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Adam and Noach – Setting the Stage for World History

Dr Mori Bank, Dvar Yerushalayim

This week we will focus in on Parshas Bereishis and Parshas Noach in a way that hasn’t been done before. We are going to compare and contrast.

In parhas Bereishis I would like to ask the following question. There are so many incredible insights it would need eternity just to contemplate the first sentence. R’Avigdor Miller, in his book Yehi Or, Bereishis he writes about 25 pages on the first sentence of the Torah. Beresihis bara Elokim es hashamayim ve’es haaretz. So 25 pages of chidushim from all over Shas and all over Tenach. Once we understand that we can start to contemplate that this is just one Rabbis insight. So I would like to explore parshas Bereishis and Noach from the point of view of the act of creation. Lehavdil, it is not so much the act of creation, but if you try to fin a common denominator, in each act of creation, you’ll find an act of division. What H created in the beginning, H divided for each day. Until H got to a level of almost perfection; it was perfection. But the ultimate level is that man should appreciate it.

So when we explore from the very beginning, the world was astonishingly empty. There was darkness on the surface of the deep. The Divine presence hovered on the surface of the waters. And all of a sudden, H says “Yehi Or”, Let there be light, and there was light. Not light like we imagine it – the sunshine or on a table in a room, that dissipates immense amounts of darkness with a tiny amount of light, this is something with the whole universe. It spontaneously combusted, lit up into a fiery cauldron, that was the epicenter of the sun. There was no darkness. It was pure light across the universe. From pure darkness to pure light. We have to understand that H can see through darkness and H can see through light. Sometimes the light is too bright – how long can you look at the sun for. In pitch darkness, a person can go insane. It is a form of torture – a person who is deprived of light. A person’s ability to relate to time is turned to turmoil – he doesn’t know day from night. When we were at University in the States, we went in in the morning before sunrise, and leave after sunset. So, it would be week after week of pure darkness. There was just one day of the week where we would see the light literally and spiritually – that would be Shabbos. Shabbos is ultimately the pause that really refreshes. It is physical, spiritual and emotional in the ultimate sense. So when we explore the concept of creation, H saw the light was good – obviously it would be because it was G-d’s creation, everything H creates is good – H separated between the light and the darkness – so this is the first remez we get for havdel H’, bein Or u’vein Hoshech. So this is an interesting thing. The scientific concept of darkness and light is the antithesis of the Torah concept of darkness and light. If we can imagine the scientific concept – darkness is the lack of light. Light can fill a room, but darkness cannot. From a spiritual point of view, everything has two components - the physical and a spiritual. So light is an analogy for mitzvos and darkenss an analog y for the lack of them. So when we read through everything we see that everything physical in the world has a spiritual predecessor. For instance our physical bodies are a part of Torah – the 613 organs and vessels in our body. Since we were created perfect, when a sickness comes to the body, it is connected to lacking a certain spiritual nutrition, or a certain abuse of a certain organ. So we don’t always see a lightening bolt, like a person who eats a bacon double burger who is standing in line in McDonalds and a bolt of lightening comes and zaps him and there is his cremated ash just on the counter, and the guy behind him puts his kippa back on his head and says, you know what, I just lost my appetite. It doesn’t work like that. H’ is male rachamim. H is full of kindness and mercy. If we abuse that mercy then Din kicks in. We know this from the double exile, the Egyptian slavery etc, not that it is for us to judge. These are things of epic proportions. The secret is not to find a more humane society because as humane as it is, the pendulum swings and gores over the edge. Tragically when a person doesn’t see the hevdel, the difference between kodesh and chol, a person could say, make people happy – give them drugs, alcohol, give him what he wants. Who are we to say what is right and wrong. That’s the truth. Who are we to say what is right and wrong. We are nothing – we are dust and ash. So we have to tremble and find that ultimate truth. What is ultimate truth? Truth that never decays, its good for every generation, throughout all times. It’s the first edition and the last edition. It doesn’t have to be rewritten. It doesn’t have to be re-edited. The commentaries come to inspire us to understand not to rewrite what is written. If we look scientifically, scientific discoveries as they are published nowadays, ironically, are already outdated because somebody at another University has already out schlogged that piece of scientific information. In the scientific world, things are considered relative truth. Why? Because, until you have seen that specific scientific information stands the test, the ultimate test, the test of time, its undergoing man’s judgment and H’s judgment. Ulitmately, when you look back at historic works going back 100, 200, 500 years old, they are all ancient antiquity and sometime iniquity. So when you look at Pompei it wasn’t destroyed by a Volcano. It was destroyed by aveiras. There were fossilized – not fossilized but incinerated and replaced by ossified lava, people engaged in all sorts of acts of depravity. We know the licensciousness of Pompei was the destruction of Pompei. It was effectively an Ir Hanidachas, a city not unlike Sodom and Amora. So when we explore Parshas Bereishis we see something tremendous. H created light and darkness and separated the two, in a mixture of light and darkness intertwined about a certain Navi- Yeshayahu (35, 7), said “Yotzer or uBore choshech”. He who forms light and creates darkness. This is exactly what we say in Bircha Krias Shema after Borchu. We have to contemplate this, when we consider the physical and spiritual creation and the tree of knowledge and the tree of life.

