Rabbi Binyamin Yuhanan - Parashat Bereshit

[Music] welcome to another cycle of learning humash we're going to start with parashat bereshit this week's parsha book of genesis the parsha of genesis and we start with the art scroll homage on page three creation of the universe the torah starts by telling us that there was a beginning that the beginning was done by god himself before the beginning there was nothing and it says in the beginning of god creating the heavens and the earth and our sages say that here in this first verse the heavens and the earth mean the spiritual world and the physical world once we mention the spiritual world we don't need it anymore and in verse 2 the torah moves on only to the physical world and it says when the earth was astonishingly empty with darkness upon the surface of the deep meaning the whole universe was empty darkness and divine presence hovered upon the surface of the waters what is this water is not so clear because if the the the universe is still empty and um chaotic there is no earth and air and water so we have to keep in mind that this water might not be the regular water that we know just like in verse 3 it says god said let there be light and there was light and our sages say that was not the light that we have now at the beginning of our creation whatever we read about is not what we have now just like later we're going to learn about the creation of adam the first man and the sages say don't think he was a regular man just like me and you adam was more like an angel than like us so so too when we speak about earth it does not mean the regular earth when we speak about heaven it means the spiritual world when you speak about water and light it's not the regular water and light that we have now um so going back to verse one and two we speak about the creation of the spiritual world and then we abandon the spiritual world we don't need the spiritual world for now the torah is describing the world to us only in a way that we can utilize it people ask why doesn't the torah speak about the next world after life that's because the next world and afterlife is not our business we have to deal with this world we have to deal with the mitzvot we don't have to discuss imagine live in the next world if we accomplish a lot in this lifetime we will have a beautiful gun at the next world but if instead we spend a lot of time on on uh discussing the spiritual world learning about it and we forget about doing its vote and learning torah then our uh spiritual world will suffer and therefore the torah speaks about the spiritual world only in the first verse that's it we forget about it then we go to the universe in verse 2 then slowly we concentrate on earth we forget about the whole universe and then we speak about animals plants and everything else then we concentrate on humans once we mention adam we don't mention animals anymore only human beings and then eventually we go through noah avraham and abraham's children it's hack and yakov once we come to yaakov we forget there about the rest of the nations and we concentrate on the jewish people because they are the chosen people so if you see this um pattern in the homage you'll understand why it's like a funnel first we'll start with the whole universe the physical and spiritual world then we go to only the physical on the earth only human beings and only the jewish people and for the rest of the torah we speak about the jewish people because hashem is speaking to us and therefore the book of torah is about us the jewish people so the verse 3 says that one of the first creations was light and god saw that the light was good and got separated between light and darkness and this is what we now understand as um day and night but at that time there was no day and there was no night so what does it mean got separated between day and night as we said this was not the sunlight it was spiritual light and hashem said it's not good for light and darkness to serve at the same time in mixture whenever you have a mixture you don't appreciate individual elements so hashem said there must be distinction between light and darkness later this was defined as good and bad light is good darkness is bad and adama richon was supposed to keep the world that way there has to be order and he chose as we're gonna learn later he chose to mix up the world he mixed the good and the bad so once adam is shown mixed good and the bad now the the job of whole humanity became to bring the world to its original order that means separation of good and bad so our goal is to separate light from darkness as as the prophet says that the jewish people are light unto the nations we have to provide light which means the nations are all mixed up light and darkness good and bad they don't know what's good what's bad they're walking in twilight darkness mixed with light they don't know what's flying so the jewish people have to come along and say this is good and this is bad and that's why the nations will be upset at us because we have to change their habits their um what they think is order and we have to tell them that's not right and people don't like to hear that what they're doing is wrong they don't like to change their habits and that's why the jewish people are not welcome on earth by by most nations so but we don't give up because that is our mission that's what god brought us here for to make the world a better place to bring light to the nations so god saw the light was good and he separated between light and darkness and god called to the light and gave light command day you have to be day your job is during the day and to the darkness he called night and there was evening and there was morning day one and uh our sages say that the first day is the first day concludes with the words day one doesn't say first day just like it says second date third day fourth day fifth day sixth day even seventh day but the first day doesn't say first it says day one why because there was no uh second day yet when you have um two items so the item number one becomes first item number two becomes second but if you only have one item you