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Mayim Rabim part 1 - The flood in our life · Food for the Soul

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I hope you all had an inspirational tishrei and now Yakovalahedako, we gotta start unpacking the
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suitcases, the buckets that we filled up with joy, with inspiration and we need to start
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unloading.
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Now, the best way to unload and to take it apart is to study Torah, but it's tangible.
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something that we could hold on to, something that we could do, we could learn, we could
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occupy our mind with and then actually channel all the inspiration to something practical.
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In general, achalatotovot are great. Good decision that you were inspired now from
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the hageem and you decide to ABC, whatever it was, it needs to be practical. For example,
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we had a kafot with a few bunch of guys and we sold our kafot instead of with money with
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akhlatotovot with like good decision, 10 times trillin, 50 times trillin, 20 times shabbat
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candles, etc.
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So yesterday morning one of the guys opened the WhatsApp chat with all the people who
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bought and started saying now let's mark it.
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So he sent a picture of him to fill in and another person sent a picture of him
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Whatever, each one, whatever they decided to practically continue the inspiration from the hagim to the entire year.
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Now with the inspiration comes a big distraction.
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Distraction. We need to get back to work, we need to get back to life, and it's not always that easy.
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We will learn about the balance between
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distractions, stress,
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anxiety,
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occupation and
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the service of Hashem.
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Which context in the context of a Hasidic discourse do you know what's a Hasidic discourse? How's it called in Hebrew?
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What's a discourse a
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Ma'amal
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Ma'amal is have you heard the word Ma'imil?
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Yeah, yes, okay. Let's make sure
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The feedback the Ma'amal is when a rabbit says
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written and
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almost in divine novel Torah, actually what I mean. You know when Shaggy Moses the Torah he gave
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him two levels of Torah. He gave him the written Torah and the oral Torah. He gave him a text
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that this is what it says and then he gave him an explanation how to interpret this. The
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The difference between the two is whatever it says on paper is very firm, every letter
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is exact.
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The Oral Torah is more freestyle, also by Arabians they spoke two ways, sometimes they spoke
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asikhah which was more like a freestyle speech, sometimes they wrote down a maama, they wrote
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down and said the discourse in which they particularly every word that they chose was exact.
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I want to tap it together into a very special Ma'amah of the Rebbe that the Rebbe said
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not in public. The Rebbe said it's from his room with a microphone.
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What happened? 1977. In general the Rebbe's schedule was super predictable. Every day the
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they were able to walk to 770 at the same time.
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Shahrit was at 10 o'clock every day.
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Minkhal was at 3.15 every day.
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They never used to go to visit his mother at 4 o'clock.
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It was a very concrete, predictable schedule.
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Every single day, when they went to the,
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I don't know, were not throughout the,
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the Rebbe's leadership,
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it wasn't a day the Rebbe took off
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for vacation or for sick day.
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1977, during Shmini Atser,
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the Rebbe suffered from a heart attack.
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In the middle of Haqqafot, the first night of Haqqafot, right?
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We're gonna do two nights of Haqqafot,
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and the first night the rabbi stopped suddenly,
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the Haqqafot, there was like holding his heart,
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and all the Hasidim, empty that 770,
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broke all the windows and just fled to all directions.
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And you know, if the lady said,
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everyone disappeared within two minutes,
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the place was empty.
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There's only a small Minyan, stay there.
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The rabbi insisted on finishing Haqqafot,
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Myself, with his brother, no, and a few, Mosqueians went up to the room, there was a meal and then there I was ready to see a doctor.
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The doctor told me that he was suffering from a very severe heart attack.
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Thank God, they recuperated from it.
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But while in the room, they brought medical equipment to the room,
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and the doctor told me that he needs to take it easy, not too much stress,
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he shouldn't be teaching, he shouldn't say ma'amareem.
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but I would say that's impossible for him. His life, his life comes from teaching Chasidot on the
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contrary. It's going to be counter beneficial for his health if he doesn't. So they told him,
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okay, at least don't go downstairs do it in from your room. So what he did, they had microphone
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in the river's room. Chasidin were downstairs in a regular Fabrengen setting and they heard
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hear the Rebbe. And the Rebbe, for the second week after that, on Parashat Noach taught
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a tremendous interesting sikhah about the great waters. I know we're still talking
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about the Bereshid, but thinking ahead, one week we're already going to be busy
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with Noach. You know the story of Noach? You know who Noach was? Okay, you're
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And I know two different people.
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They both had waters, but like,
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so you know who Noch was with the Ark?
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Tivat Noch, yeah?
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Including everyone.
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And then there's a Hasidic paraphrasing.