Where was the garden of Eden? Where was the tree of knowledge and the tree of life? The garden of Eden, tradition has it, was right here in Jerusalem. Probably on har habayis. The tree of life was in the Kodesh hakedoshim, on the even hashesiya. The tree of knowledge, that is a more difficult one. But when you look at the commentaries, frighteningly, it seems to have been interwoven into the Tree of Life. A person that only saw ratzon H very clearly and strongly chose the tree of life, bacharta behayim. A person that as tempted by external desires – things that weren’t necessary for a person in this world, would be temtped by all kinds of chevel chavalim. As King Solomon said in Koheles, all is chevel, all is vanity – vanity of vanities. A man can be rich and all his richness will go to the earth and be inherited by others. All his effort in this world, all his struggle and his quest will all be for nothing, unless he is doing the ultimate thing, which it says at the end of Koheles, sof hadevarim, yiras H’. The end is to have Yiras shomayim and to do the ratzon H because anything else is tragic waste of time and effort, and a person is guaranteed not to be rewarded forever in his next world. Of course, if a person does Teshuva, even at the last minute of his life, he can turn alkl hia aveiros into mitzvos. Its is not that often that person knows at the last second to do such a thing. Tragically enough, when we think, in Yizkor, of the number of people who have left this world.

When we think of creation, H created light and before that darkness. Darkness was on the face of the deep which was across the universe. Light comes from fire. Not necessarily, because there are different kinds of light. Laser light, corrective light. There are tremendous amounts of light that we don’t comprehend. Even the Sun. With combustion there is no reason for the sun to continue. It should have self consumed in a few seconds a withered away like a huge furnace into nothingness. But it generates spontaneous, infinite light, and all the guns, bombs and weapons, throughout the history of the world, doesn’t equal one second of the energy given off by the sun. If we were 1000 kilometres closer to the sun, we would all experience much worse than the Sahara desert in the blazing heat of summer. We would be incinerated within moments. Had we been a few thousand kilometers further away from the sun, we would all experience blizardous arctic conditions that are way beyond what a human being can tolerate. The sun is millions if not billions of kilometers away, yet, it is exactly the milimetre that it has to be. We see when we go to the north and south pole and when we go to the equator, the range of temperatures, just within a few thousand kilometers, is mind-boggling. So we see, had the sun been much closer or much further, it would not have sustained life. That is why 5768 years of rotating and circumscribing the sun in an elliptical fashion and the moon, rotating around the earth on a monthly basis. The forces of gravity should have drawn the moon into the earth’s surface, and long ago the earth should have been drawn into the sun’s gravity. By the grace of H we go forward. Without contemplating too carefully the massive mitzvo that H is performing to have the Moon perfectly rotating around the earth, at 29.26 days – the exact number is 29.5305588 days because in the Nasa Space Program, when they landed on the moon, they sent a laser disk that would transmit to the millimeter when the earth got to the exact same position that it was the month before, and they confirmed what the Jewish nation and what the Torah told us from the very outset – the perfect timing of the moon and the perfect timing of the sun. So we see that the luach, calendar of the Sages was absolutely perfect – not navigated by the sun or the moon. The sunand the moon were given to us to help us navigate. So it helps us to serve h through the 7 days of the week and we get to Shabbos. It helps us to navigate in the month. We add a month, not like the bnei Yishmael, whop sometimes celebrate their holy days in the summer, sometimes in the winter, because they navigate only by the moon. We are also not like Esav who used to worship the sun and whose luach revolves only around the sun. Every few hundred years they would have an eclipse of a few days. They would just have to readjust their luach so that they could get back in synch. From the Torah’s outlook, it was created perfectly. When H creates something forever…. We see when H created the world, on the first day, H separated between light and darkness. So we can imagine that half the universe was light and half the universe was darkness.