cannot say this is first because first assumes there is a second so the torah is very precise in its language and it says one day not first day one day but the sages say it it hints to us that this is to be read not one day but day of one day of oneness of god on that day god was still the only power in the world on day two however god created the angels the malachi and so on that day we can already be a little bit um mistaken we might say oh there is more than one spiritual power there is god the ultimate power over spiritual and physical world and then there are seemingly other powers the angels and that's where the the mistaken belief in the idols came from because god created other uh in-floor influencers in the world not only he openly supplies the world with sustenance and life but seemingly there are other powers that seems to us do the same we don't know that they are really puppets they are really fulfilling the command of god and therefore all other days after the first day are not called um one they're already days of multiplicity days where there are multiple powers in the universe and so the the first day is the day of one the day of one god now we turn the page and we go to day two and that is page five god said let there be a firmament firmament means a vault of heaven the sky in the midst of the waters now we start speaking about the the actual creation of the planet earth first the whole earth was covered with water and there was no atmosphere now hashem says let there be create an atmosphere what we call sky and let it separate between water and water and god made the firmament the sky and separate between the waters which were beneath the fermented the ocean and the waters which were above the permanent firmament of the the clouds and it was so and god called the firmament heaven here the word heaven is used in our regular understanding that means that the physical sky and there was evening and there was morning a second day of course we notice that the torah mentions evening first and only then morning that is because according to jewish way of counting days the day starts at night there's a discussion whether it starts at sunset or appearance of three stars two medium stars three small stars and because of that um difference of opinions we go strict both ways if uh we want to start to to go according to the earliest start of the day we start with sunset if we want to go according to the later start of the day we start with appearance of two or three stars and therefore for example for shabbat once shabbat starts we start at sunset as soon as it's sunset we can no longer do any work however when shabbat finishes we have to wait until appearance of two medium or three small stars but the day begins again for jewish people the day begins at night there is a concept that day begins at dawn as well and that is um for service in the temple in the beta amigdas the service began at dawn all the offerings were done and then whatever was not finished could continue into the night because we we consider the night in beta mikdash was continuation of the previous day but for our personal life and the holidays the the night is first and then the day follows okay now we go to third day verse nine god said let the waters beneath the heaven be gathered into one area and let the dry land appear until now the ocean covered the entire earth it could also be that there were no mountains there were no islands no continents the whole earth was flat covered by what we mean flat doesn't mean flat like this means flood that there were no mountains and therefore water covered the entire earth and hashem said let the waters be gathered how did waters gather they didn't get up and walk rather hashem caused mountains to appear the continents to rise and therefore water was forced to gather on one side according to these words it seems to us that originally there was only one continent because it says let the waters beneath the heaven be gathered into one area and let the dry land appear later the continents split divided into the form there in now some say it happened during the flood of noah and it was so god called to the dry land earth more like ground and to the gathering of waters he called seas now the word um seas can even be translated as multiple seas or ocean really all the water on uh in the all the oceans and seas is connected uh so it all forms one great ocean but since the environment and the nature of each uh sea is is different and the the species of of of sea life that live in each sea is different so each sea has has its own name and god saw that it was good whenever it says that god saw it was good it means it continued [Music] forever and that means that god only said it's good at the completion of a step for example on day two it doesn't say it was good day one it says it was good day three it says it was good day two doesn't because the the the step was not completed and because of that on day three it says good twice once for day one and once for day three now verse 11 continues with the next creation god said let the earth sprout vegetation herbage yielding seed and this was a novelty not only god created vegetation but this vegetation had ability to produce seed and fruit trees yielding fruit each of its kind containing its own seed on the earth both vegetation and trees were given special powers by god that is to produce miraculously a seed that contains information and machinery and the necessary nutrients the building blocks to create another living plant amazing imagine someone sends you a package and inside the package there's a little pill and the instructions say just put this pill into the into water and it will start growing and it will turn into a washing machine wow and then you buy another package they send you a small pill you put it in water and after a few days it grows into a refrigerator and you throw a few more seeds and all the furniture in the house grows out of that that would really be a miracle and that's exactly what happens with trees producing a small package and the package has again information and machinery all the equipment and