Parshas Bereishis - Olam Hazeh Is Not Dark - [Archives]

I tell you a little story that happened. I'll tell you something fast then Schmoely, I want you to hear this. These when I literally, I'm not I'm not talking from the guys now, I'm not from I'm not into from speak. I like authentic real there's not to talk from. I physically have an excitement when I get to these parshas, a real say physically it's not a physical thing, but an excitement not a not a work oh oh you know so it's a guy wants to get somewhere he says It's the guy love davening. No, you don't. But you're trying to get yourself to love it. In these weeks parshas Bereishit, Noach, Lech Lecha, Chayei Sarah I get literally excited. It's typically a hard time I'm tired from our over Simchas Torah is over, it's man Simchas Torah you know. And people have a certain we all have a certain sadness to leave the Yom Tov and and a comfort to me always is these parshas. I get it I'm like excited about these parshas. Like where do I get that from? Why am I excited about these parshas? My Rebbe studied with us. Moishe, I want you to hear this. Naftali, my Rebbe learned these parshas with us. He spoke about Avraham, Yitzchak, Yaakov, the Avos. He made it so real to us. In these parshas our Tata Avraham came home. So nice. Or rather we returned to Avraham Avinu's house. We were back with Avraham Avinu. And he spoke to us about Avraham Avinu, the Friday Chumash Shiur, the the Mussar Vadim, just being around him. He spoke about the Avos Hakdoshim. So we pashet felt Avraham was like we were back with the Tata. Uncle Louie every year made the same stupid mistake. Every year he infuriated us how cousin Louie just was so dumb and every year we couldn't believe he'd make the same this stupid mistake. Every year we were reintroduced, we came back with the family. We always couldn't get over how wicked Uncle Esau was growing up in our tata's home. Like it was like shocking yearly how bad Esau was, but he painted such a picture to us of these parshas. I was always so excited about these parshas. My friends and I were excited about these parshas. It has lasted till today that I'm excited. I really want to jump to the end of Noach and talk about Avraham Avinu. Avraham shows up. Like forget everything else, but there are other things that are important to talk about. But what I want to tell you that when my rebbe wrote a book about his father and I was so I felt it was so neat to read that he wrote that in his home, my friends and I always said this about my rebbe what he did for us. And he wrote that his father used to speak about the others and all the people in Sefer Bereishit, it was so real. He wrote in his father's house, Avraham Avinu showed up, Uncle Lait and and Uncle Esau. He said that his father really did that for his family. So I I found that fascinating. His father did that for his family and he in turn did it for us, me and my friends. I want to speak though. We'll get to Avraham Avinu Be'ezrat Hashem. The tata Avraham shows up in this week's parsha. But I wanted this morning talk about something extremely fundamental in Yiddishkeit. Something that this fundamental you say the stick. Who understands what fundamental means? Uh fundamental means you say the stick. It means that important important extremely important. If a lot is built on this. It's foundational. It's this you say this point this point is one of a lot of confusion. I think we're taught very I think many people are taught wrong about this and I want to give it over right and in this week's parashah comes out the right attitude on this. I would like to learn this zachy together the right attitude. The beginning of Noach we're we're introduced to a world the end of safer bereishis Ellie in the beginning of Noach a world that has corrupted a world that's not living the way it can. You have to understand Hashem makes this gorgeous world full of attractive things that make us happy full of all different lures things that pull us. In middle of this beautiful fascinating world he sticks a man down. And man has the possibility to rise above the world. He's in the world but he can become big can connect his creator to Hashem become an elevated we all know how big man can be. When you meet a big person you're with Reb Chaim Brim. In our Yeshiva you see somebody like Reb Kesselman you get an idea of somebody could be big. Somebody would watch Reb Kesselman's day the man is up 4:00 4:30 I don't know his schedule. Something not exactly just the reality. He learns till late at night you could just you could just follow him around and look at his day the man the hours