Torah Modiin | The Mercy That Hurts: Yona's Battle with Divine Compassion | Rabbi Jesse Horn

First of all, I want to acknowledge and thank once again our dear friends and Debbie fund and the entire fund family and Debbie are here with us. We want to thank them for once again making these beautiful programs of limatra an inspiration before rashing and kipper and please god many other times throughout the year dedicating them in loving memory of their parents alum and we appreciate your sweet friendship and constant support and encouragement. So thank you. I also want to just introduce that before I introduce Rabbi Jesse Horn. Rabbi Hornshere this evening has been generously been dedicated anonymously in honor of Rabbi Avi Burman and Mrs. Daniela Helerstein and Mr. Jeremy Lusman U board members for all they do for the U in Israel and for Clauster. It is my great salute to introduce Rabbi Yishi Jesse Jesse Horn. Rabbi Horn is a senior Ram at Yeshiva Takotel. He's well known for his methodological and brisker approach to Gamarra, his creative sherim and Tanakh and most importantly his warm and captivating personality. In his sharim he motivates students to rigorously dissect texts to ask major questions on on the sug at hand and to intuit it the interpretations offered by the rishonim. He works individually with students at a cotto seder to further cultivate their skills. Rabbi Horn also teaches at numerous se seminaries and lectures widely as a scholar residence all over the world. He's the author of multiple sparum including double take and double take 2 both books about biblical personalities and he is a well-known contributor to many of the online Torah pro um Torah depositories as well. It's a great split to introduce Rabbi Jesse Horn. All right. This people can hear me in the back. If I had to ask you and I'll throw the, you know, the the ball out to the Olra over here. If I had to ask you what's the primary message of safer yona we all know this probably yona is one of the most famous stories in the back of Tanakh everyone knows the bracia stories everyone knows schmos once you get to the back of Tanakh it's a little bit less wellknown you move to Treyos are difficult to figure out what's going on there but everyone knows the Yona story from a little child Yona the big fish Yona the lamb if I had to ask you what's the primary message or some What are the central themes of sreona? What would you suggest? >> Chuva. Absolutely. And not just chuva in general, but who specifically is doing chuva in the yona story? >> Yeah. Chuva. Chuva of the world. Chuva of non-Jews. Chuva of the umam. Good. Any other major central messages you would take out of the story? What any other thoughts or or ideas that come to mind when you were a little kid or all the way through? >> Generosity, compassion. >> Excellent. We're going to get there in one second. >> Generosity of spirit. >> Generosity >> of spirit. >> How do you Okay. How do you see that? >> Well, it wasn't just about himself. >> Okay, good. We'll take it. Good. I thought also you can't run away from God. >> That's an important message. I'd imagine the running away from God as well as cha is the conventional wisdom, the conventional answers as to what the basic theme of safer Yona is. I want to share with you um trying to build off this theory a little bit. There may be a whole another hidden message in Yona which may actually be one of the most central prominent messages. Not to exclude the other ones, but I'll start off with a small summary of Sria. And you'll notice how, unless you know the book already, you'll notice how odd and almost misplaced the fourth of Yona is. The first chapter, the first of Yonah, Hashem tells Yona, I want you to go to a city called >> and I want you to ask them to do. >> And that's what he doesn't do. He runs away, gets on a boat, and while he's on the boat, there's a tremendous storm, and the rain is pouring and the w the waves are are are shaking in the boat, and it's really just just terrible weather. And everyone starts praying and praying and praying. Yona goes to sleep downstairs, and they find him. They say, "You, you know, we're all praying to our gods. I don't know which God's going to really make the storm soothe which which is going to soothe the storm. What could you do? And the own's like you know uh how's the owner respond? >> It's me. >> It's my fault. Just throw me over and you know uh the problem will be solved. The storm will will calm down. Which is it, you know, it's an honest approach but certainly not an expected approach. Very very strange. Almost like if you were gonna if you knew you were the problem, why don't you go to sleep downstairs and if you wanted to hide somehow. It doesn't look like a good cover up. Oh, it's my fault. Just throw me over and everything