(Part 5) The 8 Habits of Highly Spiritual People Rabbi Robert Rhodes

[Music] or learning through a number of different lists of things that are found in the writings of Roman or the high yo safe laner but more the high o safe lived term 1801 to 1854 he was the founder of the dynasty of a schvitz rods and he is known generally as the ish Bitzer and if you can spell the name of this town ish bits you get a prize it's it's belted everything every possible way you can imagine his major work in fact his only work is called the may hoshi lola the waters of the silo Amon and in this he has a number of lists it's quite a few lists of things that in some listed and what I see him doing is taking lists of things that he has an expectation you would know off by heart and saying connect with them lessons that you can learn for for your life so we didn't eat garments that the high priest wore and that is you are the high priest of your own life you put on eight particular metaphorical garments each representing different things that you should be doing in your life and you thereby remind yourself how to be a be a better person you work on improving yourself so here we're in the story of Noah and the flood and it's another eight things the next one we'll do I think will be 12 so we'll change things slightly I knew sure where things are and very mildly disoriented yeah so we have here a list of eight keywords that one of the high you know say focuses on in the story of Noah and the flood and they're in Genesis chapter 6 a for a sheep Perik evolved and the verse numbers are 14 15 and 16 so the expectation is you learn these a couple of verses of my heart because you already know the story very very well and then you have this list of things to do with making and building the ark and he is telling you in this how to navigate the stormy waters of life in in Zohar and in the writings of the Hasidic masters the the waters the oceans are to do with passion lust temptations right and we're not going to get into all this strongly do you think I think we may actually do that next time if there is an interest and even if there isn't we'll try it and if you get bored with it will switch to something else right um here we're looking at these three verses and the list is very simple if you have the handout in front of you it's the very first page and I have loads of them that I wrote in London if you would like a handout and you're watching us online and give us a call we used to say that sort of thing in the distant past right connect with us through our website and we'll happily send you a PDF of all of this the text itself is as a whole is available minish there's an english translation of the book but I have translated this particular teaching specifically geared towards our learning this list of eight things so what he does is a good deal simpler than we had with the previous set up and the ninth did not the eight garments there are eight things connected with the building of the Ark and God's instructions to Noah building the ark will take a very very Zippity zip review of those that's page number one the ark is made of gopher wood and that tells us the ship we should have no visible anger don't put your anger out there keep it within yourself number two the ark had key name and have compartments cabins that means you should keep faith you shouldn't come you should know where everything is everything has its proper place in this world the heart I shall cover the ark with tar or pitch uproot anger from your life so two of the two of these things are to do with anger and I think I know from life as a whole that anger is one of the big the big issues one of the big problems that many of us face or we see I mean work with people we don't get angry very much but we do see other people ruining their lives with anger number one is to restrain your and your number two so a part of completely if that's humanly possible the next one number four is the dimensions of the Ark and that's a mistake on the on the first page the dimensions of the Ark in Hebrew numerals spell out the word Lashon lammott Shem nun meaning speak only truth the Ark that will get you through life its measurements are truth that's a classic sort of homiletically preacher line but it really is it really really is a good thing to remember it's so hard the window the ark that you put yourself into is not one that is completely enclosed it's got to have a window it's got to have light coming in you've got to be able to see out you have to have clarity you may be locked up somewhere and closed in against the storm borders around you but you have to be able to look to the outside and you have to look up to heaven metaphorically and see that God is in charge there is a God to kalenna finish from above we'll we'll go into this in detail because it's really a literalist reading of the text the text itself seems to be saying the roof sloped from its width and its height up to one cubit across but by more the fire-safe is saying no this means you should only finish off the sides and the insides of the ark to within one cubit of the roof nothing is ever going to be completely finished nothing is ever perfect don't be a glutton don't eat all the food on the table leave something for someone else the door this has to be a door on the side I'm again or again going to talk about this because this history in the the history of the rabbi's of ish bits and also there is a boat architecture and engineering which I know nothing about the gentleman was here last week could before mr. van der Veen using