Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz - The Throne of David and the Coming of Moshiah

[Music] everybody hope you're enjoying the the month depression back to ordinary ordinary life and which we try to do is we we talk about doctoral but we also blend it in with the parsha at the same time because after all the tour is connected to the parsha automatically but tonight since at least for a while I'm a little one partial behind because last week I spoke about gracious and this week I'm going to speak about Noah and then we'll segue to Rio Bravo vino and that is the habit aura that was read their last Shabbos is actually a repeat after L it is actually one of the half tolerance of the seven have turrets of comfort that we read between Tish above and Rosh Hashana there are seven weeks they're called Shabbat dinner Kempe the seven weeks of Torah and it happens to be that one of those of toros is the same of children as we read in parshas and Noah and it is a vittoria of comforts again all of that comforts are from the prophet yahya who is called the great prophet of comfort and it is giving the Jewish people then and now strength and hope and resilience that in spite of all of the salutes and all of the sufferings that have befallen the Jewish people and might still befall the Jewish people eventually they will be Redemption there will be love there will be the building of the base of Mick - there will be a goal ah Baruch Hashem in our own lifetime we have seen what at least some people regard as the beginning stirrings of the Google that's not the end of it but as you know in the FEMA lish loja medina that many people reciting there is a phrase that is a loaded phrase it actually is an ideologically charged phrase and that is ray Sumeet hot Gugu Latino it is the beginning of the SEMICON of the growing of the budding thank you of our Redemption now that seems to be a very close paraphrase of the Aramaic phrase that's used in her cell as causa the beginning of a Redemption now so they guess for a few moments these feel a little um I'm a denies an interesting history the official author with Roberts Concord suck who was the first Ashkenazic chief rabbi in medina Essaouira of cook was the first chief rabbi but he died before there was a Medina a prince that would be first robbery she of the Medina but it is also said that for efforts I utilized the services of a very well-known literary man and that is shiet nun who in fact some people say he was the one who actually altered the prayer there's still a little bit of a debate some say most recent articles indicate reverse side but but some say the phrase we should see me cut to latina was in fact that was Agnos one contribution and you may know that there are some synagogues I know in the United States that say that feel of Islamic Medina but they don't say the words race its Mossad kumite no because on one hand one could be grateful from Adina Israel and one could say Hashem and one could pray for its welfare but one doesn't want to take a position whether it's part of a messianic process or not but I've always thought that particularly if I've known is the author you know I've known obviously would be a person of great literary sensitivities and I think in many ways Rey to me hot cool Latino is really a phrase of genius it actually is a much more brilliant phrase than race go low or at all to the glut stop the Nakula implies that you're simply saying this is part of an irreversible process towards Messiah and some say well you know we're not on that my dragon necessarily but the word sumika is a growing plant now think of the analogy of a growing plant i plant a seed in the ground that seed potentially can turn into wheat or even an oak tree whatever whatever it is that you're planting but it's only a potential that may or may not be actualized because it then depends on how you cultivate it the care that you take to get rid of the weeds and the poisons and the watering and the proper Sun so the concept is this perhaps one cannot say that Medina Israel is race its goal attainable but it's like a semi high in which potentially it can indeed be part of our Redemption but it all depends on how we respond to that challenge if we respond with Sinatra Nam with divisive naswinger ization with sectarianism with hatred or with excessive materialism and then trying to be Kahala km then it may turn into maybe a failed experiment I don't mean totally failed brother Sherman we have we have what we have and that's good but it may not automatically turn into the promise that on the other hand with the right cultivating factors it can turn into a redemptive experience so the word Samhita is actually I think a a choice of genius because it suggests a certain indeterminacy in which Hashem gives you the opportunity but what it becomes depends more on us than it depends on time you know I remember when I was in yeshiva many years ago so I think I've mentioned this before at the beginning of a Samana of learning beginning of a new Samad so the receiver would ask they tell me them are you gonna learn well this month so we would give the yeshiva buckers religious response immured soshim if God wills I will learn well so his response always was God certainly wants you to learn well the question is not what does God want the question is what do you want and in some ways we could say the same thing about Erik Israel or Medina Israel Hashem wants the Jewish people to have their homeland here this is our land this is our place this is how we get close to God in the greatest possible way and Jim gives us opportunities to turn this into a holy stage towards the redemption of the Jewish people and that's God's will and that's God's desire but because he leaves so much of what happens to human free will that's the fundamental principle of Judaism but he read so it's entirely possible that God forbid we could