will work out. You wonder what he's thinking. Perrick B. He gets swallowed up by a fish and he spends the entire perk praying where heaven you know it's written in past tense probably wrote it afterwards but he prays in pariml. He actually goes back to the people of >> and he tells them do and do they >> yes >> yeah I once had pointed out there's only two times in that people seem to listen to when they give mus one is two is for when they say you're going to go plant houses and get comfortable there both times they listen interesting uh in any event and that's the people that they do chua they repent and they put on sackcloth and they really seem to take it very seriously. You'd think the story ends over there, but then you have Peric. Let's read Peric. We'll skim Peric. We'll read it together momentarily. Perrick Dalit starts off if you look Yona has this conversation with Hashem. God, I know that you are compassionate. Then God makes a tree called the >> the dies. Yona takes it very very hard and says, "You should just kill me right now." Which I would have seen that as an overreaction. Then Yona um you know says to God, you know, terrible idea. And God concludes and says, you know, like let me tell you what I'm doing. I I I care about the people and animals. That's what I did. I never really directed anything certainly not a movie or a play. It just seems like the director should have cut this story after chapter 3. The kikon that's the point of it the kikon dies irrelevant at first glance if the point is go doing chuva it seems like an unnecessary epilogue and unnecessary post if the theme of the story is he can't run from god that also was communicated clearly yoda learned that message in the end of parake and if 25% of the book is just unnecessary out takes at the end. Well, that seems like a pretty bad interpretation of the safer. And therefore, what I'd like to do is hopefully in the next good half hour or even a little bit. Yeah, just about that. Try try try to understand what the fourth paragraph say for Yona adds to the book and how it fits into the entire theme of the book at large and then hopefully if we have time after that a small additional insight connected to the parios we'll be embracing soon and that'll hopefully be a little bit of a yipper preparation situation. Clear? We're good. Take a look and see for parallel with the second source on the page. Yona saw this was very bad and he got very angry, very upset why we'll see. But apparently did not do the didn't like it. It's a funny word because usually usually means >> and he prayed. He died. What would you expect after that? >> What type of what? >> Some type of request. Some type of maybe a thank you. Most likely requests to where God is this is exactly what I told you. This is exactly what I expected. That's why I ran to Yeah. We'll get back to that in a second. What's Yona doing in this process? What's he explaining? What question is he answering? >> Why he ran away? >> Why he ran away? Now, it's interesting that they call it a prayer. Let's see. >> He's not asking. >> He's not asking for anything. It's more like a complaint. And it's not even a complaint. It's more like I I told you something. I'm trying my best to think of the last time I prayed for something else recently. The last time I prayed for someone, my family, my wife, someone cousin, people I know prayed for people praying. Prayed for Google to come every single when was the last time I prayed to God. I'm like, God, I told you so. I don't think he g. And therefore, like there's something going on. I told you so, God. Now, what is he telling God? I told you so. What is he so unhappy about? that they didn't choose anything. >> He accept that they did. He didn't want them to do Jew. Could be. >> Yeah. They didn't look like an Indian. >> Could be. Could be. He predicted otherwise. >> He doesn't want them forgiven. >> That's what I think also. I think and this is what you're alluding to. I actually think one of the major themes of safe for Yona is Yonah's stubborn misplaced understanding of truth. Yona is a man of din, a man of mishbah, a man of justice. Yona believes that when you sin, you deserve punishment. You did the crime, you do the time. Yona is uh convinced of his ideological perspective. I know what is and you know who doesn't know? >> It starts off with his name Yon Amai. What does the word mean? Come from what? >> And with the Y at the end means it's actually >> my And then he finds himself at the floor, the basement of the boat and they say to him, "Who are you?" And he says, "What? I'm Yona. I'm Jewish. I got the right God. And God's punishing me for running away from him. If you throw me into the water, the sea will quiet down." Why is he so forthcoming with that? >> At all costs, Yona tells the truth. Why does