Parsha Perspectives for Today (Noach, 5782) - Be a Mensch Before a Tzaddik

okay good morning boker tov and chabutov and a good inventor and a good you're and it is amazing to be back together in person live all right everyone it's great to see you those who are here have a cup of coffee everyone has a bottle of water granola bar refreshments and uh if you live in the area and you're not back yet close your computer get in your car you can still make the end of the show today but certainly next week and beyond torah should be learned in person we're not going to spend time on this right now maybe i'll write something up at one point but you know hazalah rabbis emphasize that ever since the torah was given at har sinai we are trying to recreate and emulate and model that exact experience the torah is given the torah was given with a sense of trembling and awe and fear and the whole nature all the laws of the way that we transmit torah were learned from the original transmission the original gift of torah at harsinai nobody tuned into our sinai online it wasn't streamed mountain torah it wasn't on youtube it wasn't on zoom we were a mount around the mountain and there was lightning and thunder and there was electricity literally and there was an exchange of energy and there was a palpable feeling of being in the presence of the almighty that he was speaking to us that we were in a room together and that is the ideal that is the way that is meant to be transmitted it's the way that torah is meant to be studied and learned so you if you're still listening online next week get in your car and come we've got your coffee we got your refreshments we've got a safe and secure section masks and distancing for those who want but we are meant to be back in person and for those who are still online and it's understandable there are those who are vulnerable there are those who are at risk there are those whom it's not yet safe to come back in person we feel your pain and we long to be together again but make sure to remember this is not the ideal sitting in your gackas on the couch you know conveniently uh doing multitasking seven things at once vacuuming your carpet or mopping your floor while you're listening to the sheer nobody at harsinai when the torah was given no one was texting or emailing but certainly nobody was doing the dishes the laundry or mopping we're meant to be together in person and i hope everybody will continue to come back for those who are here it is great to see you and please god we will fill the grand sanctuary once again i want to thank our generous sponsors for the year becky and now the cats and family in memory of becky's father david grossman nishmas david ben menachem we're very grateful for their friendship they're sponsors of the generosity for the year thank you very very much this morning shira parshas naf is also sponsored by michael and peggy hirschko it's in honor of michael's father yitzchak behind susie said in the eighth of freshwater thank you so much for your generosity as well and please note our other shiram are also live so tomorrow morning the women's at muna men can listen online but the women are invited back in person again coffee refreshments tomorrow morning 8 45 really excited behind the bema resumes it next week and we're going to come out in the next couple days you will be blown away by our list of guests and with that we begin parshas noah page 30 in the art scroll stone hummish and we begin precious you're back in person by the way those who don't remember some of us struggle with our memory and now we're bordering out two years since before this pandemic you happen to be in a shull it happens to have humosum feel free to have a homish and follow inside they're available outside in the lobby or for today you can listen comfortably as well told us these are the offspring they told us these are the progeny these are the children of noah and then the torah doesn't list the children of noah we discussed this last year we discussed this every year noah had biological children noah had progeny he had children and yet the torah gives this introduction these are noah's children and then he doesn't list his children until the next passage ela told us these are the offspring of noah and they are noah so before we answer that question precious now begins every year the discussion which we're not going to get back into we've discussed countless times in the past but the ageless debate the jewish people can be divided arguably the whole world students of the bible can be divided into two groups those who love nawah those who see him as a hero and those who see him as a zero those who vilify abby the rose of nothing special nothing great relatively speaking they were so wicked they were so evil yeah compared to them he was pretty good but had he lived in the generation of avraham's it would have been a nothing you wouldn't have even heard his name and others say are you kidding we are only here there is only a humanity a continuity of the world because of noah and the world is divided into those two groups i have a dear friend in our community whoever year is bitter that we vilify noah noah was a good guy why does he get a bad rep it's not right we should have kiddush every year precious noah in honor of noah but i want to share with you what i saw an interesting a fascinating insight a fascinating insight on this question rashi says he was good in that generation imagine if he were surrounded by those who lifted him imagine if you were surrounded by a positive peer pressure who now could have been the asia dorsum also igni yeah only for this generation good so says high school of kushmir says [Music] listen to this insight he says you know what sadaq somebody who's righteous a righteous true leader is somebody who some prays and some criticize if you have a leader who is beloved unanimously by all who has no detractors and no critics an individual who is loved by absolutely everybody unanimously universally is a fraud is somebody who is has no integrity someone who doesn't stand for something because if you stand for something if you're building something if you have values and ideas and ideals you'll never have everybody on board with you i find this reassuring so yeah if you want to stand for nothing and you want to make everybody happy you could promise everybody what they want you could tell everyone you are exactly in their image you could tell each person you voted for their candidate you root for their team you wear their yamaka you're part of their ashkaf to their school you stand for nothing if you're beloved by all lumas says somebody who also has detractors who is people who say i hope i respect him but i disagree with him i'm critical of him when it comes time for the vote i am not renewing his contract simenborough you see that this is a person who has integrity this is the person who stands for something this is a person who doesn't blow up the wind that is not trying to make everybody happy so in other words called kushmir the very