mess up and all sorts of all sorts of ways and therefore I think that either I've known her forever talk either way the notion of the Sinisa is an enormous ly insightful metaphor because I think that is so even if I itself is used for messiah as semuc of in the the chute that the outgrowth of observing and in fact Semak is one of the names of machine unless ye f is called Semih growing growth because growth suggests cultivation and input on our parts and that's something to think about you know we live in a meta-analysis there are so many things to be grateful for every single day the people who don't live here are grateful that there is a State of Israel and we of course who live here that the privilege of living here are even more grateful although we perhaps get more frustrated too but but by and large there's so much to be grateful for but we also know that there are many many problems and I don't just mean minor things like Iranian nuclear war and terrorism no those are the minor issues we have to confront the major issue is the war between the Jews as it where the polarization the dissension that we have I remember there was an organization it probably still exists but I guess I once saw their Bibles I think it was called common denominator in Hebrew that's moving a me treat a fight oh yeah yeah so this wasn't an organization that attempted to bring Jews of different persuasions religious non-religious umi-car ad is that Elia made together to dialogue very very actually a beautiful idea so they had ground rules for dialogue something the ground rules for successful dialogue so I remember it probably was tongue-in-cheek but I still remember rule number one no throwing of chairs is alive that's kind of where we are unfortunately and as rough cook used to say debates hammock - was destroyed because of sin not cleaning it will only be rebuilt when there's about Trina but interestingly enough interestingly enough I had heard from someone and I think his under percent direct he doesn't believe rough cook would have said it that way because I practically Nam suggests there's no reason for me to love that person but I'll love him for no reason that's not the way I thought you throw works about you thrill doesn't mean you're worthless but I love you anyway I bought you three L actually means I see your value I see your worth the doctor I think the very good point that he doubts ruff cook would have ever expressed the idea of about u3l as our birth phenom Sena can be signaling them but I've I've is the other way around you see the greatness you see the goodness you see the nobility and I've said that many times of course don't forgive me for repeating but one of my favorite cooking in Tanakh is the pass okay miss way Kamiya upon him upon him came a flood and we are done as water reflects the face that you show the water so to the heart of one person reflects that's what you show it and the Vilna Gaon explains very simply when i look in a pool of water the face that I see coming back at me is the face that I show the water I see my faith in the water if I smile at the water I get a smile if I frown at the water I get a friend whatever I show the water is what the water gives back to me so to such Lamar Miller the heart of a human being reflect back that's what you show that human being you show that human being love and concern and respect they will feel that way to you so in many many ways if there's a such a polarization not only between religious and secular but between religious and religious of all shades you know baskin-robbins has 31 enough flavors of ice cream we have much more than 31 varieties of religious observance within the religious world I'm not even talking about the non-religious world and yet each side looks at the other with such suspicion and such disdain well what does that mean that causes the other side to look at whoever the other side is in the same way if on the other hand we would have a kapha and an orientation in which we recognize the positivity there's such a word that positive contributions whether it's hye-lim the soldiers the policemen the states generally which is such a great supporter of Torah you know like it or not like it and we would have appreciation then there would be appreciation for for the other sides to the debate as well so in many many ways the Middle East or Israel Israeli style of totally D legitimating the other side kind of backfires because the more you demonize the other the more the Deen the other side demonizes you and that is why everybody's armed alike and everybody's this is that as opposed to an idea of trying to have genuine respect for the contributions that people make people can have very very different touch go for some very very important things and Judaism does not cover up the Syrians I mean every page of the Gemara it is filled with debate and discussion and maloca so nobody's saying to shut up nobody is saying not to articulate not to debate not to discuss but it doesn't have to be in a read on a foundation of disdain and be told sex of charities the other way around people aren't discussing because they doesn't want to talk I talk to talk to the other side so in a sense therefore when we read to have tourists of comforts we're really getting to messages in the service of comforts now a fitori number one is that God loves us and he will redeem us and he will give us blessings and we need that reassurance that as tough as life is there is going to be that light and that redemption that's going to come but at the same time it also highlights through the metaphor of seminar the idea of human initiators and the human initiative has to be overcoming sin us freedom now by the way there is a whole other discussion whether part of that initiative is the Zionist Enterprise itself indeed that's very very interesting that you know Natura Carter to take an extreme position and the story