Parshas Noach: In His Generation........and the Coming of Mashiach

okay good evening everyone continue our that are again uh generously sponsored by Dr Z's mother their whole families tonight's sh is dedicated by ra as for the security and protection of K tonight's share is dedicated by my dear friend Mark black who once took me for J Roots which was maybe my first or second trip to uh sakov where my great-grandfather was the RV we went to Bratislava and we went to Vienna two nights ago was the yard side of R ysf Angel and many fun uh places um and he's dedicating as and father family tonight she is also dedicated anonymously okay we have very exciting news the upcoming saan RoR R mayor Bales and the Eternal children of hem has a cover so it's uh imminently coming out be ready for Kaneka if anybody would like to participate um please let us know and you came to the right place if you want to get the safer amous and lashes and I know many people say I don't speak lash Kesh doesn't matter you could you could still get it and you could get more than one and you could get it for your mother-in-law you could get it for your sister-in-law and even though you got it for them last year they don't remember where they put it so they need another one okay these are the progeny of is a righteous man we would expect the T to have something nice to say about after all hashem's destroying the whole world he's only saving n so the we better have something good to say about him the last was finds favor in the eyes of God so he's a he was wholesome in his Generations n walked with God on the surface everything we have to say about him is positive comes Rashi not so fast says rash some of our rabbis expound this for the praise of n what does it mean in other words what's AOS saying he was wholesome in his Generations what do you just say he was T obviously Whatever Whenever you live it's your generation he wasn't wholesome in someone else's generation he wasn't wholesome in anthem's generation right he was wholesome in his generation so it why why even say the word so some rabbis expounded for the praise of he was wholesome in his generation and his generation were a bunch of degenerates certainly he was in a generation of the righteous he would have been more righteous in other words we're trying to highlight the greatness of compared to his generation he was righteous if he would have been in a different generation he would have been more righteous some expound this to the disparagement of yeah he was righteous relative to his generation cuz they were a bunch of degenerates but if he would have been in a decent generation if he would have been in the generation of Abraham he would have been nothing is that unusual that we have two who such diametrically opposed you you often have disputes usually they're not so far now the first thing we're going to do is um we're going to burst a big bubble because we haven't done that in a very long time so the first thing is the that people say over on this Rashi every just no it's it's now even though you'll find it in but you know one of the questions that they ask on Rashi is why the those who expounded for the praise of they call him R and those who expounded to the disparagement of they just say why are the people who expounded for I'm sure you heard that before right that those who expounded for the good are RAB those who expounded for the bad they're just those so it's brought that because if you're going to try to find um the positive in something the good quality in something then that allows that that earns you the title Rabbi but if you're just trying to uncover you know the disparagement you're just you know you're just a nobody the thing is not only is it not a good V it's downright wrong because if you look in the med the two opinions are and so you know even though you'll hear this please ask the person sit down just sit down now okay because it's against offer both opinions it might be nice and I don't know if you're going to hear it in SCH I don't know what to tell you okay but this is not an authorized uh so that's the beginning of today's share just a a public service announcement yeah there there but not here here so there are two legitimate uh viewpoints so here's the million-dollar question that we're going to start with I understand some um rabbis they see the words B of that the t is trying to praise n namely that he was righteous compared to generation if he would have been in a better generation he would have been even greater fine and some see the disparagement of n he's only good compared to you know why he's such aan because everybody else in the class you know is he's he's very he's he's uh excelling in the eighth grade because everyone else in the class happens to be in first grade but if he would have been in you know actually with other eighth graders would not be that uh successful fine these are two opinions the million dooll question is how could anyone expound these words for the disparagement of n why in the world wow we should we should have a special uh welcome but why would anyone expounded for the disparagement of n why would the Torah be disp baring I mean the purpose of this p is to explain here it is is trying to destroy the whole world and there's one guy who remain standing so why I understand there's such an opinion that they're under they're learning the word is uncovering the disparagement of n why would the to be disparaging n this p is trying to set up the situation of why God's destroying the whole world and saving this one man why would the Torah be disparaging at this point I understand you think you feel that had he been in the generation of Abraham he would have been nothing okay you're entitled to your opinion but that can't be what the Torah is