Parsha Perspectives for Today (Noach 5784/2023) - If It Hurts You Scream, Even If you Can't Help

should be a good morning should be a great day for cl we should hear good tidings and good news and a sweeping Israeli and IDF Victory I want to thank our Pasha Seri sponsor for the year Becky and aiats who Contin to show their support and love and sponsoring the Pasha Series in memory of David gishmas Becky's Father David Benes if anyone would like to sponsor a particular sheer class we of course would welcome it also at the conclusion of the parha this morning everyone's invited to please remain behind and we have the we'll be able to divide it up and finish all ofum if uh many people stay it won't take long but it'll be meaningful with each year not only are we learning in the Merit of our brothers and sisters in Israel but also we are completing toim with each and every she Torah and the combination please God can be our contribution among our contributions even from here par told par Noah par Noah page 30 in the art scr Stone told us I mention every year when we address when we learn people are not indifferent about Noah the world can be divided into two camps those who see Noah as a sadic who love Noah who see Noah as a hero and those who are the critics of Noah those who see Noah he was pretty good for his time but his time was pretty pathetic and that's the only reason he was good Noah was really nothing special don't get too excited about Noah people feel pretty passionate about Noah One Direction or the other a told us no the Torah itself testifies these are the to us these are The Offspring of Noah he was a righteous man he was perfect for his generation walked with God so was he in fact great was he not great let's continue to weigh in every year we try to bring to you New Perspectives new insights we don't repeat unless it's worth unless we can't help it but generally we don't repeat new insights new ideas IDE and New Perspectives on these same topics the par is so rich there are opportunities every year the who says rather Rabbi say in what's he bothered by what's the obvious question the redundancy a told us Noah Noah these are The Offspring of Noah Noah was a righteous man first of all you didn't list The Offspring of Noah why do we repeat the name Noah the whole first P if you're paying attention doesn't read very clearly a told us no if these are The Offspring list The Offspring if you're not listing The Offspring and you're just going to tell us about Noah why do you have to repeat his name just told us why told us so that's the is saying the M tells us whoever finds favor in the eyes of man if people like you God likes you if people think you're a lowlife jerk Oar reject have no interest in being around you then Hashem says I have no interest in being around you and that's what it means because the Z the Z says and the ques this as well he was no he was pleasant above and pleasant below the name Noah and the word Noah is a description a refle reflection of how he was thought of both above and below that's what the says a told us Noah Noah God loved him and people loved him Noah was integrated and when does Hashem love you when you're integrated among his other children but if you're not if you're divided and divisive if you're hypocritical of others that people withdraw from you then Hashem says oh you don't get along with my other children you can't get along with others you're not well-liked you're not integrated you're not so that's people are drawn to you they're at peace with you they like you you're integrated with them so that goes together Hashem loves you if people love you if the people don't love you then Hashem says no matter how righteous you may present yourself I'm not interested in you as either we have to be connected with the people around us we have to be we have to see ourselves part of something bigger than ourselves we can't withdraw we're not on our own we don't live isolated we have to it's not enough to be righteous Vis God it's not enough to be vigilant and Pious inem and Torah and mitz but a core value a core value ofes of Torah is community it's Community it's not a it's not a concession it's not just like it's easier to do things in a community you need a minion what are you going to do you need shum what are you gonna do you need a good KES and a shus what are you gonna do living in a community participating contributing being counted in community is not a concession it is a core value you don't just live by yourself we've said now many times the you don't remove yourself from theor person removes himself from theor which the Rah defines as not feeling the Sor the crisis of the community if you don't feel the crisis of CLA you have no portion of the world to come could be vigilant and righteous and and Incredibly incredibly rigorous in your observance of every detail of Jewish law but you're not connected to community to the people to the nation to our plight to our destiny to this crisis if you're capable of being distracted from it then you have to look and really see What You're Made Of it's a real gut check I wrote about this week an open letter to my fellow Jews of the diaspora it's a real gut check moment for how connected we feel to CLA Israel and to Israel in this moment your connection to Israel is not defined by whether you ate a blue and white cookie on y that people want to sit in Judgment of did you say Hal with a br without a br blue and white cookie no cookie a falaa ball did you march did you wave a flag people have very superficial definition of how connected you are to Israel very superficial and very judgmental that's not the that's not right now how connected do you feel what decisions are you making everyone has to make decisions that are right for them but what connection do we feel if you have to leave Israel do you walk away backwards like you walk away from the cotel or do you turn your back and run what what what relationship do we have to community to Claw is to our nation to our people we have to be connected with Community with the people around us we have and that's the says that definitely not the maybe that's the told us you have to be both above and below and then he quotes another for two and a half years argued they debated what is is it better that we were born or would it have been better not to be born at all better that we're here or would it have been better if we were never here which is better two and a half years debate this world is filled the world is filled with such evil animal barbaric there's there's no words that do justice to to who they are and how they've behaved and what they've done and the evil they've perpetrated so maybe you look around this world with its hurt with its pain and we don't know what's worth El wizel famously said you know that the worst atrocities are not because there's evil but the people who are indifferent to it it's painful horrifically painful in an unparalleled way the brutal murder of 1400 and the kidnapping of of 