Yona run away? Ideologically, he stands against the notion of chuva. Because chuva is predicated, it's based on what? >> Compassion. >> Mercy, giving someone a second chance. If you had to talk about and which one does identify with profoundly so much so that when he prays so to speak we'll see what in a second he tells God I told you so. I knew this were going to happen. Why? Because I know who you are. You are tail count guys. You want to know why >> you don't think God's evidence. God said he replaces it. Yona thinks God is a winner. Yona think God's a soft. I don't want to give away too much about my own personal family, but sometimes you have uh situations where there's two parents and let's just say one parent when she's not around, the husband and myself, maybe solely giving the kids chocolate or gumballs or whatever I'm giving the kids. The kids know. It's like a we have co like come on a they don't know when mom's not around. We have coke. I'm like you said that in front of her just in case you weren't sure which one I was. Yona says, "God, I knew you would forgive them. That's why I ran away. I didn't want them to be forgiven. I don't believe in this type of thing." And then he says, "Why does he want to die? God, I cannot believe in this world without justice. It's too much. You got the whole world is messed up. You've messed the whole thing up. You've balanced with your sensitivity and your niceness, everything wrong. And he builds and he sits in this in the What does he do? Means he prepares a tree for this. Why is the word so important? God setting up a plan. You want to know why is important? We're going to find out. It's part of God's plan. God sets up. It's full of shade. It's a tree. And how does Yona respond? This is great. This is refreshing. This is enjoyable. Yona appreciates the truth. Second time, what does God do? He sets up. He prepares eastern wind. Wants to die again. Is this a good tree? And he says, "Yeah, it's great. It's so good. It's it's great." In other words, when when the tree is gone, the tree is dead now gone. And Yona is really disappointed. Like, not only is there no justice, but I have no tree, which is again first glance, it's an overreaction. But we'll see. It's almost like God's that wrong. You kill an innocent trait. They did no crime. You know who did a crime? The people of N. I think that's what pushes you a little bit. It's not just that God doesn't handle did correct. It's that everything's messed up. I actually believe that Yonas struggles to pray. You want to know why he struggles to pray? Because what is prayer based on? God, he needs your help. Why is unwilling to do that? hypothetical reason. Yoda doesn't think you ask for God for a favor. God, you do what you do and if God punishes you, that's what you get. And if God doesn't punish you, then you don't. That's how it is. The word is full of full of full of full of justice. That's how things should operate. And therefore, Yoda says, you know, heaven, so to speak. Matter of fact, the only time he actually does really dive it is is there's a a famous medish that says on source one that Hashem first stuck Yona in a a male dish and then there was a lot of room in there. He was like chilling and having a good time, not doing anything. Few days go by and God said that's it. He's not learning the message. Well, let's put him in a a pregnant female fish. It's based upon the first person said that he was in a dog and then a dug out. So why would we change that? Where did the medish kind of fill in the picture and the medish always does this type of thing? It tells you like the underlying message. It uses a few words that kind of paints a picture. Not only the same shot in the bus, but often the same shot in the story. And the basic point is Yonas sat in that fish and sat in that fish and didn't pray. And God's like, I want you to pray. Why does God want to teach you more a lesson? And Y's like, I'm not learning that lesson. God's like, "Okay, we'll put you in a pregnant woman fish. We have absolutely no room in there and you have no choice but to pray to get out like you have a crack." And God says, but the answer is God gets the last word of this debate of this conversation. If you look in the last, this is where Hashem gets the last word and I think this is probably the most important part of it's how Hashem responds to you. Listen carefully. God says you didn't work. You didn't invest and you didn't grow it. One day it was here and the next day gone. And you really like that tree. I'm not going to have that which has 120,000 people who don't know the difference between their right hand and their left hand. They may be sinning but it is unintentional non-malicious. We're unaware right hand left hand. They don't know. There's a lot of animals there. Also, God