Parashat Noach - Overcoming the chaos in your life... - Rabbi Alon Anava

the lion the king of the jungle got married to the Lioness everybody comes to the wedding big wedding and one by one all the animals come up to the lion give him a gift shake his hand and they all tell him bro here's this is for you of course the joke is said in Hebrew so bro sounds better it's a and one by one all the animals come to him tap him on his back give him a present the last animal online was the mouse the mouse comes up to the line Taps him on his back and tell him bro Ma I wish you all the best and so the lion gets upset he rose that's how you say Rose r at the mouse and tell him whoa whoa whoa whoa I'm not your brother stop with that I am the king I am the king of all the animals so the mouse is like yeah yeah yeah in the first week of of the marriage I also thought I'm the king so as we know the beginnings are usually the most exciting and fun thing of any situation if it's a relationship the beginning is always the most exciting you most in love if it's a kid first kid second kid after the birth of the child the first month exciting okay then you're married for 20 years you have the kid for 20 years you buy a new car first week it's all exciting okay then the car is the beginning is usually the fun part and then you get used to something and it start slowly slowly the excitement wears off and that's with everything and to keep the excitement is almost impossible if it's relationships you'll never going to have the same excitement after 20 years what you have in the first month and even if it's a physical object it doesn't matter what it is so we just now started a new year so the excitement is still big we just celebrated the first month of the year then then it's excitement so now most people can say they're excited most people are I'm talking about the people who took advantage of T not the people who are sitting on the beach somebody who took in the right measure and to do changes and to do cha and to I mean I'm talking about people who are aware of their chuva and their spiritual growth then T is like uh when you start I can talk for myself you excited then come you get even more excited so now we're in the beginning of the year it's exciting but you know in next this the end of the week ises already KES comes next week will be we start saying again the sun goes down early you go back to some type of schedule before you know it it's a month from now it's already into the year excitement of R wears off now when a person does CH R and they take on themselves a lot of good decisions this year I'm going to learn T this year I'm going to pray in aan this year I'm going to do this and that it sustains for a month or two if you're lucky and then the whole excitement wears off so how can you maintain this excitement not only in yourm in anything the question is well now we're going back to a day-to-day life what what do we take from all the holidays that we just celebrated I mean after all we are in a very spiritual High especially the poor people outside of is for them every holiday is 3 days for us at least it's one day and we're done with it now I I feel bad for the people outside of Israel now in Wednesday Thursday Friday shabat I mean you that's I don't know I that's the one of the biggest things I hated when I lived in America that the holidays if it's attached to shabbat three days but nevertheless I don't know about you I'm now still on some spiritual height taking R sh taking a whole month of of dedication every morning 4:00 in the morning an hour I don't know about you I'm on some spiritual high but I know myself after being observant for 20 years in a month that spiritual High goes down the question and the trick is what do you take out of the the these holidays for the rest of the year so the question that I want to talk about today is how do you maintain the excitement of the beginnings of any beginning and more than that I mean after all we're in the par of no of the Maul what's the significance of the Maul the F of the flood the first story of the Torah we're done the creation we done the history of mankind boom right away we have a disaster so two things we're going to talk about today is a how do you maintain the excitement of new beginning and more than that what is the significant of the flood and of course what is the connection of both of them [Applause] [Music] the flood that we read read about in this parasa it's not the entire parasa we read about many other important things that we need to address and to know but today we're going to talk about the flood and not only that that's the focus of the parasa really the significance or the message about the flood for every individual people is comparing the the problems or more to say how much your livelihood occupies you it's called that's what the flood is compared to Because unless you born to a very wealthy family that everything is given to you on a silver platter which is also not a solution for anything Mouse people they are occupied most of the day most of their life with their parasa how they make money they need to pay their rent they need to pay for food they need to pay for clothes for education for everything I mean we're still not in the times of mashia you have to work for your living that's one of the punishments that got from being kicked out of G in the in with with tears and sweat you're going to have to work all your life I know very few people that don't work throughout their life or they work a little bit I know one individual her father is very wealthy he gives her money from day one besides being a spoil brat that can't even barely handle one thing in her life okay so she she doesn't worry about parasa that's one out of millions most people their day is evolving around their job and how they make money and this is called the what occupies you about your livelihood now if you in a good time in a good period Then par the livelihood is good you make money everything's fine but the reality is that most people struggle with that most people struggle with earning money and uh earning money doesn't come so easy and then you earn finally money then it goes on uh on things you don't really expect or suddenly your expenses are much more so the significance of the flood is to hint to us about the trouble and the OCC a and everything that goes around it how I need to make livelihood and make money what is the solution that the Torah offers you what it offered go into the ark now the ark can be interpreted in many different ways at this point when I quote canes go into the ark I will compare it now to our dreams our dreams our desires our uh goals because every person at some point in their life some people it starts very early they have dreams I want to be rich I want to be famous I want to have a nice car I want to live in a beautiful home besides that it's kind of implanted in society that you have to be successful that you have to get an education and you have to be successful in life that's also can be taught completely different the these values are not necessarily the right values the right value is to tell an individual you want to be a good person you want to have good characteristics you want to be a good citizen a good neighbor a good child but Society educates people no you have to be academic you have to be learned you have to be successful if you're not going to have a job when I was a teenager when I was a kid till teenager all I heard that if I won't learn I will never make it in life and my teacher always told me when I was a little kid if you're not going to learn you'll be the ones who collecting the garbage I'm what kind of education is that the right education to educate the kid is be kind be polite help people be courteous be thoughtful that's the right education now go get yourself a job now again don't get me wrong I am for getting an education building yourself a career and so I'm not against that that's not