200 but it's also brutally painful supposed IV league universities places of higher education and knowledge that are abandoning morality and basic truth that closed down the university when someone was elected because the people might have been so injured by the thought that someone was elected to protect Jewish students who are sitting in class next to people who are rallying with anti-semitic slurs against them they've disappeared they're offline they're nowhere to be found in such a world those are the institutions of high you've got to be a to go to Harvard you're not smart you got to be a moon if you let your child go to Harvard if you let your child go to secular higher education you're not a reflection of being intellectually Advanced and smart you're a I'm sorry to be so straight and blunt and direct it's dangerous it's dangerous literally downright dangerous look who the classmates are and look at the abandonment of the University itself so maybe in such a world I'm sorry if the para class is laced with it's just impossible to disconnect from what's going on so you'll excuse me we we'll focus on the Torah I promise so maybe in such a world it's no maybe we would have been better off not not being born two and a half years B debated that in such a world that could marginalize and neglect claw Isel that could be so anti-semitic that could be so barbaric maybe it's better just to not been born the says both attitudes and both perspectives are true really didn't debate it's a question of when at what moment what experience what perspective they really meant the same thing it's not really about this world it's really about the way we see ourselves who person has to look at their life and say what am I making of my life am I rallying and advocating and doing and learning and standing up am I living a life of virtue and a life of leadership and a life of connection to CL am I living a life that's going to leave a legacy that I will be proud of so then it's worthwhile to be born it's worthwhile to be here if a person says to thems it's worthwhile if it's a person thinks I'm all that and I'm done and I'm accomplished I'm a finished product and I've made my mark and I've done what I have to do and I'm done so such a person who feels if you think ever you're a finished product and you're complete and you're done your best is behind you not yet to come then taka you it would have been better off if you weren't created and that's why if you think if you think it's good that I'm here then better you weren't born but if a person who says I've not yet accomplished what I meant to maybe it would have been better if I weren't created because I've not yet become who I'm meant to be I've not yet molded and fashioned myself into the person the best version of myself so maybe it would have been better if I weren't here such a person when a person has an attitude of then that person it's a fantastic beautiful Insight beautiful insight wen't arguing they were describing two different people the person who thinks I'm all that who arrogantly and pridefully thinks I'm done I'm finished I'm accomplished so such a person taka would have been better if you're not here but the person who thinks my Best Is Yet To Come uh what's his name Lloyd Wright who was the great architect Frank Lloyd Wright I love this quote he was once asked of all of your designs famous architect accomplished award-winning architect of all of your designs which is your your favorite and you know what he answered my next one his favorite was my next one you're not done your next one your next your Best Is Yet To Come your best avening your best learning your best parenting your best marriage moment your best evidem moment your best selflessness you our Best Is Yet To Come who cares what age and what stage of Life Our Best Is Yet To Come so he say no I've not yet done enough it would have been better if I weren't here I have more to do I have more to become I have a better way to live I have a better version of me to show the world taka for you it's good you're here but the person who says no do you know who I am and what I've done do you know how much I've accomplished how much I've achieved you would have been better you weren here what does that to do with our para you're wondering me too so he says he says that's what it means told us so told us your attitude to will result in the second of whether told us your real Legacy is your attitude to no to do you think you're done and you're finished or do you think you have more to do and you're not yet done that will determine what kind of quality of life you have and who you are told us two interpretations of the two interpretations quoted by Theos the gives us another thein he tells us because the continues continues no was a great no was a bigad from his to his no was a great sad s so ask the question what should the have said no was a righteous Mano in his generation what's the difference between the word b in his generation and B what's the difference between Doro and D every generation has its Mission its task its Mitzvah of course we're all bound by all 613 but there's a different emphasis a different Focus there's a different Mission and a different mandate rash said you know what the Mitzvah of our generation is kesem the last generation the Holocaust Eastern Europe was to die ales that seems to have been their Mitzvah said our is to live the way we live The Way We Carry ourselves the way we interact with the world what we do every generation has its Mitzvah said about his generation what they needed to fix was people are abandon the MIT restore the mitz is supposed to remind us the strings a person ties a string around their finger to remember something we tie strings around our garments to remember situs reminds us of who we are cus is the uniform of a holy Jew that we're here as soldiers inm's army so that's what it means says Noah's life spanned several generations and in each generation Noah LED the charge to fulfill the Mitzvah whatever the Mitzvah was of that generation that he lived in the the has another interpretation says the same thing and now we have the debate was no great just for his generation but if he lived in A's generation he was a was nothing it was nobody nobody would have noticed him or no do you say Noah Noah is righteous and he would have been right in any generation the great Noah debate everyone has to take a side there is no neutral was Noah great for any generation was no great just for his generation says so if you're we understand it if you praise him he was righteous we got the PK says he was righteous everyone else indulged in Kamas Behavior everyone else either was a member of Kamas or aamas sympathizer but no wasn't so that makes him a sadic I understand why he's worthy of Praise D who was the one who judged him unfavorably who was the one who was critical of him he builds the table he saves Humanity should get the Nobel Peace Prize whatever the ultimate Nobel Peace Prize literally saved Humanity so