that that Yid puts in learning the amount that he does in a day in learning and reaching out and chessed besides being a husband a father unbelievable person you could see man can become very great >> [clears throat] >> and man can sink to very low levels. Man can get totally absorbed in this world and sink badly and the world has sunk. People are running they've gone mad they're running after temptations they're hurting one another to the lowest levels man sank. The psukim describe what's going on by the by humanity. I came to check this out. So, listen to some p'sukim and there's something that sticks out. The Torah writes subtly. Hashem talks to us subtly. He expresses things he wants us to pay attention to subtle words. Listen to what Hashem describes. And the aretz, the earth, corrupted in front of Hashem. Vati mala ha aretz hamas. And the earth was filled with robbery. V'yomer Hashem Hashem sees the aretz and it's corrupt. Ki ish kol basar every physical thing had corrupted as darko his way al ha aretz, you guessed it. V'yomer Hashem l'Noach keitz kol basar ba lefanai. It's the end of all humanity. Ki mala ha aretz hamas for the earth is full of robbery. V'hineni mashchis I'm going to destroy es ha aretz. Did everybody get some a funny feel here? Man has corrupted Yehuda. I want you to take that phone and hand it to Menachem. Thank you so much. Yehuda, man has corrupted and messed up. Man has messed up. They've done they've done bad stuff. And the p'sukim should highlight man's corruption. But exactly that's not what happens. The p'sukim in a strange way are talking about the the corruption of the world of the earth. Is this about the globe? You know, it sounds like they're these quacks that all day long speak about, you know, the the global warming and stuff. Could you worry about doing a nice thing to somebody? Like, worry about yourself for a minute. They're all busy helping God. God's doing fine. Could you Could you be nice to your wife? Could you act with a little morals? Could you They're worried about global warming. Could you worry about the prince of all over the craziness our society? But the But the Sukin, why is it so focused on the earth? The earth? Six times we just read the word earth. It shouldn't have been once. If you're reading the Sukin, but the Shaka it's the earth corrupted. The earth corrupted? Man corrupted, not the earth. What are you making this about the world, Hashem? Why is our creator talking so much about the world? But the Shaka the earth before Elohim. The earth corrupted the earth. The earth. Humanity. People. If there There are two There are two types of individuals, guys. I was in Eretz Yisrael. I was on a tour. My wife and I hired a guy. When I was a bucker, I didn't see anything in Eretz Yisrael. I didn't travel. When I got married, I got very curious to see the land. So my wife brought me around Eretz Yisrael. Gorgeous. My wife brought me around the holy land. And we hired a guy in one particular tour to drive us around. I don't remember 12 hours. I don't remember how much time for hours we paid him. He was a tour guy who was showing us around. I do not get curious by things. I like people, not things. And he's showing us this and that. I am bored out of my brains. I just don't care about this stone, that stone. No, no, no. It was just It didn't It didn't grip me. In the middle of the tour, he mentions that my elderly parents live on a settlement. He points, "My elderly parents live there." So I say, "Could we visit them?" He's like, "What?" Like He's doing his tour. So forget all that. We'll pay you everything we said. You're a great You're absolutely I'd like to meet you. You're such a great guy. I want to meet your parents." He said he never got that request. He calls his parents. The rest of the tour with his parents is the best part of the trip. >> [clears throat] >> Beautiful, Yidden. We hung out with them. That all the history of the people are rich. I like people, not things. People, the schmuck, live human beings. Beautiful. It was so inspiring. They were such interesting, wonderful. That was the history of the land, the people. So, you're in If you're into people and you hear this, you're out of your mind. Hashem's talking about people who have made bad decisions. And six times, he talks about the corruption of the earth. The earth the the land the earth people corrupted. The earth was full of robbery. The earth People were stealing. Who talks like this? The earth was full of hummus. People robbed. God is staring at the ground. He looks at the What are you looking at the for? Behold, it was corrupt. People. People. It's