the Naviance of Africa and yacht enthusiasts gotta get him to tell us what this really means door the door is in the side not in the normal place where you would expect in a boat and then the talk to you number eight is how we should deal with our children know I have three children and they're to be dealt with very very differently okay so we're going to take a look in the English I'm going to take a look at the Hebrew because the Hebrew sometimes does have a bit more in terms of nuance so if you're okay with the Hebrew we're gonna be reading through the very bottom of page number one and this is where we get where we left off though right I know I have this stuff here what's a-happening I am obsessively organized I have everything I'm losing nothing if I lose something the world comes to an end all right starting right at the beginning and I've numbered them and given them letters because there are eight things here and he's going to start off with one two three one two three one two three and they're all gonna they're all gonna follow so remote the failsafe starts this is in Volume one of the math she lost in the in the older editions page you'd had and it is parshat Noah in Volume one of the Mashable in yang hat Ava the Indian right word that we actually use insert in English today what the Ark is about the subject matter and he's going to be completely clear here God gave advice and means of protection itzá advice Hagana protection for Noah aruhya may has on what he should do until the days of anger are past right the time of the flood was a time of God was angry with the people of Israel and the boiling waters of the Seas there were of course killing off all of the people and metaphorically he is gonna push this forward unto us the same coal Michelin is that Kaylee Bo what we started off talking about that waters and oceans are to do with lust and passion how do we navigate the lusts and the passions and the desires that we have right we're all good people were all fully in control of ourselves but how can we get to be a little bit more in control how do we resist all the temptations that are out there and on a broader set and a broader sense how do we how do we get through life how do we get from the beginning to the end safely and well if you have not yet you learn is that carefully both Italian you have not managed to purify yourself completely you're not perfect yet and that I think is absolutely every one of us you have will not exalt you can find advice here a yes here at smo how you can hide yourself camouflage yourself from all the things that are going on around you we had gained a bed oh and protect yourself we call raha mitigation of all around from all the bad things that are happening out there in the world right I'm gonna take one moment and zip over to the to the Sun if we have a little bit of time at some point it's very very worthwhile with with the great Cassini rabbis to read them one generation after the next here in particular buy more the failsafe doesn't have a lot in writing but his son Rob Yaakov and the other sons and the grandsons and all of the students expand enormous Lee right so he says Noah hid himself in these three things the truth is though we're going to look at what those three things are not being angry not being angry and income Burma teak our historic acacia done Oh made negative my Barack the real place where you are hidden in is when you stand face to face with God that's hiding from the world but I'm missing exactly where I did this exactly the last time yeah I I read this the wrong way around Tara Howell on the way of the world how normal people do this how damn must here at smoke bitter adult busy stuff you keep yourself hidden and you think you're protecting yourself and isolating yourself from all the difficulties that you have in your from all the things that going on around you in the world when you keep busy when your calendar is full I've got something to do every single minute of every single day I'm not worried about anything else that's really totally false and he continues to say the only time that you are really hidden protected is when you're standing in front of God when you have purified yourself through all of these eight things okay don't fool yourself people don't fool yourselves we all do we all do it right I'm very good at deceiving myself and say there's plenty of time to do things and I'm really busy with this and I can't do something that's incredibly important right Davina brujas all the rabbi's have said it's in the tenets of a yahoo are about when the Midrash Ian that if you see is serene but in Allah you see afflictions you see difficulties coming your way yeah roots laqad recovering shell Torah you should run to the inner chambers of taurah and taurah will give you advice how to save yourself bad things are coming down the pike right whether it's unemployment looming whether it's an illness that's getting worse whatever it is a family situation that you're not dealing with by saying I'm too busy to deal with it go into the inner chambers of Torah study Torah this is not the same as a very classic line that we know that you have a headache study Torah if you have a pain in your foot study Torah right he's saying here everything difficult in life is gonna have its answer in a Taurus or a source all right and this is what he does this sort of Mordecai as I was doing here in the math she'll often this particular thing he's saying here is the story of Noah and the flood this will save you this will help you and of course if it doesn't there's there's