who could possibly be critical who is D who is D so said the was exceedingly humble so no matter how much he accomplished no matter how righteous he was no matter how much credit he deserved he always felt unworthy he never put the spotlight on himself he always said you know what yeah compared to the iars I live with I'm pretty good but you should know that if I lived among real I would be nothing every time God praised him every time God said you're pretty good Noah every time God said I'm going to save the world through you Noah he would coil and say thank you and I'm honored and I feel the awesome responsibility but I know that it's only because of how terrible everyone around me is it's not really because I am great I realize it's only relative to the people around me who was D you know who was dorai Noah it wasn't some third party some outside person who was critical of Noah Noah was critical of himself and uh so that's also something worth praising about Noah it never got to his head you know it's very easy I always say the Rabin it is divided into two groups the ones I like to hang out with and the ones I stay away from but there are the rabbis who they let it go to their head they believe whatever the hype is about them the rabbis get a lot of grief and criticism they also get a lot of honor and distinction and praise so the ones who let it go to their head and they don't only take what they do seriously they start to take themselves seriously so yeah but the ones who take what they do seriously not themselves seriously and the ones who realize everyone's saying nice things and maybe the rabbi's mother believes it but the rabbi shouldn't believe it so uh that's the rabbi I those are the rabbis I like to hang out with they keep it real they're real they're down to earth you know what's the difference between those rabbis they're reiton if you have a good Ritson sure keeps you humble you're not so great you're not so special don't forget to take out the garbage don't forget the you know that Russia was a B minus that speech was C+ so you know and and that's their job as cono that's their job so Noah one of the reasons we praise Noah I'm not saying that by the way factiously or or uh I mean it all of us need in our lives for each other that's an AER Keno last week's para when hasem says it's not good for Adam to be alone Keno AER means you need a support you need somebody who's going to lift you up and bolster you and compliment you and see your worth you also need a kdo you need the person when they say you know it's going to your head a little bit you're starting to believe the hype your time is no more precious or valuable than anyone else's and you are no different you also put your pants on one leg at a time and you're no different than anybody else you need the person to be cono when are you in AER when you're cono if you're never cono then you're not an AER you're cono so when you're cono you're an AER and if you're never Conn if you're if you're only an AER then you're acting cono that's how you have to interpret those that's how marriage has to work find that b you also have to know within your spouse I don't want to break into a little talk here but you have to know within your spouse when do they need an AER and when do they need a kdo right like the it's quoted in many people's names a person has to walk around with a little p a little note in each pocket on one pocket the note says the whole world was created just for you you're so worthy you're so consequential you make such a difference this whole world was created just for you and in the other pocket it says you're a gornish your future worm food you come from the dust of the earth and that's where you're going back you're nothing special and the is to know when to pull which P which note out of which pocket when should you be an AER when should you be a cono when is the world telling you that you're great so the spouse has to say you're not so great one is the world beating you up and knocking you down that the other person has to lift you up and don't listen to them that's their problem not yours when to be aner when to be AO so is not some third party it's not it's not the it's not the it's not the who are daring who should be who should be says we ourselves when do we need to our life and when do we need to DAR our life when do we need to pick me up and when do we need to be knocked down a few notches when do we need to be lifted and when do we need to be humbled it's that balance between the two is in the own conversations with ourselves it's what it means to be a good spouse a good friend a good r a good rebi it's what it means to know when to beah and when to be gai when to be praise and when to be critical the told talks about two Noah so a righteous person has to lower himself you can't live in an ivory Tower you can't live where you wish the people were you have to live where they are but there's a danger of living where they are what's the danger of living where they are they'll have an influence on you they'll become like them Godless a person has to know I'm so again both the and the they both approach it similarly which is that because otherwise it's very outside our our our religion our practice all of a sudden when it comes to Noah what are you going to come to and start raing people whose team are you on let's rate the the rabbi the kazen the rabbitson the president the committee head the head of school the principal that people do do this but we we generally reject it we generally discourage it we generally don't believe we're supposed to work that way don't start who who's let's start evaluating you know let's see what the Russian judges give let's see what the Chinese judges give we're not you know dismounting from the uh you know Olympic whatever that thing is called we're not we're not holding up numbers we're not you know synchronized swimming we're not trying to give uh who gets which medal so all of a sudden when it comes to no we don't find that let's go through all the biblical personalities and let's rank them let's rate them you don't find that let's go through let's go through andar let's go through the whole T let's go through everybody should we we don't find that poor no all of a sudden with poor we find that so but they're all interpreting and I never saw this or thought about it till this year they're all interpreting no we we still are not in the practice of doing that so who's who's the one doing that Noah himself and we should in our own lives and for ourselves be evaluating when do we need to pick me up and when do we need to be humbled when do we need to lower ourselves to be where the people are but when do we need to be realize that I'm still not above them but I demand more for myself my aspiration my ambition is above that I don't want to lower myself so there's different approaches last one for the opening P then we'll move on told us these are The Offspring of Noah Noah by the way I I give not the last one second last one