the focus but nevertheless to stay on the topic every person has dreams when I was a young kid I had dreams I want to be this I want to be that I hear it from my kids too when I grow up I want to be whatever it is some people want to be a lawyer want to be a doctor want to be a whatever it is but nevertheless we have dreams we have goals we have aspirations and the's things that we want to do and not always it's talking about money there's a lot of things that we want to do but we don't find the time some people want to work out some people want to pick up some Hobbies or whatever it is and life is busy somebody today talked with me they have to come and see me for something I told them listen I cannot see you till the middle of November what but I'm in Israel right now I said listen I'm a busy man you want to join me one day to see my schedule I start my day at 4 in the morning just being a religious man that's 3 hours a day just prayers and learning to what about a father I have seven kids to take care of I have business I have students like my day is busy you know how many things I would like to do and I don't have time for the right time management you can do anything you want you can squeeze in whatever you need to do it's all priorities but the fact is that we have a lot of things that we want to do we dream of a lot of things and our life is too busy and it's very hard to do it but nevertheless the solution ution of the Torah in this case is going to the ark now we have to explain that cuz the ark is really the T the where Noah went ENT to be saved from the flood what is the flood again the T the the occupation all day long with daily matters I know some people oh and going back to the example I told you with the guy who wanted to come and see me I told him listen you're not married you don't have a wife and kids to take care of you are financially doing well you don't have a job he invested in some business he sold it he made a lot of money unbelievable Story by the way the guy was homeless the guy was a a a heroin addict homeless individual thrown on some curve in Los Angeles he had a brilliant idea I don't even know how that's Hashem he was able to materialize the idea boom sold it made millions of dollars he's he has a house he has everything he needs he doesn't work he does charitable work he works with drug addicts and I told him you don't have to worry about money so you don't have kids and and family to worry about you don't have money to worry about you you have you you your day is like you walk you know like oh you know I walk I walk fast from point A to point B I told him you're like relax I'm not I don't share with you the same lifestyle so I know some people that they don't do nothing all day long and their day is busy I what they do do all day long I had to go here and I had to take care of this and I had to take care of that but you didn't do nothing all day long so sometimes the day is so busy that you get occupied with the daily matters and really you don't do nothing okay so what's the solution of the Torah build an ark and go into the ark so we're going to have to address that and see what does it really mean now this Arc that I'm talking about is how you're going to be able to fulfill your dreams and and when I'm saying fulfilling your dreams you have goals you have aspirations you have desires to F fulfill it in the best way possible and by the way all that to be successful in your life but without being washed Down By the Waters of the flood and in our analogy the Waters of the flood is all the things that you are occupied all day long different doctors appointments and different things you need to take care of like I said some people are busy all day long but you didn't do nothing yeah I was 2 hours in the city hall 2 hours here and I had to go take care this I had to go take of that that's these Waters that we're talking about so we want to find a creative solution how I go into this Ark but this Ark not only that it allows me to be successful it also allows me to remove from me all these worries now when I want to be successful with everything that I need to do that's comparing so to say the month of T because the month of T I'm busy most of the month with holidays you have that's two days then the 10 days of CH then Yip three days later you have Su that's eight days so the entire month of T it's the time where you can so to say charge your spiritual battery and that's what's going to allow you to be successful the entire year and to achieve what you want to achieve it can be business it can be many other things so what is this Arc that we're talking about okay so I will address it as we go in order to explain it in the best way possible let's refer to a verse in the book of shim the song of songs by schlom and specifically in chapter 8 verse 7 the verse says translation many Waters can cannot quench quench the love nor can Rivers flood it I'm sure you know the verse and shim like I said chapter 8 verse 7 and when it's talking about MIM many Waters and again what does it mean commentary says the what occupies you and the the the of the problems of this world and how to make your livelihood sometimes maybe your livelihood is done well but you have a few kids that you need to take care of and you all day long need to take care of them with all sorts of things and that's called sometimes I find myself that the day comes it's already 1 2 in the afternoon I didn't work yet all I dealt with is go to school to this child go to this to deal with this thing go to that to deal with that yes just yesterday I had to deal with a few things for my kids they're all going back to school now after not being in school for so many months because of this war so the whole day you're just busy go to this municipality go to this school go to this office to sign them up go here and pay this go to this this is it's things that I occupied me all day long and I didn't get to work comes 2:00 in the afternoon I didn't even start my day T the word t in Hebrew is a Arc it means Arc but it also can be translated as word the word t in Hebrew can be translated as Arc but if you look in the Jewish in the Hebrew dictionary T is also a word a word w r d word so when it says go into the T go into the ark it's not only going into the ark it's go into the words what does it mean then we have to understand what the Tor says in order for us to understand the concept of what the Tor is trying to teach me as usual we have to present a few questions question number one that and by the way I don't ask these questions all these questions are presented in the midash in the talmud and in many other commentaries but the first question that comes up to your mind when you are encounter when you're reading about the the the flood is why does hem decide to destroy and kill everything with water could have been done with fire could have been done with choking could have been done with a million other things in a few weeks we're going to read about the destruction of Z Hashem destroyed destroyed it with fire with the stones coming from the sky I don't know maybe it was a nuclear bomb I don't know what it was but nevertheless in this specifically case why did hasem choose his water Fair first question fair question and the question is fair because usually water signifies Life water is a positive thing I mean water really is the the liquid of life that's how it's called in Hebrew without water you can't live without water you go you have a backyard you know just the other day just to give an example we have a like a plant in the house the leaves were all withering my young daughter comes and says ABA why why the Le leaves like that I said cuz the plant didn't doesn't have water water the leaves are withering they're starting to die give it water right away so what do we take from that water gives you life sohem takes the sustenance that brings you life and he de decides to kill with that and to destroy the entire world first