Parshas Noach: Transmigrations of Noach's Soul

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times then we say in his Generations I mean you can only live in one generation should say what I mean what does the word mean in his right are there any Jewish people here that might know what that word means means his Generations why would the Torah say that it's not true it's not factual okay then interestingly the T calls him aad who is aad in thees who is called aad in thees the answer is nobody nobody there is nobody in the entire other than not Abraham not not even nobody in the is called aad so that's interesting how do you become aad what do you need to do what do you have to do to become a do you need to build a boat is that it people who build boats they're called sadic okay then what's very difficult is the end of vus the end of vus seems to contradict the beginning of here at the end of it says Shem said I will blot out a person I will blot out man by the way I just tell you free of charge nothing to do with the that somehow I always think that the mitvah is a Mitzvah of it's a Mitzvah of emulating hasem say emulating hasem yeah it has to be because all the Mitzvah are MIT of um of M learning all as well because there only two times in the Torah it says the word and by the the of mankind in fact the is found right in it says anyway that's just a separate thought the end so says getting distracted because I regret what I did okay so here saying I'm gonna wipe out mankind but I don't know I like him I like him I like his tie right there's something about him that finds favor in my eyes you know sometimes you you're a teacher in a class and um some kid he gets a 63 so it depends who the kid is some kids 63 and they fail other kids 63 and you stretch it why I don't know why you know you you so you take a liking to the kid you figure out a way to pass him that's what and it's it's not only my way to read it that's how the reads G really the decree was sealed on but he found favor in the eyes of like the says I regret what I did to that I cre man so the is saying that deserved to be blotted out just like the rest of mankind but he had a special what do you mean had a special the next p is he was a sadic he's a t he deserved it why would he need to find if he's a sadic he's the only one who's A sadic in the generation and this is a question um that is raised in the sa he says if was not worthy to be saved and as tell us I just want to point out there really two questions over here one is was he or was he aad and and on the other hand if in fact he deserve to be destroyed with the rest of the generation how is he you know I understand if you're a teacher okay the kid is a he's a cute kid you like his personality so he's but with isn't it black and white a person he looks at their doesn't who have more have and then what's this concept of there's no there no subjective factors to what would it even mean to be by the way is there anyone else in who else in was so that was not the only person who is we find that was we find was but that's that's a concept we find was so that's an interesting idea what does it mean that okay so so so far we have um four questions number one why does the say Twi number two why does it say Generations was he or was he a and finally what does it mean to be okay we move on talks about various people in the T where they're alluded to in the T so the asks and the says and the says right by the way there's a safer safer um of so this past summer we went to the b in Lita Island where we try to go to we got to the B of course but it was locked and the Italian who's guarding it needed to eat hot dogs so he did not want to let us in but wrote a saer called and he has a different gear interestingly by the way I I'll point out like this somebody showed me he uh he did like a search on the pish and he found he found Clinton and he found Obama and there's no remes to Trump in the whole so he said does that mean does that mean that he's not going to be elected I said no maybe that means he will be elected you could ask him my friend Ben grman I said I think that's sah he will be elected why because the G asks H and and and Esther and the doesn't ask why because the king of the world is just a pup in the hands of Hashem he not an entity so there's no remes to him in the Torah you don't need a remes so I mean I would think if there was ever a leader that was the same way is not alluded to in the T it could be that that this individual is also he's not alluded to in the T but it doesn't mean he won't be elected anyway um time I'm not commenting on the positive or negative uh no political ramif okay anyway from where do we know it so says even though he's flesh so says what is that at the end of say my spirit will no longer contend with man even though he's flesh let his days be May 120 years why would we say if it's if his name takes place 500 times yeah so that that's got to be one of the strangest questions ever asks what do youan why don't you just open up the book there's no name in that's mentioned more often than it says his name 613 times in the that was close what by the way they once say not they said not true he put in a computer search and he found 614 says the computer's wrong and they checked says is not so anyway but really in fact there's 613 times says's name so here mha's name appears 613 times and the is asking what's the REM what do you need a remes for that's saying says H's name many times so and then what's the remes the word how is says look at number seven the word is it says over there his days will be 120 years in other words what's the G of