saying here why would the Torah be criticizing n we don't know the man from Adam all we know is God's destroying the whole world and he's saving one guy so why would the T be criticizing him I mean everything else is Right everything else is to the praise of N and the last thing in the world the Tyra should be doing here is criticizing here criticizing him why would the Tyra criticize n in the opening P now who asked this question here's another bubble burster okay you might hear this question appears in theas of the Mahar Min who is the mahim Min the mahim Min was rabud rabud was the father of Rin who is the father-in-law of maram padwa Mayor Katen Ellen Bogan who was RA mayor katsen Ellen Bogan was the father of somebody by the name of shik shik was shmu Yehuda Katen ellenbogen you know that name shmu Yehuda Kat shik no no relation to Marik Marik came say 300 years later yuden lived from 1521 to 1590 7 he was the chief Rabbi in Venice he lived in the times of the RMA and the maral and also the M the sent to him the because in Venice had access to the printing press so his name was shik Shu Yehuda Katan I believe I I was in his Kev in Padua he wrote Jas Mahar who mahim it was his great-grandfather why is it called if it was written by because the printers made an egregious error so you might hear the shabas up the Mahar Min says no just make sure you let them know the maharin did not write Mah who wrote Mahin Yehuda Katen the printers Pro put the wrong name on the cover okay it's not your fault it's not the person who's going to say over the V her fault other than they didn't do their due diligence to open up the book and if you want to take a look at the cover page Min 12 from Shu Yehuda katenen shik Shu Yehuda Kat and this is his question his question is I understand their two opinions why would the Tyra be disparaging n in the opening P yeah fine next question what's what we're saying that he was only righteous in his generation but if he would have been in the generation Abraham he would have been a nobody so why are we putting the man down we don't even know him you know imagine you you know i' would like you to meet Rabbi so and so he's a good Rabbi in this neighborhood but if he would have been I don't mean if he would have been somewhere else he would have been a nobody that's that's beautiful what what a well what a nice way to introd the man why are we putting him down what did he do that we're putting him down nowel how you doing good okay good in on rash we mentioned the man who has Center Stage more than anybody else is and we spoke about this slightly rash the man who has sent their stage is n we say you loved him now you one thing you need to know is gets a lot of flack you know basically every time we bring him up we throw him under the bus he was of small what's the first thing he does he drinks wine yeah but may the is because of said is he should have daved and I Rectify that we basically never have a nice word to say about him every time we bring the man up it's yeah we're criticizing him and even when we compliment him it's always like there's always a back you know some people when they compliment you watch out you know what what do you want you know what are you after what did I do now it's like every time we have something nice about yeah but compared to AB he walked with God but Rashi said yeah he walked with God but AB walked before God and is like the Paragon of a do we say God remembered M no do we say God remembered Abraham no do we say that God remembered no who's and not only that of all the we say you remembered him in matters of Salvation and mercy when you brought the flood therefore we don't say God but because you remember therefore his memory came before you now why in the context of remembering n are we saying that God you destroyed all of men therefore you remembered him I mean this rash we're trying to list and mercy why are we saying that God destroyed the whole world then and it sounds like you destroy the whole world therefore his memory came before you to increase his descendants like the dust of the world and his offspring so question number One never the entire year do we have even a good word to say about the man the night of rash you know yeah who Abraham no no son the night of R I don't know if you'd put him on the rese you'd say you know Abraham and who is Abraham's father no I can't remember and before that I'm not sure right ites it's not on there and you ask around nobody knows nobody knows you know and by that time you so worn out you just go on with the right but here the night of rash and God loves and why the night of rash why in rash do we say that God increased his descendants like so let's start with that this was set over by in the name of who his father the gis and the name of his father okay so if anybody ask what you learn you learned real t brisker t the gzz set over in the name of there's a you don't say there's no we don't invoke God remembered an individual so why do we say God remembered how could be one of the but how we don't we don't invoke a a memory on an individual the answer is we're not saying God remembered n he remembered to increase his descendants so n is not just an individual n and his children and his grandchildren and his great-grandchildren in other words in order for to meet the bill eligible for it can't just be it has to be n and his descendants and his descendants descendants so in order to meet the criteria necessary for we have to add in the words yeah okay fine but still why is it the night the uh Rashana when our lives are on the line we don't invoke Abraham why don't we say God you know Abraham AB he was thrown into oraz he passed test why don't we say you know was learning in save us M gave us the T no a why he doesn't make it