fact that he has a mixed voting record the very fact that not everybody loves him is evidence that he's ecstatic because if you're less than it sounds like you could get everybody to love you if you're a real sadik you stand for something then at the end of the day not everybody's going to love you i also am reassured every year on purim when we get to the end of the megillah mordechai saves the jewish people of shusham arguably saves the jewish people a continuity of rabbinic judaism the way we know it and it's time to vote for mordechai's contract and what does the mcgill tell us at the very end he's ratsoy [Music] gets a majority gets a majority he saved them he risks his life his marriage to esther puts it all on the line and they have a congregational vote mordechai saved our lives the gallows were prepared the gas chambers were ready we were all on our way there and he saved us let's vote on his contract got a majority got a majority you know they're always their detractors when i was streaming barakasham were back live in case you haven't heard those of you online so the shabba shubhadrash you know when we stream online so the class gets scheduled on youtube even before it happens so i scheduled the shabba shoot with joshua that note shabbos and i went to give the drusha and i saw someone had given it a thumbs down i hadn't given the drush yet they gave it a thumbs down before it began that's roe vekhov that's the detractor who says i don't care what he has to say before he even begins i can tell you i don't like it i don't like it before he even opens his mouth rovakov so yeah that's evidence that he is a that he is it's a beautiful insight of the late the late simpler altar of gair one of the guy rebels 1898 to 1992. and the lady simpson says the following the torah is testifying about noah's greatness just in this opening pasuk again we've spent so much time on it in past years i'm sharing new insights this year we could spend the entire hour just on this opening passage which you could say about any parasha in the torah and we actually have tried that but we're going to get further this year allah told us no so what is noah's greatness which is the schwa some praise what is the praise of noah which word look at the opening pasta we're going to reward the people again until we fill the sanctuary again we're going to reward the people who showed up in person not only with your delicious granola bar but we're going to reward you and your cup of coffee and your water if that doesn't bring you here i don't know what will so we're going to reward you which word in this opening is the we can read this and darshan is opening possible the praise of noah we're singing his praise which word excellent gordon says righteous who does not want to be labeled with sonic that appellation that title sadiq i don't mean you know i have some friends who see everybody like sadiko how are you today what's going on sadik they call a russian melusha eating on the veil onion kipper on his way out of mcdonald's sadiq i haven't seen you in a year it dilutes the whole world sadik if you use it to describe anybody but here the torah is not just anybody the reversal of the almighty is testifying about now so good gordon says you know what the praise of noah is the first word we're praising with is sadiq and the other suggestion good second shock is says know what it means to be atonement pure and holy to be it's a very very high level you know diwali muslims say come friday night you come to the shabbos table and it's time for allah you have to make hamutzi mishna we're going to learn about we're very excited so two loaves just the way it was to commemorate the man the midbar the loaves that fell before shabbas two loaves so let's say you have on the table you have an enormous kala like a sinhala i don't know who dreamt this up but i mean you're hosting the chevron brothers the bar mitzvah you've got to follow the length of this entire table huge khala and next it's a tiny little hollow now the huge challah turns out that the two-year-old got into it on arab shabbos grabbed the piece took it out you could hardly notice it's an enormous challah it's a six foot challah and the little piece that somebody pulled out of it a little grandson you know you turn it underneath you pack it you push it together a little bit nobody will notice next thing you have a tiny little challah roll a little chalo and the khala is not missing any piece which do you make what's the halacha so the post can say the is atamim a shalem supersedes something god which is more important to be whole or to be great you make on the one that's whole not the one that's great and the ballet must say you see from this that you make on the one that's whole even if it's tall small rather than the one that's large that's great if it's missing something that being whole is more important than being large than being great then being great so i'm good says that says you know the is long before you get to the word sadiq which word ish is also praised doesn't mean a male over a female a man over a woman we're not talking gender specific ish means a minch to be a mensch noah is an ish he's a mensch man up man up i gave a series several years ago called man up took men put him in a room and said man up help clear the table give your kids a bath say nice things to your spouse man up you want to improve your romance your intimacy you gotta man up provide for your family protect your family never get angry lose your cool with your family what does it mean my wife can give the woman up i'm in no position to give that it should also be given not suggesting all the blame or direction focus should be on one at gender but ish ish to be it's not so simple to be a man we're living in a generation that people don't know what it means to be a man to provide to protect to support to love to be verbally affectionate to take care of to be a mensch to be a match what does it mean to be a nish what does it mean to man up it says before you get to the praise of noah that he's at saddaq before you get to the praise of noah that he's alone is a praise he's a man he's a man he manned up god said build an ark he said where are the tools where's home depot i'll get started he manned up and he saved the entire world he saved the entire world that's what it means and the late simcha's grandson that the order of the passage is important this is the order that we grow we begin the foundation ish it begins be a mensch then strive to be some people try to skip being a mensch they try to go to betsad before they're a mensch the shackle and they go they the way they hold themselves and carry themselves and the way they speak and the way they present they try to present but they skipped a step be it be a mensch before you become at santik ish be a mensch be it sadiq be righteous and tom behold be pure tomatillo so they simple's grandson said that it's not coincidental as they said this is the first is the first praise and it is specifically in this order and it reminds me to