a whole bunch off a dozen other different lists of things we do look at as well okay the in Yamaha Teva the whole thing about the arc is the very last line on page number two is what we learn in the de Marana setup Asaf him the whole track date of the tunnel that talks about Passover there are three three-peat types of people that God loves right God loves all of us of course there's no question about that but there are three types of people that God really likes and the list goes like this Misha a Naoko a someone who never gets angry the anal mr. kair someone who does not get drunk mission mad vram adoptive and someone who rises above his character traits you're me don't I have a particular character trait to be to find the humor and everything let's say something that's relatively innocuous I always see the funny side of things and there are times when that is not appropriate right their place isn't there times where you shouldn't laugh that's my challenge right whether you have the challenge of being angry or a characteristic of being gluttonous or whatever it happens to be this is one of the things that gets God to really love you so he's going to explain Misha a no cojes what does this mean someone who never gets angry if someone who does not manifest anger in any way most of the English translation here actually makes sense you will notice there are mistakes there's no doubt about it someone doesn't get angry is someone who does not manifest anger you can be angry and you can keep it in Shana mr. kair not getting drunk doesn't mean that you stay away from booze it means that you have you've had that that you have peace of mind you're tranquil you're calm and you recognize that God is in charge Mike here you recognize you see when I'm in and you believe in the creator of the universe this is an enormous Lea fundamental point in the Torah of ish bits God is in charge of absolutely everything even the negative stuff right one who rises above his character traits this is a sham a steer her chaos she sorry some Aesir of Monsieur Macy raucous he removes the anger even from the inside of his heart that there is no romance there is no resentment against your neighbor whatsoever so number a is don't get angry keep it in number to recognize who is in charge and if you don't recognize who is in charge it's like you're going through life drunk and number C is or letter C get that anger out of your heart completely because if you realize that your neighbor is being a total you know what well there's a reason for him being a total you know what because God wanted them to be like that because maybe it's to do with your reaction or maybe it's to do something with him from previous incarnations or whatever it is but this is God's plan this is the way it's supposed to be and then once you get through those those two stages you can you can genuinely take anger and zette meant out of your life completely that's what we hope for anyway right now Val a lush lush Omni remain sativa the ark tells us about these three we're still in one two three anger don't get angry remain calm God is in charge remove anger numbers 1 2 & 3 are going to tell us this in terms of the the Ark of not a sailor heart Ava that's a golfer make for yourself an ark of gopher wood the word gopher what occurs nowhere else in the entire Hebrew Bible it's a half Axler gamma non wonderful word - to remember in his read and occurs only once in the Hebrew Bible go fair is or go freeeee it is either sulfur or pitch or tar the meaning may be and this is not entirely from Jewish traditional sources but wood basted with pitch so you take tar pitch whatever these substances aren't soak the wood and it cover the wood with with it and it makes it more waterproof and storm-proof shallow tea Hoss don't become anger sulfur refers to anger right sulfur and brimstone are what God rains down on the city of Sodom and Gomorrah right so a manifestation of God's anger don't let your anger show because it's gonna really totally ruin things in your entire life should to score at that cost close up the anger and don't become angry in real practical terms okay King Index but a cane is a net as a nest can make decks compartments or rooms in the art needs you should not get drunk how does it get that it's a little bit odd in terms of our sort of understanding and use of the Hebrew and English language keen in our rooms and like one who has many rooms in his home you must have tranquility of mind to know where each one is and what is its use right if you have a very large house unlike the homes we live here in Israel you have itty-bitty little apartments you live in a big palace somewhere you need to have tranquility of mind to know what each room is and what it's all about right he makes an allusion to the track to the Mishnah called keen in which is talking about bird sacrifices it's a very peculiar and very very difficult and terse and complex piece of of the mission er to learn you need a very calm mind to get to the depths of terror in it the enormous tranquility to just get through the complexities and the charts related to it but in addition there are we are told very very deep secrets hidden within this and very deep Torah but you can't get this without being really calm and peaceful mind okay the Kafar tell Tommy by it to me hoods then you shall cover the inside and the outside with pitch this room to say that in the first verse where it's go fair and co fair there might be a similarity and a change of letters again these are not two resources talking because we don't want to talk about