because if you heard the shabash was all about your future self a told us Noah Noah you know who the offspring of Noah are Noah our future self is being born today the actions the choices the behavior the utation the brand the name that we earn for oursel we are giving birth to our Legacy the present is shaping our future self how will be thought of and who will be what will be our physical health mental health spiritual health our future self is counting on our present self to make the right choices and live the right way emotionally physically spiritually our future self is relying on it and that's I think the most basic understanding of a told us Noah Noah before you get to The Offspring of who of your children grandchildren great-grandchildren please God everybody should be Z and blessed be married have children grandchildren great-grandchildren but before you talk about them being your legacy you have your own legacy who's your own legacy first you and your actions I think we spoke about this last year two years ago that's why what was one of the names L one of his children is called L how do we use the term l in yish L translates to a loser you're a loser you're a l nobody should ever say that to you you should never say it to anyone you know but in yish you call a loser a l why is a loser a l because when L was given his name it was after the loss of Hope of of the father that he had any ability to forge his own legacy it would only be through his children and that makes you that makes you a loser if you if you don't believe that you have your best yet to come if you don't realize that told us Noah Noah Noah our children many will make good decisions the right decisions decisions that are consistent and conform with what we want for them and we'll be incredibly proud and some might God forbid and awfully painful make decisions that are not consistent or don't fulfill the dream that we had for them but our definition and identity should not exclusively be intertwined with them part of who we are are the children and grandchildren we live in this world but that's not entirely who we are they become their own people they make their own choices they they Forge their own destiny and we could have done the best that we could to bring them to a point and after that they they they are who they are so they're part of our toos they're part of our Offspring but most basically our core Offspring is ourselves what's your brand what's your reputation what's your legacy what will you leave this world how will you be thought of what's your name what's your future self a told us Noah no but now the last one comes from the K slavy again I want to thank the art girl who sent me the three volume kadush SL they began to translate it so it says the following there are two types of righteous people who serve H you know this one there are two types of people who serve there's a person who is incredibly F has tremendous fervor tremendous passion is on fire but but the person is really all about themselves they're very focused on themselves and they're not working on the people around them they're not connected to the community around them this is a theme you see here they're not connected to their people and their nation and their community and they're not trying to lift everyone and Inspire everyone G but there's a second type of sadic there's the sadak who recuses recuses themselves and withdraws and recoils and the sadic who just cares about themselves they learn they DAV they observe and the world around them not their problem and then this sadak who says the world around me is my world I need to inspire and lift and redeem and repair the whole world so come on so who is who a no ultimately is punished aru ISU he is forever our forefather we are his offspring we are B AB why because AB was a sadic who wanted to make the world a better place he didn't care only about himself and his survival he wanted to make the world a better place but no Noah they're called May Noah the tah of the par the N calls them may Noah the floods of Noah why is the flood of Noah isn't he the Savior isn't he the one who helped save the world the answer is no he's called May Noah because yes he saved himself but he could have saved others and he didn't he didn't we have a tradition the AR says Noah was reincarnated his soul came back and had to do it again and this time get it right where he didn't just save himself but he cared about others who did Noah come back as he came back as Moshe mosha was the leader the shepherd who actually was so selfless he didn't even go into the land all he did was lead and care about the people and then the the goes on famously called it coined it sadak imp pels what's a tadak in pels a pels is a fur coat when a person's cold as we woke up in the frigid South Florida weather this morning I think it dipped into the 50s it dipped into the 50s yeah so frigid everyone's going to take out now their fleeces and their what are they called those furry shoes Uggs thank you the Uggs and the leather jackets and they dip into the mothballs and they take out their New York Clothing so in the frigid weather there are two ways that you could stay warm two ways you could stay warm the kater said you could put on a fur coat and you'll have a wonderful result the result will be you are warm but what about the other people around you the other way you could stay warm is you could light a fire and when you then cozy up to the fire not only are you warm now everyone around you is warm too and the Kut called that a sadic and pels a sadic and pels is somebody who a sadic in their fur coat they're on fire they're warm in their for coat while everyone around them is frozen or you could light a fire where you're not only on fire and you're warm but you've made it warm for everyone around you too that says the kadish Le that says the ker is why no is held accountable they're cold May no and he had to come back as a gilgal in mosenu and he had to try again and and he had to fix it Kad Le doesn't only have this Insight the K lived that life Le was the great defender of the Jewish people he said he'd rather be geham with fellow Jews than beinga by himself he was the great defender of the Jewish people and any situation any scenario that you could tell him that would be an indictment of the people he would twist it he could figure out a way to say no no no the people aren't they amazing aren't they amazing look at your people look at your children hasem he was amazing he was amazing this Insight answers another question later in the paraa you thought we weren't going to get past the first P but now we're going to fly all the way later in the Pasha the rainbow is the sign that Hashem gave after he destroys the world and begins and creates a new after he does a hard reset on the world Hashem puts a rainbow in the world as a symbol as a sign that he won't do it again and in previous years Pasha we went through are you supposed to take a picture are you supposed to tell people look