Carter takes the position that it is how laughably forbidden for the Jewish people to create a state until the coming of Messiah this is a well-known position of the Tory cartel and let me emphasize it is not because the government is largely non-religious that is I mean that's an additional reason that upsets them but even if every Prime Minister every cabinet member every member of the Knesset were you know a Talmud custom that was a Buckey in chocen post-game mmm-hmm and a total Eurasian Mayan they take the position it is how logically forbidden to establish a state until the coming of Messiah this is the jury contra position now there is much immature a character that is what you might call a lunatic French the people who meet without Ahmadinejad and those are crazies but I do want to point out that the Terek artists substantive philosophical position is not a frivolous one it is not a fact there's some very prominent scientists thinkers that have read the satmar rebbe ease her logic arguments and they have frankly been very very shaken for their there's there is substance there but as I say this is a sharp debate but let me just end it's based on it's actually based I'm going to mention very very quickly I don't want to give all share on it it's based on a passage in Maseca Zubaz DAF rufio Dolloff to Subaru 111 and this is the famous Gemara of the three oaths the shallow shovels based on a verse in Shira Shira more another four verses repeated three times where God set where where the Benes well say as the personification of the woman his party yet samba no shushing I might have made you swear in - yo VIN todo at our value will not stir up or awaken the love adjectives are totally desires to come up its own accord it's a very enigmatic phrase but the gomorian Kazuko says at the time of the destruction of the base of Mukesh Hashem made the Jewish people take three oats one oath was low Yahoo bakoma they will not climb the wall Rashi says they will not attempt to conquer the Land of Israel from non Jewish occupiers by force of arms that is what the Loyola bakoma the second low Uemura dubaku Mouse the Jewish people will be loyal citizens to their host countries and they will not try to repel although juice of broken bed quite a few times and the third is an interesting comment Lolita's Lewis a case don't try to bring my Chi up too early it's not even clear exactly what that means but that we want mashiac now maybe a little bit of a problem now the satmar rebbe argues that the first idea of not fighting militarily to establish a Jewish state is actually a whole lotta kisser to have a Jewish state now most of yous do not take that field because they make the argument that's the War of Independence let's go back to 1948 the War of Independence was not like the American Revolutionary War this was not a war to establish independence the other way around the state of israel was legally recognized by the United Nations and when Palestine was a British Mandate you had the ball for declaration right about 100 1917 last year was the hundredth anniversary so as a result the most common touch fewer is really not this not analogous to the Russian Revolution or the American Revolution or the French Revolution which was a revolt against existing authority rather it was simply defending that which was already recognized by the international community and therefore as a result the culture matura character argument was that the establishment of a state was not in contravention of this rule and at that point if then becomes a positive rather than a negative again I don't want to get into the the ideology there's another approach that is said in the name of the measure hokhmah in which he says if you look in the Gemara Hashem made the Jewish people take three oaths but there was actually a fourth oath that Hashem made the nations of the world take that they will not oppress the Jewish people excessively so this kind of a package deal they treat us nice and we don't stir we don't drop the boat now obviously whether it's the Holocaust or the Crusades or the programs or the community massacres or the Spanish Inquisition or the Terrorism that still surrounds us the yumoto alum have not lived up to their promise as a result we are released from our sha-booyah as well because it's a package deal B this is Mary this is the matura Carter position of the argument but let me point out that's another in the Ricardo so esophagram I'm not dealing with the lunatic fringe meeting with that with image ad that those those are crazy in the satmar rebbe himself there's no doubt in my mind would disassociate himself in fact there's a beautiful story somebody told me it's not true I really hope it is true because it is such a fantastic story in 1968 or 67 when Nixon was running for his first term as president so the Democratic nominee was Lyndon Johnson's vice president Hubert Humphrey very little older you may remember remember that and Humphrey had been senator from Minnesota Humphrey was a liberal that goes went all the way back to the 40s and he was a big big Zionist supporter he supported the Israel before it was a state suit you know weapons whatever Israel needs is fine so he had heard there was a large group of in Brooklyn so they have to be separate to see the moon's break so he asked one of his aides to organize a big campaign rally where he could galvanize the Jewish vote in Williamsburg so yes 10,000 Satmar secede him in the satmar rebbe was there and Humphrey gets up and of course there's a Yiddish translator and Humphrey starts talking about he has you know he has the best record in the United States Senate of support for the Zionism of Israel and in fact he supported the Zionist state and he used the word Zionism over and over again he supported Zionism you know ever since World War two and any and you notices that the casino don't seem to be responding so much