Shnayim Yomi - Noach - Sheni - #2 - Rabbi Moshe Bamberger - Truth Never Gets Old

[Music] Parasy second aliyah. The second aliyah describes how nyak finally completes the tava. The pik doesn't say this but kazal teach us that it took 120 years for nayak to build this tava. And the reason why it took so long was intentional. Hashem wanted that NaK should give Muser to the people of his generation. So when they passed by the Tava and they asked him, "Hey Nak, what are you building?" He would say, "I'm building an ark." And the reason I'm building an arc is because God is about to destroy the entire civilization. And this is the ark that we're going to be saved on. And the hope was that people would actually do chuva. They would repent and they would come uh and join Nyak on the ark afterwards. Of course, surprisingly, this didn't uh happen. Nyak was not successful for some odd reason in even being able to do outreach on one person outside of his immediate family. And Nyak was then also commanded that in addition to the pair of species of every type to be brought onto the table, the kosher animals were to be brought seven of each because there was an intention that after they disembarked from the TA at the end of the Mabul, there would be uh the ability to bring carbonus, bring sacrifices to Hashem in the new world, which we'll discuss uh when we get up to that aliyah. It's been noted that it's quite remarkable how Nyak was able to perform this mission for 120 years straight. 120 years is quite a long amount of time. And yet Nyak was able to every morning get up, start building his tava, telling people about why he's building the tava in the hopes of having them repent for every day, day in and day out, for 120 years. And says that from here we learn that when a person is engaged in something that's true in a mission that he feels is his battlecry is authentic and he feels it in his bones then he never tires of it. When a a person needs to retire, a person doesn't feel excited at at a certain point in his career. Very often that's because he doesn't get the satisfaction from what he's doing because perhaps he doesn't feel that it's it's really important enough and therefore he gets burned out of it because he feels that it's not really something that is super vital for humanity and he doesn't feel it uh pushing him every day. Nyak on the other hand uh had this mission. He saw this as his primary role in life and he never tired. He never wavered. And this is also a very important lesson for us to take that we always have to find inspiration in our life. We have to believe in our mission in a hashem and that will keep us excited whether it's getting up every morning for davening whether it's learning every day whether it's doing mikra uh being able to constantly uh be enthusiastic about it recognizing that this is the ruts in hashem this is what hashem has commanded me this is what I want to fulfill and by doing so hashem we will never suffer from being burned out of anything when it comes Start the session.