at the rainbow is the rainbow a positive sign a bad sign if you think about it the rain re the rainbow really is an omen that in that moment the world is as unworthy as it was when he destroyed it but what could he do he made a promise he's not going to do another reset so that doesn't sound like a very positive Omen even though people look at the rainbow Once Upon a Time the rainbow didn't have before the rainbow was hijacked the rainbow was just the rainbow the rainbow was the sign of of uh hashem's love and hashem's patience and hashem's commitment to peace and not to bring a flood again rashal addressing the spelling of the word loros the rainbow is for Generations without the letter V it says L without without the uh without the V why the unusual spelling indicates that would be future Generations that would not need a sign at all because of the righteous which Generations tell us king of Yehuda the generation of there would be outstanding generation ation that have outstanding tadim who the presence of those sikim you don't need a rainbow as long as they were alive in their merits hem could never reset the world the Rashi raises a question of these K because we know the tell us that in every generation there are how manyik sikim there are 36 sikim in every generation comparable toov so if every generation has why do you need a rainbow all together don't just tell me and their generation has such a righteous person you didn't need a rainbow if taka every generation has then what do you need a rainbow ever explains that the rainbow comes to remind us H will not destroy the world when there's a famous sadic everybody knows so you don't need the rainbow the sadic living publicly sad is in Li of the rainbow but what's the problem with theim they're hidden theim are hidden there's no I mean there are people who have a ladv society that's just another fundraising gimmick but there is no ladv society that we named theim I have some suggestions who should go on that list there are some really amazing people but but nobody ask me we don't have a list there is no list they're hidden so says that's why we need the rainbow because true there are 36 sikim in every generation but since the we you can't Google them and no Jewish newspaper puts out a list of who they are every year doesn't name them so therefore we need the rainbow Al rash who unfortunately just had to officially cancel his trip here in November M will reschedule it but the Holy G rashash it's a real loss for us we were looking forward to hosting him suggests a different answer he doesn't like the answer why because the PK States clearly the rainbow is there for hem to see not for us the rainbow is not for us to remember he won't destroy the world the rainbow was hashem's sign as if to himself he didn't need a sign but hasem signed to himself of his covenant not to destroy the world so does hasem know who theim are surely he knows who they are so the fact that they're hidden shouldn't be a problem it's a problem for us but it shouldn't be a problem for him and the rainbow is for him not for us so we're back to the original question which was if they alarm s in every generation why do we need a rainbow so the holy answers it based on his father last would quote the early Masters the students of the mag of M Rich who said the Paras that we read in the winter are cloaked in pelts these Paras not just the sadic in pelts the Paras are cloaked in pelts right meaning there's a thick cover concealing the secrets that Li Within These Paras of Theos and of going down to MIT but there's another layer doesn't just mean it's cloaked in fur it's CER aad in pelts a sadic in a fur coat that this sadic that this was a phony merely dressed up as a re but wearing a thick fur coat is the practice of rebis cut are explained in a deeper manner right the the simple idiom at sadic in pelts is that you know the Reb used to walk with a fur around the neck so this guy is put on a costume he's dressed like a rebba but he's really an imposter a sadic imp pelts he's just an imposter but the deeper meaning is what we explained the kutser you could either wear the fur coat you're a warmer you can light the fire and warm everybody up around you so the real sadic the righteous sadic the genuine sadic lights the fire the sadic Imp pelts was really an impostor of aad only stay War stays warm themselves Noah was aad in pelts you see the p and Thea were on the legai side I told you everybody with Noah nobody's neutral so Noah was at compels he had no influence of the people of his generation so only he himself was saved there someone who warms himself in a fur coat aam was a true sadic Who lit the fire of amuna and spread its warmth around the world so he warmed up the whole world that's the deeper meaning maybe of the words of the students of the mag starting from a the Pas discussed the AOS who unlike the sadikin before them spread the warmth all over so the sadik before them Noah and others were at sadic and pelts but aam lit a fire that warmed the whole world so they G wants to take that idea and with it answer the question why do you need a rainbow if they're really 36 sikim in every generation although their power is great they do not warm up their generation the fact that they're hidden means that they're only righteous for themselves we need them we live off of them their merits are wonderful but they're a sadic impels they're hidden they're hidden they're they're hidden if you're hidden you're not lighting up the world you're not transforming the world world only the sadik will Elevate their generation are able to protect the whole world are able to protect the whole world so maybe that's why indeed every Jew is aad said your nation is all righteous that's what we're seeing now so with it he wants to answer that's why he still need the rainbow because the 36 sadik the in every generation are sadik imp pelts the fact that they're willing to remain hidden in their sidus is helping themselves but not helping the generation and that's why you still need the rainbow okay the whole world was destroyed before God did you ever have a greater indication of the par always speaks to what's happening in the world the world was filled with Kamas what's Kamas it's corruption Anarchy Misery the whole the world is filled with with corruption with corruption Noah was the righteous one of his Generation I Got a new say for this year boru Bor Rosen BL wonderful collection he's a maggot in Israel today beautiful collection of D Torah so he quotes the cleak the cleak says exactly in the three things that the generation did wrong that made them need to be reset are the three ways that Noah got right that's the kaker what does that mean they destroyed corruption is is promiscuity Aras is idolatry is Gaz now it's not St gel by the way it's it's translated as as not only gizzle as stealing but as snatching kidnapping snatching away and kidnapping not respecting property not respecting life not respecting independent ownership but snatching