Shnayim Yomi - Noach - Sh'vi'i - #7 - Rabbi Moshe Bamberger - The Importance of Unity

Parasak the seventh aliyah describes Nyak's descendants and how they represent the 70 primary nations of the world. And then of course we have the famous tower of Bavl, the Mikdal Bavl, the Darhaflaga as it's called following the generation of the Mabel, the Dar Mabel. The Tyra speaks about the Daraflaga. This generation was a very it's very hard to understand this para uh but apparently there was a generation that developed technology. They developed bricks which was a very cutting edge technology at the time because until then they built all their structures out of mud. They lived in caves perhaps but now they were able to develop bricks and they were able to build actual structures. They're very proud of this and they use this unfortunately to wage war as it were against God. And they decided to build this massive tower and to battle God. And as a result of this, Hashem decided that um he was going to change their languages. He was not going to allow them to stay unified with one tongue, with one language, and with one culture, but he was going to disperse them and create different languages. And that way they would never come together as one and do battle against him again. And then the para ends with the 10 generations from Nakam. And Tarak was the father of Ara and Haron. Karan has Le. Aram's wife is Sarai. She has no children. Tarak takes Av and Sar from Orcastim. and he goes to the land of Kenan and they arrive at Karan where they settle and with that the para ends. It's fascinating to note and Rashi speaks about this how look at the dar of the mabel versus the daraflaga the generation of dispersion. the dar of the mabel of the flood. They did terrible sins and Hashem destroyed them with water as opposed to the daraflago who seemingly did something much worse. They actually wanted to build a tower to fight God, but yet he gives them almost a pass. He gives them the allowance to stay alive. He doesn't flood them. He keeps them alive. He just spreads them out and makes them into 70 nations. and he he puts them all over the world. But that doesn't seem to be a punishment that's as severe as the punishment that was meed out to the generation of the flood. And Rashi says that that's true, that really they should have also been destroyed. But the saving grace, the reason why they were not destroyed is because they had something that the generation of the flood did not have, and that was unity. that because they were unified together and they were as one, they were one people that got along with one another. Hashem says, "I love that about them and I don't want to destroy them." The generation of the tav of the mabble was a generation that they were sinful to God, but they were more sinful to one another. They were practicing immorality. They were doing things with other people that were inappropriate. That was debauchery against other and and because of that there was perodude. There was division amongst them. Hashem has no tolerance for division. When Hashem sees unity, he almost looks the other way. He gives us a free pass when there's unity. And that's a very important lesson for us to always remember that the Jewish people are very strong. We're a wonderful people. But we are really amazing when we're unified. When we have unifi, when we have unity and we love one another, we care for one another, we do with one another, then we're almost like protected from all of the elements. But when we start becoming too comfortable in our gullus and we be and we begin to create divisions, we label one another and we make and we make and we make different types of factions and different types of ways of describing one another and these are Jews that I would never have anything to do with and I'm not going to be mash these types of people and these are people that I don't like, I don't trust. When we create division amongst ourselves, that is something that will create raman destruction. We don't I don't want to specify how but we see it in our own times that when we're able to stay unified, the enemies of Israel are really uh kept and held at bay. But as soon as we begin to have any sort of division, any friction amongst us, suddenly you know, we're we are feeling the wrath and in many different ways either militarily or um diplomatically and there's a direct correlation between the ais that Israel must maintain and how much provides protection and the second that we start be beginning to feel this division amongst us that's when immediately we see that we are completely swallowed up in the marble that surrounds us. And we have to be constantly careful and on guard to always maintain and preserve the unity amongst all of our different types of people.