basically says to Yona, I care about people. I care about animals. When you love something, when you love someone, you don't only operate with the of you to save that tree. You like the tree. I like people. I like animals. I don't want to just kill them if I can encourage them to repent. The fourth perk is not just an unnecessary epilogue about God's plan to educate Yoda. The book is one where takes it under his responsibility to teach you a profound significant important religious lesson which is when you love your children you give them a second chance because you want them to succeed because you want them to learn. It's not just and mish what's right and what's fair. You care so you invest more than just figuring out who did the crime so they can do the time. I'd like to suggest that really is the main theme of seaf starting from his name moving along to his experience with prayer moving along to his experience on the boat why he runs away in the first place the whole fourth perk in his interaction with God and if this really is the fee teaching Yah a profound and important religious lesson which is even though mankind may sin I thought you still forgive me. When would be an appropriate time to read such a sacra and not just yipper but the last moment of yipper is really because we don't read any during the butona is almost like we're communicating to hashem and saying god it's the end of yipper we're hoping you're going to forgive us we hope you did but even if we don't deserve it you taught us a profound lesson Hashem you taught us it's the end of yip But if you didn't forgive us all day long, you taught us a really important lesson, a really important message you taught us, which is I forgive you when you don't deserve it because I don't only care about enemies. I don't only care about truth. I care about I want you to succeed. I want you to grow. Hashem, you love us and care about us. We're so to speak reminding ourselves and reminding him by reading this half Torah during maft yona of mk. That's really the first half of what I wanted to communicate to everyone right now. Quick round of questions and otherwise I wanted to just uh move into the second half momentarily. You had something. Do we >> I was just wondering if like wasn't Yona considered like a from the name that there was something significant about him not wanting to go to Ningve because Ningve were non-Jews and it would make the Jews look bad. >> Yeah, there is definitely a whole school of thought. You find it in maybe even I don't remember. I'm suggesting a very slight alternative. I think the fourth par supports it. I think there's more that supports it out there. The media read I think supports it. There are others sources as well, but you're right. If you had to ask why Yona left, one theory is maybe the G will do Chu and the Jews will not. One suggestion I'm offering an alternative suggestion, which is it's not that Yona didn't want the Gen to do Chuva and not the Jews. He doesn't like the institution of Chuva at all. And I think it fits in with a lot of the other parts of the safer. And I think they kind of support this theory. And therefore, I'm offering an alternative suggestion. Yeah. Isn't the kadon a form of compassion from Hashem to >> um perhaps? What makes you think so? Help me understand that a little better. >> He's in the shade. He's suffering from the heat. Yeah. >> And now there's a tree that's been suddenly created to give him shade so that he doesn't have to suffer in the heat anymore. And then God takes that tree away from him and he's really upset about the loss of shade. It's not I don't know, but he's so It's it's he's upset about the Kayon being gone, but I'm not sure it's the that he has such love for the plant as much as he had love for the shade that he was in. >> Okay, that's true. I'm not sure exactly like that may be true, but if that was the primary point of Pericad, I wouldn't fully understand what it's there for. Maybe I'm not saying you're not right. I just think the primary idea is God gave him the shade, took it away, and Y's like, "I like this shade. I cared about it." And God's like, "Yeah, when you like someone, you don't just destroy it. Yeah. And that's twice. >> Compassion is a good thing. >> What? >> Or compassion is a good thing. >> Yeah. I would correct and maybe what I forgot who said someone said in the beginning synthesizing truth and compassion and balancing those two is probably the best thing quickly. One and then two. >> Just a like more of a general question like why why would God pick like why would God pick Yona as an Aviv? is like it's all just to teach him this one like >> it's an excellent question. You know, I think there's a guru who says the whole thing's a mush. So, if that's the case, God kind of made up the story in order to