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You know what's paraphrasing?
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We take the same story and we describe it
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in a different way.
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How does Tivat Noch apply to my life?
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How could I relive the story?
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Where am I?
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Who is my Noch?
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Who is my, let's say, it's Yad Vitsray, right?
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We always talk about it.
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That I need to relive it in my personal life.
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Can I bother you to turn off the heat?
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It's not tackled outside yet.
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We're gonna have enough stuff in months in Doiz.
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And someone is really freezing in Ben-Mey.
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Well, Rata, I don't know if it's gonna work out.
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If the story is not relevant to my life,
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then why are we learning this story?
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read about Napoleon. If it's history, why does it make a difference that it's Jewish history?
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If it's not applicable and doesn't help me be a better Jew, the Torah is not there to tell me
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stories. The story must have something to me to learn from, must. Otherwise, it's not practical.
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Okay, it still has a certain value because you're learning ultimately, but there must be something
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that I could practically apply to my life. How so? Let's say, when you talk with
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the Yatmitsai, we always say, you know, you have your limitations and you need to
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live your limitations, right? And you're like, there's a power, there's the
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world around you that tells you not to grow, and then you need to break
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through, you need to listen to Moshe Abaynou. You know what I'm talking
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about how to like say the story in my life. When it comes to Noach's arc, it's very interesting
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because Hashem decided to press the reset button for the world. Hashem decided to, you
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know what happens with the computer when it's stuck? What do you do when the computer
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stock it doesn't move or it works bad turn off turn off turn on yellow new reset
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restart reset you pressed the button and we and you see start I said so the world
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is messed up and all the people are wicked and all the people are fighting
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each other and killing each other and it's not a peaceful place let's reset
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10 generations the world survived good and then Noch comes around and Hashem
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decides to destroy the world and save Noch. Now in my personal life where is
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there a tremendous flood that is about to make me drown and I need to save
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myself by going into an arc. By the way an arc is a Teva, a big boat. We call it an arc because
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it's not just a boat, it's like a tremendous boat. Right? You know, that's an arc. We're gonna use
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that word because that's the official translation. So who could maybe think of an idea? What would
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the flood resemble in my life? You know what's a flood? Flood is a lot of water. What could
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Great waters flooding me could represent in my personal life as a Jew in 2025.
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What?
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Did flood now happen?
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Yes.
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That you were not a good Jew.
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What?
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You were not a good Jew.
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Did I not a good Jew?
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Yeah, it can't happen.
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Oh yes, but I'm not talking about the physical flood, I'm talking about the metaphorical flood.
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What is the metaphorical flood?
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What does that represent in my life? Which floods do you experience in your personal life that could be similar to Noah?
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Assimilation. Okay, that's very interesting. You're saying assimilation is like a flood.
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We get distracted and we become more and more Jewish amongst us. That's okay, not bad.
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And the other thing is that the other thing you said, okay, explain.
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Kind of like, revert, re-do.
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Okay, but it's not a negative thing. You don't have to escape to make them.
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We need to escape the flood. Do you understand the question?
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For me it was like, to move to another country, to another country, like 10 times.
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Okay, very good. The same Jewish migration is like a flood. Okay, very good.
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protect yourself and try to like keep you keep your head in the right place, yes?
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All materialistic life what we have, moving, job, moving, moving, job,
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moving, okay, also movies, movies, everything, okay, all the physical
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stuff that occupies me, why is that like a flood?
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Distracted from Torah.
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Distracted from Torah, very good.
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Yeah, but the people's blood didn't disrupt the Torah.
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He just cleaned the earth.
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It killed everyone?
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Not everyone.
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What do you mean not everyone?
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Aninoch has a wife.
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Aninoch? How did he escape?
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How did he words rescued?
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Because he was the one person who was listening to Hashem.
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Okay, so what's gonna happen to you
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If you're not gonna listen to Hashem and if you're not gonna go into the Ark, you're gonna die in the Flood.
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I never did the same as the normal Ark.
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Okay, right, but like the Flood could represent, imagine someone who's really too busy with anything materialistic.
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He's gonna get so distracted from Torah, from life, and he's gonna drown.
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A person will not physically, but metaphorically drown in assimilation, in Gai'ish guide, in whatever it is.