the the building blocks all the solar cells and and the the building blocks to start with the energy and as it starts opening up developing it starts gathering more building blocks from the environment starts gathering energy and builds itself up very very amazing amazing creation and it was so and the earth brought forth vegetation herbage yielding seed after its kind and trees yielding fruit each containing its seed after its kind and god saw that it was good and there was evening and there was morning a third day now we go to day four god said let there be luminaries in the firmament of the heaven to separate between the day and the night this is a surprising um fact that luminaries the sun and the moon did not appear until later in fact uh our sages say that everything was really created on the first day in the first moment of creation in its potential and later as the days progressed god actualized that potential and put each creation in its place so even though we learned about the creation of plants now really later we're going to learn that plants came came about later they were created in their potential on day three but they sprouted and came out later so here also the stars and the sun and the moon were created originally but they were given its function given their function and their their position in the universe on day four so what's the purpose of the luminaries the sun and the moon and the stars verse 14 continues on page seven to separate between the day and the night that's how we know if it's day or night if there's sun out it's day if there's moon out it's night they shall serve as signs signs means that if there is uh let's say solar eclipse it's a sign usually uh when the sun disappears it's a bad sign for the nations of the world when there's lunar eclipse it's a bad sign for the jewish nation and the position of the stars and the moon and the sun can serve as a sign to to tell us what the future holds and for festivals which means the jewish people use the cycle of the moon and the sun to calculate when our festivals um happen and for days and years for counting days and years we use the the sun every uh uh rotation of the earth that produces the sun sunrise and sunset is one day when it happens uh 365 times that's a year 365 days and a quarter of a day and that's the solar year if when we we have renewal of the moon that's a month 29 and a half days and they shall serve as luminaries and one of the uh benefits of the sun and the moon is to provide light in the firmament of the heaven to shine upon the earth and it was so and god made the two great luminaries at the beginning they're called two great luminaries then it says the great illuminati to dominate the day and the lesser luminary to dominate the night even though they're both called great but one is greater than the other and the stars now people ask why did god create stars what's good in them besides being uh beautiful besides inspiring the minds of people to think of of greater things and besides being used in navigation in the olden times but what else is good in stars so there are many reasons why we need stars many of them we don't even know the benefits the stars give us but one of the reasons why we need stars is for us to appreciate the greatness of hashem when we see how far stars are how great the universe is and how big each star is we have a a a better understanding of god if we just saw our village our house and the little town we would say okay god created this he's a little bit bigger than that if we see the solar system and we understand the vastness of solar system system we would say oh hashem is so great he's bigger than the solar system but when we see the whole universe from one end of the universe to another end of the universe billions of light years we say wow hashem is so great if i travel with the speed of light for billions and billions of years at the speed of light just in one direction i would still not reach the end wow and hashem created all that and he's bigger than that infinitely bigger than that so that's one of the main reasons why we have stars in such a vast world which seemingly we don't use who cares what's happening a billion years away from me so we have to appreciate it and sometimes we should look up at the sky and and this and think about how far the stars are to be inspired to think about god and to be awed by his greatness now verse 17 and god set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth to dominate by day by night and to separate between light and darkness now they became what separates between light and darkness before the sun and the moon were created there was artificial separation hashem said darkness you stay aside light stay on this side now hashem said the sun is what's going to define um light and when there is no sign sun there's going to be darkness and god saw that it was good and there was evening and it was morning a fourth day now we go to fifth day creation of fish birds creepies and blessing to them to multiply god said let the waters seem swarm with seeming fertile living creatures like fish and fowl and birds that fly about over the earth across the expanse of the heavens and god created the great sea giants and every living being that creeps with which the waters seemed after their kinds and all winged foul of every kind and god saw it was good it mentions the great sea giants which some say are the whales because whales are the largest creatures that were ever created the largest living beings that were ever created they're larger even than the largest dinosaur a whale is the largest living being that ever existed on earth so some say that's what it is meant by great c giants and of course if you listen to our um in-depth class on very sheet you heard that according to some opinions it refers to the extinct giant animals analyzing the hebrew text gives us a hint that there were big animals that were extinct before the coming of of of of humans on earth okay now verse 22 god bless them saying be fruitful and multiply feel the what waters uh in the seas but the fowl the birds shall increase on the earth and there