question good question second day why 40 days you know in Mak in the 10th plague in Egypt in one second all the first born died one second that's all it took hasem needs 40 days if you really want to punish somebody finish with it why are you making a whole episode here 40 days 40 nights also legit question why because we find in many places in the Torah when hasm decided to destroy something it was right away and where I told you inem used fire also hasem destroyed them within minutes the whole city was destroyed and like I told you the first born or we read now in the ha over the holidays when Hashem came to destroy the army of s it says 180 million soldiers 180 million 180,000 there different opinions boom in one shot he destroy them all why so he needs 40 days to destroy the world second question third question why an arc why does no need to build an ark for 120 years why use an arc I told you many times and I'm going to elaborate that on the coming class this coming Sunday in Israel there wasn't a flood that's one thing that we're going to talk about in the coming lecture on Sunday stay tuned but just that you know in the land of Israel the flood didn't affect the flood didn't come to Israel so just tell no go to Israel and hide there I need to make a whole show 120 year construction massive this is not an ark it's a ship also big question you want to save Noah then pull him out of the atmosphere like you did with mosenu and save him why do you need to save him on the water in the ark with the whole animals M tell no take all the animals go down to this corner of the world for example is and you'll be saved that would take no two weeks he needs to now build an ark for 120 years third question and the fourth question is what is this Arc because an arc when we find the word in the Torah Arc mosu was placed in an ark that was this big like a little carriage for a baby what no did is not an arc what no did is a ship you know how big it is that's like 150 M that's that's a it's a way bigger than an average huge yacht okay so we have a few questions that we need to focus on and before we even answer the question we have to understand one very important detail the flood was not a punishment people think or perceive that the flood was a punishment that the humanity was corrupt and hasem had to punish them well the flood is not a punishment and and the ark that we're talking about it's much more than just a tool to save Noah because as we know hasem could have saved Noah in any other way Hashem could have made Noah I don't know have wings and fly in the air or whatever it is Hashem is teaching us not only us the entire world about the flood how to to gain and to reach purity that's really what the flood is the flood is not a punishment rather a way for us to learn how to reach tar Purity and most important how to stay sane in this crazy world that's really what the flood is coming to teach me it's not a punishment it's a tool for me to learn how can I stay sane in seeing what's going on in the world some people all day long they're glued to the news and I actually don't know how they stay San all day long all you hear about is Terror attacks and missiles and murders and this and this and that and you watch the news you get depressed no problem half the no no wonder half the world is depressed you just watch the news forget about that it's all fake and half of it doesn't even never even happen but most people are glued to the news and if it's not the news so social media and it's not social media whatever app they're feeding their nonsense from last year when October 7 happened I am guilty as charge and I also was pretty much Glu glued to all sorts of Channel channels for like a month you couldn't not I don't know at some point I was like I can't take this I don't know how people stay sane all day long to see death and murder and killing and horror stories and disasters and so unfortunately we live in a crazy world how do you stay sane in this world unless you completely ignore what's going on or I don't know what drugs you're using how do you stay sane in this world that's why half the world I'm being very conservative now 95% of this world are on drugs to you know blur the reality drugs are not only talking about cocaine and heroin it can be zyx can be whatever drugs that they prescribe to you it doesn't matter most people are drugged that's the reality you can argue with me as much as you want most people are drugged on something to blur the reality very few people know how to deal with the reality they see the reality it the world collapses so let's review now all the questions so we can continue and explain this uh wonderful message so the first question we asked is why water We Know by many different sources that water is a very positive thing uh if you look into the sources rain is considered a positive thing there's a whole tract it in the talmud it's called T that it's talking about about rains and FL and droughts and and everywhere you would look in distract it it's teaching you rains are a positive thing we waiting for rain no rain no crops no food and water however you're going to look at it always will come out as a positive thing so not only that the tal I told you in TR it explains that rain signifies blessing it's considered a blessing from above so how can you take something positive and take something that is considered a blessing and Destroy Humanity with that that's an oxymoron second question that we said that we presented is why the 40 days so like I said first of all 40 days is considered what's called is like a new birth if a person that's what the Torah teaches you if a person person wants to get rid of a bad habit then you need 40 days to to remove it you want a prayer to work in a certain way you need to do it for 40 days H if you're battling some type of addiction or whatever it is or or a bad habit the Tor tells you go 40 days without it whatever you do for 40 days will give you a new beginning this is what the Tor says and I can tell you it works when I wanted to get rid of things put your mind to it 40 days you put yourself on whatever diet that you need to go to after the 40th Day you'll see it become very easy why that's what the Torah teaches said 40 days I'm not going to explain it now has a significance to for a rebirth so a when you want to get rid of a bad habit or you want to add on yourself something positive or you want to pray for something our sages explain go go straight 40 days that's what I also tell people you want to get rid of something 40 days put yourself on a spiritual diet he has a certain things that you want pray for 40 days and we see that for example where do we see from the Tor that 40 days has a significance it took 40 Days for mosu to bring down the Tor mosu went up to the mountain 40 days he had to pray to hasem took him 40 days to bring down to the Torah to the world so we see in many places in the Tor I don't want to elaborate on every little thing that I say um I'm just giving you the summary but if you look into it yourself you'll find that there's a lot of Encounters in the Torah that 40 days is what took to achieve something and I gave you two examples 40 days it took Mosen to pray to get God to forgive us and 40 days it took mosu to bring down the Tor from the mountain and many other place so what do we take from that that 40 days is a period of creation when you want to create something new is H going to take 40 days so we're back to the same question so why you take these 40 days to destroy if you teach me throughout the Torah that 40 days is the period to create something new and something positive so why in this particular case 40 days is for Destruction okay next question we asked is why the ark as I told you why are you making such a show take Noah and tell him to go to Isel according to both opinions in thear you have rakish andan both agree that there wasn't a flood in isan says there wasn't a flood at allak says no there wasn't