so anyway one of the Jewish aides realized this was not the right audience to make that sign in this pitch so he goes over to the satmar rebbe he spoke Yiddish and he apologizes you know Humphrey a guy should cook you know the country doesn't know all the subtleties in the Jewish community but look at the other things that he did so he notices the satmar rebbe is smiling and nodding and saying everything's fine everything's fine and what he said was this listen I disagree with the Zionist state I don't support the Zionist state but this is a family fight this is a dispute within the family I don't want my family to be hurt even if it's my wish and this was his wish that somehow the state gets dissolved if Jews are under attack by an enemy that wants to kill them I want the Jewish people to have whatever weapons and whatever resources they need to protect their lives from being hurt and then we can talk about the dismantling or whatever it would be and he said my feeling supplies I am ISM has nothing to do in other words I'm even supportive of you know military aid to the State of Israel as long as there is the State of Israel because I don't want Jewish people to get hurt why would I want my mind brothers and sisters to get her beautiful it's a really a beautiful story because it really indicates how even very strong ideology doesn't have to turn into a sin a screen reference to the welfare of whether juice now I'm told some people say they don't believe the story happened because they don't want to believe the story happened but no maybe I have the opposite bias I want to believe the story happen so I like to think that that's the way things really are that when you know they get olam at the highest level this is commonly what you will encounter you know the followers distort things and they take certain bits and pieces and they run with it and they don't see the total picture but the truly great people are able to encompass all of this diversity of perspective so the reason I bring this up is on one hand the notion of guma is both God's promise to us but also the responsibility we have today now one responsibility is overcoming sin not to know but the other responsibility is that some actually say that's the building of the land and the establishment of a Medina is part of our how we bring on the Messianic process meaning this is 180 degrees the opposite of victory Karthik instead of saying no state until Messiah there's a concept only when the Jewish people build up Eretz Israel does that cause the Machir of the Congress and the proponent of this idea obviously worth Kaka was a very big proponent of this but the proponent can actually be found in the writings of the Vilna Gaon there is a very very fascinating book the Roman God didn't write it directly but it's a compendium of teachings from one of his great so meet him but as Hillel of Clough and this is a safer that is called cold hot or that means the voice of the Dove cold hot or it is controversial but again it goes back to the idea when people don't like things they just say it's forgery and call that or is largely a capitalistic book meaning it's not it's not an easy book to read it's been translated in English but I don't know I have never seen a translation that was so obscure me the Hebrew is easier to read than the English translation and it's largely Kabbalistic but the overall thesis of the book is very very fascinating that is you know that ghazal have a very enigmatic discussion very fragmentary that before there's a mushiya band of it there is another messianic figure who comes first and that figure is from Yosef mushiya ben Yosef and mashiac ben Yosef is supposed to get killed in the war of Gog and Magog the apocalyptic Wars and that paves the way for machinery now this machine when Yosef is mentioned in shots in the Gemara twice probably a total of four lines so there's almost nothing that says I'll tell us about my ship and y'all say as you might expect in cabbalistic writings machinery no safe much as much as expanding in fact when it says the I resell rights when it says in the bracha for Esposito he say the vids but we pray but he st. of it Maharal ahsoka token may you establish the throne of David very soon so the vast majority of people including me generally assume that's a prayer for the coming of Messiah the I result says no the key state of it the throne of David is Mashiach Ben Yossef because that will be the throne upon which my ship and double you'll be able to come so but he say to of is Mary Allah so caught up in since the Ariza you are massaging for Mashiach Ben Yossef no here is what the Vilma God says and called Hattori Mashiach Ben Yossef can be a person and if he's a person it will he will meet a tragic end the death in Gogan mother but Messiah Ben Yoseph can also be an ideology and a philosophy of implement and then you can bypass the Gogan Mago and all of the death and he says the relationship of yo safe to Dublin is that in Israel Joseph was the one that provided us the physical sustenance and then yahuda the ancestor of government gave the spiritual component so the film account says the idea of mashiach ben Yosef is that the physical building up of the lands is a necessary prerequisite to bring the Gullah of spirituality that comes from a Shia band of it so according to this this is quite astounding now the Vilna Gaon was not specifically talking about statehood you did not specifically address it but the Vilma god says that there is a spiritual redemptive value in the physical building up of the lands of Israel that is the idea of mashiach ben Yosef that will bring much the element of it that's quite astounding that the Velma Gong essentially way prior to Herzl was endorsing a physical and material renewal of the land along of course with with spiritual of course as well and as you know there's only going to tell me them came to Eric Israel