scribes made mistakes or change things in the Torah itself but go fair and Cofer seems to be the same thing and what their coat they are doing is covering up the wood which means should afford me the talking shall rise above your characteristics your natural character traits keep the cough errata and this is a little Hebrew bit here it's not letter C the second time around here Cafferty is the same word as you shall atone cap para is to atone for sin and Kafar is to cover over don't you ask God to atone for my for my sins for your sins by covering them over cover them over completely that there'd be no remnant of anger left in my heart okay believeth of chelouche a believer hiroshima cos there isn't gonna even be an impression of the anger left in the depth of your heart okay so that's one two and three number four is the shoe rim and that's where there's the obvious mistake on page number one the sheer rim of the ark are the letters of the Hebrew word Lashon without the vowel there Lama chin noona and I've spelled it out the measurements of the ark spell out the word tongue length is 300 cubits which is letter Shin with his fifty cubits which is the letter noon and height is thirty cubits which is the letter lammott you must not have within you a lie tongue don't naturally try to deceive people by telling them other than the truth right I have intentionally left out a little bit of the Hebrew here and if you really feel the urgent can go back but he is making it a tiny bit more more complicated number five make a window so hot I sell ateva you shall make a window in the Ark means you must know that everything comes from God shed take da get Kol be - online everything is the hand is in the hand of God right this is a very very common common expression right we see accomodation mind everything is in God's hands and the normal continuation of that is puts meteorite remind the Rebbe UV Schmitz is gonna say even including the fear of heaven the fact that you are a god-fearing observant religious person who would not imagine of doing anything wrong that is because God wants you to be that way and what the Rebbe of issue it seems to say in many cases and the conclusion does seem to be there if you don't learn it can't really and you don't learn it well after emphasize this that if you do something wrong if you go into a store and steal a candy bar right let's take very simple safe examples that is because God wanted me to steal that candy bar from the store and there was a higher purpose for there's something that I have to learn from it there's a lesson it's not possible and conceivable that theft should occur in the world without going to happen right so here we're not talking in these big philosophical terms the mass Ulloa was burned in the streets when it was first printed so you've got an inkling of why some of the major major characters in the Hebrew Bible are not just completely whitewashed and exonerated but even praised for their misdeeds all right take the 1 of the Torah readings we've been looking at recently it's love hot but he hasn't really weird Hebrew English name right he is supposed to be Adam and who was out there collecting sticks on the Sabbath and his daughters get the inheritance or don't get the inheritance and there's a whole discussion right at the end of The Book of Numbers safer by me but the Rebbe UV Schmidt says he was out there doing that intentionally to clarify the law regarding gathering sticks on the Sabbath it's not the first one that says this but he's that's one of one of his big and obvious ones and he's got he's got a bunch of them right so this is not the sort of thing that you want people to hear that you should go out and you should test the law because well maybe through you're breaking the law and being executed for it or being struck by a lightning bolt or whatever or getting a terrible bad name throughout all of history you've clarified something you brought a new piece of law a piece of wisdom into the world something like that yeah it's a subject for another day but the base the basic overall overall point is he looks at everyone's being good and everything is being good and the good side of that for us is it's okay to make mistakes the mistakes that you make the failings that you have are part of the plan I'm trying to stay sober I'm trying to say away from eating ice cream I'm trying to but every time I fall back and do the negative and the bad things it's not a terrible reflection upon myself I'm not a failure it's part of the process and that's that's can that can be good to know that can be very good to know not this doesn't work for everybody this sort of worldview in the way the living doesn't doesn't work for everybody but it works for a lot of people and I find my head is in the Torah Bishop it's a lot to the point where I'm collecting pretty much every every one of the students and every one of the next generations there's an enormous amount of valuable stuff here okay the window the toheart is either an actual window or it is some sort of magical stone or maybe it's a real type of stone that reflected and refracted the light back in to the ark hi nahi route via dia that sohara first clarity and knowledge you know there is a God you know everything happening comes from God you know the other person's success and your relative failure comes from God it's okay it's not the end of the world right here's the one we explained already clearly before vellum article and Emile Amala the translation which I don't have in front of me from the the classic art scroll is that the