Shnayim Yomi - Bereshit - Sh'vi'i - #7 - Rabbi Joey Haber - As Long as You're Trying

You ever feel guilty? You ever feel like I'm the worst? If anyone knew all the things that I'm thinking about, wow, I would be embarrassed. If you ever felt that way, the last is for you. Because in this aliyah we get the last three generations um lame and Noah. Okay. And we're introduced to Noah and Noah. Now the Torah starts to tell us that the world is bad. And Hashem says these words. Hashem sees that man is bad. All his thoughts are bad all the day. And therefore Hashem destroys destroy us. The puk sounds very simple and straightforward until you get to parano because in parak hashem destroys the world and brings the mabul brings the flood and then after a year he removes the flood and then the says hashem says I'm never going to destroy the world again. You know why? Because a person because a person is bad for when he's young. I don't understand because a person is bad from when he's young. I don't understand. You said he's bad was the reason we're going to destroy the world. Now all of a sudden bad is the reason we're not going to destroy the world. So what does it mean? What it means is like this. What it means is Hashem knows how he created us. And he knows that he created us inside of us. There's a lot of negative tendencies. You and me and him and her and everybody. In sees in the book, excuse me, at the end of Besid before the Mabul, the world was quite chaos. They just let all the evil tendencies go and they did whatever they wanted. That is worthy of destroying the world. After the Mabul, Hashem, Noah brought a and Hashem smelled. He says, "Humanity is trying. once they're trying. I understand that you're created with evil inclination as long as you're trying. If you're a person out there who says, "Wow, I get angry often, or I have temptations often, and why do I want to see that? Why do I want to look at that? Why do I want to say that? What's wrong with me?" Nothing wrong with you. You're a human being. But when you say to yourself, I'm just going to let myself do whatever I'm in the mood to do. speak, use foul language, see inappropriate things, go to inappropriate things, eat inappropriate things. You're going to follow whatever your tendency tells you to do, then that's something that Hashem says that's not the way I want the world to be. But if instead you're working and you're struggling and some days are a good day and then one you have a step back and then two steps forward and you're sort of in the struggle, then welcome to humanity. So, Hashem says in our para, if you're just doing bad and just letting yourself do whatever you want, then that's a problem. But if you're trying, you're already on the road to greatness. And that's a world Hashem says, "I want to keep.