was evening there was morning fifth day now go to the sixth sixth day creation of mammals and man god said let the earth bring forth living creatures and according to its kind each according to its kind domesticated animals creeping beings like rodents and the wild beasts of the land each according to its kind and it was so god made the beast of the earth according to its kind the wild animals and the animal according to his kind the domesticated animals and every creeping being of the ground according to its kind and god saw that it was good and now page 9 creation of man in the image of god god said let us make man in our image in our likeness they shall rule over the fish of the sea the birds of the sky and over the animal the whole earth and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth so god created man in his image in the image of god he created him male and female he created them these verses as every verse in the torah contain a lot of information a lot of wisdom they hint to a lot of things which we cannot go through because this is a partial in our class but each sentence contains a lot of information so basically hashem created a man as a double being a man and a woman how exactly he created him and how did he separate man and a woman is a more advanced topic we go to verse 28 god bless them and god said to them be fruitful and multiply not only it's a it's enough to be fruitful but you also have to multiply not only to have one or two children you have to have more not only to replace the parents with two children you have to produce more children than the parents fill the earth and subdue it and rule over the official end of the sea and the birds of the sky and every living thing that moves on the earth now what will man eat god said behold i have given you all the herbage yielding seed that is on the surface of the entire earth and every tree that has seed yielding fruit it shall be yours for food so what was the first man supposed to eat he was supposed to be vegetarian originally and to every beast of the earth to every bird of the sky and to everything that moves on earth within which there is a living soul every green herb is for food and it was so not only mad was vegetarian but even animals were vegetarian even those animals that changed later and now they are carnivorous they eat other animals at that time there was no killing no murder no eating other living beings for lunch everyone was vegetarian and god saw that all that he had made and behold it was very good and there was evening and there was morning the sixth day so you see that on the sixth day it not only says it was good it says it was very good simply because now the physical world began became complete with the final creation of man it became very good and in our in-depth class we said that very good also refers to many other ideas uh refer to that class for those wonderful um ideas now we turn to page 11 chapter verse 1 and now it is the seventh day the shabbat thus the heaven and the earth were finished and all their array means all their armies everything that was created along with them that means that in addition to everything that was mentioned in the torah that was created there were many other things that were created that are not mentioned sometimes people ask oh wait does the torah speak about that does the torah discuss that the torah doesn't have to discuss everything doesn't have to mention everything it mentions the the main topics and everything in between is also there but we said all the armies all the arrays just like when it says hashem created the earth doesn't mean just the earth it means the earth with everything in it and the just like it says hashem created animals it means every single animal it says [Music] plants it means all the plants were created including tomatoes and cucumbers even though they are not mentioned now by the seventh day god completed his work which he had done and he abstained on the seventh day from all his work which he had done he completed the work and therefore he didn't have to do any more and we take the lesson and when shabbat comes we abstain from work in a way that shows that we don't have any more work not just we stop the work because we're forced to but really we continue thinking about what's going to be with my job and i continue to think about on shabbat no i stop my work because there's nothing else to do i have to clear my mind and and feel free feel that i accomplished everything this to accomplish i don't have any more worries just like god abstained on the seventh day from all his work because he completed his work verse three says god bless the seventh day and sanctified it shabbat is the source of holiness and blessing of the jewish people because on it he abstained from all his work which god created to make when we keep shabbat we testify that we believe in god who created the world in six days and abstained on the seventh and commanded us to do the same so keeping shabbat is is a testament of our belief in god verse four these are the products of the heavens and and the earth when they were created on the day that hashem god made earth and heaven now in the next paragraph it says that the trees and plants even though they were ready to sprout they did not sprout yet because there was no rain and there was no man to work the soil verse 7 says hashem god formed the man of dust from the ground and he blew into his nostrils the soul of life and man became a living being here the torah gives us a little bit more details of how hashem created man and hashem god planted the garden in eden now by the way you will notice that originally we in english we call god just god from verse 4 we all of a sudden say hashem god in hebrew it's yuki wafkee al-islami youth hey you men hashem lukin originally hashem is only called as elokim god now hashem is called om um almighty creator elokim means almighty hashem uk means creator the almighty creator so i would say just say the the the difference and the change in the name was because man was created before man was created god was only known as almighty almighty elohim represents