Noach - No People No Purpose | Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

hi I'm damsky welcome to the para in 5 where in five minutes we give you a little idea on the paraa to help you uh have a deeper understanding and appreciation because you know we don't just read par Noah it's called shabas No and so the message of Paras Noah is one that is eternal and relevant to our lives at all times and so we need to get a deeper understand standing Rashi deals with a question the question is the people were very bad and they had to die right they had to God destroyed the entire world and he had to start over but why did he kill the animals why' he kill the animals so he gives two answers Rashi one answer is they were also bad they also they also inter breed interbred with other animals and created all kinds of monsters and and terrible things and uh you know that's what ended up happening and uh and the other answer is that the only reason animals exist is to serve people and if there's no people there's no purpose for animals um I remember I said this idea over in or and someone said to me so Judaism is anthroscape and they throw around a word like epistemology you know they just do it to intimidate people and make you think that they're smarter than you and they're really not they just picked up a few terms and i' always say I'm sorry I don't know what that means my friend Rabbi rovski who is the rabbi of the Young Israel baton I was by him once and I was going to be speaking for him and I said I wanted to get a coffee and we go into Starbucks and I have a friend of mine who taught me how to go to Starbucks and you have to say the right Lan I want a uh this vente hun want with a one of this and two of these and D this and you give you a whole little speech it's like that Seinfield Seinfeld episode with The Soup Nazi and I gave you a whole speech he works in says I don't understand what's going on here I just want a coffee and I was like oh no and says do you have coffee he goes well yeah I mean it's a coffee store you know he goes well what kind of coffee have you got this poor guy who's used to all these B GA just rattling off you know one you know has to say well there's this type of coffee that kind of coffee that goes I'll have one of those what are the sizes V what does that mean goes small medium and large oh okay I have a medium but jargon is there to impress you you know so he says so Judaism is anthropocentric now I remember that when I went to school at one point they gave us an SAT preparation course by teaching us Greek and Latin roots which helps you understand where words come from anthro of course means people as an anthropology or misanthrope Centric means it centers around it like like the uh argument in the Middle Ages is the world geocentric Geo being Earth or heliocentric Helio being son yeah as in me and Helio went to the schoolyard anyway so uh Centric means it revolves around it so it was a fancy way of saying so you think that people are the center of the universe now I was able to make this whole calculation goes so you say Judaism is anthropocentric and I said yep that's right without people there is no purpose there is no cow Heaven there's no doggy Heaven yeah people are animals are in this world to serve people that's all that they're at a person once said to me as a vegetarian he says I think it's cruel to to eat animals I don't know why it's okay for animals to eat animals I mean Lions do it you know um but uh but we're supposed to suddenly switch from being a carnivore to a herbivore but um uh so I said don't you understand a cow has no purpose in this world yeah has no soul when it dies it turns into dirt and disappears but if you eat it and it becomes part of human being then it has eternity it has nit it lasts forever becomes part of your body and part of your soul and it and it goes intoa there's nothing more cruel to an animal than to be a vegetarian and deny him the chance of eternal life so as we read the story of the m we understand it's the story of people and if there's no people there's no purpose for the world it's not here for the doggies and the cats and the and the Bears and uh all the all the animals and the beauty and the mountains it's here for only one purpose for people to be able to live in this world and do ratem chavas