go back to sitter snippets many moons ago instead of snippets we shared we say in the morning as part of our diving what do we say one of the most beautiful we begin the day with the muscle that feel is some people again probably they have a lot of god when the cameras are on when the lights are on when the people are watching they have a lot of god fearing when the cameras are off and nobody's watching it's time to fill out the income tax return it's time to daven at home the shimon sray is one tenth of the length of the shimano sway when the whole world's watching so that's the usual types the usual understanding is the mirror shaman says we're going to be consistent be consistent publicly and privately but the ballet muslim again bali muslim means i don't know who said it but the ballet must say the ball and muslims say don't read it that way read it instead punctuate it differently adam always be a mensch just like here ish sadiq begins with being an ish before you're at sadiq it begins with being a mensch okay that is the lathe that is called kushmir and the lathe third what does it mean allah told us noah what does the medieval told us noah it has nothing to do with corona it has to do with the passage of time ela told us no no let's go back to the question that we had asked we said if i say ayla told us goldberg okay so now listen to children good i know the rest of their names but you don't need that right now ayla told us these are their children list the children here we say ayla told us noah these are the children of noah nawah that's a little strange it's not until the next possible children are listed what's going on says [Music] his defining character trait is like his name what does it mean to live there are people there's such drama that surrounds them everything is drama with them they fly off the handle they raise their voice they create drama they're the center of the universe they're jealous and envious there's just drama everything's with flair and anger and a loud voice and drama it's the exact opposite calm and cool and collect and peaceful and you know what people love says the vanishing everybody loves the person that's the way we're supposed to speak to people is to be told you know what the result the progeny the offspring of living a life you want a life of peace and tranquility you want a life of happiness then live peacefully and tranquilly don't raise your voice and your life calm in your life live with drama and flare and high decibel levels and you'll have a lot of drama in your life so it says the vanishing that's the answer what do you mean ayla told us told us living a life of noah this is the result of living a life of being now of the life of being noah this is the ramban's instruction to a son when writes a letter to his son the ramban tells his son that a person should habituate themselves always speak to everybody and that's why you'll save yourself from ever getting angry never get angry if you are committed to never raise your voice even when you're angry and you're about to raise your voice say well i made a promise i'm in a pledge i'm trying to create a habit of not raising my voice and then you'll force yourself to become you'll settle and relieve the anger that's building so always speak to everybody the result the offspring of living a life of nawa is a beautiful insight of the ben ish of the banishchai of the banishkai okay i told you i got this new set of microscopes the classic necros gondolas have shown it's fantastic i understand ten percent of it and it's fantastic what i understand one day to understand more says [Music] the teachings of ella told us to fit all that on the page any of these piers rashi told us i'm not self-conscious at all about wearing them what are the offspring of a person what are the offspring what are the children that we leave behind are our mass and oven they are our good deeds because it's not living a self-centered narcissistic egotistical life that saddik is not all about what i want what i need what gives me pleasure that santa says i'm here to serve what difference can i make how can i transform the world and then when you make that difference when you transform the world when you have that impact those are your children those are your children the legacy we leave is not only the children we leave now but there are people who don't have children it's among the most painful things in the world the gummer tells us it's experiencing a piece of death even while you're alive we doubt and we say a special feel every year before kondarim we doubt and for those who are longing to have children every year i publicize anyone can give me names and there were over 200 names that we adopted for this year 200 people now it was beautiful someone posted online oh yeah last year i sent in my niece's name she's due in a few weeks you get that one since not because of art fila because of all of our treat us it's a beautiful thing there are many many many people longing to have children it's painful it's unbearably painful but maybe one of the points of comfort that we can offer is either told us no no we don't only leave biological children we leave spiritual children we don't only leave behind physical offspring we leave behind a spiritual legacy a spiritual legacy had no children is there is there anyone in the 20th century in modern times who left behind a greater legacy who continues to have a bigger impact who had more children laboratories born today who never met the rabbit consider themselves his children it's possible because we bring the light of sweetness of faith in this world the noah the word noah comes from menuha we're bringing in a world of chaos in a world that's a mobile if you haven't looked outside recently we are living in a mobile it is a moral model it is a health crisis pandemic model it is a financial model if you've been watching the stock market recently it is a mobile it's a marble so where do you find manuka where can we find peace in this life you want peace you want tranquility you want joy you want happiness you want fulfillment you want meaning to say we don't only leave behind children and by the way another enormous pain people who have biological children but who don't follow in their way who may be off the derrahar on their own there are a different era it's unbearably painful for parents too those aren't your only children those aren't your only children you can be 70 80 90 years old and your children have chosen a different path than you and you're devastated and you say this is what i'm leaving behind this is my legacy you're not done yet go impact the world go make a difference in people's lives go leave a spiritual legacy and you're not done yet ayla told us no no before you get to shane khan the office before we get we think that we're done we're washed up we're retired what's my legacy my children my anaclas my grandchildren i'm done there's nothing left in me no ayla told us the legacy the difference that we leave so so when there's a marble outside there's a mobile