away and kidnapping isas the world was destroyed and corrupt because Kamas was allowed to rain and Hamas violates rape Aros a idolatry worshiping evil worshiping some world view that is so far into our own and lastly snatching away stealing kidnapping that which doesn't belong to them he's he didn't steal from anyone he was pure he wouldn't violate piscu he had perfect he he didn't give in to idolatry the very three ways in which Kamas in which that generation was corrupt are exactly the three ways in which Noah excels Noah excels sad to be righteous also relates to Mummy M money to be righteous is our attitude towards money that's what Rashi says says was rightous when it came to his actions his Tax Returns His interactions his business dealings Rashi says belas to be honest to not steal and rape and pillage and kidnap all those are the behaviors ofas Noah was sadic where do you see that the rambam it's a very interesting rambam we tend to call Ys is y is aad but the RAM doesn't call ysf aad whom does the r call the r writes that yov is aad and why is yob aad it's also according to because when he worked for Lan he was completely honest to a maybe to a fault to an extreme he was honest even though he was living in the house of the biggest trickster in the world he was honest being honest earns the label earns the title sadic so Noah was honest about money and that's why he was a that's what made him a that's what made him a sadic that's what made him a sadic you also see ra says it was a hard reset on the world because Hamas was filling the world and if Hamas can fill the world with rallies in New York and London and Paris in South Africa and Australia Opera House and Fort Lauderdale if I I leave campuses administrators and professors could turn the other wayas is not just in Gaza these values or lack of values this evil this wickedness this corruption it can feel like the whole world is filled with Kamas not just the perpetrators themselves who please God hopefully within hours will be purged and wiped from this world from this Earth but what about the sympathizers what about those who identify with what about the defend ERS in elected office in the halls of Congress in IV League offices in classrooms in the supermarket or gym next to you can feel like it the whole world needs a reset it needs to be rebooted feels like the world is upside down and inside out that's whataya says very interestingly Jewish people are called the whole rest of the world what are they called we have the laws of the rules that we have that apply to the rest of the world are called the rest of the world why is that why are they called B we know why they're not called that's those are our particular Patriarchs but instead of B Noah who should they be called B Adam it should be B Adam why do we ignore Adam and are yesterday's news we read about them they're kicked from G we're done with them some some Renaissance paintings they make their way in but other than that they're purged from history instead the rest of the world from our perspective are known as why not why so listen to what says says because just like was the father of all Humanity who came after him no longer got credit for anything that came after him as of Noah because the world in the time of Noah was created a new it was brand new it was a hard reset just like had three sons and Chase two of them were there are parallels between both had three children two of them were they continued the Legacy and one did did not just like Witham there was the third son of the main World continuity came through simply with Noah he had shame who becomes the father of humanity of continuity so says that Noah is really the father of humanity this hard reset that was done on the world that's also why we can understand the me tells us whenever the Torah employs the word a it means a this in contrast to that something new but whenever it says you're adding on you're continuing what is it say with Noah how does the para begin a not the it doesn't say you know we had braas wonderful let's continue the story The told us no doesn't say that it says a there's a insert page break insert new chapter insert new volume insert new book insert new world it is a new world Al together it's not a continuation of what came before but there's a hard reset and there's something brand new of what came before and that's why K how did he how did he reset the world dka through through the flood and through water how does that reset the world so the both say the following tells us that the water of the flood was boiling it wasn't lukewarm it wasn't cold the water of the flood our tradition teaches was boiling water why because if you saw theas if you saw the D the way they behaved they were boiling with rage boiling with passion boiling with evil they were on fire with it so the same attitude and element they brought to what they did wrong mid is the same way hasm treated them with boiling water so if they were boiled and boiling water immediately and that destroyed the world so why' you need it to rain for 40 days and 40 nights they immediately medely were boiled in the water and they died why do you need the rain to continue and the first day in the first hour when boiling water to send it on the world so it killed and reset everyone and everything there so why did it stillone need to rain so they answer the following the is if you want to caser a pot how do you caser a pot water what kind of water boiling water how do you caser the pot though you could put things in the pot to caser the pot itself how do you caser it needs to Bubble over you heat a stone you drop it inside the water then gets even hotter it goes over the sides and comes down you have to immerse the entire thing in bubbling boiling water has to beos abos is Ania is a word that sounds like what it is and what it describes abos is the Hebrew for boiling over abos it's boiling over so in order to Casher I know it's not a prepak workshop everybody take a deep breath and relax but when you caser if you drop so much cold silverware in that the water loses its boil it's not cering you have to drop it in little by little so it doesn't lose its boil because the boiling water is what purges the non kosher or the that was absorbed in the clay so they're explaining Hashem was cering his world his world had become so contaminated with impurity the world became so corrupt byas that Hashem had to caser the world how do you caser the world boiling water the boiling water can't just touch part of the vessel the entire vessel has to be submerged and immersed in order for it to be cered in order for it to be cered and what do you do after you Casher what do you do after you Casher you put it in Cold War water but not only that where do you bring it let's say you acquire a CLE you you went to the flea market and you bought a used vessel now you're going to caser it good you cered it you dipped it in boiling water what do you have to do next with it you go to the Mikvah how big is a Mikvah