to the he doesn't make it to the daving so we're going to um present a new idea tonight and then we're going to come to uh an idea that we've been speaking about a lot lately there's another p in for a small moment you forsook us says for a small moment I abandon you but with great Mercy I will gather you in the Gus is analogous to a brief moment of Abandonment the difficulties in life a brief moment of aband and these words we could almost they resonate with what we're going through now in Fierce anger I hid my face for a moment for one day when you least expected it the is so to speak you know he he hit his face for a moment yeah they knew there was there was movement on the border and there's stuff going on already since 2019 and recently there's more activity but they didn't pay attention to it so so to speak the he hit his face for a moment but with eternal kindness he will have mercy on us says and if you ask how do we know maybe we won't be deservant says this is like the Waters of I swore I'm never gonna flood the world again so to I swear that I won't get angry I won't scold you the mountains may move the hills May falter but may my kindness from you will not be removed and my Covenant of Peace will not move so God says this Galos is a fleeting moment the massacre was a brief moment of Hester pan him the Redemption eternal life Eternal kindness infinite kindness and if you ask who says God says I swear so you say God what is your SW what is your Shu like God says my shu is like what I swore to n just like I swore to n that I'm not going to flood the world I swear to you I will redeem you and have mercy on you the question is why is God invoking n that's the proof the proof that God will redeem us is n really did you ever hear that before did you ever hear that this week's par is the source of the Redemption of the Jewish people the future redemption in other words if somebody were to ask how do we know God will redeem the the Jewish people the answer is what does have to do with the Redemption even though we learned many times Zar says that when he sent the Y the Y went and he found the crown of d remember that last year when the yo was sent out the yo went and he found Alias he found the crown of D but somehow God saving is the Paradigm and the model to prove that the same way he swore he wouldn't flood the world again with a mble he will have mercy on the Jewish people what does one have to do with the other so says in the by the way many people are familiar with this it's quoted just as in the par he says something out of this world what's going to be in the end of days God's going to look down on the Jewish people and the angels are going to say These Guys these guys this is what you've been waiting for 2,000 years for them come on rebun some you had you had better Goods earlier and you didn't you didn't make it happen so why you making it happen now why would you redeem these people and that's a good question that's a very good question are we as great as the nvim no are we as great as the tan no are we as great as the am obviously not and Amur could look at somebody who's dead and bring them back to life he could say hey get up and the guy would get up you have stories in the gamar that Amira went to learn after he got married he came back a a decade later his wife's there on the couch get up already come on I haven't seen you in 12 years we just got married get up she got up the gar says that antonina said to Reb I know the smallest of you could be they could stop the sun they could look at a woman and she's fertile again so we're not as great as them how about are we as great as uh the no no no we're not even as great as our grandmothers R would say you can't even imagine the greatness of your grandmother and God didn't bring Redemption to your grandmother so why would he bring it to you why would he why would he redeem us says in order to pull out of this mess we got to invoke the following principle in it's called relative judgment okay slightly different than we said in rashash but we're going to come to that namely maybe we're not that great but compare us to the nations of the world compare us to monsters occupying the West Coast ofes barbarians you know the world is the world is blind right well basically what we saw this week was a 21st century blood liel a plain downright blood liel where you have um terrorists blow up their own Hospital killing 500 people and we're blamed for it a Jew a Jew wouldn't kill anybody a Jew that has an an egg and he cracks the egg or she cracks the egg and she finds a blood spot in the egg what do you L it do with the egg you could probably eat it but you have to they throw out the egg because heaven forbid to have an ounce of a blood of a chicken it can't even be a chicken these eggs are unfertilized but you know so compared to nations of the world a Jew would not is a million miles away from any of this kind of behavior so relative to the nations of the world where the so how do you activate that God should say okay objectively you might not be that great but subjectively Visa the nations of the world you're you're on a very great level how do you act when did God ever look at people that way according to those but but it's for our it's a lifesaver for us the those don't call them we already dismissed that those who but it's the biggest Lifesaver for the Jewish people cuz in the end of days 2023 we say remember and I would humbly suggest on R when our backs are up against the world against the wall and the Satan is saying to God come on take him take him you know he's there with the big uh take the guy he's done nothing more he needs to be here for so he say remember how much you loved n that sounds n how where' you come up with that one yeah and we say n when you