Vlog, Positive Speech and Noahs Ark

Oh [Music] it's not like I want to do anything super exciting one second announcement [Music] [Applause] yeah [Music] Valley [Music] good morning and welcome to South Africa 1600 something years into creation and mankind was already out of control idol worship adultery thievery these were some of the things that were totally in style evil was rampant I think most people are familiar with the story of Noah and the Ark he was in with his family and a bunch of other creatures during the flood that God brought to destroy or more accurately recreate and elevate the world when Hashem tells nayeth Noah the different types of animals that would go into the ark the Torah does not call the spiritually impure animals impure rather the animals that are not pure the terror is quite literally going out of its way adding a bunch more words just to speak in a more positive fashion even about animals and the lesson is overwhelmingly obvious that when it's our turn to speak especially about someone else another person a human we have to make sure to speak positively and kindly when all that sinning was going down and God thought to destroy humanity the Torah says how God thought to destroy humanity it was just a thought but then God said I will perpetuate humanity through now notice how God himself didn't speak until there was something positive to say God himself shows us by example how careful we must be with our words God literally continuously creates the world by speaking everything into existence and us Jews being a part of God have this power as well what we say actually takes form in some physical or spiritual way saying something negative about someone actually brings out the negativity even more but flip that logic to the good side and by speaking positively about someone you're actually helping them to bring out their innate goodness seriously we have to talk positively about one another all that being said here comes the punch in the face ah the terror calls my righteous and then describes him as faultless in his generation it might sound like a compliment but one great sage says it's not he explains the Torah is just letting you know that in comparison to the rest of the wicked people in Noah's generation was Noah considered righteous but honest own skill he wasn't such a great guy okay now what about the animals the terror goes out of its way adding a bunch of words just to speak positively instead of saying impure saying the animals that are not but about a person about Noah there's even an opinion that says that perhaps the terror is going out of its way telling you that he was faultless in his generation only to tell you that he wasn't so great you get it I cuz I would not get it if not for this explanation the word Ark in the language of the Torah it's Ava and the word Teva can also be translated to mean word the waters of the flood are symbolic of the different issues that arise and that we can feel like we're drowning in in life one can be drowning in financial worries for example go into the Teva the Ark also translated as word go into the words of Torah study and prayer and be saved from the flood and don't drown in a flood of worries sounds beautiful but let's be realistic a holy guy like Noah who gets special attention from God goes into an ark and get saved from the flood but don't tell me that I have an ark of Torah study and prayer and I'll be saved as well come on but no it is precisely for this reason this excuse if you could call it that that there is this opinion that the Torah itself is even perhaps maybe saying something not so positive about Noah just to tell you just to tell me that if we think we're not so good and we're not deserving not true not true at all by adding in our Torah study and prayer we will be able to surf high above the floods of life we won't know any more of these floods of life with the revelation of mushiya may it be now use your power of speech like we said it's powerful let's use our power of speech and tell God we want Messiah now