On the second day H divided between the water above the firmament and below, separating between water and water. So h made the firmament, lehavdel – you see coming up again, bein mayim le mayim. The firmament of water separated between the water above and below. H called the firmament heaven. It was evening and it was morning – the second day. We see from this an incredible insight. It doesn’t say ki tov. This is the only day that it doesn’t say ki tov. The Rabbeinu Behaye comments that while the Torah doesn’t say that the achievements of the second day were good, it was because the creation of the angels and the firmament were so incredible, it was not the prime purpose of creation. Rather, the prime purpose of creation is the lower world, the world of man, to bring H’s ratzon into this world. Despite the lofty heavens and heavenly beings, the righteous are greater than the angels (Sanhedrin 93a). So we see from this also the frightening idea that machlokes came to the world in a sense. Ein mayim ela Tora. There is no water in the world except for Torah. The whole machlokes of R’ Eliezer – where the Rabbis said ‘lo baShamayim Hi’ and brought tremendous tragedy to the world. Maybe the concept that we can contemplate, shomayim va’aretz. Ken bashamayim hi – torah is certainly in heaven because H will judge us when we leave this world, but H gives us the Torah for this world. To follow His ratzon. Ultimately, when people are as careful as possible to follow the ratzon H, H will move heaven and earth, as it says in Pirkei Avos, make your will H’s will, and so His will will be your will. We see how beautiful this world is when it comes to a certain harmony, but if man is in machlokes and is dividing the waters and his Unity, It can only bring tragedy to this world. So it says, in an ultimate sense, the waters of heaven were there in the firmament above, for H’s kavod and the waters of this world for man’s good. If we think about it, all the waters of this world evaporate. They go to the heavens as clouds. They don’t evaporate up into outer-space. They are held in the atmosphere and move to where exactly each raindrop is commanded. It is the biggest illusion and tragedy to think that one raindrop and blade of grass is not absolutely under the domain and jurisdiction of H’. As we look from Mount Scopus in Jerusalem, if you look to the East, as far as the eye can see there is desolate, arid wasteland, as mark Twain documented in his journeys through Israel. He didn’t see just the east of Mount Scopus. He saw also the west. When he saw it, it was desolate, arid wasteland as well. Completely parched. It says the cactus, the best friend of the dessert terrain had no place in Jerusalem. The closer he came to Jerusalem, the more forsaken this land seemed to be. Of course, the land had been cursed for 2000 years. No foreign nation was able in any substantial way to conquer the land.

On the third day, H said, “Let the waters be gathered into one area and let the dry land appear”. H called the dry land Earth and the water, “Seas”. H saw it was good. He commanded the land so sprout vegetation, plants and fruit trees, which it did. H saw it was good. There was evening and morning, a third day. Rashbam explains that the earth had been created on the first day, but up to now the earth was submerged under water. To make way for the land, vegetation, animals and ultimately man, H created boundaries for the water. As soon as H uttered the words, “let the waters be gathered” the mountains appeared and the waters collected in deep-lying valleys. The water threatened to flood the land again, until H’ forced it back with walls of sand (Pirkei d’Rabbi Eliezer, Zohar). This is the origin of the name Shakdai – mi she amar leolam, dai – the one who said to the world – enough. We saw with the Tsunami and the Titanic, where the Captain tragically said even G-d couldn’t sink the ship, that only by the Grace of H we go forth. If H did not hold the waters back, it was cover over the world like it did in the time of Noach Has Ve’Shalom.

On the fourth day, H said let there be luminaries, in the firmament of heaven, to separate between the day and night, to serve as signs for festivals, days and years. The Midrash says that originally they were created equal, but the Moon argued that there could not be two rulers and H reduced the moon so that it only reflected the Sun. Their dominion remained to cause a distinction between the darkness and the light. Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik suggested that the blessing we give the moon, that it will once again become full like the Sun, is like the blessing we give to a baby at his bris mila “may this small one become great”. We pray that the child, the recipient of light, of Torah, from his parents and teachers – at this stage just a taker, will in time become a giver in his own right and become a source of light, teaching and inspiring others.

