Shark Attack in Israel, How Did This Happen?

I think we're familiar with the tragic occurrence that happened just approximately a month ago in Hadera here in Eretz Israel. Something that has never happened so far in Eretz Israel as of known yet. And that is a person was completely attacked by a number of sharks that he went scuba diving next to them and not far from them and was completely consumed by them. The search teams went looking for any remnant and any pieces that they could find. And after much searching and trying to find they found approximately a finger and a little bit of a thigh and I have to say not much more than that unfortunately to be able to find this person. His name is Barack. We have to go into the whole details of who he was or what he was. But they themselves say that it was very unusual and they're trying to still figure out how something like this could happen cuz it was also a breed of sharks which came up never attack people. Their interest in their food and their feet is not really human flesh. It's obviously other fish. And they were actually surprised about different occurrences that happened. Of course we know that a number of theories is since they have special pores underneath the area of their nose, those pores actually have a special sense for smelling blood in the ocean literally a few kilometers away. They're able to smell blood. And that's really one of their important purposes in the ocean to clean up all floating dead carcasses, anything that has bleeding or is already letting out of blood. They run for it and that's usually what they have. And therefore some assumed that he had some type of perforation in his body and there was blood. And others are of the strong assumption that they were not treated properly if not necessarily by him, maybe by others before him. And everyone's trying to figure out how this terrible and tragic occurrence happened. So we're here just to based on the parsha give a response with giving absolutely no because of on person. I'm not discussing this person. I don't know who this person is and that's not my purpose, but it's something for what we learn when we see these things where we're supposed to go and just interesting facts. Which it's good to know through this occurrence and that is in the beginning of parshas perek pasuk the pasuk says at the shalom which them that in good times then there will be peace in the land and you don't have to be worried and the animals the animals and all animals will be returned will be calm will not be there. Says the Ramban. Now there's two Rambans. The Ramban in parshas Noach says at the time um the at the time when Noach saved the saved all the animals so that is when we received the permissibility to go ahead and eat meat. Until then we were not permitted to go ahead and eat animals. We weren't permitted to kill and eat them, but after they as they say Otis one because we saved their lives through Noach so then we were able to eat meat. But the Ramban also adds and from then on also that's when scavengers occurred. That's when meat meat eating animals also started becoming carnivorous and eating meat one to the other. Before that everything ate from the animals. Now the truth is the Ramban in our parsha says something a little bit disparate to that not exactly consistent with that and he writes that really animals were born originally as Adam before the before the sin of Adam as being completely herbivorous. They did not eat meat. After the sin of Adam because of the so then from then on they started eating meat also. That's when they started eating meat because it was the cause of the that brought down to the world the world that is if I can say physical gosh me something that's focused on the physical world to such an extent that therefore they also started eating meat and eating one of the other and also but they Adam and sometimes even going ahead and attacking men. A little bit of a disposition about when it really occurred that animals started eating each other. They everyone agrees they definitely were not born that way or it happened by Adam or it happened or it happened by Noah. So the truth is in the Ramban in this week's parsha it seems to be complement one the other and he basically says that definitely after the het that's when they had the capabilities and they started becoming carnivores sort of speak and being able to eat but it actually really started occurring from the time of tevas Noah from the mabul when that happened later on that's when they actually became a consistent and consistent thing. Meaning it seems to be until then it could have been one or the other but by by Noah it already happened on a consistent basis. We all know that Noah himself got bitten by the lion when he was on the teva. Apparently the first of the beginnings of carnivorous animals going ahead and taking advantage of man to some type of extent. Anyways, so that is the history of these animals but the message which is very important to be learned based on this Ramban is that we see a yusad that ain as the gemara says in brachot that ain ored memit the animal is not the one that causes death het memit. It comes only from our time. Animals have only power over us in as much as we do something wrong. Adam orishon sinned something came off about it. That's when they started eating each other and eventually could attack mankind went and he killed his brother Hevel. Mida keneged mida animals wanted to attack him and Kodesh Baruch went to plant a letter on his forehead in order to protect him from the elements so so animals would not attack him. What happened until then? Because chet sin is what causes the damage. We look to externally sometimes to look at that and forget about looking the internal reasons and it's the person that can cause this to occur. I don't have to explain to you of course Joseph and Sadiq was thrown into a pit with scorpions and snakes which is the before she might doesn't mean it was just in a pit with him. He slammed himself on top of them. He was pushed on top of them. He he stepped on them. He was in the middle. He was walking and stepping on them left and