bish B is two Shin is 300 giml is three me is 40 That's 345 and the of is 345 so 345 which is 120 years okay it's a beautiful to however why would you need AES to's name appears so many times the question is where is there in B okay so let me ask you a question if you were writing the T and you wanted to be why in the world would you be when wants to destroy the world and Destroy mankind why would this be the juncture where m is alluded to maybe you know you you can't pick a nicer place for M to be alluded to maybe when is feeding the maybe maybe no where is there even though he's flesh that's the REM okay then there's a Rashi one of the most well-known rashis Ines and the more well-known something is the less you think about it because the more you take it for granted that's the more famous something is the less examined it is this is a Rashi I have such a KAS on this Rashi I don't think I ever saw anyone ask this question but I have a Pella on the Rashi says rash by the because the water was Cal was enough to have mortar on the inside and tar on the outside but by where the water was very turbulent it says you should cover it on the inside on the outside with and another reason that that sadic does not smell the bad smell of T but here because of the strength of the water rash is obviously bothered by a Rashi wants to know all of a sudden Rashi is a working for ups and he's a he's a shipper and Rashi has cases on boxes rash is sitting back in France and he wants to know I don't understand when when no made a ship bigger than a Titanic they they cover on the inside the outside with and when putu in the cardboard box that she got from from BR she didn't put tar on the inside one second rash what these are the only two boxes in history why does have you know yesterday I got something from zapo and I didn't put tar on the inside yeah but the T was on the inside the outside what in the world does M's little box got to do with the table of all it's a s that's a Kasha I have a cou when I return my shoelaces I put Scotch tape on the outside not on the inside but which was bigger than Titanic it had on both sides was one thing I do with the other both in the water well these are the only two things that were ever in the water Mo's box and ship I mean there are thousands of boats in the world how do you make a boat do you put t on the inside or not probably you do so if you do what's R because of M's box what in the world do M's box got to do with I mean this is this is a serious question rash's bothered by this the word Tava is used that's why the word Tava is used by mosha yes okay so all of a sudden it's because of the word the word t it doesn't matter if the Tava is one foot by one foot or the size of um you know MetLife Stadium doesn't matter either way all words that have have to have the T on the inside and the outside what okay what's the there's we make it says oh there t on the inside the outside I don't know ask ask people who make boats how do they make boats do they put tar on the inside or in tanak in we mentioned there's only one person called and that is however in T is there anyone else called a where is called was the sad was sold for money interesting who's the sad the sad is y so now we've extended the definition of sad not only to include but to include as well so the question is what does one have to do to be called aad what is the definition of aad is aad someone who is aad someone who fasts a lot says the med isad you know what it takes to be aad aad is someone who feeds people there are two people called sad who are they they fed mankind fed mankind after all all of the all of life was in that suain them what does it say by what does it say so now we're learning a big the definition of sad is someone who feeds others and therefore there are two people in tan called and so I was bothered one second I think there's a third person called and that is Hashem so where is hasem called the you know why yeah Hashem also meets the bill Hashem passes theic test he feeds mankind this morning hasm opened up my eyes there's another person also called aad and that is he's not called aad in the T but Rashi calls him aad which rashi rashi in number ohash is giving why doesn't rash say all of aash is calling him why is Rashi calling himad in this context why is he calling him sadic okay so you say why does m meet the bill why is m is it even true does m meet the criteria say yeah the the it was in his fine but why wouldn't Rashi just say straight out why in this context is Rashi referring to interesting as we mentioned before there are three people who are called who are one was at the end of it says one was found favor in his eyes and in that Hashem told M you have found favor in my eyes very interesting three people called sad three people that were comes the as only the can and tells us in the name of the AR now let me start with the following introduction there is a concept of Gul which means that a person's could come back to this world for certain now where I come from in the Yesa that I went where I've been for the last 25 years I never never heard the word gilgal mentioned even one time in it's not something that's discussed in fact I once heard somebody asked for Victor Miller and he said it's not mentioned in ch and therefore we don't talk about it in fact there's a rashash on gamar the rashash on gamar says that on the gar that says on the PK that you will leave this world free of sin the way you came in and the rashash says something to the fact of this is a support of the opinion that says that there are gulim which implies that there are opinions that say there aren't and