The Vilna Gaon points out, as the Medrash says, each of the first six days has a partner. On the first day, light was created, and the luminaries were set in place on the 4^th day. On the second, the sea and heavens were created, and aquatic life and birds were created on the fifth day. On third day, dry land and vegetation were created, and on the sixth, animals and man were created to live on the land and cultivate it. The Medrash says that Shabbos came to H to complain. The Beis HaLevi says that Shabbos complained – who will tell the world the message of Shabbos, that H created the world and rested on Shabbos? So H answered, Bnei Yisrael would be the partner for Shabbos to bring His message to the world.

On the fifth day, H said, “let the waters teem with teeming living creatures, and fowl that fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens”. … And H saw that it was good and blessed them. It was evening and it was morning, the fifth day.

On the Sixth day, the last day of creation per se, of physical creation, h created all the creatures of the earth. The first day was the heavens and the waters. No H brings all the living creatures, the creeping creatures and beasts of the land, and so it was. H made the beasts according to their kind and the animals according to their kind, every being according to its kind. Meaning, the seed of that creature was created to be just like that creature and not like another creature. Genetic engineering, as much as a person might try to tamper with these things, the guarantee is that H’s creations will continue. Mutations will not be blessed. As you see, incredibly, I wonder what Darwin would have thought of it, had he had to explain – what happens when you breed a donkey and a horse? What do you get – a mule. What happens when you breed a male mule and a female mule? What do you get? You get something that made an ass out of its creator. OK so the creator didn’t create this animal to perpetuate new breeds. A donkey is perfect as a donkey and a horse is perfect as a horse. According to evolution, the devolution of evolution, creatures move very slowly from one species to another, small horses change into big horses, into giraffes, into elephants, into who knows what. That theory challenges the idea that H created them exactly so and that there are no bridges between those points. What happens if somebody wants something between a giraffe and a dog – something forbidden from airports, because it would chase after airplanes. And on the other hand, if a person tries to breed a mouse with an elephant. There would be huge holes in the floor board. That wouldn’t be too good. But really, from the beginning of creation, these things were iy efshar, absolutely impossible, and not only that, but forbidden. It is forbidden to mix the seeds, kilaim of the species, of the fruit and vegetables. Especially kilaim of mankind. Relationships outside marriage creates mamzerus, a certain form of human being that is spiritually forbidden to marry into the nation of Am Yisrael forever. Many things we can’t understand. It is not for us to understand. We are not required to understand. A King of infinite wisdom knows that all that He is giving for His servants is for their good. All the more so for His own children. So if the children believe in their King, He will do everything to move heaven and earth to help.

We see from all this that on the fifth day the creatures of the heaven and seas, and on the sixth day the creatures of the earth were created. The ultimate creature of the earth involves H inviting all of creation, so to speak, some commentaries say, the angels, that they created something in Our image, in Our likeness. So of course angels are somewhat similar to man. They shall rule over the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the animals of the whole earth and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. So H created man in His image. In the image of H He created him. Male and female he created. So Chazal say man and woman were united in a sense physically, and H created it so that once again we could one day get back to that perfection. H blessed them and said, be fruitful and multiply. Rule the earth and subdue it. Conquer it, so to speak. Rule over the fish, the birds and over every living thing that moves on the earth. H said, ‘Behold, I have given you all the herbs of the field over the entire earth and every field that has tree bearing fruit, it shall be yours for food. So at that stage until after the mabul, H did not allow man to eat the fish or animals. It bred a certain cruelty that we see throughout world history, that ironically people let the pendulum swing to the opposite extreme. In many countries in the world where they eventually forbade the most “humane” form, the way H commanded if we are going to eat food, meat, then you have to shecht it. That has scientifically been shown to be the most painless procedure. All the other ways that animals are put to death for food, tremendous amounts of adrenaline flush into the meet and cause immense disease for man including heart disease afterwards. So we see tremendous ironies, that ultimately h had in mind for man – the vegetarian world. After the mabul and after seeing that all the sheva mitzvos bnei noach had been desecrated, H gave further secrets that if man really desires it, he can have meat for his own desire but there is a special way that he has to shecht it and he has to be very careful that all the blood is removed. Because the soul of the animal is in the blood. So we see from this tremendous insight in creation. H saw all that He had created and behold it was tov meod. It was tov meod meod meod meod. H says Tov meod – it was perfect, except for one thing. It was evening and it was morning, the sixth day.