destroyed the whole world why did you save n you save n because n compared to his generation was a good guy so when you destroyed everyone that's why his memory came before you to increase his descendants in other words when our back is up against the world the wall the most powerful arsenal we have is ream we not might we might not be so good but you check out what what happened in Gaza this week you see what the nations of the world are like do you see any normal family life outside of fathers mothers family units brothers sisters who who has real family life other than the holy Jewish Nation today so say we understand objectively you know don't look too close but subjectively so it's a for him it's a for us it's a bailout for us that's why I would humbly suggest according to we invoke on rash when our back is up against the wall because we might not be that great objectively but subjectively we've got a lot going for us but now I want to turn the tables and I want to speak about an idea that this is the third time I'm speaking about it we spoke about it in our sh when we learned about aaba we spoke about it on and we're going to spoke speak about it again now because and I want to share with you a nugget that occurred to me a little bit ago that's uh worth the price of admission in the records that the would always tell him your soul it's so lofty it's so great it's so great said Rabbi come on what are you talking about but the smallest of the earlier Generations was uh a great s and that I can't even reach his his ankles now by the way the reason I'm continuing on now is because everything we said is according to the I'm sorry what about according to the that this is the praise of if in according to generation he was great had he been in a better generation he would have been even greater so why are we invoking n on so re remember he was pretty good had he been in a different generation he would have been even greater and I think that's also a very powerful for cl is for us on rash and at all times so the said to the following principle you should know a person's greatness is not dependent on their actions it's it's dependent on The Times They Live in says AR a small Mitzvah in this generation who a small Mitzvah in this generation is like thousands of mitv in earlier Generations not just regular Mitzvah colossal mitzvas so in other words you could have let's say a reine who this reine learned from until Friday night consecutively and you you could learn 10 minutes and it's greater than the rean who learned for six days straight so said why says read don't you see what's going on in the world don't you see the forces of impurity are out of control don't you know what what the Tuma andas in the 16th century right the forces of impurity were rampant there you could just imagine on all the Billboards andas and all the commercials you know it was probably it was probably you couldn't even walk anywhere we're thinking like what kind of T was in in the in the 16th century we're talking about you know the the we're talking about but the said that compared to the small Mitzvah that you do is greater than colossal Mitzvah done in earlier Generations because in our generation says AR the forces of impurity are out of control says if I was in an earlier generation I would be greater than any of the sikim or he's saying that to that if you would be an early gener you would be greater than early so says where'd you get this from says read Rashi says which Rashi [Applause] Vis his degenerate generation he was pretty good but if he had he been in the generation of ab he would have been tremendous now if you say okay this is AR I don't know how to make heads or tals on this you know this is cabalistic that V had he been in a different generation he would have been considered much greater but just right here right here right now we have a new understanding of why we invoke we say I know I have very little I know maybe I have many a I know I'm on a very low level I know I'm but one thing is don't you agree that if the forces of impurity were out of control in the times of the AR what would you say today Reish we're today the Tuma that a person could access literally in 3 seconds is more than in the last 2,000 years combined in other words if you started from the year zero you know from the time the B was destroyed until let's say 1900 you could do more bad stuff in one minute you could see more bad stuff today than in the entire history of the world so I know I might not be on such a high level but you got to take into account when I live and if was considered greater than earlier Generations because the forces of Purity were out of control so you know I should Loom pretty large in the heavens says r vit you could have a tal Ina today he could be sitting and working on a ritva a rashba and he doesn't really understand what the rean says and from the heavens they consider that student greater than the rishin whose words that he's learning why cuz the rine lived in relative Purity relative sanctity the challenges that the rishan had to deal with were minor compared to the Colossal Tuma and challenge that a Jew has to deal with today in 2023 and therefore on rashash we could say that according to the opinion that's you know why we bring up we say God I might not be so good but relative to theas over there I'm AIC and according to the opinion that's I might not be that great but didn't the tell V that had he been an early generation he would have been greater than the great sikim so I would like to I would like a piece of that give me some of that and then the publisher of RAB said now RAB says we don't like to talk about it I don't either like to talk about it I'm just saying it here between us and whoever's listening it's not like we talk about