basically it's a very controversial rashash however this is a concept that is um addressed in the of extensively and the of the Aral extensively and we're going to mention it today what's the what's a of talking about it there's one majoras and that is not in terms of worrying about a person doesn't live the life H who Gilgo am I well you know what do I need to be M you have to follow you have to follow the the the biggest tick is learn gar learn however when a person is aware that the is orchestrating the world that every detail in the Torah has major meaning in other words sometimes a person learns KES says why is this detail mentioned why is this story mentioned why is this word here why is this nuda here why is this TR here and you understand there's a lot of background and secret information and certain individuals in the tanak this may not be the first time they were here and they may have t that maybe they're aware of maybe they're not aware of but the is aware of it gives a deeper appreciation and understanding for the events that transpire in the okay with that introduction the tells us that the first time a person is in this world it's called a the second time it's called T okay there's another concept that a person could come back a number of times there's a concept that the has many and each could be that being said Malala to us that actually came back to this world two times first time the second time says without this there is no other way to read the first p in this week's para is of someone who comes back as a Gil is called a Ben the first time you're called an who was he was and then ah so you read the PK like this we have to go back to the end of barus Hashem said I'm going to destroy men but is the question is this is God we're speaking about why is oh you know why a told because he came he has told us too are the Gil the ab is the first time told us the next two times he has too how many two too what are they number one isad the first T the first Gil is he came back as a sadic who's the sadik only one other person called sadic y number two he came back back as the Perfection of mankind how many times two different Generations says that's how we understand the first in in other words you go to the end of the end of found favor in God's eyes now what do you have to do to find favor in God's eyes so says it's not a matter of what he did it's a matter of what he was these are his how many were there what were they how many times so now the question is huh why did he have to come back twice so comes Rao ofo one of the greatest of M he was the of r first he was a tal of the r but then R taught him the traditions of the AR he's buried in man and the ra wrote a and he says as follows look at number 14 one of infractions was he drank wine and he became drunk and he became revealed in his tent and his tickl was through tell us that until y saw his brothers he did not not drink that's why the says that they drank with but for those years that until they came in contact with did not drink why wasn't he drinking that was a t for the of who was says number okay let's move on in the par shame he had three children who cares why do I need to know how many kids he have when you when you meet somebody hey what's what's your name and how many children do you have it's not your business why is it hard telling us that no had three children ah interesting very interesting says that Aral a say y has a numerical value of what what is y y is 10 V is six s is 60 p is 80 156 that is is why um what's the significance of 156 it's 6 times V you know there's a which is the most is it or is it so the brings in and the way to remember it it's Chua 6666 that the more important Aliyah is the sixth alah why Ked because is 6 time 26 is six times the name of Hashem by the way what is 7times 262 182 it's after yump still so a little 182 y seven times what you me too all right seven times good KK right 182 and is 208 eight times all theice are it goes 6 7 8 9 and then 10 Y is six yob is seven is8 what's 156 that's y Ben is 52 plus Ben is 104 plus Ben is 156 y was the Gil of had Ben Ben Ben three B that's the significance of The Three Bs are to to says the in the well we move on very interesting thing somebody asked me the shabas it says that that when was [Laughter] born they named him why because he invented the plow now I don't know about you but there's no way he invented the plow the day he was born like he he came out with the plow you know the doctor said I don't know we're not sure what this one is what was on the first he came with a plow it got it probably took him some time till he invented the plow so what did they name him until what John do John deal deal de dear what was his name before he invented the soel says well all the names were of what they would eventually do interestingly the right look at number 16 his father was was scared to call him a name when he was born until he grew up because there are a lot of cipo around we're not going to get into exactly what cipo are just stay away from them because the more revealed something is the more a Hara rules over it so the ARA has a tremendous di if you have a in front of you it's K to to take notice to observe this by at the end of B it list all the generations of mankind say doesn't say why doesn't it say his name why does it say says the quoting the AR you know why cuz he didn't have a name the kid was not given a name in to begin with what was he called nothing that's what says but says his father called him any here what any here I didn't think so he was called called him why was he called cuz is okay now fasten your seat belts for