a flood but the water from all the rest of them were kind of spilled into isra but it didn't destroy anything was just like a like strong rain coming in but either way you're looking at it there wasn't a flood in is so why need to make a a whole show take the FL take take Noah and tell him move with your family to is and you know who used that advice by the way meash okay so OG the king of the Bajan there's one opinion that says that he he was a giant then he held the ark I don't know how good this opinion is because what he held the ark for a whole year he didn't drink he didn't eat besides the fact that we know that the waters were boiling hot water how he would sustain the holding the ark but the other opinion says noash ran to is and he found dry land more than that I'll address that also on Sunday if the flood destroyed everything right because we learn clearly from the Torah that the flood destroyed everything so how did the do find the olive leaf where did she find an olive tree if the flood destroyed everything and the world was underwater for a year where where did the dove find an olive tree to bring a leaf because in Israel there wasn't a flood so tell no to go to Israel why you telling no to become a carpenter and to become General Motors and build an ark now for 120 years and 120 years why he couldn't do it in a year 2 years 10 years 120 years so the midash actually answers this question and it says there was an element here of impression that people should do chuva that's what most of us know no Builds an ark everybody comes what are you doing no screams Hashem is angry he's going to bring a flood make D CH that's we were taught in in first grade that no built an ark for 120 years so will be an element of impression people go what is this can you imagine me now building some weird structure somewhere now all the TV is coming raban NAA is cuckoo he went completely crazy we thought he's crazy before now he's completely crazy he's building some structure CNN Fox they all coming to me what are you doing and I tell them well the aliens are coming and we have to prepare somewhere for them to land and can you imagine how CUO I'm going to look but neveress I get the attention of the entire world so I can understand no builds a massive structure all the news channels come to no and they're telling him what are you doing and he tells them Hashem is angry he's going to destroy the world with a flood I'm building an ark so you can understand why it took him 120 years that's what the the the the midash says but nevertheless going back to question this in this encounter we didn't find in anywhere in the Torah something like this every time when hasm wanted to destroy stom what he made abah ainu build something for 120 years he didn't even warn stom he sent the angels to take clot out and that's it one nuclear bomb falls on stor and that's it there was any warning abah ainu built something no where do we find in the entire t a warning AEM we just read now onip sends no y to warn nve y went to build something he went to nve and he told them if you don't Hashem is going to destroy your city that's it quick warning and that's it so anywhere in the Torah that we found a destruction of so S Type was never the act of building some big thing for 120 years to show everybody hasem is upset and do CH so the entire tanak you don't find anything like that just in this story okay so some can accept and but we're still presenting a question why why why the whole show why 120 why such a big Arc why did okay I don't accept I can accept the the the explanation of the mid so everybody will see and do CH but still that's not sufficient that's still we can ask a question and when we ask what is this Arc I mean like I told you when you take the word in Hebrew Tava you have in your mind like a little box you see this little brown box here by the way that's a you see it from there that's a little where do we find the word in the in the Tor with mosu what mosu was put in a in a ship it was put in a little box that's AA you're talking here a massive structure not only that again you need to be more familiar with the Hebrew language it doesn't T is not never such a big structure and T is a little box that's not a box what he built he built a ship with floors and a whole system to collect the waste of the animals you imagine how many animals are in the ark and they're all eating every day and doing their business there and the whole system that the extremement and their urine goes down to the lower level I mean this is not a this is not a box I'm sorry to tell you you can call it a t but it's not so if so what is this Arc that we're talking about so concentrating on these four questions brings us to the concept that the flood was not a form of Destruction rather a form of purity of bringing Purity it's called tahara a woman has her monthly cycle she done she goes to the mik person dies the first thing that they do to the person before they bury him they clean the body and then once the body is completely clean they take the body into a mik I don't know if you knew that but now you do person dies that's one of the Jewish Customs that's how you bury the body you have to take the body into a mare that's after you cleaned it and after you dipped the body that body into the mare then you can prepare the body for burial that's the concept of tar of Purity so we have to first understand before we answer the questions of all these four questions before we answer that we have to understand a we know that the flood came because of the behavior of the generation right it didn't come because AEM just got a it says clearly that the humanity went completely mad and not only Humanity also the animals Rashi says it wasn't only the the the human beings also the the animals went cucko and only the animals who stick stuck to their own specii were able to go into the ark saying in other words there were much more types of animals before the the the the flood and Rashi says this is not Z Rashi says also the animals were going on different species and the Animals went a little bit cucko so we found incest we found theft we found so many different things in the generation so we know that is the cause of the flood but nobody ever stopped to ask what caused Humanity to come to this place did you ever ask that question you did col but nevertheless most people don't if you read the Torah thoroughly and you find and you show interest you'll start asking these questions that's a a pretty strong question okay the Toran tells me humanity went berserk and Hashem didn't like it decided to destroy the world did you ever see a commentary that says but what happened to humanity what was the cause that the entire human race went completely off the path of the Torah that no not even one person was found a a what's the right way righteous enough to be saved only no so you're talking about millions of people I don't know in numbers but you're talking about 1500 years after the creation of the world we're talking here about probably millions of people I don't know billions but let's say Millions so millions of people all corrupt their ways and only one person one sadik no and his wife and three kids so the wife we know that she was also a Shem we know was a ye there's a question here and we knew he was a already before before the flood we already knew he's a rash he's a wicked so why was he saved that's for a different class it's actually pretty interesting the opinions why he was saved but we know that K was already a wicked Before the Flood of course we know that after the flood we read in this par that he raped his father I mean a different opinion says that he neutered him third opinion says he raped him then he Ned him but nevertheless was wicked so we're talking here about eight people saved from Humanity so millions and millions of people corrupt their ways to a point of Destruction what caused that yeah I can hear the bombing tour don't get excited we're