illustrate his point as clearly as possible. Um, if you'd ask Hashem what his agenda is, you know, it's always tough to know like because God knows the end of the story, like why does he ever go through the story? That's a philosophical question we're not going to get into now. But I'd imagine the answer is probably one of a few things. Number one, there's important message about Chuva. Number two, there's an important message about not running from God. Number three, it's not uncommon for God to ask to tell people to do chuva, meaning Tanakh and specifically the second half is like full of it. So, you know, I guess those would probably be some of the angles I would take on that question. Yay. >> Um, but don't we say that the seal of hashem is truth? >> Yes. >> Now, we're saying that really it's truth except when it isn't. Um the question is an excellent one. I'm not sure how. Let's just say I should Yeah. Okay. Fine. Let's just say uh an hour ago I would have asked you how if God is really his seal is truth. On the other hand, there seems to be a balance between before I even offered this theory. What would you have said? Yeah. Somehow we got to work that question out. Right. We're in the same place. You're right. The answer is I don't fully know exactly when God God is the ultimate truth and simultaneously balances rakim into it and somehow there's like a fusion and somehow it doesn't sacrifice God's truth. On a philosophical level there's probably a lot more to be said than what I just said. Everything I said is true. Now we just have to figure out how that makes sense. But I'm learning Tanak right now. I don't when we get to a philosophy class we'll have to entertain that properly. I'm not saying it's not a good question. I'm just saying I have the right to uh to continue with where I'm going quickly. One last question and we'll go on. Yeah. >> Um if Yona's attitude was just basically did, why would that? >> It's a good question. Um it could be Yona was righteous until this moment and you know he was a man of such truth may have you know uh accelerated religiously spiritually and able to rise to the point of being a Na'vi. Uh it could be he was an excellent person just needed one hashkuffic change and God had a you know none of us are perfect out here. Even the Naveim amongst us which probably not us us but you know Nvim amongst people also probably need some room for improvement and it could be you know God was navigating that that direction and maybe one would even again according to the grub the story is is is just a mushel so that's you know the whole thing is made up and it could be even that you know once in a while nim have to be guided back the right way and if it's an oddity in an unusual situation okay here's the one time in where you know it's it's it's the exception that that that teaches the rule odd con the first half I want to add a small little insight which I think is a remarkable insight the Yona story actually sounds very similar there's like a similar parallel to another story that took place way way way back earlier on in Tanakh and I think it's the Noah story let me share with you some of the similarities that exist now any two stories that ex that I may have some similarities, right? Yona's a man, Noah's a man. Okay, that's not going to convince anyone that it was done intentionally. What I'd like to do in the next, I don't know, five, six minutes is share a list of about 10 or 12, similarities between Noah and Yona, and hopefully you'll walk out saying, "Wow, there has to be something. There's no way it's by chance." The similarities are too striking, too unique, too special to just be a coincidence. Let's see where it goes. Number one, if you think of the setting, where is the setting of the Noak story? The answer is out in the middle of >> the sea. Where is the story? >> How many stories in all of have that setting? Not many. Middle of the sea. The primary character Noak is surrounded by some type of entity which keeps him safe from a tremendously terrible storm outside which is awfully similar to >> yeah the owner story who's in a fish not a boat but that seems to be also somehow protecting him from the outside destruction that's going on. Both episodes deal with someone isolated from society yet protected from the surrounding ocean. And then you get a little more into detail and you're like, God told Noah, I'm going to destroy the world. God told Yona, I'm going to destroy Ninve. And you're like, wow, destruction of a place. That's not only twice in Tanakh, but it's certainly not common. And then God says to Yona, I don't want to destroy the world because I care about people and animals. I got a sensitivity not just for people but for animals. And where do you see that? >> Noah. Hashem saves Noah's family and the whole animal