not about earth. It's not about earth. It's about people. Cuz every man had corrupted I wasn't sure where man was standing. I thought he was flying. Every man was corrupt. He was corrupt on the ground. Can you imagine I tell you, Ellie, I threw out a Yeshiva? Why? You know, he didn't know a name when he was standing on the ground. It doesn't do anything. It doesn't do anything. He's an idiot that he didn't know another Yeshiva's name. He deserves to be thrown out. What's on the earth? Does it matter where he was standing? He's on the ground. If you don't care to know a name >> you didn't need to shave his name. You're out of your mind. Al aretz Al aretz on the earth on the earth >> [laughter] [laughter] >> You make sure you have all the names. >> [laughter] >> The child is your base side. What is the word? What? >> [applause] >> But I say you guys are an idiot for not knowing your name. It's like Am Ha'aretz. It's terrible to be ignorant. It's terrible. But at least if you're trying says beside it. The point what's terrible is you don't care that you're ignorant. Not to know a guy in your Yeshiva's name. You're You're in your Yeshiva together. You're one Yeshiva. If you care and you try to say to him, "We'll try our best." If you're disinterested, you have something wrong with you. A yid a ben Torah How can you not be You want to know his name. He's a yid. It doesn't make sense. It's like It's It's It's logically It's He's He's a fellow yid a bachur a ben Torah that you're disinterested in knowing his name is is corrupt. But the kid's dvar hamitzvah is why is it Al Ha'aretz? Why Al Ha'aretz? That's the question. So I want to This This is what I want to suggest. This is what I want to tell them. This, this is the chat. And they say, "What's going on here?" There's clearly one thing I think everybody could agree here. Shalom Naftali Schlita. We can all agree something's up here. Is there a valid I don't like forced things. There's not propaganda I'm trying to You read these sukkim, you read these sukkim and you see something's up. God is seeing and I would see, you know, you're sitting next to God, you and God looking at something and you're observing and you want to know what you're observing. I'm observing people that have messed up and Hashem's talking about an earth that's corrupt. An aretz, a huge stress on the aretz. So, I want to I want This is what I Menachem, I want you to hear this well. This is what I want you to hear. Our [clears throat] relationship to this world is of such confusion. If I had to list the top five things that kids, that bachrum, that teenagers, and I dare say adults and curly young men like are confused about, I would say top five that people with beards down to here are confused about and are wrong. Not Not all the different ways to look at wrong. I would say top five, this area corrupts many and much is taught that is so devastating it scares me. If I had to say that if I had to say reasons that many have struggled with Yiddishkeit, is the lack of understanding of this would be high up on the list. And what I want to tell the guys is our relationship to this world is a point of mass confusion, Shalom Naftali. You look out in the world, Hashem made a nice world. It's It's very fitting to say this in the fall. You walk that park, gorgeous. The trees look like a fire. You see the red, yellow, orange, beautiful sights. Really stunning. You look at a beautiful world and then you ask ourselves, where do we Hashem made this really nice world full of nice pleasures, full of things by the way we desire. We have time and we really like this world and there's a lot about this world that lures us. And I ask you, did Hashem create a monster who holds a temptation by us and he's the bad guy who you're supposed to avoid? He's all bad. You know you have that friend, that guy in the community who's just everybody knows the bad guy, avoid at all cost. He has a horrible reputation and all parents tell their children don't hang with him. Every community has such a him. He's just bad. So God makes this world that's just bad and somehow but we're so tempted to hang out with him. We're so tempted to connect to him but he is bad. He's the bad guy who will send us toward destruction. Is that our view of Olam Hazeh? You know, in camp, in camp I'm giving I'm giving I'm giving learning groups and right outside the window is beautiful grass. They actually made a football field pretty close to my sheer room, the window. You're looking out at a nice football field. That's all the devil. Come guys, look down. Learn, learn, let's go. That world bad, bad, bad, bad. And