roof tapered upwards and it was one cubit wide or long at that particular point at the very top a sloping roof it makes sense if you've seen drawings or pictures of the Ark that's what it looks like he is reading it very literally the L MA - what - a measurement of one cubit you shall finish it from above it's insane behold kab blot ha ha ha you must restrain yourself you must hold yourself back in everything that yours you received from above all right it's not just how all the food on the table you should hold yourself back from but everything good that God gives you don't take it all share realize you're not meant to be a glove repetitive a bit Sadat Asim put the entrance of the door of the ark and the side the door of the Ark and the side you shall put it and he's bringing a verse from Psalms seek peace and pursue it and the Midrash on that particular verse of Psalm says what's the difference between seeking peace and pursuing peace seek back case go ahead and look for peace mEEMIC Omaha in your place where you are and where you live what fail you and run after it somewhere else so what does this mean hi no meat seed aha from your point of view Kumiko ha ha and from your personal strength and effort there should be nothing holding you back from making peace with someone else from your point of view and in terms of what energy and what abilities you have been given by God you should be able to make peace with every other human being that you made a Gambir Dolf ah ha ah ha ha there oh but to chase after a friend he said specifically have a row your friend but I think he means a friend to chase after someone liquor Ava that small AHA vero to get close to your friend gam Zoet aim may hat Sora Katsura this unfortunately or fortunately is not something that is absolutely necessary to do you do not have to chase after a friend to get close to him if your friend comes to you if he passes by your house if you're sitting together with the minister in a school in a classroom whatever yeah make friends do you have to really run after everybody to make Shalom with them why is this key behold the her name SAS a fake there's a doubt about absolutely everything you Holly your choosey a marui levar vltava not the sort of politically correct expression where we're used to saying I'm going to translate this very literally you Holly ought it is quite possible that this person is not appropriate to come into your house right do you have to make peace with everyone do you have to invite everybody into your home does everyone have to be your friend and the answer here he says is no ah who da thought oh damn Kenny marish I still do not push him away does a parish bit see God and this is what it means put the door in the side the lobe appear soon not publicly not obviously I'm reading this in terms of my total lack of knowledge of boats I don't like boats I don't like traveling by sea but the way to get onto a boat is through the top deck and that's obvious you put the gangplank out you walk over it there you go and a door at the side of a boat is not as common so it's not as open and it's obvious to everyone right right so I assume the door is above the waterline but it's not where you expect it to be in the picture that is giving you I think is that don't put a sign over your front door saying all are welcome because there are some people who you really shouldn't welcome to your house maybe they're not gonna be a good influence on your children maybe they'll just take up too much of your time because your time is more fun able to give teaching Torah classes visiting people in the hospitals whatever it is yeah it's it's a contradiction this is a difficult one it is a politically incorrect one it completely goes against Abraham on his tenth right which is the Midrash that we all know very very well Abraham a tent with the door in every single side as well yeah it's it's not an easy one it's not an easy one too small and it's a it's an issue that the revenues officials have had from the very beginning and it was a split in the second generations of these rabbis by Mordecai Yosef welcome to everyone into his Beit Midrash into his study hall debate Yakov the better-known student and son similarly the other son the noted Esha took a group of his of his close students and said no we gotta study all by ourselves we want to have our elite group and then next generation switched around and it is an argument it is an argument who should who should we be working on are we supposed to be working on improving ourselves or is it more important that we go out and work and help other people and it's a balance that we try and we try to strike and those of us who are involved in teaching Torah we have to strike that sort of balance somehow or other [Music] right huge job to be sure you open up the doors for anybody comes alert right right here he's putting it in the in the simplest of terms the simplest of terms your home you you can't invite everybody in because there are people who just take and take and take and you have nothing left for yourself or for or for other people there are people who make more than a nuisance of themselves right denote the more important point I think perhaps is to think about this what is what is our priority what is our priority is our priority large numbers is our priority making everybody happy is our priority being everyone is my friend that's that's not possible in life right here in this in this particular paragraph in this page and a half or so of text he's really very very straightforward giving you advice for you and the