talking about the destruction of the world right now you worried about a few explosions so okay back to our question what caused the human race to become so corrupt what they had a bad leader they told them what to do and what not to do I mean what happened that's a big question one needs to ask themselves what is the root for this type of behavior how come the entire human race when I'm saying when corrupt the main problems was Acts of immorality incest and and everything that has to do with forbidden relations theft stealing so you're talking about an entire generation that lives their life like I don't know what no rules like today like well today no yeah today is pretty crazy but you can still find normal people uh it doesn't matter from which religion of Faith go now to the majority of Muslims and the majority of religious Christians and the religious Jews they all agree for example that abortions is not okay we share our Common Ground all the three faiths and you're talking about billions of people but nevertheless you have billions of people who don't care about all that so you're right our generation is pretty insane listen I was Now in America you don't know who's a woman who's a man you don't know who you're talking to at this point but it it was much worse than what I was ever I mean I lived in America for 20 years I've been around in many places this time I was like I was embarrassed for my kids my little kids this is a man this is a woman what is this thing and it was everywhere it wasn't like that we went to some uh far away Town everywhere that we went and I was in all major cities I was embarrassed my 5-year-old is like staring you know little kids stare they have no tact so my little kids they just stare and I was at one point it was actually well not embarrassing for me it should be embarrassing to that individual whether it's a man or a woman but my kids were staring at that individual and my little girl was saying to me loud is that a woman or a man of course my wife is like and everybody in the in the area starts laughing and the guys there well so guy girl I don't even know what it was so yeah yeah yeah our generation is a little bit uh screwed up a little bit like but with all that you still find a lot of normal people okay and it doesn't matter the background of the faith so we're wer we're not as bad obviously as what they were according to what we we know you have here A whole generation the entire human race that their mind is corrupt that all they can think of is how they can be with another individual in the most in inappropriate way men with men women with women animals with and to stop on that no no common sense of being nice to each other everybody stealing from each other robbing from each other if you read all the commentary it says what's thisas the easiest way go look what the Kamas is doing that's what they did killing people for no reason raping people for no reason you know you see what the Kamas is doing in AA all the world is giving food to the to the People in AA Kamas is coming and taking it this is SE this is Kamas and they shooting them and then they said that we are doing some genocide but nevertheless no need to now interpret every little thing you have 1,500 years that humanity is completely went crazy immorality theft problems robbery what's the root for that behavior H Adam I don't know I I don't have the question for that I don't have the answer the question is I actually do have the answer for that but it's not Adam I'm asking the question why what a a person learns the Torah you see this entire story you need to ask yourself this question now if you don't ask it I ask it for you what is the root for this behavior that the entire human race is corrupt I have an answer for you it's one word and that word is called jealousy that's it and what did you find like I told you the main part was gazel gazel is theft and robbery incest and this is the result and again what is jealousy jealousy is when a a person feels I don't have enough or that the person is not appreciative to what they have that's jealousy I don't have enough you have more than me or I I most people if they look at what they have you have enough but when a person is jealous he doesn't he's not appreciative to what he has and of course the green the the grass of my neighbor is always more green his car is nicer his house is bigger his wife is more attractive he has more money so when you're asking what caused an entire human race to go corrupt jealousy that's it no other way to explain it now of course if you want to contradict and argue then let's go through the entire creation and let's see how I come to this conclusion what's the the first sin in the Torah you don't have to answer out loud but I'm asking and I'll give you four seconds to think about it what is the first sin sin in the Torah I know you're all going to say the sin of the tree of knowledge right no the first sin that we read about in the Torah happened on the fourth day of creation the great illuminaries were created together the sun to control the day the moon to control the night and the Moon is jealous of the sun two kings cannot rule with the same Crown says the moon so hasem punishes the moon and he makes it smaller that's it that's the first sin who are you to argue who's better than the other Moon the Moon and the Sun were created the same size right the moon was jealous of the sun saying I'm going to rule share the crown with the Sun the sun rules throughout the day I rule at night we have to share the same crown of a great luminary no the result K makes the Moon a little bit smaller not like what NASA tells you that the Moon is much smaller it's a little bit smaller than the sun the sun is not 400 million miles away from us the sun is in the atmosphere and it's a little bit bigger than the the moon but nevertheless that's the first sin in the tor jealousy okay what's the second sin I know you're all going to raise your hand and say that you have knowledge no the second sin is that the serpent who is a creation of God was jealous of God that's it why are you in control why are you the Creator and needless to say that the snake after that starts becoming a a jealous of ad why did he get a nice woman I also want a nice woman probably the snake got some ugly snake cat and he was like why am I getting the fat one I want her right it says clearly the snake was jealous of he got a beautiful woman and then third sin kava is jealous of the future potential wife that maybe Adam is going to have why cuz the snake comes and he and he tells her that she won't die by eating from the Tree of knowledge but somewhere in the back of her mind she still thinks maybe if I eat it I will die cuz that's what God says now if I'm going to die Adam is going to marry another woman oh no no no I can't take that that he's going to marry another woman I'll give him also to eat that if we die we both die so is jealous of a potential maybe next wife again jealousy and now again the sins continue Adam is jealous of hasem because the serpent says to Adar the you know if you eat from the Tree of knowledge you'll become like a god you'll be smart like God and that's why God doesn't want you to eat from the Tree of knowledge because then you're going to become a god like him so Adam is not to say jealous of hem that he's a God I also want to be a God I also want to know everything and then we continue and then K is a jealous of heaven and then we continue you want me to continue we'll waste the whole class the whole story is jealousy jealousy after jealousy after jealousy after jealousy therefore the entire 1500 years of humanity is this root of open wrong with his jealousy simple is that okay so now I'll come and ask you another question how did the flood solve it the flood didn't solve the jealousy problem the flood destroyed Humanity but it didn't destroy jealousy we still have jealousy so I don't understand what's going on here Humanity becomes