guys, don't look. All that is just a temptation. Is that our view of Olam Hazeh? I ask you in a serious way, in an honest way. This is not if the answer is yes, Olam Hazeh is bad, it's the devil and our job is we're not meant for that. Guys, 80 years from now, 100 years from now, there's a place called Abba. It's completely real and for eternity you'll get rewarded, you and I. This world bad. Forget, give up these 80 to 100 years. Just don't just don't do it. Don't don't engage in this world. Don't You don't want for eternity you'll get rewarded. It's to be avoided. Is that is that our view of of the beautiful world that Shem made? I dare say It's confronted. The answer to this question is a resounding no. It's against the first word of the Torah. It's funny if you're going to break it then at least break something and say like you know, keep the book a little bit, you know. You you broke the first word of the Torah if you think this way. The first word of the Torah is gracious. And Hashem says I made the entire beautiful world this gracious. This world is made for the year. This gracious. The entire beautiful world is meant for the service of man. The Messiah is short and which we're starting to study. The Messiah is short and we've already said many short on the first paragraph. You just don't know it yet. The Messiah is short and his first paragraph speaks about purpose of man and he says we have three purposes of existence to do mix voice. To pass tests and to get a relationship to God. To become close to Hashem. You know, relationship People people don't know about relationships. The words are very cheap. I always say a rabbi a person should have a connection to his rebbe. So rebbe I'm sure sure we're very close close to not close to the guy don't know what a relationship is. A relationship is built there's openness there's understanding oh you're open with you're not close to the guys. Rebbe relationship you're supposed to have a relationship to God close to him. You have to have a personal relationship talk to him. Talk to him. So he listens. What not relationship? So Effie points out that one of the ways of having a relationship is yes Chaim Soloveichik out of through the mitzvahs correct. One of the ways one of the ways. The three purposes Yechiel of life. The sole three purposes don't no talking like that. The three purposes of life. That's to do mitzvahs. Pass the Zionists. And to get a relationship to God. Those are the three purposes Yechiel. Says the Messiah says Chaim and you see a beautiful world Effie. Well where does that fit in? He's so honest it's so refreshing. Where does that fit in? Where's Chaim? Where's Chaim? Chaim Gulish. I don't see him okay. Yehuda. Yehuda the Messiah says Chaim is so honest. See yes I said the purpose of life is these three things. So Ellie Unger what's with the beautiful world? Where's that? Where does that fit in? And he says something shocking Kiva. I expect him and expect him every time I read it to say Messiah Messiah Yakov. That's a challenge. We're supposed to have challenges that's the challenge it's not what he says shocking each time it's shocking and new. He doesn't say this world is for challenges. He says it's for Yeshiva Das. It's for the tranquility to allow us to focus on the other three things. What Rebbe said when he says is the purpose of the world is the great backdrop for the sincere ever Hashem to serve Hashem. To have the tranquility, the calmness, the serenity necessary to serve Hashem. All the beautiful things in this world were created to assist the learner of Hashem. It makes me crazy that we teach kids and I've told you this before. We teach kids about Tyva that as if it's like the dark side of man. We teach a kid you you like girls, whoa, Tyva, pizza. Tyva is beautiful. You have Tyva, wonderful. Hashem. One day you're going to build a beautiful family. Excellent. Excellent. Excellent. As a matter of fact, the reason why our youth can't stop looking at inappropriate things is cuz they're not taught this. Because if it's just something the dark side, I can't hold back. You know what's wrong with pritzus, with seeing inappropriate things? It's the same thing wrong dancing on a safer Tyva cuz a safer Tyva is meant to learn from. To jump on a safer Tyva and play basketball on a safer Tyva is wrong because it has an elevated, exalted purpose to learn from. Tyva is meant to serve Hashem. Tyva is meant to build a family. So it's so precious to mess it up like that, to use it for something else is so inappropriate. It's so inappropriate. It's so profoundly wrong. What are you doing? Corrupting so