other stuff is hanging there in the background and it really really can't go like unreported right absolutely this is this is one of the important lessons of yeah maybe it's a different difference a different set of borders right and there are people who have their home open all the time day and night and there are people who need to have private time and you need to recharge your batteries think about the sort of stuff that's B's telling you all right this is number seven that takes us into number eight all right okay so the text tells us that God says to Noah make lower decks in the art talk to him she in Russia Shem tossa you shall make tattiyum bottom deck she in the second deck loosely shimma third deck right and I assume a top deck as well what is this all about this is about how you deal with your children all right so we got to take this a little bit slowly right and last time we looked at the misdeeds of Noah sons otherwise we don't know very much about these guys we see them doing something pretty nasty or something at least reprehensible right high noon what does this mean she needs tab there Noah God gave a commandment to Noah all right he's not talking about eight so they sought here or ate some or advise the commandment God told Noah as an orderly da a clean I hate in shalash Panov God commanded Noah to know how to act with each of his three children the whole had Rafi madre gato each one of them according to his own level right Homme is the bad guy in the story right you remember back to our graphic depiction of what harm did or didn't do he at least um made fun of and looked at and mocked his naked drunk old man right so Homme is referred to as tattoo him should a bear emo Rock leaf NIM that you should only speak to him lifts NIM with him I haven't really got a good handle on what on what he means by that and there may very well be something in the next generations but don't have too much publicly to do with don't talk to him within limits only lower and I think inferior or else at a lower at a lower level yeah but that's why I'm thinking that's what I'm thinking if you see the other ones that he doesn't tell you that much more outs with japhet Shyam seconds finish em she leash him and with Shem you shall speak to him thirds he's gonna tell you exactly what shishya means that's true that is true talk to him first this is this is all there is this is literally all there is with it with regard to Shem who is of course the good son right she did that bear mo make ohmic olive you shall speak to him from the depths of the heart the whole SoDo toccata kal-el oh and you shall reveal all your secrets or your secret wisdom to him so going back from that with the basic thought that Shem is the good son and gets all the secret wisdom all the wisdom of Torah all the life experience of the Father and the effect gets something in the middle and ham gets something of a lower level it would be nice if you'd spell this out perfectly and clearly for us this is one of the unfortunate things we don't have an enormous amount more on this don't treat your children equally oh my god you know that is not something that we normally say at all on the other hand recognize that your children are very different from each other right I have two children they have nothing whatsoever in common right absolutely nothing and they're you know obviously related they're both pieces of each of us of their parents but in terms of life and mind and the way they think no one would recognize them as being brother and sister what were these three like we only have this woman's we only have this one story where after the ark Noah gets drunk and something happens and it looks like Shem initiate the good and making the right out of oil yeah that goes along with that and Tom is the one who's sitting there laughing at the drunken father right and there there are worse and more unpleasant readings of the soul attacks he got to that stage right he's not being but then again the instructions are before he goes into the art whereas the events are after the ark right it's it's open to interpretation and open to reading I haven't yet found anyone in any of the descendants or the students that are talking about this and clarifying it completely if I do I will I will get back to you but there's a lot of material to read through right now he's gonna sum up and he's gonna say something quite radical that you may or may not like but take it or leave it the holds ahaaa X Oakland da code emption Islam all of this was advice to Noah before he became perfect alias Terrence moe Howie Howie should conceal himself how he should withdraw maybe last tear and that's Moe to conceal himself should better be translated how he should withdraw into himself how he should withdraw into and closed-off environment and work on improving himself right because he's gonna bring this to an ultimate conclusion with the ark being a cruise where you are bombarded with self-help speakers right Stephen Covey cruises with you for an enormous fee right how did the Ark is something to close yourself up into and to study yourself retour like this meditate do hit the bow to do it talk to God maybe that's what the pictures that we're getting to that isolate yourself withdraw yourself from the world so you can go out back into the world right in this branch of huh see dude there is no complete withdrawal from the world the physical world is there to be enjoyed to be used it's given to you by God but maybe you need time alone maybe you need to go off on a crew by yourself either a literal or metaphorical