what's the minimum measure of a mikva 40 40 days and 40 nights the rain the mble that came on this Earth was The two-staged Way of cering the World Hashem said you want to try this again you want to be born a new you want 2.0 you want to try again I have to boil over the whole world I have to Cas the whole world you got to purge theas the non- kosher ideology philosophy residue you got to purge thatas that's the only way that we can continue you got to get rid of it you got to burn it out you got to boil it out you gotta eliminate it all together you have to get rid of it and then me 40 days and 40 nights you've got to Casher this world you've got to Casher this world world you got to CER this world this so much to say in so little time and so muchas we'll do do so much says the world was filled withas the says implies not only ethical corruption but natural as well All Creatures had overreach themselves certain processes developed that changed the nature of animal and man they began to reach for someone else's Goods to strip others of their rightful possessions Kamas is the universal Act of interfering with someone else's rights and prerogatives you hear what said decades ago Hamas is the universal Act of interfering with someone else's rights and prerogatives usurping something that's not their own the act of overreaching oneself and reaching out to the non-self theft is a specific case ofas in which concrete goods are taken from their rightful owner we know kazal tell us that ultimately the man the D the generation of the flood had to be wiped out had to be reset had to be purged why what put it over the top was that they stole that was more than rape that was more than idolatry why was stealing would put it over the top why was stealing what did it since when is since when is stealing a y since when is stealing something that something that is a is a capital crime why was that the uh the final so the ran is bothered by that question the ramban says you know why because don't worship false gods you don't know you can't Inuit it you don't necessarily instinctively have the right philosophy of life but don't steal that's a rational law what kind of society can you have a basic societal contract is to not steal from something someone that's not yours so you should have known and not even doing something you should should have known it's reminiscent of what we said last week from the kaker was saying you never told me I can't murder to which Hashem said your brother's blood is calling from the ground it's from the ground it's natural law it's a rational law you should know on your own you don't need to be taught you don't need to be told ra gives a second answer and he says stealing is you're actually in a front to God and to man if you can't respect property and you don't trust and a faith that Hashem will give you what you need it's an affront to both Hashem and to mankind so G was thees G stealing is what put it over is what put it over the top and that brings the Mable of May why the Mable of May why the flood so we spoke about why it was boiling water we spoke about why it was 40 why it was that measure because like a Mikvah 4 it had to be cered and the world then had to go to the Mikvah but there's another the Mah says something amazing the mar throughout his commentary and throughout all of his Works talks about what he calls and Sur means the substance and Sur means the shape there's the matter the material and then there's the shape is is like theam the donkey that's how the mar explains that aam and Moshe rode the same donkey mhia will come in the same donkey is the is the the the donkey is the the material of this world but our mission is to give it surra we take the material of this world that's neutral and we shape it we mold it and we give it boundaries we give it shape and we give it purpose we give the to the why did need a because the flood when is there a flood when is there a flood we just saw a massive flooding right the people whose basements were flooded New York massive flooding where' that flooding come from because when the boundary that are supposed to hold the water in place are breached and the water overruns and there's no boundaries there's no borders there's nothing holding it in place then it's able to flow freely everywhere and it can destroy that's midida for the attitude of the dorab the dorab didn't live with boundaries they took women that were not their wives they stole property that didn't belong to them they worshiped ideologies and ideas that weren't deserving of worship there were no boundaries there were no borders there were no morals there were no ethics there was chaos and Anarchy andas so what is the mided mid able a flood because what is the substance that is the ultimate that has matter but lacks T that lacks shape is water water is matter but the water isn't in a cup isn't in the bowl is it in your straw is it in the pipe is it in the man-made lake is it in the canal it has a what gives it the we give it the it has a soem was saying you failed to take my world my Earth the and to give it a meaningful shape so therefore the ma you you you want a world without boundaries you want a World Without Borders you want a world that has no vessel you want a world that doesn't take shape I'll show you such a world and then Hashem visited the Mable upon them that's what the world looks like when we Have No Boundaries that's what the world will look like that's what the world looks like so a window was put into the ark Noah is instructed how to build the Tava the ark and there's a window at soar means either a light a stone that was put into that space the stone refracted the light or a window to be able to see to be able to see now yeah we'll end with this even though there were more things to say but we'll end with this I told you that describes the the flood as says for like the Waters of Noah this will pass to me just as I swore the Waters of Noah would never again pass over the Earth why is the called the may we said because he was AIC imp pel because he just warmed himself and he didn't warm or repair the World by the way why didn't he this I've told you before but another he says you know why he failed Rashi tells us according when did he get into the to the Tava when did he climb in only when started to rain why because he didn't believe it would happen and Rashi says M he was those who lacked he wavered in his faith so the says he wavered in his faith he says no he had conversation he heard God he built the Tava he saved the world really so says it wasn't faith in God whom did he not have faith in in whom did he not have faith himself he didn't believe that he could impact the world he didn't believe he could impact the universe he didn't believe it could make a difference he didn't believe that his voice mattered that it counted he thought if he'd stand on his soap box and tried to inspire the people around him they'd never listen so he just kept to himself because he didn't have faith in himself