holy, corrupting something actually you can become a creator with Hashem, a partner with Hashem. The most powerful thing a human being can do, you could partner up with Hashem and create. They You know, all of humanity, we like being creative. We're born to be creative. And we have the power of creativity in the most profound ways, and you're you're misusing it. The bottom line is, Rabbi say, the bottom line is, chevre, is that this world is meant to assist the servant of Hashem. That's the purpose of the world. But the following thing happens in this beautiful world. When man utilizes the world and doesn't get caught in the world, he actually rises above the world, utilizes the world to elevate above the world. He takes the pleasures and uses it in the proper way, in the proper framework. But he rises and grows and utilizes the world, right? Chumish olam, he has an iluy an elevation, voilam mishala ima, and the world is elevated with him. And when he corrupts, when he corrupts, he gets destroyed, voilam mishalkel ima, the world gets corrupted with him. Now, I want to say something. Please listen. Please listen. The world, Rabbi say, there's two choice when you have the world. You can remain a ben olam who utilizes the world right. You remain your identity of a shteger, a grown person, a sincere person, and the world is there as an assistant, a great assistant. Or you can get sucked up by the world. You can lose your identity of a ben olam and be mevatel yourself to the world. I would I would I don't have a great analogy. The clo- close this analogy, this is not a great visual. I'm going to work on a better visual. Picture as follows. Somebody entrusts you Somebody entrusts you. It's not a great moshel at all. But there's a kid, a very a young kid confused, and your job is to lead him to great places. You can remain your special awesome self and lead this kid. You're supposed to connect him and then lead him to great places, Avi. And we can connect to this kid and lead him, or you can get so impacted by him that he suddenly takes you over, and your values and your ideals get corrupted, and you just get corrupted with this kid. You move into a room in the dorm. You move into a room in the dorm, and you have a roommate. You have a roommate who's who's maybe has has all different types of challenges. And you're an elevated guy. You can stay elevated, connect, and bring him with you, or you can get swallowed up by his shenanigans. When we're put on this earth, we can get swallowed up by oilam haze, we can get the word of shakuah in oilam haze, totally engulfed and engrossed in oilam haze. Stop rising and just use the world with the Yeshiva Das in the way it was designed, you can get completely absorbed by this world. I suspect Rabbi Said the p'sukim describe Hashem seeing the earth, man ceases to exist. He was swallowed up by the earth. Instead of utilizing the earth, he was shakuah in the earth. Instead of utilizing the world that is tantalizing, but it's meant as a place and the way it's supposed to be used, man can become absorbed in the earth, completely shakuah, forgetting his mission, forgetting the earth is only a backdrop to a shtayging. But becoming shakuah so physical. I was at a meeting where people were debating a certain They were debating a whole real estate question. I was asked to come to this meeting. And one of the things that hit me is how absorbed in physical things a man can be to the point of you forgot your greatness. You forgot your talent and your kim. You forgot your whole mission, your whole self, your whole lessons. Literally a guy would go to a dorm who was a precious, sincere picture you have a guy who's a giver. He's just a wonderful person and he has a roommate who's not so great. And he goes to that room and then you wait for what emerges. It could emerge two precious people. That's the dream. Or you can emerge two people that become bad. Who impacts who? The aretz when used properly man as not leave all solid in my the world gets elevated with him Ali. When a human being lives right, lives powerfully, powerfully let powerfully right. When he lives focused, he rises and the world rises with him. He utilizes the world right. Everything has an Ali with him. But when man gets so enamored by this world, so drawn and gets your core sucked into the world, he no longer utilizes it right. Then no longer a man remains. I suspect Hashem's message to us in looking at a world and describing the corruption of the aretz. Weren't there people? The answer is the people stop being. The world he says the aretz filled with robbery. Aretz wasn't there man? But why