strict justice once man was created hashem had to introduce his other name which represents mercy because people are given freedom of choice and because we have freedom of choice we have opportunity to make a mistake and if we do make a mistake according to the strict justice person would be punished or destroyed so hashem says since i gave them the the the free will yes sir and yet i have to give them the gift of teshuva of repentance and second chance and i have to be patient with them therefore he started operating the world not only according to strict justice elokim but he mixed it together with mercy hashem looking okay now we go to um verse 8 that god planted the garden in eden and placed the man in the garden of eden now when we speak about garden of eden we differentiate between two gardens of eden one the original one here on earth and when we say ghanaian a spiritual ghanaian where souls go after the death of the body so here we're speaking about the original ghanaian garden of eden and in that garden of eden verse 9 tells us the hashem put the tree of life and the tree of knowledge of good and bad the tree of life represents the torah and the the tree of knowledge of good and bad is the mixture of good and bad and um um later when hashem tells adam not to eat it's a it's a it's a test whether he will listen to hashem and with that complete the the creation of the universe meaning hashem created the universe and put a a thinking man in it and gave him one command if man would listen to that one command the purpose of creation would be complete hashem gives us independence and we say we're gonna give it back to you we're gonna listen to you one command is enough but adam said no hashem you give me independence i want it let me use it how can i use it i'm gonna mix good and bad and this way i'll provide myself and my descendants with work for the rest of crea of the of of history because now they have to go and separate good and bad that i mix okay now verse 10 speaks about four rivers a river issues forth from eden towards the garden and from there it divides and becomes four headwaters and it gives us four names pison gihon hidekel euphrates pratt so two of these rivers have physical counterpart that we know of one is euphrates and one is tigris the other two name two rivers we are not sure what their counterpart in the physical world are there are different opinions but we go to verse 15 man in the garden hashem god took the man and placed him in the garden of eden to work it and to guard it and hashem god commanded the man saying of every tree of the garden you may eat freely but of the tree of knowledge of good and bad you must not eat there off from the day you eat of it you shall surely die hashem did not say that he shouldn't eat from the tree of life in fact hashem was hoping that he would eat from the tree of life because as we said tree of life represents thor that is the book of knowledge that teaches us about what's good and bad what is proper to do teaches us about hashem if that's the path adam chose to learn about good and bad that would be good and he would earn eternal life but adam instead chose experiential knowledge he said i want to go to the world and mix it up and explore it myself and for myself decide what's good and bad and that was a mistake hashem god said it is not good that man be alone i will make him a helper corresponding to him so this is a a more detailed a description of how hashem created animals that he created man and man was one creature but then god said it's better if man has two components of female and male now hashem god had formed out of the ground every beast of the field and every bird of the sky and brought them to the man to see what he would call each one and whatever the man called each living creature that remained its name and man assigned names to all the cattle and to the birds of the sky and to every beast of the field but as for man he did not find a helper corresponding to him so adam looked at all the animals and he said yes this animal i can use for plowing this animal i can use for riding this animal can use for guarding each animal he named each animal he assigned the task but he said there is no animal that is on my level so hashem god cast a deep sleep upon the man and he slept that's the first anesthesia he took one of his sides and filled in flesh in its place then hashem god fashioned the side that he had taken from the man into a woman and he brought her to the man and the man said this time it is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh this shall be called woman for from man she was taken just like in english the word woman contains in it man because it's a it's a hint to us that that's that's how a woman was created from a man so to in in in hebrew the word woman is isha why is shah because she came from ish now it says that hashem split the original man original man had both components in him for some reason hashem said it's better if these two components are separate not as one entity and the reason our sages say is because if man and woman would be together man would be selfish since both men and women are one when it eats it eats for both when it sleeps it sleeps for both when it closes it closes both at the same time there is no giving it's only taking for myself but since there are two entities a man and a woman now there has to be giving if one eats the one the other one is still hungry he has to give the other one food if one is warm the other one might be cold they have to share blanket or clothing or a house so hashem said there must be giving in the world without giving there is no purpose for man to exist a selfish man is a waste of a soul a waste of a human being so that is why there is a man and woman they have to give to each other therefore verse 24 says a man shall leave his father and his mother and cling to his wife and they shall become one flesh that's the number one advice that god gives to man to have successful marriage leave your father and your mother become independent in your thinking financially and only then you will have successful marriage so