corrupt because of jealousy Hashem destroys the world with the flood but the flood didn't do anything a new generation of humanity came with jealousy so we didn't do anything here if you ever ask yourself what jealousy is then I'll tell you what jealousy is jealousy is stupidity that's it it is if you're jealous you're stupid there's a saying in Hebrew it doesn't sound good in English I'll say in I'll say it in Hebrew for the ones of you who will appreciate it more and then I'll translate it it says in Hebrew a person is alive or is his sustenance or no a person is alive because of what he eats you are what you eat you are what you eat but in this term it doesn't fit well a person is alive because what he eats but a person dies from what eats him when you're jealous it eats you alive so in Hebrew the term sounds very very good that's it that's jealousy stupidity I have a lot of bad character traits this I don't have I don't have jealousy Hashem spared for me this I can't understand the concept of jealousy especially when you're pretending to be God-fearing and observant you believe that everything comes from God but you're still jealous of somebody else so not only that you're not really observant and you don't have any then you're also stupid okay let's continue so we have a few problems a few questions and still no Solutions now again it says that one of the reasons for the flood was the the world became corrupt and again I asked the same question so how did the flood solve the problem I didn't see any Sol solving all the problems the flood came destroyed the world and a generation right after boom you have the generation of dispersion didn't solve any problem and not only that look at it 5,000 years passed and any solution no same thing same jealousy same immorality same hate so what's the concept of the flood if it didn't come to fix this problem what's the concept behind the flood and what's the concept of the Ark explain to me and how did the flood solve the problem if you think it came to solve a problem so we have a lot of questions to be answered it says that the entire secret of the flood is explained with one sentence in the Torah said in one sentence and explained in the tud what was the first thing or the first cause in the creation of the world really it's the second verse of the entire Torah second verse but the question our sages ask is what was the first cause it says that's the first verse in the Torah in the beginning has created the heavens and the Earth second verse and then it continues and the land was a chaos or destruction orever you want to translate it and then the verse ends the spirit of God was hovering over the face of the water that's the second verse in the Tor as our sages explain that's the first cause of the Torah so first Hashem created the Heaven and the Earth then the spirit of God is hovering over the water now let's go to the next day what happens on this next day Hashem separates between the waters right between how is the the translation goes separation between water and water yeah the water above and the water water below what is the Torah telling us that in the beginning everything was one big bubble of water right that's what the Torah says I'm not saying that the Torah says in the beginning we had one big bubble of water it doesn't matter right now if it's half a bubble full bubble it doesn't matter but we're talking here a bubble let's call it now a bubble of water and what happens on the second day Hashem separates between the water from above and the water From Below that's the second thing that hasem does so what do we take from that the entire world is one big bubble of water what does it resemble this big bubble of water h no no no no what does this big bubble of water resembles a woman's womb where's the baby in a bubble of water the baby is immersed in water and surround Ed completely by water so imagine now again a bubble of water okay womb maybe be not in the perfect circle but the idea the baby is immersed in the water and covered with water for 9 months miraculously it doesn't need to breathe doesn't need to eat it doesn't do anything interestingly if you look at the reality all the holes that that are normally open in the womb are closed and all the holes that are closed in the womb are open and the second that the baby goes out ears nostrils mouth rectum everything all all the holes that are normally open in the womb are closed and vice versa is that the in the phone or outside so if you want the safe room is on the back the entire building is one big safe room uh somebody asked me the other day if I have a mad at home I told him did you ever see my house the house is made out of cement it's like 80 cm of cement the entire house the house is a safe home uh but nevertheless uh so back to what we're talking about the baby is immersed in the womb and miraculously mouth is open ears are open open nostrils are open water doesn't go in how and the second that the baby goes out of the womb all the holes open up right away that's what we say in hes and holes you can that's the blessing we saying one hole opens up for more than time that he needs that's it you're dead on one of the Hol closes whether it's your nostrils your your how do you call the vet the the esophagus or the the the where you breathe from that's it so the baby is in the mother's room in a bubble of water so in the beginning the world was a womb was a bubble of water and then on the second day the master of the universe separates from the water from the top and the bottom the talud says that the flood surrounded the entire world again with water that's what the talud explains that the world filled up again with water like as if the womb was deflated from all the water now Hashem filled it all up again again the whole Babble is full of water what's the significance bring us back to point one to the beginning sets the system where can you find this familiar in your life your phone doesn't work you call the phone company what they tell you reboot the system your computer your phone whatever it is almost any digital and and and Technical mechanical reboot it restart it that's the the restart of the world Shem says okay the there's a bug in the system let me restart it so what's so special about water in that way when a water if you're looking like at a womb type of situation there's no separation everything is one unit here we are all separated when uh the entire existence is under the water even though every andle every animal is separated or every it will be more of a mammo than than an animal but look now there at the the fish tank the fish are individual entities but they're all immersed in the water it's one entity one Unity there's no separation that's the significance of being everything under water so in the beginning everything was covered by water everything was immersed in water because if you read the Torah very clearly after hasem separated the water then the land appeared which means it was there already it just didn't appear imagine now you move the ocean then you'll see what's going in inside so in the beginning everything was covered with water that signifies the Nullification to Hashem the the reality or the awareness of one of unity this is called an awareness of right now I don't see God because there's too much uh separation of everything so it's very hard to believe in God but if I will be in an awareness that everything is one I'm not going to have an issue of amuna of belief Angels don't have an issue with amuna angels are one Unity with the entire creation they're unfied to Hashem it's a creature angels are creatures they were also created in the six days of creation but nevertheless Angels don't have issues with belief in God right we have issue with belief because hem created a system that I don't have an awareness that we are one Unity so being under the water that's how it was in the beginning that's a nullification to hasem it's called one reality and this