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Whilst having another job is supposed to be doing
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So what you're gonna learn now is we're gonna start the the mamar that will teach us a few things number one
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That
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the flood in our life will represent
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Working making money trying to make money being busy with business those things are
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Like a flood that comes around I don't know if you ever owed someone money or needed money urgently
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when you need money urgently it's like a flood you can't do anything else you're
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drowning people that have a lot of debt and owe a lot of money to a lot of
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people but to the bank with their credit cards and they're about to lose their
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house that's not fun right it's not just not fun it's drowning and that's
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when people jump off bridges. And they drown. Not funny? Okay. So when people have too many
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things going on, they drown, we will learn that there is a way. So now we know what the
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flood is going to be. We're going to learn what does it mean to go into the Ark? What
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does it mean? What's our rescue ship? How do you save yourself from the floods?
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what she's saying through Torah okay interesting what does that mean why is
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that saving you from
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what teaches you how to swim yes how to swim how to it's like a
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protective art like it's like it's some kind of
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give you like a clean mind when you in a stressful situation
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How to act in life? How to...
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Okay, so you're saying the Torah will teach us and help us out a bit? Okay, interesting.
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Go and build a boat.
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What? Go and build a boat? Very good.
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So next time when you owe someone a lot of money, go build a boat.
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What's he saying? When you... when he's... what?
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Leave. Oh, he's saying escaping. Also not a bad idea.
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Or, and sorry, and then the next thing that we'll have to address
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is to understand why does God bring a flood?
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What's the benefit?
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Shem doesn't do it for no reason.
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What?
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Why?
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Why do I deserve a flood in my life?
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Why is Shem flooding me with all these distractions?
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To teach me something?
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To teach me something?
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A lesson, what does he benefit from that lesson?
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What do I benefit from that lesson?
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Because everything that was bad was criminal.
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For me?
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Yes.
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Maybe I just it's still whatever. It's a lot of water. It keeps on washing my head. Okay, so I survived it now what?
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Brings you closer to a sham
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maybe
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What?
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To discover God here through us through the challenge
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In a certain way, what you're you sing you all sing kind of good
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But you know what happens to the boat when there's a lot of water
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Going up, the more water comes, what happens to the boat?
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What?
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It floats, raises higher and higher.
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So we're gonna see that there's a certain benefit in the flood,
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even though it's something so negative,
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we'll see that there's a certain way to rise from it.
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Keep on growing, going higher and higher.
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So what we need to understand now,
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there's gonna be three parameters,
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three things that we need to learn.
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Number one, what is the flood in our life?
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number two is going to be what is the arc how do i protect myself from the flood
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number three what's the benefit why do i rise or why does the shem bring this flood upon me
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what is the flood in our second how do i get protected from the flood
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What?
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Right?
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Find your noh.
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What?
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Find your what?
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Noh.
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At the noh in you?
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No, your noh.
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You also took not only him.
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Oh, you're saying get married and let your husband take care of you.
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That's basically what you're saying.
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She's like, whatever.
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Who needs to build the ark?
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did and that's it you have enough taking care of you and and you don't have to
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worry about anything right? Not a bad idea. What's the third? The third is what's the
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benefit and why does the Shem bring the flood upon me? How do I rise from it?
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In order to understand all of the above we open a book called Shira Shireen.
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I'll tell you with us.
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I'll start in Yishka.
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You translating here?
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Oh, okay.
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If you don't understand, I could say slower and in simpler English also.
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And then what?
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I just didn't hear you, it's not that I don't understand.
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No, no, say in your words, that's how we practice.
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Oh, okay, very good question.
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The story of Noach in our life.
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Noach?
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You know who Noach was?
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Yeah, how can he help us in our, how his story can help us in our life?
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Oh yeah, yes, we could phrase it that way. And then when we zoom in, when we look at it closer,
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there's three elements. The water. What is the water in my life? And we said distractions,
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work, money, problems. Number two is going to be, what is the arc? What's the ship, the boat?
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what's the boat how they protect and number three is why does the shrimp do
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this okay no just just like you want to know what the topic some some reason the
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topic it's gonna be the point you're gonna touch upon
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okay we could do that if you want you we could do that and then okay so we're
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We are going to open a book called Shira Shireem. Who wrote Shira Shireem? The Rabbi?
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No.
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Nothing David, David called wrote the Yelim.
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Who wrote Shira Shireem? You know what Shira Shireem is?
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It's when they went through the sea.
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When the what?
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When they went through the sea, when sea was opened.
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No, that's Az Yashir.
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It's a book of love. Do you have a Bible at home? You know the book Bible?
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The book, you know. Not the Chumash, the Bible, the Fultonach.
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Not just the Torah, also the prophets. How many books are there in the Tanach?
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No, five books of Moses. How many are there in the full Bible?
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A little more.
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No, but the good guess. Let's start with those you know. You know Bereshit, Shemot,
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What happens after Dvarim? What's the next book? Where does the story continue?
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The Naveem.
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What?
