Shnayim Yomi - Noach - Sh'vi'i - #7 5782

[Music] welcome back everybody we're up to the aliyah the who so the pasuk opens up with the whole world at that time all the people lived in one place and they spoke one language one nation under god one nation one people one language and then the people start to talk between themselves and that's pasuk tells us that they start telling each other hey let's start to break out from this place let's get bricks and let's build the tower that's going to reach the heavens and there we'll fight god and we'll have our freedom to do whatever we want and go wherever we want says the pasuk and i advise you to read this pasuk inside because to me it was a little bit humorous the password says hashem comes down to see what is man up to then hashem says let me go see what the sons of man what are they up to what are they occupied with what trouble are they getting themselves into and let's see how they're so not appreciative the fact that i saved them from the great flood and instead of thanking me what are they doing now they're building a tower to come fight me they're coming to rebel against hashem the one that saved them from the mabu so what does hashem do hashem ends up mixing up their languages so now nobody understands the other guy at that point their unity was broken and obviously their project failed it was at that point that hashem went and scattered the people all over the world so that no longer can they unify to make trouble like the story of the tower of bavel this is why the place that they originated from the first spot that they all started out where the story of building the tower began was called bavel because the word bavel is mila it was all jumbled together since that was the place that hashem jumbled all their languages and changed up their languages to be the languages of the world and he also scattered them from that place he was he sent them all out to the rest of the world as well now the torah at this point lists the children specifically from shem and introduces to us the illustrious line of sons and daughters that came out from shem all the way down to a man by the name of teres terah had three sons and the pasuk tells us their names avram [Music] and haran haran had looked and then he died in a place called ur qasdim it's interesting how rashi there tells us or qasdeem or means the fire of a place called qasdim that was the famous story where nimrod took abraham avinu and threw him into the great fire and avraham avinu miraculously was saved from the kibshana ish because he wanted to demonstrate that all that of his father was worthless we know the story and avraham was saved by hashem in was also thrown into the fire but his belief in god wasn't as strong as abraham so although on the outside he felt that he was believing in god but on the inside he was questionable his insides burnt and he died [Music] you