one reality is the awareness of there's only there's only reality is God now the second when the embryo the baby goes go out of the water he starts developing the awareness baby doesn't have an awareness when he's in the b in the womb the second and the baby goes out he's a self entity up until now he was part of his mother he didn't have to worry about anything didn't think of anything if you would go into the baby's mind first of all the baby doesn't even have an opinion or a mind at this point he's battel he's a ol to his mother he's part of his mother he doesn't need to worry about anything he doesn't need to think of anything I'm sure you know the analogy of the twins that are in the mother's room and one of them says do you believe in mom and the other twin says no I don't believe and he says but what are you talking about moms feed us mom carries us yeah I'm sure you know the analogy it's a long story but that's the same thing the baby in the mother's womb he doesn't have any problems with the second that you go out of the womb you start developing an awareness what would be that awareness of whatever the society gives you take now any child from any type of background put that child on a deserted island and give them a different awareness that's how they're going to grow up don't need to do much experiment with that the you know the the people that you see is a result of where they grew up of what they were taught and what they saw take the same child from the same family put him on a deserted island teach them something completely different that's how they're going to grow up why do you have you think you have people across the border that are willing to to cut your head off with no remorse and with no feelings because they're born into a reality that you are a blood drinking enemy that you took their land that you raped their mother and you took everything their their entire awareness is I need to kill you all you need is to to unleash them and they'll come and kill you in the most horrible way that's their that's their awareness take the same child that was born to a Arab mother put him now in a different place he will grow to love you the awareness the the the the the consciousness of each individual you can uh rewrite it in any in any way you want so Hashem brings the entire world back to stage one that's the concept of the flood erasing everything resetting everything the great reset the great reset yeah take that psychopath there whatever his name is the great reset he's right you know that everything that comes out of these evil people that's God talking whatever they want to do a new world order you're right there will be a new world order the order of Hashem great reset you're right we're going to reset all evil all the terms that you're they're they're using they're right it's actually a joke how Hashem speaks through the evil all their plans they're all right about it when they want to have no currency you're right when Messiah is going to come we're not going to have a currency we're not going to have money there's not going to be stock market and all this nonsense in Banks everything that they're trying to redesign that's Hashem telling us that's what's going to happen they're all descendants of the generation of this Persian they're all descendants of nimod so really it's funny to see what they're saying but you're right the great reset Hashem is saying mashia is going to come there's going to be a reset going back to stage one that's the flood how does hasem decide to do it by putting the entire world into a mik and like I told you a woman has her cycle she has the status of impurity goes into immerses herself into the mik boom all the impurity disappears she's back to stage one per to a husband so really the flood is not a punishment it's tar it's to bring Purity why 40 days because the mik has to be 40 there's a certain measurement you know if the mik doesn't have a certain measurement of water it's called 40 is the measurement like you have liters or gallons or whatever so the 40 days correspond to the 40 the measurement that a mik needs to be that's why it was 40 days there when we want to answer why water the water didn't come to destroy the water came to purify why 40 days that's the measurement that is required for a mik to operate you have 39.9 of the water of the mik it won't do it so 40 days corresponding to the measurement of 40 so we answer two question now we have the question of the Ark The Arc like I told you is can be also explained in translated as a word and really words are what allow us to be in a completely different form you can use two different words to define the same thing you can say on something that's bad that's one way of defining it or you can use not good so words allow you to change the essence of everything you can tell a child you are a failure and you destroy the child or you can tell him this time you didn't make it next time you'll put some effort you'll be successful so the words really change the reality how are you today horrible how are you feeling today not as good as yesterday whatever I mean how you how you talk you change the reality you change the form of everything so when we're talking about an arc here ignore the cruise ship that built we're talking here about words saying in other words h words saying in other words that the signifies speech Hashem created the world a week yes last week with speech right that's how Hashem creates the world so really you take the word you form the reality according to the word that you use I'm very uncomfortable or it's not to my satisfaction or whatever it is you use your imagination when it says when a human being comes into the ark it says to come into the ark when a person goes into the ark we're talking about into the words it's a new person a whole new person he brings on himself Purity the power of what words is designing your thought and that's why I told you take a baby from doesn't matter where which culture put him somewhere else and educate them different he will be a completely different person so what we take from that is words is what designs your thoughts I can take now an entire race of people I can take now and by the way whoever did that was Hitler Hitler took 200,000 babies the the sources the information says that he did it all in in Antarctica in the South Pole that he had their how did it call New Berlin a whole a whole civilization under the ground that he built was crazy the Holocaust was one of the little things that he did in his Endeavors Hitler somehow believed that Atlantis is real and he took most of his resources and money to find Atlantis and that's how they found all the spots in the in the in the South Pole and many other things but nevertheless and many of the Nazis went down to the South Pole to hide there but nevertheless that's one of the experiment I think it's called New Berlin I don't remember now it's not so important but that's what he did took a lwn on the babies and rais them in a whole different type of civilization they you meet that type of baby they look at you like because if you take now a group of babies and you put them in a new surrounding and you dress them different and you teach him a new language you how how do you know how to speak your parents taught you how to speak so when you were born they showed you I don't know a ball they told you ball right when I was born they showed me a ball they told me Kad what did they tell you how do you say ball in Russian match patch match match so see we the same people for me a ball is Kad for you patch for you and if I continue now the Japanese chak and the whatever the Hungarian puru or whatever it is same thing different I can also invent the language I can take now a thousand kids put them under the ground dress them different teach them a whole new language that I invented teach them values teach them a religion teach them whatever I want I create a whole human race thinks different believes