outside the world is a cesspool it's a swamp morally ethically lewd licentious morally depraved corrupt compromised the mobble we're living through it's an absolute model we're living through so what do you do to save yourself in a marble when there's a flood going on what did noah do what did he get into what do you have to climb inside not a trick question come on prove to the people online their people here thank you very much what do you have to get inside every climate's id the tava what's a teva the word teva means ark but you know what else means it's right behind me zateva is an ark that's holding the torah the word tava also means word word not like rappers say you know word word but word meaning words the words that we read and that we learn so what is the word says [Music] when there's a mobile all around us we have to find refuge safety and security immerse ourselves in the tava of torah and phila we immerse and we protect ourselves in the ark of torah and if we want to be centered we want an anchor we don't want to be washed out into the flood 15 members of the brs just returned late last night they were in new orleans new orleans apparently they mispronounce it nolan's they were knowledge they were helping after the most recent hurricane devastation beautiful volunteer trip you should see the pictures an incredible trip service learning service learning a flood you see the devastation that's wrought by a flood how do we protect by climbing in a table what's a table not just an ark the table of torrance the rest the peace the tranquility of shamus it says told us why does it say the word two times because there's no there's an upper noah and a lower how do we experience peace tranquility spiritual fulfillment and meaning when we walk with god when we don't live and experience this world where we think i'm in charge i'm in control it's all up to me but we live and we navigate this world god you're right by me you're right with me arm in arm we are confronting the world and we are going to take on the world and we're going to transform and repair the world and i'm not afraid because you're with me it's tomorrow she are living with ammuna everything is for a reason nothing is random there is no chance there are no coincidences that's how i have noah that's how i have noah so you know someone sent me in the ammunition i always say if you have a moon story share it with me and i shared in this year so someone sent me last night and i'll read it tomorrow this year but let's just say someone was at the airport online running out of time so when you start to panic and when you start to get nervous and angry it doesn't make the line go faster it just makes you you lose years of your life but if you stay benoa if you stay noah if you're calm cool and collect so now no your life is noah your life is noah when do we have that most on shabbos shabbos is not that's why we read on anchanas the story the impact of noah because that's when we are most noah okay a couple more and then i told you i'm gonna get past the first possum i promised you we're gonna get past the first passer conditions what a beautiful view of the helicopter has also an amazing magnificent insight on noah and he says the following i'm not going to read to you inside okay i'll read it sorry for him if we'll skip ahead climbs into the tava it takes him a long time to build it rashi tells us god was buying time let all the neighbors see and the hoa can complain let everything wonder what's going on here and why did i design it that it would take so much time hopefully noah would succeed in transforming everybody he would inspire everybody big fail didn't happen didn't happen but it did get the tava done now it says that it began to rain and noah went into the tave and rashi tells us why does a teletub specifically in that order and in that way because noah only climbed into the tava when when it began to rain in other words god said get on the table big flood coming big earthquake big hurricane big tsunami getting the get in the table he said yeah maybe maybe it will maybe it won't maybe he'll change your mind hopefully it won't happen the only one he climbed into the table was when it began to rain rashi tells us why so rashi says something sounds disparaging it sounds critical what does rashi say why doesn't wait to climb into the table televisions because now was diminished in this he didn't go to the municipal he had less than our kindergartners are you kidding me that's the classic understanding and it's a very share understanding how do you understand that so the helicopter exists levy who always is giving the benefit of the doubt the credit and always seeing the good says of lady it's like you know what means not that noah didn't have faith in god in whom did noah lack faith in himself old kosher lumilo why didn't know why didn't you darwin it says he's how could you say katmuna that's why because it's just ladies on this possible how can you say that noah was caught near that he was diminished in his faith he's the same person that we're saying as an east sadiq and atom so the one who's described as sadiq and thomas the same one you're saying lacked faith can't be ef sure can't be who says you know god you created me and you gave me a mouth and you gave me the capacity to communicate and the reason you gave it to me is to advocate is to fight it's the lobby and there's the one who says who am i and what am i nothing i'm a nobody who am i i'm inconsequential what difference will i make that was noah noah said he thought humility meant walking around saying who am i and what am i and i'm a nobody me a muna he didn't lack faith in god he lacked faith in himself how many great discoveries innovation how much advocacy how much of a difference has not happened in this world because people didn't believe in themselves they failed to believe in themselves there was actually one of the winners of the olympics they just had the olympics recently one of the gymnasts afterwards when she received her medal said something like take that my first grade teacher and that's why they interviewed her it wasn't so appropriate but she said you know one of her teachers told her she was going to be a nothing and was she wasting her time on this gymnastics and all this other stuff she basically said i had to overcome someone in my life who said i wasn't nothing we have voices in our own head who tell us where nothing you'll never make a difference you don't matter why bother who are you to be on that committee who are you to be the chair who are you to run with that great idea who are you to be the ganbai and found a new minion who are you to try to make a difference no hashem says every one of us have to go and run and make a difference so that's the that's the uh helicopter slavia i shared it before so those of you who listen to past years don't email me later i know you oh very nice you use the conditional slavery again i know i've shared it before but i want to expand on it why because i'll tell you a helicopter the ire the