and they built many shahu notes in Yerushalayim and they made a point of being physically involved in building we think they did the bricklaying they did the the plumbing whatever whatever it was that they understood that the physical building of the land making it new shelf was part of the abode a and bringing and bringing gula so it's very very fascinating know since call our torah seems to be on some level in endorsement of the Zionist Enterprise so obviously people who don't share that ideology but they can't argue to the governor right thinking I would have cooked okay whatever they can't are going to bubblegum so essentially they spread the idea that they think it's a forgery they think the Zionists forged the work or the masculine forward to the book etc but replying Friedlander of the partnership of great grades Saavik and Tom McLoughlin did a lot of Investigation and he did affirm that this is authentically the teachings ugly talking about the film ago because there's something else in the book that people don't like either that is the Vilna Gaon as a passage there on the importance of secular studies and he says that for every measure of secular knowledge a person does not have in mathematics and science he is missing a tenfold efficiency in torah learning and therefore every time it must have a mastery of science and mathematics so there were many people who didn't like that either so that was kind of a double forgery number one day zionist thing and the secular thing and you know and therefore they they wanted to say mizzou yeah but it turned out that it's not museum so it's very very interesting that the Vilna Gaon on some level was was both a Zionist and a proponent of some degree of secular secular education of course we know that anyway the secretary taken we actually know the Vilna Gaon actually commissioned one of his tell me them to translate Euclid's geometry into Hebrew so that people would be able to study it too we're not familiar with with the greek or whatever latin or whatever language it was and we actually have that you can go online and use that's called a Amish wash and is really a translation and an adaptation of Euclid's elements of geometry and this was done at the instigation of the evil McGann himself that I didn't hear but but there are some mathematical theorems Cramer is his family name was Cramer and there's some Cramer or something maybe parallelogram or something that that some say is attributed to the Vilna dog because the Vilma Gong when he was young in his 30s went into voluntary exile he would wander around from place to place as a compiler this was a practice of some savvy camp and it is recorded he had various encounters with academics and mathematicians in universities and he addressed various issues but we don't know we don't know 100% well some of it was the victory card to position and I want to point out that although today the to a card is a minority position it was not such a discredited position in those days back when ships undefiled hearse himself quoted that same Gemara we think of her purchase you know the rest of modern but he actually was against the notion of Zionism because he thought that so much the up trunks Judaism should be a religion and not a not a state that of course was also the classical it's very fascinating the classical reform position and now they became saying this because that's the only thing they had to hold on to but elected on the classical reform position was that Judaism is only a religion it is not a being a Jew is not a nation it's not a concept of any type of national identity so it's interesting many of the people who keep the religion were nationalistic people who didn't keep the religion said it's only a religion I mean it's an interesting interesting point so part of it was the Chile car design philosophy and part of it was guilt by association meeting they felt that their there there were so many non and anti religious elements and Zionism that one should not be macabre to the movement because it would change him let me mention how bad is a very good attack you know the first about grabbing that first of all all the quadrivium always had a very strong attachment to the land of israel rev sneers Ullman himself the alter rebbe the very first about Rebbe collected money for marriages realm which at the time was under the Ottoman Empire and in fact one of the reasons he was arrested in Russia one of the reasons was that he was supporting a hostile enemy of Russia by sending money to Erica's rebels so Chabad always had a very very strong connection to Eretz Israel but the first writings about Jewish nation hood and and creating a possible state was the rebbe rest shop the revolution of Shama bear and he wrote in the 1920s and he actually espoused the neutral carts of position now we know that the last liberal Jew baby seems to be you know seem to be pretty pretty pro-zionist know supporting the state and the bad soldiers are I'm in the are many of them are about people are in the army we still yeah they're quite a few and the Rebbe meets with some Sanyo about security you know so the question is how can the red meat apart from the rebel shadow but the truth is although Chabad doesn't talk about it openly through this philosophically kebab is actually anti Zionist but they say pragmatically once you have millions and millions of Jews here it's like the separate me says you cannot do anything that endangers them and therefore you might call this pragmatic non-ideological Zionism it is not Zionism as a full Asafa cult is an erratum it's not something that is intrinsically good but it's something that has now become necessary and if it's necessary we will do the best that we can to support it and so really although Chabad never talks about this but that's ultimate philosophy at its deepest level is actually in theory concept but it's very Carta adjusted