Noach: Rabbi DovBer Pinson

the portion of Noah is the story of the great flood and it's a story of Noah with his children who survive in the ark that's the just of the story and everything else is commentary but this is the story of a generation that goes a mo and Noah has a vision and told to build this Ark and he enters into the ark want to understand a little bit what what actually is really going on who is Noah what does Noah represent and what is the arc and how this information is related to us so just read a little bit from the zor of this week in portion of Noah so the zor says like this come and see the same way similarly is below and therefore no is similar to the attribute of yod which I'll explain what this is and therefore he's considered the master or the person of the earth which is related to the SP the attribute of needed the ark to enter into the Ark in order to give Offspring to the Future Generations so the zor basically says that there are two predominant themes in the portion of Noah which is Noah the person and Noah the Ark that he builds and symbolically Noah is called in the Torah the Torah calls Noah is a righteous man that no was a righteous person the definition of righteousness according to thear is related to the sphere or the attribute of isod isod is a male quality SPH which represents focus focus energy Mal which is the Tava The Arc is the is the vessel in which Noah enters so Noah survives by being the ATT of yod entering into a vessel which represents Mal which is the receiver and surviving through the flood by being a y creating a Unity between the attribute of Y and the attribute of Mal okay this is what the zor says now we try try to little unpack this information there are two qualities that we have innately within ourselves one is the quality of giving and one is the quality of receiving these are two inate qualities that we have within ourselves the quality of of giving represents a female a male quality and the quality of receiving represents a female this doesn't mean men or women Fe feminine and masculine qualities which exist with both within male and within female with men within women so we have a quality of giving and a quality of receiving the quality of giving is the attribute of yod giving from ourselves towards another sharing the quality of receiving which is a positive quality also is is the attribute of malh which is the receiver so you have yod is the giving quality and Mal is receiving quality Noah represents a Unity which the idea of unity means a flow between the giving and the receiving a constant flow the generation of Noah the way the zor understands it and the Torah gives us a description and says that it was a generation that went to foul and and was not a good generation but what happened exactly so zor says there the Torah says there were malas which zor understands is they created a separation between the higher and lower Waters higher Waters represents the giving lower Waters represents the receiving the generation of Noah was a generation of receivers all they wanted to do in life is receive and get I want more I want more I want more because there was only receiving and no sharing and no giving there was a complete meltdown of the vessel the melting of the vessel was was was the cause of the flood and literally symbolically the flood is the lower Waters of the earth Rises up that's the torah's description and the waters from above flow downward which is the unity between the upper Waters and the lower Waters but what caused that which is the rectification of the separation between the higher and lower Waters is because the lower Waters just wants to receive Noah represents the balance bance entering into the ark represents the balance between giving and receiving it's not sufficient enough for us to just receive in life we acquire things whether it's money and it's food and we're taking into ourselves relationships it's also in order for us to be complete human beings and to create Unity within ourselves we have to complete the cycle of receiving and receiving for the point of sharing and sharing sufficient enough and then rece receiving again so we have enough to share and that's the way we complete a cycle of giving and receiving giving and receiving Noah represents the balance between the giving and the receiving that's why he's considered a sadic which has the attribute of giving and in fact what what is Noah's job description when he finally enters into the ark his job description is that he has to feed the animals so not only is he shearing to his kin which is to his children and his offspring which is zor says was not a positive quality because didn't share for others but in order to rectify the unsharing towards others he not only has to share towards others but he has to also share towards an animal into the animal kingdom and serve the animal and by doing that he's giving the quality of sharing that creates the balance of the giving and the receiving and that's why cabalistic the structure of the Ark embodies the quality of giving and receiving we know that there's the name of Hashem which is the prominent name is yud and a hay and a V and a he the yud represents the seed which is the quality of the male quality which is the giving the hay which has vertical and exp and horizontal expansion represents the quality of receiving the V is again a giving quality it's a line and the hay is the circle which is the receiving so you have a line Point Circle Line Circle male female male female that's the yud k v yud the hey and the V and the he when there's a Unity between the yud he and the V and the he then there's Unity between the masculine giving and the receiving feminine the dimensions of the arc is that it was 300 its length 50 at its 50 at its width and 30 at its height so it's 30 300 by 50 by 30 if you take the yut V the letter UD is the number 10 right so if you have the yud which is the male quality and it has a quality of unity with the hay so then you have 5 time 10 5 time 10 is 50 that's the dimensions of the width then you have the letter VV and the VV is connected now with the hey VV is number six hey now is 50 6 * 50 is 300 so you have the length then you have the final hay final hay is five V and hey V is six 6 * 5 or 5 * 6 is 30 so you have the qu the the dimensions of the height so the the embodiment of the quality of giving and receiving is actually in the structure of the Ark because the structure of the Ark represents the the the quality of perfect balance between giving and receiving and this is what this is what the zor is saying this is what this portion really represents this is what the energy of this week is to have a shift in our Consciousness in terms of how we understand giving and receiving most of us think that we receive in life I work I earn money I I receive something and then as a separate thing I'm also a good person and I give theor says no giving and receiving is part of the same process you can't receive in a proper way only if you give and you can give only if you receive in order to really embody the true energy of yut V which is more focused on this week is if we understand that the process of giving and sharing is not something that's outside of our receiving it's part of our receiving the purpose of our receiving is actually to share and the more we sheare actually the more we receive that's the cycle of giving and receiving that's the complete cycle of the yud the into the and that's what the zor says is the the unity between Noah the attribute of of yod the masculine the giving and the Ark where he enters into the ark and that's the way he builds a family and builds a new world the new world order that Noah builds is an order that understands the quality of giving and receiving and that the giving is and the sharing is part of the receiving and the receiving is part of the giving and that's the way we enter into a consciousness of the portion of Noah by understanding what it is to really share not that we're sharing because we received but sharing is part of receiving a receiving is part of sharing