Rabbi Mansour Parashat Noach

it's good to be back with all the good friends i got quite a few complaints that we we missed a few weeks on on the very sheet the day after some katorada well we didn't have a class restarted the world noah is a man at sadiq he was a complete sadique so right away that she asks a question why do we say the word bedorotav in his generation why was noah only at sadiq in his generation it was a tadiq so yes there are those rabbis that explain it that was saying a compliment and praising noah if he was able to withstand all the challenges of that generation for sure he could have withstood the challenges have we come close of course he could have withstood the challenges if he was in a generation of satiki and there are those that understand this is as a embarrassment as a negative the fedor in the level of his generation he was a tadik the illumi he wouldn't have been considered anything we know that the torah comes from the lesson of it's coming to teach us something i always had a very big question on this rashi we know there's a big movement you have to learn one of the big that we learned in our vote says have a dinette koladam you could if you have two ways how to look a person at a person you have to judge them favorably if we have a question when the torah says his generation there are some that look at it as a negative and some are looking it as a positive if i had the choice to look at you later if you're a negative or positive my career is to look at the positive side right now yeah everyday and there are two ways how to how to look at it you could look at it as a compliment and you could look at the negative question is how could we have even a child to look at it as a negative it says further in the pasuk when moshe bennu when when hashem told noah to take the animals into the teva he speaks and he says hashem the noah take everything into the tava and he says from the animals that were kosher how many did he take how many pairs did he take seven and from the animals that weren't kosher how many did he take two pairs two pairs so the question is why does the passoog say that the animals are not tahor it should go and say simple is 13 letters we know every letter in the torah has a message every letter in the torah has a purpose so why does the torah elaborate so long and say ashe says the mafashima on the pasuk over there that the torah is coming to teach you clean language you don't say that a person's a bad person you say a person's not a good person you don't say negativity a lot of people they like to speak negative today in our language negative is like hip it's like cool to say bad about people you sound smart you sound intelligent the torah teaches us that you have to be very sensitive how you speak you can't say negativity you say um but then there's a big question on this the pasuki empire shachimini discusses all the animals that are not kosher what does it say in the pasuk next pasuk says should go take the animals into the tava we don't say that man all we say is why don't we say so i once heard a beautiful concept benny i told this to david last night he understood what i was saying a lot of times people ask a question to a a rabbi or a friend or a parent or a child to a parent and a lot of you parents could connect to this concept your child asks you about could i do something we'll see with this let's talk about it what happens does the kid do it or doesn't do it the guy look at benny's face for sure he doesn't why because you didn't tell him no you hear that the minute you give the child a little option to think that it's yes even though you said no in other words but what did they hear yes yes obviously because his kids do the same thing to him but he did it to his parents also right if i asked your father something about could i do this and that and that what does he say let's see we'll talk about it right you know you have kids if you don't tell them no what is it yes it's yes when the torah is telling you the halachot when you say when you say how you should live and how you should act you got to be clear you say tame because if the guy is going to say i'm going to say somebody it's not that hard but it's not so bad rabbi you know you have these people that asks you questions and they and if you don't tell them that it's like eating pork they'll say i said it's you're not supposed to do that oh rabbit you're not supposed to do that that's only for rabbis but for me i could do it if you don't say no it's yes am i correct or not you always have kids right until you tell them clearly it's yes so the torah when it talks to us how to what's the of the animals then the torah is very clear also it says it's not it's you so it's meant for somebody else's right right right is a different concept but now that you say the term i said that it's not tahoe when we're talking noah wasn't doing anything that was a halacha when we're talking to noah what was saying we're not telling noah i don't know what this you take a giraffe you take a donkey you take a you take a cow you take all different types of animals so when you're talking and the point could be clear without being explicit in negativity then you have to speak as as able as adeen as possible because if you uh people this is first before we get to the next concept that i want to say something about chamomile with it but if you don't think about this people we talk we we think talk is cheap there's a certain adventure in english i don't know uh a word in english to say adi what gentleness gentle is a good word but there's even you could say even better what delicate delicate delicate ah you talk delicately it's there's a certain adi newt diplomatic is is is shaken diplomatic is shaking but adi nude means to say that a person speaks adin he speaks he doesn't speak like the street he doesn't speak things in the hood he speaks like why he's not asking in russia so i want to go back to this yesterday if the torah is saying that we could look at it at noah in a negative way that means to say the torah is coming to teach us something if the torah is saying a musa when the torah says about the tribes hashem is going to say the only time sailor show not eyes when when you're going to learn from it if i go say that you sold your brother am i allowed to go tell that to somebody you're not allowed to say the closest it's lashinar so if the torah anytime the torah says something negative about somebody it must be for a point yes this yes yes means does that that she doesn't say that whenever she has two explanations he says you could learn it or way a or way be but yes yes means you could learn it both ways and both ways could work together and i would like to bring out a very important example a lot of people let's say for example a guy learns that feel me he's satisfied with daffy or me his neighbor doesn't learn even that hour his neighbor wakes up late prays at home 10 minutes and i go every morning to shoot i go every morning to shul and i have a havruta for an hour so what do you do when you come home i should not