right and not one sting. He came out completely unscathed because ain't no ain't no acra of may meet. It's not the the scorpion or the snake that causes the damage. It's the chet. It's the person. When a person has a certain sit because a certain level of sit because to him he's protected more or less. Of course everybody with their own individual case. Daniel was thrown into a go of a riot. A cave full of lions to a closed in in cave encased area that is jam packed with the lions and he came out also unscathed. Now let's not forget they were on purpose left hungry. These lions were starving. Before they threw Daniel into there they made sure that these lions did not have food for a long period of time in order to make sure they would do a nice job and clean up the plate and still they left him quiet. Later as not so many people know someone else was thrown in there and he got eaten up very nice and dandy. Why is that? This is a natural phenomenon. How can you overcome nature? The answer is animals attack the based on a person not based on anything else beyond that and again I'm reminding I don't know this person. I'm not going into that. I'm doing what we should take out as lessons for our own individuality. That's all I'm trying to do because I feel like when occurrences like this happen especially some that are so out of the box, we have to take some type of lesson because it's something that's a that's our purpose. One last Gemara, of course, we know the Gemara in Berachot with Rebbe Chanina ben Dosa that there was an arid, some type of scorpion, some type of serpent that was going through the city and killing people left and right. He would had a special hole. He would un He would come out in the middle of the night and he would damage the whole entire city. Many people died from this arid and they had no way to get rid of him. So, comes along Superman, Rebbe Chanina ben Dosa, with his cape, and he comes, sticks his Achilles' heel into the hole of the arid. The arid comes up and bites his heel, and the arid dies. And this animal dies. And Rebbe Chanina said the famous line based on that, "Lalamed, to teach us she'eina arid memit, always remember it's not the animal, rather it's the chet, it's our own individuality. It has to do with us, it has to do with the purpose, has to do with our situation here in the galut. And therefore, a person should always attribute it to the right place." And with this, we finish. But that is directly connected with the Sifra, which is also mentioned in the pasuk in this week's parsha, very good idea for the Shabbat table, what I'm mentioning right now. And that is there is a machloket le'atid lavo, in the time of Mashiach, what's going to be the situation with the animals? Rebbe Yehuda says, "Mavir mota min olam." Okay, and the pasuk by us says, "V'shibati chayyah min ha'aretz." Hakadosh Baruch Hu says, "I'm going to get rid of the land." What's v'shibati? Shvita, says Rebbe Yehuda, "is getting rid of them." Rebbe Shimon comes along and he says, "It doesn't mean he's going to get rid of them. They'll be around. There'll be lions and tigers and bears and snakes. But there'll be no omays. Omays? No, no, no, they'll be fine. They won't hurt anyone, they won't do anything, they'll be very innocent, they'll be very nice and sweet, and nobody can You can walk around freely. You can go horseback riding on top of some puma, and it's going to be totally okay. It's fine." And that's what it says in the the z'ev im keves." the wolf will sleep next to the sheep. I don't know how much sleep the sheep is going to be able to get doing that, but they'll be able to sleep next to each other not worried about it. The the is the tiger will be able to sleep together with the goat and all dangerous animals will sleep together with the that a child will come and poke some which is a super dangerous snake in the eye and will do that and you won't get bitten and he'll be okay. So says we see from here they'll be around. It'll be fine, but it's not a problem because don't you remember the cloud and maybe it's not the animal that causes it's the so when we are in a status of perfection when we're in a place when we were over and beyond when that is behind us so then the animals won't want to hurt us. They won't be interested in us and we'll be okay. The also in our partial in this partial also to meaning says I will go ahead and get rid of the animals. That sounds like they won't be around, but in Ben Ben that's another partial he says I will I won't get rid of the I'll get away from their permission to go ahead and attack you or each other. They won't become as carnivorous as they were before. One is get rid of them one says so again we get back to the same and that is a because because the brings in the end of the time and the only thing we're going to have is we'll be in charge of the world, but don't worry everything will be the same including the animals. Animals will still be carnivorous. They'll still be eating things and they'll they'll still be doing things, but this says the says the Ramban, they will be in a more peaceful world and therefore it will be safe. The Ramban says not pitum, that's not shot in the pasuk. And he says no way, it's going to be much worse than that because I'm sorry, he says the other direction. It's going to be much better than that because there will be no carnivorous animals at all. They will not be hurting, they will be put away. It'll be okay like it says in our pasuk of shmita. So here we have it. Again, this is machlokes about whether they won't be around at all, whether they'll be around and they won't be attacking, we'll be in a much more peaceful place. But the yesod is to always remember when you're good, you're safe. When you're doing what needs to be done, Hakadosh Baruchu takes care of us. He's protecting us and you don't have to worry about the attacks that will happen. That when we go ahead and we put our kochos in the right place, then you will feel a protective force field around you and the chayos will not be able to to take advantage and maybe even then you can go ahead and go swimming with the sharks. Shabbat shalom.