The Rainbow: Bend Together or Break Apart - R. Avrohom Walkin - TorahAnytime.com

In the table, I want to discuss another big issue that left the table. We know that Hashem told Noach that I'm going to make a promise to you that I will never destroy the world through a flood again. And there were there were many shailas on it that Hashem had a flood at a different time and a whole We did it destroy a whole generation? We're not getting into the shailas of Did Hashem almost destroy a different type of situation of destruction? But a complete and utter destruction for a mabul did not take place. And how did Hashem show him the sign? He showed He said, "I will make a treaty with you that when you see a rainbow, that will be my sign to you that I was going to destroy the world and I didn't destroy the world." And the question is, why a rainbow? What What's the rainbow? That's number one. And question number two is, why the rainbow bent anyway? Let it just be a straight rainbow from heaven from earth to heaven or from heaven to earth. From heaven to earth. Straight rainbow. What is the bending of a rainbow? Why is it Why is it Why is it bent like that? And it's one shailah actually I saw. I mean, I'm sure there's many different reasons, but there's one shailah I I saw. There's many different colors in a rainbow. The rainbow has different shades, as we say. And nebach, there's an organization out there that uses it lit tumah for bad. And that's also a unbelievable shailah that they're taking the bris shalom that the Hashem has and they contaminate it. But but their shailah sadly is also based on a on on this shailah, but they use it for tumah. That there's many different types of shades in the world. There's many different types of people in the world. Not everybody is the same, but it comes together to show that there's unity. What does that mean? That a world that has unity will survive. That person has to understand that not everyone has the same um minhagim. Not everyone has the same halachas. Not everybody understands the same. There's Chassidim, there's Ashkenazim, there's Sephardim, there's people that are also falling. There's religious people, there's people that are not doing well to Hashem, but understand humanity, understand where they come from, become a unified nation. And then that will be the birth of understanding of why Hashem doesn't destroy the world and why we should not destroy the world and continue because we need to unify ourselves. So why is it bent? Because when it comes to understanding other people, you need to bend. It's not one way. There's a bending process here. There's a process of you bending your understanding, by you leaning over, by you realizing I am not erect, but I will bend for the person that's smaller, and I will rise myself to the person taller. In other words, we need to understand that it's not one way or the highway. There's a bending process of understanding.