Why Do I Say "Fasten You Seatbelts"? - The Amazing Source in Parshas Noach

you know friends we've been learning together for about 15 years and I want to tell you something very personal I don't know if I've ever revealed this to you before maybe many many of you had wanted to ask but you never had the courage to ask this question Rabbi why do you say fast in your seat bels what does that mean fast in your seat bels we're not going on a roller coaster we're not driving in a car where does that come from or sometimes they'll say okay you ready for this what mean ready for this just say it why do I need to say get ready for this so you've been humoring me all these years you say I don't know that's his style I'm not going to ask I'm not going to go there I'm not going to ask him you know everybody has their style and as close as we are I'm just not comfortable asking why he does that well the day has come friends I'm finally going to reveal to you why I do these things okay now I can't reveal why I do everything everything has its right time but I was learning rash this morning the end of the par and Rashi says Hava Hava God says let us go Hava means you ready hav means you ready it could have just said let's go down down and mix up their language what does Hava mean ready what's God doing is the sh on Torah anytime why is hasem saying hav so Rashi said it's mid mid they said hav you know when they wanted to build the Tower you ready and you know you know they said it twice it's very interesting they said it twice so Rashi says they said hav so God said Hava I don't understand that's the mid of this whole thing that's what they did wrong they're building a tower to attack God and what do what do we pinpoint as the wrongdoing that they did they said okay you ready what about the fact that they built a tower what about the fact that they were going to attack God now don't wor about that let's hone in on you ready right yeah yeah by by par anory you're game what does Rashi say prepare yourselves get ready right let's say you know the game starts at 1:00 that's that's when uh the game starts but before all the players are going to go they're going to put their hands in the circle they're going to make sounds like they're going to hoot likea and they're go okay what is that so when I was uh when I was in England in January I was standing next to my friend rakov Grant and I saw a para sheet I should have I should have taken a picture of it it brought something amazing there it brought a idea from shim Schwab that in order to generate kadus you always need preparation for example you want to say and you have a few guys sitting around the table you don't just say you say what is that what is that just bench why do you have to say Okay you ready everyone or kidish everyone's sitting around so say um no we say sa you know what sa means think contemplate listen SA or we're about to DAV we say okay you want to bless hem I'm inviting you to bless hem okay we're going to do it and then we do it what is that all bad or get what are they doing raban RAB says whenever you want to generate kadus you need preparation preparation puts you in the right mindset focus and gives you the proper frame of mind to appreciate what is about to take place by KES we say sa by daving we say bar by we always have something a way of preparation to get ready for the div kadus that are about to unfold whatever whatever it might be raban sa um rabai we learned on Monday that in the generation of thep dispersion they were trying to generate Tuma they were trying to generate T they were building a city to engender Tuma they were trying to build a migdal the mikdash this same way to generate Kad you need to prepare you need to say sa you need to say Rabin you need to say so to I would argue or I would assert that to generate T you also need preparation so they did they said H H that's why we Now understand by a when we have a really good K I can't just tell it to you I say fasten your seat belts why do you have to fast in your seat belts you need to do to appreciate the power of the you're about to hear I say you ready you ready for this do you know what's what's about to happen you need a you need a preparation you need a sa you need a bar you need a rabbi s valensin fasten your seat belts are you ready for this so a very important component of the sin of the aside from what they did was the fact that they consider this so important that required a special they said so God says we're going to punish you for that also so here you have it after 15 years the real reason why we say fasten your seat belts okay that is offering number number two for Arab Shamus