for realism I'll give you a secular example which is just again nothing to do with tour even but it's it's seven my mind is something I was reading recently you know in the US Supreme Court one of the great debates is do you talk about a living Constitution that changes with the times or do you say whatever it meant in 1787 is what it has to me today that's called originalism you know conservative judges our original this meant that's how general and I luckily we so the most outstanding proponents of originalism was Justice Antonin Scalia he said you got to go back but there's somebody who's more extreme than him and that's Clarence Thomas because Scalia said that if there's long-term precedent that goes back even if I feel they misinterpreted I'm not going to change something that's been going on for 200 years and Clarence Thomas would so the way Scalia said it was I'm an originalist but I'm not a nut and I think if I could be irreverent maybe so the respect I think that's how the barbeque Rebbe can be described he is an actor a character but he's not enough meaning to say philosophically he fell Zionism was not the proper move but he's not gonna be enough to say let's get rid of Israel and let's have a nice Palestinian state where all the Jews will live in great peace that's not gonna happen so you know at some point you have to have a reality check and that's why it's about is so proactive in helping Israel in many many different ways but that's maybe an inside secret that I shouldn't I shouldn't automatically know it's out yeah I mean truth is I mean anyone that studies studies this would be aware of it but no huh okay I'm not saying every sub ad has this in other words how many many some have just grew up with the Rebbe talking about building up there if you're out I mean that's that no that's all they know but if you actually delve into the movement at its deepest levels you will see this kind of ambiguity your split yes yes yes it's exactly the opposite of the doll Madonna right the deal McGowan says the building of Harwich Israel and even Medina Israel is Mashiach Ben Yossef that prepares the way for machine food of it the satmar rebbe and mr. arakata take the opposite view not only is it not a precursor to LA it is my cave well I not only that over the supper he blamed the Holocaust the Holocaust was God's punishment again I don't want to get into this because there's no emotions could be very very high and some of these shoes are very very extreme but you know these are the types of arguments that well that's never the reason he gave he absolutely never gave that reason he was asked many times yeah he says is that the reason why the Obama Trevor never never came to Eretz as well so I'm just saying that that is not the reason that He gave who knows what private reason he may have had the reason that he gave was that he felt that once you come to air to show you're not allowed to leave and he felt since the majority of physical City were not even rich Israel his respective effect the majority of the Jewish people at least then we're not in Eretz Israel he felt his responsibilities as rough the Rebbe was to be where most of the people were I mean that was the official reason that he gave but of course as you know both in Khorsabad and even in even in Ramat right there's a an exact duplicate replica of the 770 house really ever wanted economy man that we'll see now it's the basis but it'll be waiting it will be waiting for you there now I mean you should live that they get special permission because you know you're not allowed to you know your every you know all the buildings in your slam have to be the Jerusalem stone so they have to have some political clout to get a variance to put up that difference that's enough the brick building and the light okay so be it as it may so these are the two messages of Mihama what is God's promise of comfort and redemption but the other is the imperative of human initiative both in terms of overcoming sin arena and according to the garage at least the Vilna Gaon being yana Haaretz itself although that'll be the point of controversy now let me just mention all right so that's why it's not story of comfort but why is it why was it chosen a staff tore apart shut no thank you what do another well the answer is sometimes something gets in only because of a single word or a single phrase the opto is not about know what at all but it mentions that Hashem says he may know I he leave all of your tribulations and all of your sufferings are like the waters of Noah although it seems to have destroyed the world I promise I will never bring it again so - when there's a gula you will never suffer again so that's enough of an association to make it the haftorah of pressure no one so on this the interesting phrase so the marble is described in the haftorah as the waters of Noah and you may recall that phrase that you now may be incorporated in the Samir out of Shabbos young Shabbos own aimless carcass you know maybe so it says caution is Fattah Oh may Noah as you have sworn with the waters of Noah that you will not bring a flood of the world so the sower comments why is the flood called the waters of Noah so the sower says a very amazing idea the sower says because Noah is considered to be responsible for the flood and the sower says let us compare of Rama be new with Noah Hashem informs of Rama we know that I am going to destroy the city of saddam i'm already five cities actually because of their evil because of their corruption because of their immorality their evil has gone all the way up to shaman it's unbearable Avraham Avinu immediately starts to bathing starts arguing what if there are fifty righteous people and there aren't 45 40 30 20 10 he argues he pleads he begs he pulls out all the stops he says God are you gonna be there what who judges the world are you gonna be guilty of injustice he argues with