The Heaven and Earth were finished and all their array. On the Seventh day, h had completed his work, that he had done, and he abstained from all the creative ork that he had done. H blessed the seventh day. He sanctified it because on it, he rested from all the work which He had created to be done. This is a tremendous insight. We see from th beginning of Creation until today, no other luach – every luach in the history of the world is a seven day luach. Man being metric, being so concerned with space and time efficiency, everything that man makes is square shaped because it fits more compactly into a surface that is flat. On a round world, albeit so huge, man’s impact is in squares, whether he builds homes, shelves, packages or parcels, maximum efficency is in the square domain, whereas h creates spheres, the sfiros of the planets of the heavens, molecules, atoms, electrons. H’s creation favours spheres. Man’s attempt to dominate is in squares. Its an incredible insight. Had man created man he would have been a square head, a block head. So man is trying to make metric, a world that is far more subtle. Why didn’t He create a three week month – 10 days per week, over 3 weeks vegamarnu. It turns out that the master hand of the master creator is involkved and we will never be able to better it. H created the world just so. Even the most diatant person in the world functions on a luach with YomShevii. Little does he know, that he is a part of H’s master plan. So that whether he follows it or doesn’t – he is a part of it.

An incredible thing is that every day of the week there was a division. An incredible insight – on the seventh day, H stopped that division. It says, Dayeinu – now we can sit back and contemplate what was created this last week. Look what impact and input you have into H’s world? Was it a good week? Did you accomplish in you business ventures? Did you accomplish in your mitzvos? Did you accomplish in your home life? In your friendships? Did you build this week? What is a bad week – were you sick, did you have to have an operation has veshalom, was it life-threatening, how many people left the world this week. It could have been a bad week or a very accomplished week for them. If they left the world after a life of incredible fervor, avodas H and what he did in this world accomplished great things for H in this world, then definitely his time in this world was of great benefit to mankind and to himself. H will bless him tremendously for it. For the person who may has veshalom have brought tremendous tragedy upon the world, bringing wars, diseases, trying to conquer the world – such as person it is better that he wasn’t born.

So we see that on the 7^th day H rested, so to speak. H who is infinite, what does H need to rest for? An amazing insight here – Vayinafash. So it turns out it is a refreshing rest. A person is able to contemplate the past week in a way that is not possible while you are on the front line. If one can step back and say how good was the week, how did H bless him, how does one serve H’, how was the week at the end of it – was it a week that we really accomplished our goal? Or will we perform better next week? Every week going through that contemplation allows us that opportunity to create on a higher level, and to be a partner with H on a level that we could never have been until that week.

So, going a little further forward, to parshas Noach. The question is asked at the beginning of the Parsha, who was alive in the generation of Noach? Ele toldos Noach? The answer is in the next verse – Noach. He was the only person that was alive in his generation, because everyone else was a bar katala – liable o the death sentence. They were walking corpses because they had totally destroyed the reason that H had created the world. What had happened was that they had Universal Laws, and after Noach the Seven Universal Laws of Noach which included acknowledging H as the creator and ruler of the world, second to no other god. Not causing tsar Baalei Chayim, not causing suffering to animals. Not to steal, not to murder. Not to have forbidden relationships and to have courts of law that will adjudicate justice. It turns out, of the whole world, there was only one man left who was trying to bring H’s ratzon to the world. So we have to contemplate that every one of the 7 mitzvos was basically being uprooted by everyone. That ultimately leads to the secret of Pirkei Avos – that says if a government does not adjudicate, does not judge – then man will eat his friend alive. So we see from this, this is the tragedy of what happened with Noach and his generation. Noach was a source of light and perfection. He tried to inspire his generation. He had the Yeshiva of Noach. For 120 years he was inviting people to learn about Torah for that generation and the mitzvos. Across the earth for 120 years nobody could say to H’, H – you didn’t have anybody to teach us. For 120 years Noach appealed to the whole generation, will he was growing the wood and all the materials for the ark,as h had commanded him. After 120 years the ark was built and he set sail for a new world whilst the rest of the world was incinerated in a flood of punishment.