great mystic had a tradition the kute tora he says you know the gilgal of noah's the gilgal of nawah do we believe in gilgolum give him our reincarnations this is a big debate sadly on others not clear-cut at all it's a big debate among the reshow do we believe in reincarnation not for now we could talk about another time i just had a granddaughter born on yom kippur or hashem very grateful to hashem and i was told that it says somewhere that a baby born on yom kippur is the first time the neshama came to this world because of your kipper god is judging all the shamans that were here previously so any baby born on yom kippur is a new neshama that's not been here yet i don't know what the nafkamina is but i'm sure there is one it's a beautiful idea so the aries says the arena the mystic did believe in reincarnation and he said do you know who moshe rabbenu was a reincarnation of moshe gilgal noah moshe was a reincarnation of noah now why are there reincarnations in this world because there's something we have to repair this something we have to fix we didn't get it done on our first time or our second time or a tenth time and we have to keep coming back you got to come back as the lizard sometimes i see a lizard in chula i said that's somebody who didn't get dominion that lizard is camping out here and it's still here because that's somebody who didn't come to minion now the lizard's got to be trapped in church stuck here every minion every drusha every sheer that lizard we believe in it not everybody does but why are we incarnated in the sun to repair so moshe rabbena was fixing something was misaki something that noah didn't do what did he not do so listen to what the irish says amazing i just saw this for the first time this morning i never knew this before later later the jewish people make a terrible mistake several times moshe rabbanu stands up for them he advocates he lobbies he doesn't only care about saving himself he stands up to save them and what does he threaten god after the after the ego he says look you got to forgive them because if you're not going to forgive them erase me from your book i don't want any part of it i don't want to be associated with it erase my name delete purge me from the book i don't want to be connected from it erase me from the book if you're not going to forgive them he stands up says the area the word are the same letters as may noah moshe was being misaki moshe was repairing and fixing what noah had failed to do only diamond for himself no only cared about his well being his survival no only worried about himself moshe the reincarnation of noah says i'm standing up for the jewish people i'm standing up for israel don't do it again moshe is the reincarnation of noah last comment then we go on from the first possible mesh we're going to share two mashakhnas today this is the first the hilly gardener says i'll read it to you he says the following he quotes the madrid who was more beloved who was greater moshe or noah moshe they went in opposite directions they went in opposite directions we're introduced to now and he's called is a righteous person and then how does it end up his story he is responsible for saving the world he climbs down from the tava he plants a vineyard cracks open a bottle of wine or a low cab i don't know probably red wine he didn't go for the white one and next thing you know he's in isha dhamma he's just a lowly person of the ground he's a lowly person he went the wrong direction he started that ish sadiq he ends up isha moshe is introduced to us as ish mitzray he's an egyptian and how does he end up ish elokim so you see mush is greater so what does it mean he says there are two paths in the way that we serve god therefore you have the person who lives in retreat you have the person who isolates themselves you have the person who says i just care about me i make my minion i do my learning i'm only worried about my dalai ramas i'm worried about me yes and you have the person who says it's not about me it's not about my growth not about my survival it's about my serving the greater good the community the clan israel the jewish family the jewish people um and the person is willing to sacrifice persons willing to compromise persons willing to give because they care about the community allah so you might have thought the person who isolates who lives in a tree who locks themselves in the basement person who says it's just about me my dominating my learning my growth i'm not concerned if i volunteer if i give if i do for others then i'm going to be giving up for myself who's going to be greater who's going to be higher who's going to be loftier who's davening will be better who's learning will go further i would have said it's the person in retreat the person in isolation person is focused on themselves but no it's the opposite he only saved himself he was worthy of being destroyed he went from isla to anisha all he cared about was himself moshe selflessly serves claude israel he gives up on so much of who he could have been he wasn't home for his family he was working he was sacrificing he was giving he's building community he ends and they end up going in opposite directions opposite directions okay it's a lot more to say in that first possible believe it or not but we're going to go right there we're going to go forward let's skip the peritas pasok park test plus exam we're going to skip ahead we all know the story about the decree of the flood the dimensions of the flood it's so hard the window in the uh in the tava the final call it takes somebody's katnayamuna how long the rain fell the animals that he puts into the ark the fact that the torah is careful about lashom torah doesn't say the pure and the impure animal what does the torah say the tahor and the nanatar the one that is not pure tori used an extra word gave up valuable real estate even more expensive than montoya's circle why why did it waste that space because the torah is careful about language we have to be careful about not using obscenity profanity inappropriate impure language we have to be very careful there's a lot more to say about that the waters recede everybody knows the story sends out the raven the dove comes back noah climbs down he descends and he and he plants the vineyard but the torah first repeats first of all he turns himself into hulen a lot of strange things here i'm on page thirty eight by the bear located god speaks to he says you your wife your kids everybody disembark get off it's time to get off saying why doesn't need an instruction a command say descend disembark i don't know if i'm on a cruise that goes on that long and it finally pulls up the port nobody needs to tell me get off have you ever sat in your seat in the plane everybody got off you're still comfortably sitting there the the flight attendant has to tell you please sir we need to turn over the plane ma'am you're gonna have to get off never in history second you can get off everybody's elbowing fighting i mentioned the miracle in the sky all the people who need the