Shnayim Yomi - Noach - Chamishi - #5 - Rabbi Moshe Bamberger - The Rainbow - A Father's Embrace

[Music] Parasak the fifth aliyah. This aliyah discusses how God designates a rainbow as a sign and a remembrance that his covenant with nyak and all living beings would exist and that he would never again bring a flood to destroy the entire world. That was the uh message of this important aliyah. And this is also a very important message to us that after a destructive flood which encompassed the entire world sends us a beautiful rainbow. Rainbow is a beautiful sight to behold. Everybody, you know, loves looking at rainbows. There's something very magnificent about the beautiful colors that make up a rainbow. And this is sort of like a father who gets angry at his child. uh immediately after he gets angry at him and he sees his child gets the point his he immediately runs over to the child embraces him caresses him kisses the child and that's exactly what happened by the mul hakeshu punishes the world but then immediately after the punishment is over like a loving doing father he sends a beautiful rainbow as if to say that this will not happen again and I'm almost sorry that I had to do this but I love you and that is what the symbolic importance and beauty of the rainbow represents. And in our lives as well, in our national life and in our personal life, whenever we suffer something very devastating, we should always await eagerly the kiss that follows. Very often we find that punishes us either communally, nationally or individually. But a person should not be mish. A person should not immediately give up hope or or accuse Hashem of being, you know, hateful and spiteful to them. Very often sends us punishments and that's for our betterment. It should be a kapara for us. But immediately afterwards, Hashem always sends a rainbow. Hashem always, if you're patient enough and you you're observant enough, you'll see that after the curse very often follows tremendous blessing. We see this in history again going back to the Holocaust immediately after the Holocaust was over. Hashem sends us a rainbow, a beautiful new state of arit is in which we're able to serve him and learn Tyra and defend ourselves. And that was uh you know the rainbow that was sent then and after October 7th we experienced tremendous pain but at the same time there was so much beauty that we were able to see a lot of aus that engulfed cla the Jews of America sending over uh supplies munitions um you know all types of clothing and special care packages to the soldiers to the and unity dancing between and there was no division at that point. There was a a feeling that as much as a punishment uh was brought down on us but immediately follows that always with a kiss.