this one what's the Gat of Y so we said Y is three time B three times Ben 156 what's the Gat of M 34545 what's 156 and 345 345 and 156 what is it 5011 51 very good that's great terrific 51 the word AER AER is 51 yeah alria 501 501 what's 501 oh that's why said me you know power was saying I'm not going to listen to hasem until I see me then I'll have 501 together and then I will listen to okay what was the sin of well we have in from this week what is the m called the Waters of like why do we why are we throwing under the bus we're saying oh the Waters of the mble they's Waters what do you want from the poor guy he's a great guy he's aad he's a he's he did his best he saved the Grasshoppers he saved the whales even the Liberals would have liked n you imagine he's the only guy that he he has um bipartisan popularity why are we calling the so the Z says that what that his infraction was he should have davened for them and he should have reprimanded them he should have been he should have given them and he should have he should have DAV for them in other words when hasem said I'm going to wipe out Mankind and create a new world from you he said no don't wipe out mankind keep mankind let the world continue from them who do we find was offered a Sim a similar gesture where God said you know what I'm going to wipe everyone out and make a new nation from you told that you know what and I'll make a new nation from you and what did M say m said no no no no no if you destroy the word is in other words what was saying was I'm going to be the reason why no was held accountable for reason for the s for the Waters of the mble is because a did not reprimand them B was not mispo for them so says I'm not going to make the same mistake the first s the first person who was he had a small infraction he wasn't he wasn't but me if you don't fear their SIN number 18 four lines the same that it says by the says if you wipe them out if you destroy them wipe me out too in other words what's m saying listen carefully m is saying that if you destroy CLA now then you should have just wiped me out with the mble right in other words why did you save n from the m not because he deserved it because of the because I would come out from him but if you destroy now and I can't rectify the sin of then you should have wiped me out at the M I would have liked to be you should have dissolved me so I would like to suggest it could be it says in one of these m the asks where in other words where do we find thatu already back in time is sort of offering a protection that even though Noak didn't get it right but he's promising that the second time around he's not going to allow able to happen the PK is in other words had it not been for the had it not been foru then this is something that would have repeated itself the remise to is in the where is sort of rearing his head and saying I'm not going to let this happen again I'm not going to allow this to occur is in the waters of the says the first time around made a mistake he said he said excuse me it was I'm going to correct that I'm going to say I didn't ask say I'll never do it again I don't understand that according to the Torah said he'll never do this again CU maybe Hashem realized that we would have the likes of to be M wasn't discussing the entire world just discussing is but right the clo became the of the original intent of creation so I want to suggest please you want to know what the word n stands for too many Secrets I can't reveal I want you it's it's usually usually there's um I'll refer you to usually refers to is but how that fits in over here okay who want to suggest as follows so rashi's bothered by a a big question you know here you have um a mother and the mother has this little kid and the kid's life is in Jeopardy so I don't know about you but I don't think it's a good idea to to take the kid and put him in a box and put him in a river you're better off taking the kid put in a box and putting him at somebody else's doorstep what in the world is doing imagine you you you hear on the news there's a woman who took her little kid put him in a box and this kid flowing down the Mississippi River what was y thinking why did she think by putting this kid in the Box she would save the kid it's not not a good idea not a good idea but maybe it's interesting that when hasem turns to and he says I'm going to save you what's the next word is what 17 there's a say for who says who came 17 generation after from till AB was 10 from Ab s who came 17 Generations from when was telling you know why I am saving you because I see what's going to happen 17 Generations from now they'll beu and therefore says I'm going to save you in theu who transforms according to so so I like him so is a smart woman she says hey this kid is 17 Generations from n maybe maybe maybe he's the kid who's going to be the the Waters of so she says let me put her in the may this is his manner of hatah the same way Hashem saved his forbear in the of the 17th generation maybe this is the kid that will be saved and will correct the sin of n so what does it say whenu was born says the is she saw he's number 17 17 generation so she took him she put him in the back so Rashi rash says if was trying to use the trick of the we know that by the of there was t on the inside and T on the outside it's not that rash's bothered that he has AA when you make a box you have to put tar no these are you don't always have to put tar in boxes you don't have to put tar when you put your shoes in your box at home don't put Tara inside don't say Rashi says you should really put tar no rash's KAS is that we know that the reason why