waste my time but why doesn't he feel obligated to learn at that time when he has free time because he did his thing oh because he feels he did his thing already and it's great that he should feel like that but a person that really great doesn't judge his success by his next-door neighbor i'm saying a very important you said over here most of us we judge ourselves by our neighbor a person like the amam says the ikea influence happens from yes a person is influenced by his neighbors by the people who he knows so if you're living in a community that learning is one hour a day and you learn two hours a day you're not gonna learn three because to do three you need an extra motivation you need an extra push because the neighbor is not motivating you to go learn that to that third hour because the neighbor only learns one hour so once you're learning two hours you're doing better you get the concept people are influenced by their surroundings he had a great mala a great mala that he was able to combat his next door neighbor that was doing his sin he didn't do the sin he was able to study torah and build the teva and go and be a a good jew he was able to do everything the correct way everybody was doing the wrong way but you know what happened he stopped over there yesterday that wasn't positive that he didn't strive to be the best he didn't strive to be at sadiq even in the generation of abraham avinu today we're living a generation that's every person that's here now and comes in throughout the week we're living in a generation that everybody's pursuing money everybody's pursuing pleasures and a person finally comes to yeshiva yes could you say that the guy is not a great person look at him he's unbelievable but then there's a problem you could do a lot more and a person has to have this in life a person has a shoe he builds a shoe happy with the shoe a people are saying there's such a concept called shalom alain actually i'm happy with what i do i have my schedule there's that i'm not going to push myself more i'm not going to do another class i'm not going to learn more people i'm not going to why not that was ever in the history of the world didn't judge himself success it didn't judge a success by looking at his neighbor that's why i'm mentioning it today today is tonight this is your time that's why i'm mentioning it again can only be become one way eddie what happened i'm gonna go around that he doesn't go only by his next door neighbor he looks at the success by what happens if i would have been in the time of what would i have been in the time of the rajba or the rambam of the bet yosef the minute you're trying to strive for that your level the bar goes a lot higher the bar is set very low in our generation but the bar they say from one of the ghidolim that if i wouldn't have wanted to be the shagatari i wouldn't even be who i am today that means if you don't strive for the best you don't even become second clear citizen what is fish what is that everybody knows his house in the hover cable the kablan was a beautiful house and all the pictures come from that house i was okay when i was in yeshiva you take me to his house i used to walk him home one time he wanted to send books to america so yeah sweetheart i was i used to go pray there when i was learning upon which when i had an off shabbat i used to go to various how many people do you think prayed over there in between 30 people 40 people it wasn't hard to get in it wasn't no you didn't even know uh like they say protects you no connection i used to go i used to schmooze it i used to walk him home in the street with nobody else sometimes why years later just to knock on the door you had to put down a 50 000 but in those days you just walked at the show you walked with him home he had no house you know the walls of his house were medals the cheapest the the junkiest um bookcase over here is more expensive than three of his bookcases his bookcases were made out of you know you ever go to these warehouses they have those medals with those shelves that was his bookcases and you didn't from the hallway they were they had a little hallway to go into his house and there was no walls i don't even know i don't know if they ever painted the walls just beams no it was covered with books so you didn't see no walls from the hallway from the hallway to the house you didn't see enough you didn't see walls you saw i remember i walked into the hallway and i saw the the only books only books he didn't say you know what i'm happy the way i am he kept on going 70 at 75 hashem paid them back big time but david said they realized no they realized what he was but he had challenges he had people that were opposed to him he had people that fought with him people that you know you're you're in the limelight you got into trouble they voted him out they made laws in the connection just that he can't be the chief rabbi again i remember speaking to his son about there's a long a lot to talk about but david joseph i don't know if they printed the story in the book of the video sev once said over that there was a meeting rebel yashev and and his house and his mother was under the table nursing the baby because they only had one bedroom and if she would go into the room it would wake up the kids so the only place that she had available to go and there's the baby was under the table where the rabbis were talking and learning that's the dorothav that's not an out generation that's that's that's hundreds of years back and that's why he became who he was any godolador that ever was successful is this neria over here he comes every day to learn he thinks he's the greatest kid right now yeah there you are i said nadia comes every day to learning things the greatest kids how many kids in his situation are not even cracking a book they're busy with school they're busy with college and they don't learn but you know no that's not the way a yid has to feel a jew has to feel that he has to yes though a person has to go and try to do the best that he could do if you learn an hour a day try to do two if you pray one time with him yeah try to do twice with him if you have one shoe build two shoes don't ever hesitate on anything because hashem doesn't want us to stop if you look at your next door you know i'm much better than my neighbor than my other neighbor is the fook he can't even put it together mignon look i have a shoe that's it i don't need no more headaches but yes though you don't have to look at your generation you have to strive for the stars and that's the success of a jewish person the torah is not saying the torah is saying how we should live yes a person a jew has to know that the success is only when he strives for the stars because even in his generation it the perfect he's like perfect perfect means in your situation you're perfect but you could still be more perfect a person could always be more perfect lunismat of ajayos benjujiya that is your side is tonight and everybody if they could learn a mishnah or a extra for him doesn't hurt it goes it helps it helps of course it helps