wheelchair to get on the plane they can run marathons to be able to get off the plane it's a miracle if you have a problem with your legs simply fly and it'll solve you'll be healed in the sky so nobody ever had same in a table why does noah need to be instructed why does noah need to be told why does he need this we're not going to get into all these animals he builds an altar and he takes the holy that's why the pure animals how many of them were on the ark there were two male and female of the impure animals and seven of the pure animals because he needed enough to bring carbanas to bring a sacrifice god smells a good barbecue notice it doesn't say god smelled an impossible burger they're pretty good but they're not near the real thing we're talking a barbecue it wasn't a veggie tofu burger wasn't an impossible burger it was the real deal god says to his heart i'm not going to curse the ground i'm not uh i'm not destroying the world again i'm not rebooting i'm not doing a hard reset again we're good i'm now i'm just throwing some questions at you i'm not answering but what about the aroma of the barbecue made god say why didn't god say i'm not doing this again because i realize that the cards are stacked against men it's unfair it's an unfair fight there's an impulse there's an intuitiveness there's a struggle i'm not some steaks in the barbie there's some good barbecue going on you know what no is that a grill i'm not doing that again because he knows how to grill he's a grill master he knows how to barbecue there's a good smell you know what i am really bo lois seeks the colored i'm not going to do it again what's the connection between the two i'll leave that for you as a as a question but moving right along now the beginning of peric test page 40 chapter 9 verse 1 god now gives a commandment vaymerlam and he tells them no you're off the tava good job you built it you fed all these animals the lion you got a little altercation with you lived with all that garbage you lived in a dump you did good you saved the world now that you descended i got a job for you what's the job i want you to propagate and promulgate and multiply i want you to fill the world inhabit the world i wipe the world out with the flood we need to restock it's time to restock and it's up to you to restock this is a mitzvah rashi says aye didn't we have this already didn't we read this in last week's parsha proof of woman god already told adam go multiply have lots of children and conquer the world manipulate and conquer the world go study and understand the world go conquer it go conquer it so why is it being repeated here it's not only repeated here by the way skip to pasuk zion the attempt revolution a third time three times we had it last week's pasha now now long flight you just landed god says get to work fill the world and then again the attempt revolution what's going on says rashi passage when he first got off the tava it was a bracha brachas and please god they're going to give me many eight o'clock you're going to have a lot of children you're going to feel the that was abraham now it's a mitzvah so the first time god mentions that he's given should be blessed you should have many children but now he tells nawaj get to work get to work khan let's see now there's an obligation to get to work what is the connection so rashi says this is connected to the puzzle that comes just before how is it connected to the plastic that comes just before look at what comes just before right before that para passage vote god says i destroyed the whole world we started again but you know the value of the human life this is the prohibition of abortion back in the news roe versus wade rowe did her first interview her name was not you know she she uh revealed herself and it's back in the news so the binay noah no hides i.e gentiles jackie mason would say non-jews are warned are more musar have a greater prohibition and abortion even than jews the nature of the prohibition of abortion for non-jews is even greater than jews and it comes from our passion and passion and it comes from here you could not have a clumsy or possible you could not write that more poorly than the way the pastic appears chapter 6. don't cheat don't look at the arts girl side if i challenge you to translate that pasuk it's a tough passage to translate tough possible whoever sheds the blood of man by man shall his blood be shed in the image of god he made man that's a so rashy was saying following the prohibition of murder is multiply i.e abortion don't abort multiply bring those babies into fruition into life 75 million americans who were aborted could have been born since abortion was legalized 75 million in america were aborted who knows which one had to cure cancer that's not to say judaism doesn't sometimes allow and even endorse abortion there are circumstances it's a complicated topic not for now but a mother's life is threatened obviously we say the mother's life supersedes there are posting will allow other cases of incest or rape or severe mental illness and anguish there are circumstances where abortion is permissible and therefore we would be against any legislation that categorically outlaws abortion that is not the torah way that is not the torah way but says rashi it's not coincidental that these two are in succession we have the prohibition of murder followed by go be multiply refers expands on this and the first says the following refresh expands that and he says the following the first says the theme of our passion is diversity and unity also happens to be the theme of our shul but it's the theme of our parsha it's the nature of the rainbow this is what he says as for you be fruitful and multiple i'm reading rehearse swarm the earth and multiply hashem gave a special covenant to special dispensations with different climates and countries it would accordingly be a description of a diversity and a different variety of human races and moreover on the earth and by the earth under the influences of various lands now mankind is given the mission to spread over the whole world and under the most diverse conditions and influence of climate physical nature of the countries to become men and develop the one common real characteristic a diversity and a multiplicity which appeared to us in the above connection as hashem's new plan for the world the diversity is to balance the deficiency to pave way progress the goal by by it the rainbow our attention would repeatedly be directed to the fact that in spite of all the differences in degree of human development hashem would never again decree the downfall of the whole human race for in the rainbow anything else but the one pure ray of light broken up in seven degrees of seven colors and from one to the other are they not all rays of light combined altogether do they not form one complete pure white ray could not as perhaps meant to say the whole mankind manifold variety of all living creatures the whole variety of shades and which transport the purely human would show itself god unites them