it every hour but this is says why don't we like to talk about it because we don't uh we don't want people to become too arrogant but it could be that even though we can't imagine the greatness of our grandmothers that doesn't mean in Shay we're not held in higher esteem than re sh yeah they were greater than us yeah yes are greater than us yes rashish are greater than us yes our parents are greater than us but it doesn't mean the heavens Don't Hold Us in higher esteem let me give you a mush I can't believe it today was the yard side of no 10th yard side R 10th yard s r he gives the following Mas there was a princess if you need anything you go to this princess she could put in a good word with the King she could bail you out of anything but you got to give her a good present don't walk in with a peanut butter and jelly sandwich don't walk in with a slice of pizza you better give her fine cuisine something something very expensive cuz she has access to anything you can't come in with you know a bag of jelly beans only Ronald Reagan would go for a bag of jelly beans in fact I once mailed him when I was a little boy I mailed him a jelly bean there's no evidence that he consumed the Jelly Bean but I tried to send it to him right remember that okay but that's a true story so but don't go into the princess with Jelly Bean because you better you got to win her over fine so over the years many people brought her um many valuables and she They Carried favor with her but one day a rumor spread about the princess that she was uh acted with infidelity she was put in a prison she was put in a pit and and uh nobody was allowed to um interact with her and she was wallowing she was languishing she was starving and one guy came in and brought her every day some bread some water some fresh clothing and she got out of the jail who does she remember more fondly those who gave her Delicacies and finery when she was in the palace or those who gave her meager meat and potatoes when she was in the pit when she's in the palace what does she need already but when she was in the Exile that's the G those are the gifts that she appreciated says says the MIT that is did when the B mikd stood boy did you have to do a Mitzvah to find favor in the eyes of Hashem but as the Gus prolongs and as we get deeper and darker into the Gus and is an exile even the smallest Mitzvah finds tremendous favor in the eyes of ASM A small Mitzvah that you do is more valuable than a great Mitzvah of earlier Generations in fact says this is the meaning of the say and the are more beloved like the and are more beloved than says that when Jews are in the Exile and we're far from theik and the in the Exile even the smallest mitos the poorest Jews in a way could be more valuable than n and therefore I want to repeat a cuz we never recorded it we know that rash we blow the for twice we blow it once and we blow it again the gamar says to confuse the Satan what does t say says the first time he says is it a is it msia the second time he says it's V Mah and he runs away I have a question did you ever run have you ever been in SCH how old are you now 35 362 42 I I I couldn't believe no I thought definitely in the 30s you've been going to SCH your whole life for 30 years yeah did you ever you blow theer so so you know it's not mashia but did you ever go to sh and hear the oh it's Messiah you know it's not Messiah how do you know cuz he didn't come last year he didn't come the year before and he didn't come he never came so you say I'm a betting man it's probably not mashiah so what the Satan is so foolish he's so naive that he thinks it's mhia I thought every single year the guy falls for the same trick it's like I tell you know my kids have a game with the youngest one look over there a distraction oh we you know that's what we do to the Satan oh look a distraction look at the distraction every year he thinks it's mhia how foolish could he be the answer is we're the foolish ones the SAT knows that even though it didn't come last year that's because the maybe we're over here but now they're add control he knows how beloved every Mitzvah is to hasem the knows any second he knows that whatever Rashi did and the rambam did and theer did and the Mas did and your grandmother is nothing compared to what you do nobody knows that better than the SAT so even though it didn't come last year that's because last year maybe there was some semblance of morality in the world but now people people don't don't know so yes the Satan knows better than who better than the Satan knows how powerful the Satan is the Satan knows that you know a thousand years ago he was a minor leager now he's you know now he's on steroids now he's major league on steroid who better than the Satan knows how close mashia is we don't know cuz we don't appreciate how strong the Satan is today he knows it's good it's a good uh yeah you ever have sh in this to every year he falls for it who better than the Satan he knows look I took the United States of America which was founded on Judea Christian ethics where are they now not not existent where people don't know you know there's no such thing as uh without getting into too many details they're just things they're just you know entities now entities so tus is telling us knows how close therefore look look at number 13 I'm therefore obligated this is what writes in his first par in our time it's more likely to anticipate coming of mhia you think he would have come 20 years ago it's much more likely today it's much more likely today 20 years ago if you wanted to now the Satan provides everybody with something in their pocket that at any time even while they're learning they could do it now ready for this this is also we said this you can't say it enough in the before kishma uh says