kingdom. How often does God go out of his way highlighting or showing expressing his desire to save animals? And then you think a little more and you're like, "Wow, that fourth perk was like a epilogue, like a bonus section. It was like a story finished." And then you have a post script afterwards where Yona interacts with some type of vegetation here, a tree. And you're like, "Wait a second, Noah." Also, after the whole flood story, Noah gets drunk and has this postcript epilogue almost unnecessary narrative added on to the story about Noah interacting with some type of vegetation. You're like, "Wow, that's really remarkable." And then it gets more. You know how long the people of Noah, pardon me, do you know how long the people of Ninve had that Yona gave them to do chuva? How long? 40 days. And you're like, "Wow, 40 days." What pops into your mind when you hear 40 days? You're like, "Oh, yeah. The Noak story." And then you see if you look in Yona, the Ara that the people of Ninve did is called Kamas. Nothing to do with the war we're fighting, at least on the most surface level. And then you look at the sin that Noah's generation is criticized for. And the exact same word in isamas. And you're like, "My goodness, there's a lot going on here." I put some of the sukim from the Noah story at the bottom. If you look in dal in safer bracious perk or at the bottom of the page, what shocking word is found in the Noah story? >> Tarsish. Like who put that there? And if you look on the second side of the page, take a look in pok. Oh, did I put the right pock in? I cut it short. I made a mistake. Ah, I killed it. Okay, if you look, it's a little bit later on. Um, and it's also no story. And then here's the point that like I said, it can't be accidental. What's the name of the bird that Noah sends? >> Like, oh yeah. And what I'd like to suggest is that it's not accidental. What I'd like to suggest is that it's purposeful. And now the question is why would that be the case? What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to accomplish? Yeah. >> Because he was going to destroy the world because they were so evil. But then in the end he didn't have that. >> I think so. I think there's even more. I think there's even more. Many many midrashim rashi several times many of the commentators compare Abraham to Noah. You probably even seen this comparison right? Anyone ever noticed that they compare Noah to Abra the famous famous famous Rashi right in the beginning Noah was it ro and rashi says well do there's two ways to look at it on the one hand if he would have been in the generation of a he would have learned from Ara and been great and so much greater he you know he was great in his own generation but you can only imagine and the other one is Abraham it's very critical. He would have been worthless nothing very strong and especially it's so atypical of kaz who is a bigger saddic or yakov anyone know me neither s or rifka tai aaron or they don't compare sitkus of people everyone just tries to do their best like there's no religious maybe Moshe is unique okay Mosha's in a league of his own but there's no competitive scale rank ing who's a bigger saddak and who's not. It seems very unusual that kazal do that and I'd like to suggest the goal is not to rank Noah but to highlight one of the famous shortcomings of Noah which is that sadic in his own generation he was but someone who went out to teach and to preach and to inspire and to educate and to pray for the world he was not. Abraham heard the world that that stone was going to be destroyed and he fought. Then he debated 50 45 30 20 10 Noah the world was gonna be destroyed and he's like okay if that's what you want. The major says actually it took 120 years because people had to approach Noah and ask him what's going on. I'm building an an ark. Why you building an arc? Oh God's going to bring a flood. Why is God going to bring the flood? Destroy the world. You don't get the impression he was like a kabadnik in the street handing out l love him and nish chabas to the men and women took his time in and of shabas he's like kind of did his own thing matter of fact his name no even means like passive sit there he does his thing he's not going anywhere simple passive who told that no was not the avam and why specifically contrast him to I think the answer is Abraham went out and taught. Aram loved to teach and to preach, to educate and to inspire. Abraham cared about the entire world, invited them in his house, prayed for them when they didn't deserve it, inspired them, taught and educated them when they were ignorant. Noak in contrast to Abraham was passive, didn't educate, didn't inspire, didn't teach, didn't preach, didn't pray for others. The Medish makes that point. Rashi makes that point. Many of the Mafar should make