all together in one common bond of peace all fragments of one life all refracted ray of the one spirit of hashem even the lowest darkest most distant one still a son of the light it's a beautiful image of what the significance of the rainbow before the rainbow was taken from us but the rainbow what it stands for is the diversity of the world and mankind one ray of light comes in as god and is refracted in seven colors boca raton synagogue eight nine minion of shabbos morning there's one ray of light that comes into the montoya circle to boca raton synagogue very bonus shalom and now jews can look different and dive in differently and have different needs all one community one way of life all refracted and deflected into different colors our full diversity that's hashem's promise his pledge that is the sign and symbol i'm not going to destroy the world again don't murder don't kill don't eliminate the people who are unlike you reveal multiply and diversify just like your investment advisor is telling you diversify multiply and diversify says god now the messiah wonders on this apostle here's our second measure of the day wonders on this apostle and some of you may be wondering the mitzvah upon whom is it incumbent who's obligated to prove the obligation to multiply kumari obama is a big discussion how do you fulfill this mitzvah we follow the opinion to have a son and a daughter and under fulfill you have to have a son and a daughter i give him what is the nature of this mitzvah how do you define the sheer the measure of fulfilling the mitzvah is it the act the effort to have children or is it the result is it actually having the children it's bizarre to say it's having the children because we're not in control we can only try we can't necessarily succeed this is a big discussion i don't want to get at that right now but then our second day there's some convince wonders why are women exempt from peruvian women are not obligated the midst was on men now yes women are looking at me and they are correctly right and saying it's kind of hard to fulfill without them kind of a necessary part of the process maybe one day we will have an artificial incubator and in the laboratory we'll be able to mix the ingredients and have a period of gestation but for now we still need the women so yet even with that they are exempt maybe they're obligated in a separate corollary mitzvah called chevas but but proper the mitzvah itself women are exempt why are they exempt why are they exempt so listen to the meshech he says is all about improving our life enriching our life making our life more pleasurable more elevated more uplifted so there's no mitzvah in the torah the torah will never command us to do something painful torah is there for pleasure for beauty to be uplifted god will not make it a commandment um so we will say what do you mean you'll keep her tor doesn't ever want me to suffer tara doesn't even want me to have pain discomfort what about young kipper says yeah this is going to keep her but you know the day before young kipper is is a mitzvah to eat the whole day first of all it doesn't kill us tonight for one day one can argue that's also for our greater good namely our health but most of us have some good backup that will sustain us for that day we're okay but the torah precedes the day that we're told we have to fast by giving us a mitzvah to eat why because the torah will never obligate us in something painful so on and so forth so he says that's why women are exempt from peru because the torah would never obligate a woman to do something painful so it obligates her husband and it needs her to be involved it's true but there's not a direct secret she shouldn't relate to god that god you're commanding me you're commanding me it's incredibly painful the ramban rights when a woman gives birth and precious rhea the ramban writes that a woman brings a carbon why does she have to bring a sacrifice after giving birth the ramban writes you know why because when she was in labor lying there on the table she was cursing her husband she was cursing god she was cursing everybody on the world everybody my daughter just gave birth on young kipper came home and said to my wife i don't know how you did that seven times i'm not sure i could do that ever again and the ramban writes that the woman on the birthing table promises and pledges she's not doing it again that's before epidurals that's before epidurals now epidurals she gets angry me for saying this but the minogue in our family is to get the epidural when the second line comes back on the pregnancy test that's when you get the epidural up second one i'm pregnant schedule the epidural i'm not minimizing blame harva it's not my fault she's the one who gave the gave us the apple so um the ramban says that the woman i'm never doing that again is unbearably painful so imagine she's lying there this is unbearably painful christian my husband and god commanded me to endure this pain god wanted me to go through this pain says the mesh that's why women are not obligated interesting i submitted to you for your careful consideration okay there's a cloud what is the significant sorry of the rainbow in the cloud so we saw hersh one interpretation of the rainbow we saw was from the first elevator has another and then obviously suggests the following although the torah describes noah is righteous hashem did not establish a burst with him and his descendants as he did with avraham no shortcoming was that he did not pray for his contemporaries destined to die in the flood because he could not perceive the potential good for within them it's not only that noah didn't believe in himself who else did nah not believe in everybody else he didn't believe they were redeemable how many of us write off people and say they're not redeemable members of our family friends acquaintances community members we think they're irredeemable we write them off noah wrote off his whole generation and that's why god wrote him off god invested in avraham because avram fought for stone avram went so far as to not even write off stone but not noah noah wrote off his generation god wrote him off noah did not see the potential with a man that walks behavior contrasts with avraham who interceded on behalf of stone after the flood no offense showing the rainbow within the cloud what does the passage say just showed a rainbow he showed a rainbow where in the cloud why not just show a rainbow why was the rainbow in the cloud listen to the rav to demonstrate that even though it may appear that certain corrupt souls have no potential for good it's untrue hashem revealed the rainbow network as an object lesson within every dark cloud there's a possibility of seeing a rainbow full of color not beautiful within the dark cloud there's the beauty of a rainbow the mark subus ain't zion records a conversation with shimon bar high astro bishop and levy if a rainbow was ever seen or beshow's lifetime when he answered affirmatively hashimoto declared if so you were not worthy of the proclamation of aliyah