that's such a powerful important message for us who knows of your next paragraph of tahil is going to switch the situation in Israel who knows of your next letter to an elected official of your Le next letter to the media or to the ivy league institution use your voice you've been gifted it Hashem is waiting for you to use it he wants you to believe in yourself and believe in your power of influence and believe in the difference that you can make don't knock yourself down don't lack such faith in yourself you think you can't make a difference he's waiting for all of of us to use our voice use our voice to him in and Torah and to use our voice to speak truth to power to use our voice to protest iy leagues have made a big miscalculation because it turns out that the L who they're so worried about the woke people in the universities that they're plating they're not the ones who fill their coffers and endowments and it turns out that their graduates are one by one another one who previously gave I think 300 was pledged 300 million and just withdrew it from Harvard good let these universities suffer they're on the wrong side and they're gonna pay a heavy price you know why because the people with Deep Pockets are not katuna they know their influence they know their power and all of us all of us I don't know Starbucks boycott don't boycott the union the official I don't know still got to figure that out whatever figure it out but we all don't beatun don't lack Faith In Yourself the difference you can make stay afterwards in a minute afterwards mean 30 seconds take a tum maybe your tum is what's going to put this over the top for claw believe in yourself maybe you're letter maybe you're showing up at the rally maybe the difference you can make but let's end with this the radak teaches that the reason Noah was ultimately permitted to eat the animals from the Flesh of animals was because he toiled with the beasts and the wild animals and insects and birds to sustain them in the T that's what theak writes because he was and taking care of all the animals he was granted permission license from Hashem to become a carniv he was allowed to eat the Intensive efforts were not for his own sake or even on behalf of his children who had all their needs taken care of had Noah been absorbed in his own needs and desires he would allow of himself several hours of rest and peace of mind today instead of B busying himself with the animals all day long Noah's efforts were spurred by Noble intention to sustain the world so why did he fail to DAV on behalf of his generation why why when he hear something's going to happen Stone what does he do screams out petitions Hashem he says how can you do it and Hashem replied that there were even 10 sadik could not be found in stone what does a do stops daving kazal explained why did a stop at 10 why didn't he go down 98 765 if there's one sadic don't destroy Stone why did he stop at 10 what did he see what did he know he knew the data there were eight in the generation of the M there were eight sikim in the world and it wasn't saved no and his family there were eight sikim so did a little math and once hasem said no to 10 and eight he knew was not worthy of being saved he stopped he stopped it wasn't enough of his so if aam was not faulted for stopping to DAV when he reached only eight Noah knew his prayers on his behalf of his generation wouldn't have worked so why was he held accountable for failing to DAV so the brisar RV said the following listen to this Insight R salich the brisar RV he said if you wake up in the middle of the night and your kid left their toy in the middle of the floor and the was off and you stopped and you stubbed your toe what do you do scream ouch is ouch gonna help does out ouch make your toe feel better you know doctor gives you the shot you got your flu shot it hurt ow wins ow what does that do what does that do how doesn't make the pain go away what's the answer because when a person is in pain they scream ouch when a person's in pain they cry out so if you didn't cry out so the nurse who gives you the shot if you don't make a face and you didn't say ow what do they believe didn't hurt didn't hurt if you don't say anything it means it didn't hurt because if it hurt you would have screamed if it hurt you would have said ouch so although no dedicated himself wholeheartedly to sustaining the world inside the Tava he was held accountable for failing to DAV to save his generation I he couldn't have saved them through his davening he knew if AB knew eight wasn't enough Noah knew his generation had no shot so why did he have to DAV said the brisar his failure to Davin wasn't because his daving would have saved the generation his failure to doing me meant it didn't hurt his generation was being wiped out and he didn't scream ouch it didn't hurt so maybe I should have said this last night it up to H Gathering it's a beautiful idea but you know what that means if right now you're not screaming ouch what's happening in Israel is not hurting I what's your outou G to do you watch the news you saw the headline someone sent you the latest video you saw the hostage you saw now I don't know we're living in such a cursed time with technology that they're getting the GoPros from the terrorists first of all terrorists War GoPros what does that tell you about them their evil knows no bounds they wanted to memorialize what they were doing they wanted to capture their own Evil killing old people to capitate am I don't need to elaborate they wanted to capture it but from their own cameras that they wore and from the dash cams of the cars at the festival we're seeing how could you be exposed to those headlines and these numbers I'll never forget the rest of my life when I found out when I walked what had happened and the first minion I gave the J and I had to end up by talking about what was happening I'll never forget 50 can you believe there was an infiltration and 50 of our brothers and sisters were killed we're up to 1400 1,400 how do you hear that number and not cry cry out scream ouch if you don't scream ouch it didn't hurt if it doesn't hurt check your lineage are you really Jewish check are you really connected to our people check so brisar says Noah has held accountable why his screaming outch sitting under a palm tree in Boone you scream outch is that really going to make a difference in Israel is that going to bring is that going to bring those who've been taken captive back is that going to bring those who were murdered back to life maybe not just like it didn't for Noah but you know what will do it'll show that you have a Jewish Soul it'll show that it hurts if you don't scream ouch it didn't hurt you got to scream ouch you got to scream ouch and that's why they're called the May Noah because Noah didn't scream ouch please stay for a few minutes if everyone stays it'll take literally a few minutes with each here we're going to finish the whole book ofum in honor of all the things that K also desperately needs