Shnayim Yomi - Noach - R'vi'i - #4 - Rabbi Moshe Bamberger - Sacrificing for a New World

[Music] Paras for only once Hashem actually commands Na to leave the Tava does he. He could have left right after the olive branch was brought back by the dove and he knew that the waters had secceeded but he didn't do that. He waited for God's command and only then did he and his family exit the Tava. And then he builds a a misbayak and he brings on the misbayak the the sacrifices, the offerings from those kosher animals that were brought with him onto the table for that purpose. And Hashem is contented by the aroma of the sacrifices. And he guarantees that he will never again destroy the world. And he will never disrupt the natural cycle of seasons as occurred during the actual flood. The aliyah ends with Nyak and his sons being blessed by Hashem to be fruitful and to multiply. And Hashem gives a series of laws about how it's forbidden to eat uh flesh while life is still remaining in the animal. Hashem also commands uh Nyak and his and humanity as a whole to not murder others. And also a human being is never to take their own life. Now when Nyak leaves the Tavan and he builds this Msbay this altar and he brings sacrifices this is the first step of building a new world. Now is entering into a brand new world. And the brisk used to say that the world exists on the three pillars of Tyra and is the sacrifices the service that we do for Hashem. It's the it's what we do in the temple that's called the temple worship. And so the very first thing when NaK was setting down the foundations of the new world besides for engaging in terror which he did and besides for engaging which he will be doing for all future humanity but he was starting off right by building misb an altar on which to begin the process of the process of worship and service of Hashem. And this is something that has always been the template for Jews throughout the millennia. When the Jews, for instance, went through their own mabble uh maybe 80, 90 years ago with the Holocaust and the entire world was erupting in in in chaos and destruction. The Jews came out of this. the Jews that survived, the very few Jews that survived, they came to the shores of America and Terat Israel and almost before they engaged in their own personal needs uh i.e. getting Parnasa together, being able to feed their families, being able to clothe and shelter themselves. They almost first prioritized building shulles, building yeshivas, building basakovs, building kyolim, mikvvice. These were the uh this was how they rebuilt the new world. They understood that the very first thing that we have to do is lay down foundations of of and they sacrificed greatly. But they offered up to Hashem their most prized possessions. All their resources and all of their time and all of their efforts were engaged in rebuilding the new world that was destroyed by the enemies.