precisely did man rob? They got so sucked into this world grabbing, taking. They forgot the ben Adam, the person with his ability to be sincere, to be truthful, to be godly. They forgot about what an Adam could and should be. So all Hashem sees is an earth for man has run after the world, run after physicality and actually ceases to exist. Hashem from heavens looks down and doesn't see people. It's like amazing. The whole book and speak about all the orders all on the land. Hashem sees land. They're people. Hello. People are more important than land, but all he sees is land not people. For the people have run after all the mazes and ends. No longer as a means, no longer as an assistant, but they've run after they become all about all the mazes. There's a voucher sitting here whose grandfather and my father for about 40 years would go every Friday and play ball together. For for 40 years, 35 40 years, they would play ball. They play paddle ball together for 40 years. I always thought to myself when they would play paddle ball I went for many many years. I spent my childhood Fridays rain, snow, sleet, warm, all different weather. They That was like a religious. They would play every Friday paddle ball. And usually on the paddle ball court you see an inner city guy. They use I don't know if they can't afford rackets. They're usually playing with their hand hand ball. They have these like gloves that like the cut out on the finger and they're playing hand ball. And I would watch as a kid and I would think to myself my father these two rebel young men are playing paddle ball. And on the court all around them are surrounded inner city youth playing hand ball. And it looks like they were doing the same thing. Okay, they have the they have the gloves, they have the rackets, but it looks like they're doing the same thing. It looks like they're both living the same way, but it would occur to me as I was getting older it would occur to me unbelievable difference. They're both playing paddle ball, true. By these by these by this court their paddle ball their life's about the service of Hashem. And then they take the wonderful joys of camaraderie, friendship, competition, things that are fun and nice and they utilize it in a nice way to reinvigorate themselves, to dedicate themselves to Hashem. So it's a nice outlet, giving their body some relaxation. They take and it's so perfectly used. So perfectly used. Hashem's beautiful world with its gifts of friendship, with its gifts of competition, things that we enjoy. So intelligently used to assist men. And on the court over, that's it's so different what's happening. They're both playing the same game, but oh my gosh, are they It's a different world. Olam Hazeh is beautiful and it was designed for you and I to use right. To use right to assist us, to always stay focused on our mission. Don't become bottled to the paddleball wall. Don't become a piece of the wall. Stay in Olam who's thriving and growing and utilize the wall and the ball in order to continue to thrive and grow. Don't become part of the wall. Don't become the ball. Don't become the ball. Utilize the ball. Utilize the ball. Don't become a stick ball. Don't become a a ball. I think when Hashem looks down and describes the corruption of the Olam, cuz man ceases to exist as a ben Olam. He just was mevatel himself to that earth that Hashem created. And he created it not to have man been mevatel himself to it. To have man properly utilize it, but all the while looking up and growing and trying to become better and bigger. But the person who just sucked into physicality, just kulai shakul and gashmius, kulai shakul in this world loses himself. He loses what it means of be an Adam, a human being, with his strivings that we have equally. Let's be honest, we're fascinating. We have in us the lure of this world for certain, and we have in us craving for ruchniyus. The job is that the craving for ruchniyus always utilizing the craving for ruchniyus, and the world is used as a see you as a help. As an assistant Yeshiva Das, calm ourselves down, always growing and and and steigen. That's That's our view of Olam Hazeh. So, when I said that there are many that misunderstand, there are many who think that our view of Olam Hazeh is some terrible place. The pleasures are wonderful, and they're meant for you and I. We don't go to other worlds. There There are teenagers who run to other worlds for their tempted by Olam Hazeh. It's like a comedy show. The Olam Hazeh The The analogy I would give is if the guys every afternoon we bring donuts to the Beis Medrash. We give donuts to the Beis