if you stop a thousand people on the street they would translate it with a great love you have loved us you look at any English s it says with a great love you have loved us it's wrong doesn't mean that it's not what it means the word Raba doesn't mean great says Rim Schwab rabba means Raba it's increasing it's increasing Hashem loves us with an increasing love in other words who did God love more the generation who received the T or CL today I would never even dear or try to answer this question but if you would have asked me and you would have you know pressured me I would have said them says RAB that's wrong God's love for the Jewish people is increasing it becomes more and more and more so Schwab gives provides one reason we're going to provide another reason R Schwab says look at the T you know when I was a kid when it came time to learning gamar so you learn it in the class but then you had a test so how you supposed to you know who could remember from what you learned in class so you needed to get an English gamar so you would get tradition gamarra or ccino gamar where they would translate the gamarra in archaic English so in a way you have a better chance of figuring out ancient Aramaic then these English words that have the last time they were used were hundreds of years before Shakespeare that's how we learned bakama babia and then all of a sudden the shatenstein Edition came out with Mak one and then they came out with h and now today every single peric in Shas in English and if you don't know aashi you take out ofar every Rashi and is explained and if you don't know what to is every to explained oh but I don't know Hebrew don't worry art is coming out with tus now in English why is there more Tyra today now if there's any blad and chest you don't understand you just type in and you could hear one of a 100 explain any line in Kal because God loves us more in 2023 than when I was a kid 30 years ago that's what says God loves us more Hashem loves us more and I would say based on that you know why Hashem loves us more because we have more and we have more challenges and if there was T when we were kids today it's it's out of control out of control out of control on steroids a million times so God loves us more today and therefore on rashash when our back is up against the wall and say come on compared to your grandmother even you don't come up to your toenails say Oham forget the fact that Vis the nations of the world I'm don't you see the challenges that I have that earlier Generations never had was greater than then what am I today but you know you can't you can't focus on this too much you also have to focus on the fact but the reality is is you don't even come to the toenails of your grandmother she had your grandmother had a million times more your grandmother when she davem spoke to him like he's a it's a reality and you're in a fog compared to that so you always have to have B you have to you know you have to know the right time sometimes thear wants to demoralize a person make a person depressed that's the time to say look compared to the Karas I'm a good guy based on the challenges I have I'm a big sadic when you feel arrogant you have to say I don't even come to the toenails of my grandmother so they're both these are all true ideas they're all true ideas but at the time of rashash when our life is on the line we invoke the procedure of but now this was all to tell you the following so which generation did God love more than any any other generation what's the answer hours sorry for banging hours that we knew already you ready for tonight's K which generation loves Hashem more than any generation also ours or at least we have the potential to love Hashem more than any generation you ready for this reer Reb AER says how could hasem say love me you can't command someone to love them can I tell you love spaghetti nowm love spaghetti you like spaghetti no broccoli love brussel sprouts either you like brussels sprouts or you don't like brussels sprouts you can command someone to like brussels sprouts so how could God say love me either we do or we don't it's a matter of taste you can't command someone to love them says reaber you know why Hashem could command us to love him because when you know that someone loves you you naturally love them back and therefore before we say the command to love you know what we say God loves the Jewish people think about that say that focus on that and then I don't need to command you you just need to be aware that naturally you'll love the Reb of any generation in history which generation is the beneficiary of the most intense and passionate that's us we and therefore which generation can achieve the highest madrea of AAS hasem in the history of the world it's got to be us it's got to be us so think of the opportunity is giving us and whatever we saw thei tells us realize it's it's a brief moment but the and the times of redemption and the relative to that will be the the terrible tragedies throughout our history the Redemption and if you say how will we ever be deserving of it who are we what are we we're nothing compared to earlier Generations we got two things going for us compared to them we're very great compared to our enemies we're very great but not only compared to our enemies compared to earlier Generations that didn't have to encounter what we do in a certain sense that propels us to the greatest possible Heights we are the beneficiaries therefore of the greatest love ever had to CL is and in return it is our opportunity it's a historic opportunity to reflect that love thank you for listening have a wonderful night watch over all of our those who are fighting the war all of our brothers and sisters whose lives are in Peril should destroy all the should be very soon