that you can become one flesh if there is a mother-in-law in between husband and wife or the father-in-law or the uncle or the cousin they cannot become one you cannot have successful marriage if somebody is interfering and telling you what to do verse 25 says they were both naked the man and his wife and they were not ashamed there was nothing to be ashamed of because they have not misused their body yet their body was still pure now verse 3 speaks about the snake or the yetzer that is described in the form of a snake the snake approached the woman and offers the woman to eat from the tree of knowledge and the woman says but we might die and the yes says no you're not going to die don't worry verse 6 says and the woman perceived that the tree was good for eating and it it was a delight to the eyes and that the tree was desirable as a means of wisdom and she took its fruit and ate and she gave also to her husband with her and he ate and all of a sudden the eyes of both of them were opened and they realized that they were naked and they said together suit together fig leaf and made themselves aprons so what really happened was that the yetzer arrives it usually does even inclination slowly slowly approaches a person and tries to create a doubt no don't worry it's not gonna happen to you you're not gonna die you're not gonna get sick you're not gonna get punished you're not gonna be caught it's okay the person is yeah maybe maybe until he is convinced and he eats or he does the other uh sinful act and then he realizes he's naked naked means that it was revealed that somebody was watching god was watching and even though i was in my house in the locked room i am naked somebody is watching my every move and every thought and you cannot hide they tried to hide they heard the sound of hashem and man and his wife hid from hashem among the trees of the garden again thinking that they can hide from god hashem called to man and said where are you and man said i heard the sound of you in the garden and i was afraid because i'm naked so i hid and verse 11 says hashem said who told you did you naked have you eaten from of the tree from which i command you not to eat here hashem gives man a chance to apologize the proper thing would be yes god i'm sorry i disobeyed i ate from the tree i regret please forgive me and instead man said the woman whom you gave to be with me she gave me of the tree and i ate it's not my fault i shall give one more chance this time to a woman what is this that you have done and the woman also does not accept the blame she shifts the blame onto the yes the serpent deceived me so my fault and hashem said to the serpent accursed are you upon your belly shall you go thus shall you eat i will put hatred between you and the woman he will crush your head and you will bite his heel and in verse 16 god gives curse to the woman i will greatly increase your suffering of pregnancy and child bearing childbirth in pain shall you bear children the suffering of raising children yet your craving shall be for your husband and he shall rule over you and the woman will be dependent on her husband page 19 verse 17 god gives curse to the man and to the man god said through suffering shall you eat all the days of your life by the sweat of your brow shall you eat bread until you return to the ground for your dust and to dust shall you return just like god warned him that disobedience will cause death so now hashem says for the rest of your life you have to work hard and eventually there will be death until now adam was eternal verse 20 the man called his wife's name eve the word from is comes from is a feminine um of the word hai harvey someone who gives life because she had become the mother of all the living all human beings came from chava verse 23 man is exiled from the garden of eden so hashem god banished man from the garden of eden to work the soil now we go to verse 2 chapter 4. kind and heaven man had known his wife eve and she conceived and bore kind and additionally she wore a brother heaven and both kaine and heville on page 21 we learn broad offerings however hashem rejected kind's offering because it was not from the best of his ability whereas heavel brought the best of his animals kind became depressed and he killed heaven hashem confronts kind and gives him a chance to apologize but kind says am i my brother's keeper i don't know where he is he refuses to do teshuva so hashem gives curse to kind you are cursed more than a ground when you work the ground it shall no longer yield its strength to you you shall become a vagrant and wanderer on earth and hashem said to kind that he will die in the seventh generation and that's what happened seventh descendant of kind killed him however in the meantime for seven generations hashem protected kind by putting a special mark on him page 23 tells us about children of kind until the seventh generation lemme who actually killed kine and then we in verse 25 we learned about the third son of adam adam knew his wife again and she bore him a son and he named him seth or shet and then page 25 we read about all the descendants of the third son of adam from whom we came from and noah now we come to noah on page 27 verse 32 when noah was 500 years old no gave birth to shem ham and yafet in in chapter 6 we learned about population increase the prelude to the flood as men began to increase they started sinning and hashem said i'm going to make their life span from a thousand years to 120 and on top of that hashem said i will give them one or 120 years to change their ways if they don't i'm going to destroy the entire earth except for his family verse 5 says hashem saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth verse 6 and hashem reconsidered having man made man on earth and we're on page 29 verse 7 and hashem said i will blot out man whom i created from the face of the ground from man to animal to creeping things into birds of the sky for i have reconsidered my having made them but noah found grace in the eyes of hashem with this we conclude torah next week we will learn the continuation about the flood in parashat noah [Music]