one right lock yourself up in your house for a few days and rethink things and look at this picture look at this list of eight things and go through the checklist spend time on each of them right how he will conceal himself Kimmi yada shia-sama Nativa because after he left the arc hai-yah hashes okay start again Kimmi yada immediately after when he left the arc sha as Hayashi Lama toe the period of time he was in the arc was his period of completion of perfection of himself as I said Asahi faith may Allah had the varium then he did the exact opposite of all of these things right this is like the the difficult bit now right you thought you were just getting a list of things now the list of things is once you go through this list then you perfect yourself then you can leave your arc and then you can go out and do them kimochi cut to us he does the verses tell us if I eh Noah drank he got drunk vishka right he got drunk and he drew and he was angry the law of our amido Tov and he did not rise above his characteristics going back to the very first three core things don't get drunk don't get angry and rise above your character traits are the things that God wants and loves in a human being when Noah left the ark he got drunk got angry and indulged his anger right the verse as it's translated in English says North was drunk and he was lying naked in the in his tent and ham ham the Sun looked at him and mocked him and once he Sobers up and realizes what happened he's angry with ham being a bad son and curses him right so he shows his anger and he retains the anger in his heart by giving him a detailed curse that goes on to his next generations as well and then blesses the other two sons makes calm into being a slave to all of the earth to the other guys and their descendants right so this is what we started out with saying these are things you should not do and through doing all of these things and not getting drunk not getting angry rising above your character keeping your tongue etc etc etc you get to a place not just where your perfected but where you're permitted to get angry you're permitted to get drunk and you're permitted to keep anger in your heart but have we done here folks what have we done last line Keisha Keisha Adam Islam when a person has achieved perfection when you've completely worked out your character traits when you've worked on yourself long and hard honestly time to hit pass shake this is again one of these key words that they they keep using the hit tepache just to spread out and generally when the rep you visit senses he's saying you're allowed to let yourself go and if you have complete and absolute control over your anger you're an angry person by nature right I hope none of us are but let's say you're a very angry person by nature you have a hair-trigger whatever the term is very easily you get ticked off and your you shat me screen and you spend time working on yourself and you must draw into yourself and you go to a retreat and you come to Torah classes and you get yourself a Rebbe and an advisor and you see a psychiatrist right and you work on it and you finally come to the day where the psychiatrist says I don't need to come back anymore you're fine and you don't fly off the handle every minute you really don't then there are occasions where you are not just allowed to but you should become angry and there are people and there are occasions where you should retain anger how is the son of Noah and Noah for whatever his reasons got blind drunk hanging out in his birthday suit passes out he is right to have anger against him and to say bad things to and even to retain the anger he has the ability to use anger as a tool once it becomes under his control it's not a very so popular way of looking at things today maybe with small children we can control them a little bit with you know fake anger perhaps that so that's a reasonable term the show but but to it to keep it in your mind that my kid did this rotten thing at age three and I gotta keep that anger here ready to use at h4 and h5 at 86 right so it's not a perfectly formatted and formulated set but it does give you a pretty decent set of guidelines I think anyway and the story of Noah and the flood is one that we it's a kids story it's happy despite the the nasty is a little bit in the x-rated stuff at the end but it does speak to us very directly about navigating the difficult waters of life so hopefully you will take this home with you and study this a little bit we are continuing next week I presume and what I think I want to do next week is again stay with them May has she lost because it's relatively easy text to read and I've already translated some of this and if you feel the urge you can from Amazon get the actual full translation of the book and we'll talk about a list of 12 things to do for each of the months of the year this this this is the mayushii Lola waters of the San Juan pool yeah what's that I forget what the book is called it's by Rob by petal Edwards and he's translated into English and I think it's called still waters or deep waters but rabbi Edwards has one book on Amazon and that's worth getting plus season is a friend of ours so we like to support people we know but we will get into the issue of what is the power that there is in the month of the year and what we should focus on each month so a different sort of approach it's a different approach all together and that will bring us up to rush Hashanah Yom Kippur stuff what we should be doing in the month of I was doing the month of L o and that issue is about [Music]