different talks different dresses different uses everything different I can I can testify that I have seven kids when my first child was born I told my wife we are the architect of that child's life whatever values I'm going to give this child that's what the child is going to believe and think however I dress they will dress whatever I eat they eat how I behave they behave whatever values they put if I put good values in them doesn't matter how much they're going to go to the sides they still have the same values that I taught them so what do we take from that that the Power of Words designs your thoughts I can come and tell you all day long that's what they're doing to the to the Palestinians in AA from the day one they just open their eyes Jews are evil Jews are evil we have to kill them we have to kill them they did this they did that that's it the the the the words design their thoughts now go and try to untangle that you can't so the conclusion here the Maul the flood is not a punishment you have to take that out of your vocabulary the the the flood was a mik Hashem says okay humanity went off the course I need to bring bring them back into the mik to erase everything to reset everything to have their uh awareness of God to have a nullification to God how hasem is going to do it now I don't know but nevertheless in order for Hashem to H reset everything nobody could have their own reality so when they were out of the womb so to say they created their own reality what was the result the jealousy but Hashem says okay I need to reset the situation I'll put them back all into the mik change their status from impure to Pure now you will ask the question okay but it didn't do it it didn't last very long it didn't last it didn't it didn't do it the job it will only affect the ones that they wanted to be affected the flood didn't affect then and won't affect now if you're not willing to do the change if you're not aware of the change that you need to do what how do you define a b Chua right right I can easily say that everybody in this room and probably 90% of the viewers they were born one way and they changed their way it doesn't matter if you were born a non-jew and converted or if you were born a secular and you found somehow your path to God that's about that for a certain amount of your life 20 years 30 years 40 years you had a certain opinion thought a certain way behaved in a certain way way and then something clicked in your brain and you got a different awareness and what was the result from that you change your way you suddenly don't believe everything that what you've been told you suddenly don't follow everything that you were you were taught suddenly you have some type of an Enlightenment saying I don't believe this anymore that's the miracle of hem in our generation because for thousands of years people were oppressed with what they were taught that's it and if Shalom you raise a question that doesn't fall with the opinion yeah you would either get smacked or oppressed in one way or another you're the black sheep you're going off the course but now hasem is allowing people to start questioning things I don't believe in this I don't believe in that but the reality is that a Chua a person who comes closer to Hashem erases the real the previous reality and then starts developing a new awareness what's this new awareness that I have no reality the Shem is the reality so really that is the purpose of the flood now why it didn't work then because the person needs to do the change that's why it didn't sustain you need to do the reset you need to figure out I'm going the wrong way that's Chua I'm going the wrong path I need to reset it now we don't have now a great mik that we can do of of course yeah a person converts they go into a mik to reset the reality doesn't work for B Chas although we are recommended very highly to go to the mik all the time to reset the the situation but comes the Maul the story and it tells you whoa whoa whoa you want to avoid all this chaos go into the ark build an ark that's your speech and then go into the ark that is what's going going to save you is the speech the reality the first thing that I did is about CH when I started decided to change my way was my speech not Yeshiva only after 3 years I went to Yeshiva the first thing and why did it come to my mind cuz I understood that that's the foundation the first thing that I worked on in the first year of my Chua is to stop cursing stop the foul language stop lying stop cheating slandering gossiping that's the foundation you change the reality of how you speak suddenly your whole reality changes there's a very interesting K from the Magid from kosich and he says if you look at at the measurements of the Ark they tell you exactly what the ark means the ark was 300 me amama long what's the letter corresponding to the numerical value of 300 Shin the width of the Ark was 50 what's the letter that corresponds to the numerical value of 50 N the height of the Ark was 30 what's the numerical value of the letter lamid what's the word name that you get lashon your speech I will conclude by saying you don't rule nothing in this world there's only one thing in this world that a human being can control and that he rules what did you think even yourself you can control your thoughts you can control your behavior there's only one thing you can control in this world that's your mouth are sages say if you guard your mouth and your tongue you guard yourself from all the bad things that happen to you in this life so when you're looking at the flood as a way of Enlightenment as a spiritual message as something that you need to take to your own life then if your life is perfect go ahead good you're good to go but most of us our life is far away from perfect we have a lot of issues that we need to deal with external issues my livelihood kids to take care of horrible relationships and a million and one other things in my life that I need to take care of and I need to deal with the chaotic structure of my life some of it is under control some is not but if we take the advice of our sages you guard your mouth and your tongue you guard yourself from all the issues that you have then you have to understand here that the flood is a form of Purity that comes to teach me you want to reach to a place of Purity you want to reach to a place that you reset your horrible Behavior at the end of the day you need to look at yourself that's my advice to myself and to any other person you have issues in your life look at yourself I have issue with with my parasa with my livelihood I only look at myself I have marital issues I look at myself I don't blame the wife I have problems with kids any problem that I have in my life I don't point the finger that way I point the finger this way I have done something that I have created a certain reality I am not happy about this reality it needs to change that's the level of a chuba where you are aware enough to take responsibility to your own behavior and and say this is not working out because of me not because of the entire world I am the problem now you start your Chua process by introspecting and finding what is the problem by reverse engineering and if I want to better my life that's the level of that you have by yourself the awareness to change the situation and how do you change it by completely changing the awareness that's the the form of a mik resetting everything how do we do it besides going to the mik is your is the arc reverse engineer to how you talk everything boils down to this that's what I told you last class it all boils down to one little hole all your problems is this you change the reality bi your speech so when you want to control the chaos in your life if you feel if you don't see chaos in your life then you're either on a completely different level or completely ignorant but when you want to control the chaos in your life then you need to control your mouth [Applause] [Music] oh [Music]