the Almighty when he didn't even or he won't even do that when a shank says killers on the Sun yes hell no argument there that's an interesting question but but there is actually a difference in the case of hits correct Aviram was given a command a direct command when you're given the direct command and you're a drum you don't question direct commands it's an order got to do it in the case of Saddam a sham is simply giving him information about what he's planning on doing at that point you can argue you can discuss so there's always says whenever on Lavina was confronted with the destruction of evildoers his response is to beg for mercy pray and of course the rama v knows whole life was devoted to bringing people to Chuba as well his tent was open when no other is told I'm going to destroy the whole world he builds an ark directing inish there's an expression a southwark myths of pelts so I think meant the pelts means a Sadiq who wears a fur coat what's the analogy when you're in a room and it's freezing middle of the winter and there's no heat so you need to get warm so there are two ways you can get warm one is put on a coat and the other is fix the heat what's the math give me none what's the difference when I put on the coat I'm warm you're still cold when I fix the heat everybody benefits Noah seems to have been concerned with self-preservation Avram was concerned for the other therefore therefore the ZOA so this is the solar this is not me the Zohar says no not of course had to build the ark that was his commandment but noocity that was his commandment and of course no one is no one is faulty no up for building the ark that's what he was supposed to do but Noah did not necessarily go out and try to bring other people to chuva he did not pray for his generation and therefore the ZOA calls it may Noah it is the flood of Noah and the greatness of our Brahma vino was that he was concerned not just for himself he was concerned for for others would have destler rights that is why Noah needed to be in the ark for a whole year because if you think of we think about the sequence if you look at the events he entered the Ark on the 17th of such fun and one year one solar year later on the 27th of cushman a year later he left and people make a mistake it but he's read the Flemish it's clear people think oh the whole flood was only 40 days not at all the rain was 40 days of a non-stop rain and then the water remained for 150 days then it gradually receded all in all naught was in the table of 365 days he was in the act for an entire year now the question is well why did I shall need all that time my Shem could have observed the world and then know what would have been alive what was the purpose of protracting this process by a year so if Chester says what didn't know I do during that year he had to take care of all the different types of animals that we are given an interview shame but Noah was still alive many years later when Eliezer it was looking for a wife for its life and Eliezer actually interviewed shame and said to her what was life like in that table and shame says oh you don't want to know my father was going from mourning tonight and even at night some animals were nocturnal the only 8:00 at night and some debt and some were fussy and he answered there are different types of food for different types of animals and one time he was late with the lion and the lion bought off his arm what's the purpose of that because yeah yeah can't be late with the lion well just there is my spirit that if Noah was guilty of a certain measure of callousness he could not be the new Adam the new progenitor of humanity till he inculcated within himself a sense of compassion and care and Judy even for animals then human beings and therefore the one year was a necessary spiritual process that he had to wonder dog that the metric achma as to this a beautiful thing Noah such a beautiful thing no it is described as Sadiq Tom meme oh yeah Badillo Sophia's reviews described as siddiq tum him perfect Sadiq in his generations so first of all what is Sadiq and what is Tom him and why the plural generations so remain simply the mentioned customer says the following dear tremendous deal he says don't hotels refers to the fact that no one lived his life in two generations there is the generation before the flood and then there's the new world after the flood version 2.0 in new world Sadiq is Baynard Amla macomb your relationship to God Tom in he has proof for this Baynard Amla sabe row so here's how you interpret the hair so you parts the verse he was both the Siddiq and item him but over two different generations in the pre-flood world he was only sitting in the post-flood world he became come in Sadiq to me the Delta it was the post-flood world that transport was the experience on the table that transformed him into a tummy and this answer is a deal another deal can deposit because when a sham tells not to go into the table Hashem says go into the table Kyocera EC Sadiq because I have seen you as a siding so Rashi ask the question why doesn't a sham described him as a dictum him so rashes answer is when you praise a person to their face you only give them partially phrase you don't want them to be quality but like the measure customer it's about like it's such a wonderful answer when a sham is speaking to know us before the flood know what is only exotic he became a Tamim only after the flood so it's only when the tour is describing after the story he's subject to him but when God was actually talking to him before the flood Sadiq was the most you could praise him ask question can we take into consideration that when shimmer communicates to apprehension roughly therefore he was really 100 percent correct him and many more sham actually point out that there is no particular reason why I'm even has to give up round this particular news unless you understand it as an