was was saving this individual is because he's sadic number two he's number two he's the 17th generation she trying to utilize the concept of the that used if you're trying to utilize the then you need t on the inside you need t on the outside so Rashi says no there's a reason look now just like she didn't need 300 am so she didn't need tar on the inside and first of all he's a bigger sadic he's a bigger sadic why cuz he's going to be but Hashem opened up my eyes I I never realized why in this context does Rashi refer to him as the sadic ah because the whole Kasha of rash was predicated on the fact that he is the tick for the he's in the long he's the chain of that is why Rashi in this context refers to him not as MOA just as m is not a Kasha one box from the from the other it's the Kasha of this is how God Saves thead through the T and therefore in this context Rashi refers to him as interesting it comes out that we know just point out that when comes out of has a b and what's the big Mitzvah theah now why is taking the bones of there are a lot of other out there look m is a leader he could delegate the job right why doesn't he give the job to I'm sure I'm sure would have said you know who wants to take his bones he could have given one bone to 248 people you can't trust just anybody with your own bones I mean it's your bon so knows it's is busy maybe interesting there's another AR and ARA writes very famously that the generation of the flood Reed their TI in and the AR this is something we've discussed a number of times actually the Aral says the generation of En the generation of the the generation of s the generation of they all came back in but the AR says in the that what was the of the they were they were says number 27 and that's why they were punished in the mble so a tick for that is they came back in the generation of and that is why there was a of why only the Ben and not the because the was and therefore it was only the Ben and not the B that were punished and they were punished that was a ticken for the door of the and who was Ming them it was was Ming him how's that because the of the was put on the shoulders of he didn't DAV for them B he didn't reprimand them butu number one was the one who was was the one who gave the Torah to so says comes to and he says Mo I have a great job for you what's the job I want you to give the Tyra so uses the classic Jewish response I'm not no I'm not a speaker I'm not a speaker everybody loves to speak everybody knows they love to speak not a speaker said and M says I'm not a speaker but says not today right not yesterday not the day before from the very first time you spoke to me I'm not a speaker what do you mean from the first time you spoke to me this is their first encounter Hashem never said a word to before this what does m mean I'm not a speaker not today not yesterday not the day before not the first time we it's the first time you ever met Hashem what's he talking about yesterday soem comes to says I want you to take CL says you know me I'm not a speaker not today and not yesterday when I was and you told me to go into the T and I wasn't a speaker back then because I didn't I didn't reprimand the people I was never a speaker not now and not back then not even in times of remember I'm the one I'm the guy has said exactly you need to correct that says Hashem you know I want you to take them out you know how you're going to correct the you're going to be the one to teach them the to you're going to be the one to BEP for them and you're going to transform I'm not giving you the job because you were a speaker I'm giving you the job because you weren a speaker and now you're going to become one and you're going to be the one to be misal for them and you're going to be the one to be interesting you see and that is and we find how do you find so you think how do you find so you think the best way to find is a guy rolls in most of the time you say oh galic oh it's so nice that you decided to join us in SCH this morning it's wonderful that that you made an effort to catch the last 10 minutes and you make the guy feel good even though the guy Mish but if I'm going to tell him you know it would be really wonderful if he came 9:00 the guy's going to hate your guts he's not going to like you and you'll never find in his eyes says the medish no just the opposite the medish says look at number 31 on the words one who rebukes people to follow me he'll more than if you just sweet talk them you should know if you sweet talk people they're not going to like you if you rebuke them maybe you got then you got a fighting chance so since they're not going to like you anyway you might as well be maybe they'll like you but the med is saying how is one if you rebuke them you'll say I tried it it doesn't work you have to know how to do it you have to know how to do it so says the who is the Who's the who is you know says you have to know how to read the why because us he corrected himself how many times two times and who were they number one was the is he came back as according too he was his and the second time how do I see this1 so here we have Where is the now we understand the secret of rash rash is bothered byha the contradiction between the two boxes why these two boxes because these are the two individuals they were saved two times Rashi understands it's not just boxes it's a matter of saving so there were three there was there was and of course it was the the infraction of and he made it and therefore to the of thank you everyone for coming we look forward to a very exciting ahead of us you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com