At the flood of Hamas that covered the surface of the earth back then, a tremendous tragedy, as h told Noach. The end of all flesh has come before me. For the earth is filed with robbery. Through them and behold, I am about to destroy them from the earth. That robbery was robbing from H’. You have to be grateful to H’. To murder, to steal, to have forbidden relations. To not recognise H is to steal brochos that H blessed the world with. To worship other gods is to steal once again from H’, as is giving payments to these non-gods. The Courts had moved form tzedek to sheleg. Instead of being just and righteous courts, they were shattering the generation like the courts of Sdom and Amora where immorality and sodomy was the order of the day and the courts protected them. So, we have to tremble in our generation. Back then, Hamas was across the surface of the earth. Across the whole surface of the world there was Hamas. Back then it was a Hamas that was gashmius, for its own sake. People raping other people, for their own pleasure. People stealing for their own greed. People murdering because people got in their way. That was Hamas of gashmius proportions. In our generations, unfortunately, our generation is once again plagued with Hamas. When we contemplate it, the hamas of this generation is not a gashmius hamas. It is ruchnius – there is a holy jihad, a holy war. How much would it take to stop them? How much could one pay a suicide bomber not to commit suicide in order to murder other people? How much could you pay all those who would like to annihilate anybody that doesn’t bow to their sword? How much can they be bribed? It seems the answer is 0. There is nothing in the world we could do to appease them. H is showing us that we thought that we could contact the world through honour, technology, military might, atom bombs or military technology. H is showing that none of these world against a backward people who just have faith. With just faith, they are taking on the whole world and it seems they are winning. It is a terrifying situation that if the suicide bombers and their descendants or their followers would conquer the world it would mean absolute devastation and oppression. However it is through a lack of borders and order, where everything a man feels is right is right, including drugs, promiscuity, theft and plea bargaining, murder – all kinds of acts of outrage to the Creator. This was not the way the world was meant to be. The 7 mitzvos were supposed to be upheld by all the people of the world and all the mitzvos by Am Yisrael. “If you do not keep my covenant I will send a non –nation to afflict you”. So we see the tremendous irony of what is happening in the world. There is hamas of ruchnius, a spiritual war has been waged in the world.

In the generation of Noach, Noach built an ark. That ark was his voyage to the future. Without it the prognosis is 0. H was coming to destroy the generation. H commanded Noahc to build the ark of wood and glue. He got going and people thought it was the funniest thing in the world – a man building an ark on top of a mountain. And they would laugh. Who laughed the last laugh? What happened was, that, we learnt, that gashmius hamas had an antidote. H showed Noach how to build that article. That was gashmius. Now, in our generation we face a ruchnius hamas, a spiritual war against civilization, so to speak. How are we going to go and build our ark to protect us from the floods that are sweeping across the earth. That includes all those who support hamas emotionally, financially or physically. They are all part of the hamas sweeping the world, part of the mabul leading to the war of Gog and Magog. It will be a fire of Eish, a flood of Eish across the world. Only those that have built the ark in our generation will survive. So the question goes out – how does one build that ark? Does one go to a hardware shop and start building up wood? Chopping down forests and building arks like crazy, and have it parked in the back garden ready for that moment of flood, the moment of truth, the Yom Gadol VeNora that is coming. How does one prepare an ark for one’s family to survive the war of Gog and Magog. The answer is plain and simple. In the days of Noach it was just physical. Now it is spiritual, ruchnius – hamas. How does one prepare the ark spiritually? What does he use for spiritual wood? What wood does one build the spiritual ark from? Eitz Hayim – if the Eitz Hayim is the wood, the Torah is the wood, that one needs to build the Ark, where would one buy the glue – devek? To seal the wood in order that the water wouldn’t flood everything. The clue to the spiritual glue is when the Cohen is called up to read from the Torah. The whole community cry out, Ve’atem Hadvekim beH’ Elokeihem, Hayim Kulchem Hayom. Those of you that are glued to H’, you will survive, you are alive today. Today in this world and today in the next world. Spiritual glue is those that are bedvekus – glued to H spiritually, maybe not enough to be an academic genius, to quote every line in Torah, but not enough to say H and I we’re very close. We’re buddies. Either of those are prognosis 0. Both together, we have a good chance a person can survive the great and awesome days.

May I bless Am Yisrael and the whole world that we should be the right children in H’s eyes, that we should all return to Torah, the Ratzon H, and we should all experience in the way that H wants of all of us, Shabbat Shalom Umevorach, a Chodesh Tov Ad Bli Dei Yeshua VeNechama. Shabbat Shalom, Chodesh Tov.