him as the as the source Hashem says when they arrive on the water of sins he says leave the ark why does he say manateva but it's time to go so Zoar says left the table and he saw the whole world destroyed it began to cry you foolish Shepherd why are you crying now you should have cried all the years you're building it should have cried the whole time that there was the impending doom destruction now you cry when you come out and you see the aftermath now you're crying when you see the consequence when Noah understood that he made a mistake what did he do says the Tsar that's when he offered the carbonos that's when he offered the Cabanas to Hashem as forgiveness is atonement from the failure to believe in himself and the failure to believe that he could have saved the world that's when he has to bring this carbonus of atonement says hard on behalf of everyone else and were able to nullify the decree even though he had one Pagan and what was this bigam he didn't know how to inspire others he didn't know how to inspire others he knew how to arrive to be where they've been called it sadak and atama himself but to take that inspiration and share it with others to be able to lift and enrich others to be able to lower himself to the level of others he lived in an ivory Tower he lived in Retreats secluded in The Refuge of the righteous but an ability to live among to interact with the wicked to not be impacted by them but have them be impacted by you Noah didn't have that he didn't have that he didn't have that ability and that says that's why Noah now needed this civil Seva the whole reason you got into this mess to begin with was you were living and hiding you were safe and secure in an ivory Tower you just cared about yourself my continuity my future my well-beingateva get out of this Ivory Tower and now go interact with the world and elevate it and enrich it and transform it and change it and that rings in our ears until today our area here in Boca Raton it's 140 000 Jews in bocos a quarter of a million Jews in Palm Beach County over 92 percent are unaffiliated gornish nothing nada Affiliated was measured if you work out at The JCC you were Affiliated and yet 92 percent are unaffiliated there are hundreds of thousands of Jews all over same and ateva get off Montoya Circle get out of Century Village when someone when somebody Bagels you at the supermarket we have a responsibility not the world was destroyed because he was hiding in that Ivory Tower he said you know what this is a from environment for me for my family I'm good to go I've got a tava while the world was drowning around him because of nothing says at the end of it all how do I know if you learned that lesson get out of that protective environment of course we create protective environments for our family for our community we have to have standards we have to have safety but we also have to have an eye to a mission how we're going to transform the world how we're going to make a difference how we're going to move that needle and into marriage and assimilation how we're going to make a difference we have an obligation we have responsibility we have to we have to one more two more we're running out of time story of my life so it's going to be on my tombstone he ran out of time after 120. it would be pretty accurate ran at it he was always running out of time test positive all right test possibly get down middle of page 42. makes a deal and he says a rainbow when I really want to destroy the world rational quotes when you losers when you ungrateful is reject a moral corrupt no boundary people when I want to destroy a world again you know what I'm gonna do look at that rainbow and remember my commitment our covenant my promise not to do that again needs a rainbow to remember he's the omnipotent infinite God he needs a rainbow to remember says no he does not need a rainbow to remember so why do we have the whole rainbow why do we have the whole phenomenon why do we have the whole sign and symbol why do we have the whole reminder for Hashem you know why leading by example in a moment of his orderus in a moment of inspiration you need to do something you need to do something that will transform you it needs to be recorded in a meaningful way you need to do something that will have an impact that will make a difference he didn't need the rainbow to remember never to destroy a world again because in this moment where I feel inspired I feel inspired and motivated and aroused to make a promise and a pledge never to do it again that needs to be captured in some meaningful way and we too you come off inspired and aroused on fire great how are you capturing it what are you changing about it you're gonna hang something different on the walls of your house home screen of your phone or your laptop taking on a cabal of a new practice they said what do I have to I was so inspired by Yama Ram surely that will last through the year surely it won't because was trying to inspire Us by example that when you are inspired when you arouse when you see when there is something be moved to make a difference with it last thing you know Time Force I won't really tell you my favorite new safer Torah has a whole discussion that is the generation that built that Tower at the time all spoke one language then they were dispersed all over and we were cursed with the United Nations so that one language has been a cursed on Humanity ever since what was the language they spoke what language they spoke one language what language did they speak they spoke what was their language they all spoke 70 languages so it means that they all were fluent in every language so one language meaning they were all fluent but it was 70 languages or no maybe it was maybe it was a different language maybe it was it was Hebrew who spoke La Shabbos about the snake in Java well like the measure says thanks books and now let's have a smoke snake what'd they speak but it tastes like amazing the yivits and say from migdal OS he quotes here in this otoposatora says about how did the whole world speak English how he says something amazing he says let's say a child grew up drop a child in a jungle they grow up not hearing any other language they're not taught any language in school not through osmosis by hearing others speak it does a child Intuit a language what language are they having conversation in their own head he spoke on Shabbat shuva we exchanged four million words a day in our own head we talk to ourselves four million words a day are the conversations in our own head so a child who never was exposed to any other language what language do they speak to themselves in their own head do they Intuit is there a default language that everyone is pre-programmed to know to speak foreign foreign ly intuitively we naturally have the ability the knowledge to speak Hebrew okay so I don't know what happens after that the rambam maybe said similarly it's a fascinating set again he has many comments on this but we are out of time we're off next week we resume in two weeks we're off tomorrow morning but we do a bind the Beamer tomorrow night with the great Rabbi David Foreman of olive beta he's amazing all of the his daughter is fantastic if you like the Parsha and you do because you're here you gotta check out Olive beta tonight I hope everybody's gonna join us tonight in Hollywood Israel foreign three magic words free buffet dinner it's a free buffet dinner music dancing Dolly Israel celebrating Smith incredible Tor event I hope you'll be there tonight details on the back page of the week of the kid in the lobby until next time stay happy stay healthy