the point subsequently. But maybe, maybe, maybe the first commentary to make that point about who Noah was, ironically, is Safer Yona. Maybe safer. Yona draws weaves into the narrative this subtle parallel to let you know that Yonah he's kind of like Noah they kind of have a similar attitude a similar perspective was Noah sadic sad worthy of being worthy of salvation worthy of being saved. No question the most righteous in his generation. Yes. How righteous is that? Unclear. But Noah was a sadic. He just wasn't the first person to start our religion. Chose Abraham. Why is Noah even in there are certain people if you leave them out of you wouldn't miss that much. If you left out of the Torah, the story of Yehuda and Tamar, we'd probably just be okay with it. Frankly, when I was in second grade, Muradvar left it out for me anyway. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. She's she's she gets around the Noah story. Do you need it? I'd like to suggest you want to know and to let you know what a sadic is, but not a Jewish sadic. Abraham starts our religion. Abraham is the one who's the father, the forefather. And the reason why is not because Noah didn't have religious dedication and commitment and devotion. He did. Noak did what was right. But to be one of the children ofu that's only half of the mission. The other half is to educate and to inspire to teach and to preach to be an or for the world to care about others to pray for others to pray for those who are not like you to pray for everyone. Abraham Aenu in contrast to Noah and even in contrast to Yonah and it's not that I'm being critical of Yona. I'm not being critical of Noah any more than Kazal and say for Yona were Yona was a sadic who had to learn a lesson and God taught it to him. He had an ideological quirk and God had to straighten that out. Noak was a righteous person. God saved him. The only person in all of the Torah identifies as sadic. He did what was right. He did what he thought Hashem wanted. He was righteous. Righteous enough to be saved, but not the forefather of our nation. The forefather of our nation is someone who synthesizes. Someone who follows the word of Hashem with rigor, devotion, dedication, commitment, and simultaneously loves everyone he meets along the way. The reason why Abraham is an avon is because Abra saw himself as an av to go to lot to Ishmaile to the people of stone who he didn't know to all the converts who made their way into his tent as a saw himself as responsible to inspire educate teach about feed and love all sorts of people out Not that it contradicted dedication. Hashem says he gets up and goes. Hashem says sacrifice your son. A has this almost magical way of synthesizing the best of the best of caring about people synthesizing. The religious take-home message are severalfold. Number one, I kind of spoke out already, but I'll echo it and repeat it just quickly. The message on Yum Kipper that we believe in and we even whisper to Hashem subtly, softly through the readings there for Yona is Hashem, we know you love us and along with love is juva. We appreciate that. The second religious message is with a little room for correction. And it's okay to be at saddic and not be perfect. That's how most people are. Religious message number three is with the children of Arma. People who are not just dedicated and committed to whatever Hashem says. Hashem says it. We follow God because he's God. Period. End of story. What God says, we do because he's God. That's what it means to be God. But synthesized with that is a sense of love and care and dedication. everything goes along with I know people who excel at being they're just not nice people. I know people who excel at being and frankly are turned off to be welcome because the first people I know. If that's what religion is, count me out. And unfortunately, each of those two groups is 100% wrong about 50% of what God values. We should be za to have a proper yum kipper to do a proper chuva to receive a proper kapar and tahara. We should continue navigating our religious personalities as best as we can to the obedience and dedication of Dvar Hashem to follow what he says in the world in the realm of binad to care about people in the world Jews pray for care for the world at large in the world of bin we should synthesize the values that the Torah ascribes to and deep down we know we're right and following the path of Abraham and Hashem everyone here with all of K's F receiver. >> I love the fact the the whole reference to Noah because reality is that Yona is talking about chuba of Gam, >> right? And the whole notion that we dab for the cha of comes back to the the the covenant that Hashem makes with Noah. Okay, that's you know, you know, our cha is based on the covenants of Abraham, Moshe, whatever. But that's