Medrash. This analogy, listen to this. We have donuts in the Beis Medrash every afternoon for the learners. We want to reinforce the masmidim of the Yeshiva, so we have donuts. Now, the guy goes back to the dorm after he has some crumbs on himself, and the crumbs fall off in the dorm. From all the learners, the crumbs fall off their shirts. So, in the dorm, there are episodes on the floor, some scattered crumbs. Let's say that the guy came back. Maybe he got a little in his beard, he wiped it off in the dorm. There's some crumbs in the dorm. You'd have a bochur >> [clears throat] >> who wants a donut, so he runs to the dorm to get the crumbs. Buddy, you don't got to run to get the crumbs. They're in the Beis Medrash. The donuts are in the Beis Medrash. That's what they're for. It's true there are some crumbs there. For whatever reason, people get dirty and shake it off. The pleasures of the world are here. They're meant for us. This world, the beauty of the world is here. It's not anywhere else. I laugh at the youth who sees a rave, who sees nonsense like that's nothing. It's nothing. Olam Hazeh is nothing. The The joys of Olam Hazeh were meant for the base medrash. They're utilized properly to serve Hashem. How do you use the pleasure of a rave for the base medrash? There's no such thing pleasure pleasure of a rave. The camaraderie, type is meant to get married. The camaraderie is meant to Camaraderie is very important. A talmid chacham's called a chaver. It's called friendship. Camaraderie is important. All the joys of the world are meant to assist the learner, the servant of Hashem. That's what they were created. Are there crumbs elsewhere? Yes. Are there joys elsewhere? Very fleeting. Yes. That wasn't the purpose of the world. That wasn't the purpose. That wasn't the way to utilize the world. That isn't the gishmak in the world. There's a mishnah that says those that learn Torah ashrecha ba'olam hazeh tov loch ashrecha ba'olam hazeh tov loch l'olam haba. It's nothing short of a mishnah. This I believe the Rebbe says extremely important as we read Sefer Bereishit to understand this. If somebody follows Sefer Bereishit, I will end with this. Somebody who do want to get the shiurim. If somebody follows Sefer Bereishit, Sefer Bereishit is Hashem talking to us and he first creates a beautiful world and watch what happens. He creates a beautiful world and then and it starts Hashem's focus on this beautiful world. And then Hashem zones in to one family. This guy writing this is talking about world. You know how large the world is? You know how much is in the world? And then Hashem's view tunnels in right to Avraham Avinu and his family. Yitzchak, Yaakov. And what happened? There's a whole big world. A whole big world. Man is a very small piece of this earth, minuscule. You ever look from a plane the size of man? A few ants running around. You ever saw from a plane? Looks like a couple of ants on the floor. Hashem talks about the creation of the world, and then our creator zones in, not just on a human being, which is surprising enough, but he zones in. A lot of families live, die, born, die, come, go. And then he zones in on one family. One human being who lives right, who lives truthfully, his name is Avram, it's our tata. He lives right, and Hashem zones in right on him. All the world was created for such a human being. The whole world was created for the connection to this man. So, the creator of this beautiful world then zones in on this one man, for all he created was for this one man, for the true, sincere person who utilizes the world right. Avram was rich, mighty rich, extremely rich. Avram was famous, things people crave for he had. Why did he want fame? We all crave things, fame is very important, extremely. All of us want to be famous. You know I want to be famous? Cuz it's important to be famous, cuz our father was famous, cuz the greatest thing we could do is be mekadish Hashem shamayim. The more we are known, the more we can mekadish Hashem shamayim. A life being anonymous, a life of of being unknown, I can't be mekadish Hashem shamayim. I can't bring an honor to Hashem's name. So, Avraham Avinu was famous. He was famous to accomplish what the kiddish Hashem needed to accomplish. He was rich because idealism costs money, and he was able to fund his idealism. He ran this unbelievable college of learning Hashem that thousands, tens of thousands studied by. So, Avraham Avinu was rich. We will continue tomorrow. Believe me, we're going to learn about Avraham Avinu, we're going to introduce Avraham Avinu, but that will happen tomorrow. That voice I hear now 12 o'clock