invitation to dialogue 100 percent correct that he wants in fact he wants Avram to get involved in this process that is certainly a legitimate attempt whereas in the case of Noah it's declared as an absolute in fact no opportunity for this - well well you know again as an interpretation I think that is legitimate I'm just showing you the Zohar which which which looks at it in a different in a different way Oh God tell Noah to build the ark many many years before yeah 120 years yeah but that's that's what we would call passive outreach meaning he was doing his thing and if you happen to pass by and ask him you would explain it but he did not go out like I'm fronting but the point I want to make is this the point I want to make is and it's important point is that the ZOA does not mean necessarily that Noah was cruel callous indifference uncaring rather maybe a deeper point here Noah acted the way he acted because Noah was afraid remember the whole world is corrupt the whole world is immoral when you reach out and interact you know that doesn't mean necessarily they're gonna learn from you it could be just as easy and maybe even more so given the numbers that you're gonna be dragged down so you have to look at Noah is kind of making a tragic choice it's not that no I kind of says I don't care about the rest of the world rather know what husband is if I care too much then nobody's gonna survive and therefore I need to kind of separate myself from the corrosive evil of the world in the interest of my own self-preservation now reflector says the following idea the foot yer sense the juxtaposition of the Noack who kind of withdraws with the Opera who is strong enough to go out although these are two different people obviously they actually represent stages that every individual in their own spiritual growth has to go through just as there could not have been an Avram until there wasn't Noah so to in my own life I have to have a no other stage in order to give me the strength to be enough room I mean this for example would be the justification of us a yeshiva person spends time in Ishii Beersheba to a large degree is a bit of a hermetically sealed environment that takes you away from the distractions of the world but for the ultimate purpose sometimes we don't reach the ultimate purposes the ultimate purpose of then being filled with the light of Torah and being able to share it with others without becoming compromised or degraded in that process but if one tries to circumvent and become the Opera House before you've been a Noack then it becomes the opposite problem the Taiba hermetically keeps out the turbulent waters of destruction and it allows you to build up your internal resources and then we have the Mishkan the tabernacle which radiates the light outward so a foot nurse says caiva versus Michigan NOAA versus opera they represent sequential developments in our own spiritual identities now there's a famous much of a tribute to reviving Cutler that's the best way you influence other people is like the overflowing kiddush cup have you seen those that thing you poured the kiddush cup it overflows onto little cups did you get it is that what you guys call the pitcher pitcher this cup yes okay so the thing is that you know the more you're filled the more you have to give it's kind of a natural organic flow and therefore this is the justification as it were that a person needs a certain amount of time in their life you try to make where one kind of gets away from the environment and then you're able best to confront it because of ironmans are very very powerful you know somebody the bottle of Tonya the Frisco bad Rebbe once told one of his tell me them that you shouldn't hang around with certain people because they are a bad influence so the tomat had a very smart answer says Rebbe I don't get influenced by people and the proof is I've been your student for many years and I have not gotten better so don't worry I'll be with these people I'm not gonna get any worse he says I don't get affected by people so the Rebbe said you're making a very big mistake because it's much harder to be affected by holiness than it is by the absence of illness and the rally brother I have a Beretta proof from the logic structure if something is coming if something is impure and it touches something else tumor impurity is actually conveyed by casual contact the most casual context of tummy and taller make something coming on the other hand if you take the meat of a carbon and you touch right if I have a piece of tummy meat and I touched our meat the taormina stomach but if I have Kardos meat and it just such as taurah means although the Taira does have a legend anything that touches the holy it becomes holy but it doesn't mean that's only if you cook it together so it absorbs so for kedusha in order for it to be transferred you got a stew in it you got a mat be marinated you have to have total powerful immersion but for Tomba even casual contact can affect you so this is something to think about in our own lives and I realized that most of people are not going to go to the Shiva for five years or whatever it is but it does indicate that a Jew is both separates and together meaning we need to create at least within our homes a certain environment of purity and goodness and then we're able to confront in a good positive way the challenges we can be the Opera only if we also have the aspect of of the Noah so the point the ZOA does not mean to suggest that Noah was cruel it just means it's just that Noah did not yet have the strength to deal with that environment and Arbor and progressed to that new level because Noah gave that foundation of not being affected by the externalities of your environment so BSU susharma we should be zalta both to build the TAVR of our homes that ambassadors of holiness and then be the Tabernacles the Michigan that can radiate the light [Music]