navi make way for ben levy hashimoto argued that he should have been worthy hashem would not need to cause a rainbow to appear that yeshua would have perceived mankind's hidden potential on its own so when you see a rainbow what you should think is not that god wanted to destroy the world but right now he chose not to i wouldn't blame god if he wanted to right now maybe he to a certain degree is we hope and pray that he stops but when you see the rainbow don't say oh it means god wants to destroy the world right now but he's holding himself back say god is reminding me that even though the dark cloud there's a possibility of a rainbow in it people are redeemable people change and grow we can eat we can be better we can be better noah climbs down what does he do plants a vineyard hold on one second i just want to get through a couple more things we're almost out of time i'm happy to take questions afterwards for those who are in here if you're not here i can't take your questions he profaned himself he made himself secular he went from being kodesh being holy to being hulen whole to being secular and profane how because he plants a vineyard he grows some wine and let me ask you a very simple question is there anyone in the history of the world who deserve the lachaim more than could we have done what no ushers did we can't make it through a three-day undiff right we struggled to get through young kids from school from sukkah finally yesterday they're back in school it's unbelievable now lock yourself in right we just we've experienced quarantine we know what knowledge went through remember at the beginning of it when we thought quarantine had to be 14 days and it was like the greatest prison sentence torture of all time 14 days and i can't go out and i can't experience when i can't interact there are parts of it that were great now a lot longer than that with a floor filled with animals a floor filled with refusing garbage children feeding everybody has anyone ever deserved more than noah and the torah here is rippin he finished work feeding these animals surviving these animals saving the world and when he finished saving the world he can't have a legend can have a glass of wine why what did he do so wrong why are we being so critical of him so say for kobet's parties safer kobe's partial says the issue was the issue was the following what's wrong with planting a vineyard is wine not part of every jewish experience a british epidemic under the khuppa kiddush friday night yant of benching is wine not central to jewish ritual ceremony experience who are we to be so critical of noah when we embrace the role of wine and here we're telling so wrong of allah he tried to comfort himself he was mourning and grieving the loss of the whole world the way he knew it so what did he do he tried to escape he tried to use alcohol to numb himself to the pain of the world posix says we give wine to somebody who's bitter who's miserable who's negative is depressed so okay so he was depressed he was down and out he had reason to grieve and be said so what's so bad about having she says the covetous parties because noah was right to feel sad and bad but you know what this wasn't the time to agree do you know what it was the time for to build did we not just see that century ago when the holocaust survivors heroes who had every reason and right in the world to sit and have a look i am and say you know what i'm turning inwards i'm depressed i'm sad i'm mourning i'm grieving good luck to the world i'm done with it what did they do instead it's time to build it's time to rebuild institutions families they rebuilt they rebuilt they went through a ghorban and now went through a khorban they witnessed a world that was destroyed you could see a world that's destroyed and go into a room and just drink yourself into oblivion or you could see a world which was destroyed and be committed to rebuild that's noah was not committed to rebuild and that's why we're critical of noah revolva says the same thing revolver says he should have planted wheat rashi writes he should have planted some other more essential food what do you plant instead grapes the criticism says revolver is not that he planted grapes and made wine he was entitled to the problem was the order that he did it this is like ah it's so much more i wanted to say anyone willing to stay a couple more hours i had such more i wanted to say we'll give you another granola bar if i feed you another granola bar will you stay so rashi says the challenge the issue was that noah planted in the wrong order planted in the wrong order should have planted wheat and only then wine in other words he skipped over the essential and he went to the luxury so revolver says that that we can't skip the essential to go for the luxury we got to get on schedule we have to live with satan we have to know what's important i i know people sadly who are on tuition assistance and can't pay for their social dues and need help from family but their alcohol collection and their smoke and briskets the cost of which you can't compete with we have to learn from nothing wrong with a glass of wine within your budget and in the right order first you plant the wheat raw she says and then you plant the vineyard make sure you have a roof over your head you take care of your family ish be a mensch man up man up take care of your expenses live within your means be responsible and only and only then we're gonna have to end here but i'll give you some some little tasters of where we were going we didn't talk about mig those who wanted to build the tower to compete with god to ascend into the heavens and when god comes down first of all why does it say god came down in order to punish them he can't punish them from up there he has to come down he has to descend to see them what lesson do we learn from the fact that god descended and came down in order to see them and only punish them down here and when god punishes paraquadakey it says god comes down and he punishes them what did they do wrong failure hashem the rosa said you're missing dog god says let me check it out they think they can compete with me they built the tower by area let me come down and check it out let me see the tower archer bonubene the children of adam made adam here means human beings or literally adam as an atom is in the first person who is adam and why is god referencing adam what's his role here and why does he need to come down in order to be able to in order to be able to see and why does god say in you i will go down with the noon what does the nun mean let us and the plural go down who's god talking to to whom is he addressing that nerd let us go why is god saying it in the plural rather than singular a lot more to talk about but how amazing it is to be back in person thank you for coming it's great to be together women are invited tomorrow for living with emunah next week's pasha shir let's continue to fill up in person for all those who feel safe and well wish you a great day stay happy stay healthy and stay homey