Why Did Ninveh Get a Warning But Not Sedom?

Hi, this is David Alowski with our special feature, our question and answer shorts. Yehuda Zimberg, longtime listener and contributor. Why was it that the Dorham and Ninve were given chances warning to do Chuva but Stone was not given the same opportunity? First of all, to say that Stone wasn't given an opportunity is not completely fair because Lo was there and Lo was trying to influence them as you see from the fact that in spite of the fact that it was considered a capital crime to do he was doing anyway. Um when they were miraculously saved by Arau miraculously and Araino said you guys are so bad I wouldn't take a shoelace from you people cuz you're so bad there was definitely a warning there. Eleazar went to visit them and Medish describes there were warnings there. They understood that their philosophy was not acceptable in the eyes of Hashem. And so they were given certain warnings. But I would say that the warnings that were given to stone and to the door hamble which are very similar. There's a lot of comparisons between the door and stone. And that's why when Avi Hashem says, "I'm going to destroy you and your people." He says, "This is what you do. You destroyed people for no reason. Destroyed the door of Mabble. You destroyed stone. Yeah, that there was this sort of relationship between the two. There are comparisons made between Noah and Lo. There there are a lot of different parallels between those two stories because Noah was not uh preaching didn't get up on a pedestal. He built the TVA for 120 years. And when they asked, you know, why you doing this? He says because Hashem's going to bring a marble and destroy the world and it was it wasn't a active. It was a passive and but it wasn't like they didn't know you know if you work out the years Noah knew and Shul knew Adam. So it was very easy for them to find the truth if they wanted to. So they didn't get there. None of these people got the direct prophet comes to town, walks through the city, stands up on a rock and gives them that muser. Start spreading the news. You've got 40 days before we blow the heck from you. Nin vain. Nay. Live your ways. You don't change. We'll drop a mountain range on top of you. Ninve na. I don't think that's what he actually sang. But I I I had a tufa when I used to write song parodies. So that was one of them. Anyway, that the ni actually comes. And you see that when Hashem tells Yona, "Go to Ninveet and tell them to do Chuva." Yona runs away because he knows they'll do Chuva. He says, "You want to use me to beat up on the Jews? Because here all these Nvidian came to the Jews and told them to do chuva. They didn't. And I'm going to go into Ninve. I'm going to tell them to do chuva and they'll all do chuva. And then you're going to use that to beat up on the Jews. Sorry, not on my watch." Why was he so sure that Ninve would do Juva? What was going on over there? Ashaw was a very special place. Yeah. Araino stood against the door at mdal. He stood alone. Arama. He was on one side. Everybody was on the other side. I told you Noah knew Miss Shal knew Marishan. If you work out the years, Noah was still alive when Abraham was there. So how come Abraham had to figure out a bar on his own? Why didn't Noah tell says the medish Noah was hiding. She shame and a were hiding. Ashure when he saw what Nimrod was planning picked up his descendants and left and said we won't be a part of this. Ashua already separated from all the nations of the world at Mdalb and went away. Which is why when they were turning evil, instead of just saying, "Okay, well, they're your average evil nation, Hashem wanted to give them a special nva to come back and they did." And Hashem had ramim on them. Usually you don't get that option if you're one of the nations of the world. So Asha as a nation was a very special place with tremendous potential, more potential than everybody else. The Jews were taken away to Mitim and to Ash. And both of them have a number of links. For example, the medish says the king of Ninve was parro. He got spit out of the Yamsuf and he landed in Ninve and became king. So when Yonuk shows up, he says, "What's going on?" He says, "Well, there's this Jewish prophet saying that God's going to destroy the country." He goes, "Oh no, not again." Trust me, guys, this guy is serious. You do not want to mess with this God. Okay, time to do Chuva. There's a relationship there. And we went into Gullis Babel and we're in Gullis uh Romy, but uh but Gullis Ash ashore. These people never came back. We lost touch with them. We don't even know where they are. Nidim pushed away. So there's a special kayak to them where they have the potential for redemption. And that's why they got special treatment. This is David Olowski. This is the question and answer shorts.