Shnayim Yomi - Noach - Rishon - #1 - Rabbi Moshe Bamberger - Defying Physics

[Music] Paras first aliyah. The first aliyah in the para deals with nyak who was a great sadic. And this was a kdish. This is something very unique because this was a generation that was full of immorality and thievery and all types of bad sinners. And stood out. Nyak was the righteous one. and Akaresh Baru comes to him and informs him that he's going to bring a flood, a devastating uh deluge upon the entire world. He's going to eradicate this entire bad civilization. And Nyak is going to be saved with his family through building a tava. And Hashem gives the exact specifications, the measurements of this ark that he was to build. And that's the conclusion of the first aliyah. If you look in the Ramban, one of the great rishim on this on these, he notes that if you actually sketch out the dimensions of this tava and you calculate that he had to put every single type of animal in this tava, every reptile, every insect from and every type of bird. He said that that one tava would not be able to hold that nor 10 tavas like them would not be able to contain all of these animals. And the Ramban concludes that this is one of the occasions that we see that there's a miracle of being mikmu as hamaruba that a little space is able to contain a much larger amount of things that physics would not naturally be able to contain but it goes above nature and that's what we call a miracle. And this is something that's very very important in Yiddish kite in general to know that a person is always able to go and expand himself and do far greater things than he his natural capacity. I heard once from a rabbi of mine that theam cipher in his shir room he had a shirum in Presburg and in Hungary and theam cipher had many many talid and he gave shear in a very small room and the room contained hundreds and hundreds of boys even though naturally it shouldn't have contained even more than 20 30 but hundreds were able to pack into this room because it was a miracle. Hashem is not bound by the laws of physics. And whenever we do things in our life and we want to go beyond our natural boundaries, we should always know that even though it seems if you take out a tape measure uh or you measure your own abilities, it doesn't seem like it's going to work. But don't be surprised if it does work because Hashem very often creates these miracles where small things are able to contain much larger amounts.