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The Naveem are the prophets. It's a general category. Who's part of the Naveem? Give
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me a Navee. Judges, okay you have, first you have your Yeshua, right? Yeshua comes
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after Moshe. This is the book of your Yeshua. Then there's a whole generation
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of judges called Shoftim. And then we have stories about the kings, Melachim. Then we
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have the story of Shmuel, the prophet. Right? We have Shmuel. We have Ishaia, Ishaiau,
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Isaiah, Jeremiah. Right? We could keep on going. Zechariah, Ovadiah, Chavakuk. Did you hear about these prophets?
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Yeah. Jeremiah and...
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Ilmiyahu.
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Ilmiyahu, yeah.
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Ilmiyahu, yes. Okay, I'm saying it in the Goisha version. So, Yechizkel, Ezekiel.
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I'm calling for a Goisha version also.
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Okay, you heard about those are all each one has a book in the Bible and then at
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the end is another book for example Ta'ilim is a book in the Bible, Esther
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right, Kohelet, Yov, and we have a book called Shira Shireem, all 24 books, 24
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books of the Tanakh and it's an important book by the way the
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Bible. But if you heard of it, it's good to have a Bible and maybe read through it at one point.
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Just to know, you know, it's like we're also Jewish and we're also part of our...
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It's not just Noah and Abraham. There's more stories to it.
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So, Shira Shireem is a book of love. If you open it, it sounds like
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a Romans letter. I'll read to you. To share with you the first phrase, listen to that.
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Here, let's do shir ha-shireem in imashir.
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Because we're not safari, safari I'm reading every Friday night, Ashkenazim, don't listen
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to this.
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Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for your love is better than wine.
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Because your smell is better than oils and perfume, therefore the maid loves you.
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Draw me and we will run together.
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The king will bring me to his chambers.
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We will rejoice and be glad together, we will recall your love more fragrant than wine, he
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loves you sincere, sincerely.
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Right?
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That's the Bible by the way, not Romeo and Juliet, you know Romeo and Juliet?
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This is the Torah, now it keeps on going, your cheeks are beautiful, your neck is
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full of nectoses, we could keep on going, every, the entire Shira Shireem is eight chapters
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full of romantic descriptions.
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The whole thing, if you read it you're not sure what this doesn't, what does this refer
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to?
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See?
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Of course, what else could Allah talk about, love between husband and wife, that doesn't
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make sense.
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It's an analogy that King Shlomo describes the love between Hashem and the Jews or the
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Jew individually and Hashem to describe his love one to another.
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Why he describes the love for Hashem in a romantic way?
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Give me another..
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What's a better example?
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For me, it's like, we're also moving off more because it's more genuine, more connected.
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Yeah.
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Okay, very good.
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It's a very good question.
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A lot of mefarshim ask this question and ask why didn't he write the love about the
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father and son?
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Yeah, father and son.
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Very good question.
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Hasidim used to say that if Shloma Melech used to have a rabbi, he would write the whole book about the love between a rabbi and a Hasid.
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The love between a Hasid and a rabbi, he would write the whole Shir Hashireen, how much a Hasid admires his rabbi,
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and then he would have a good analogy between a Jew and Hashem.
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But he brought it between husband and wife. Good question.
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Now, in chapter 8, almost towards the end, King Sama says something very interesting.
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He says, wow, my love to you is so great.
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Abandoned waters can't extinguish the love.
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Extinguish is the opposite of letting it burn.
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There's fire burning, you know what the, extinguish.
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fire extinguish it says great water so much water is not going to turn off my
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love to you and big rivers I'm not gonna wash my love away Wow so beautiful
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right so romantic what is he trying to say what are the rivers and what is the
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analogy. He says that every Jew has the love to Hashem and the waters around him that are
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going to try to shut off the fire or can't do it, won't be able to do it. Why? Because
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the love is so strong. Okay, so we're going to open the discourse, learn this phrase,
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the explanation and then we'll later adapt it to the story of Noach. Okay, you're with
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me? We're taking a short break from Noach and the story. The opening is Pasuk in Shira
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Shireem. We're going to learn about the Abandoned Waters, understand what they refer to and
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then we'll link back to the story of Noach. Let's start with Alice and do you want
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start reading for us the first paragraph now the we didn't give out the papers we
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gave them out I think they got stuck by a by Emma Emma do you have one or do you have a pile?
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Oh
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we find this verse which describes the love for God because that's by the truth as a whole and by
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every individual Jew in particular. So saying our love is so strong to Hashem like fire that even
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great waters can't extinguish. Now try to imagine you know what the Niagara Falls are? The Niagara
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waterfalls? So imagine there's a fire. How strong is the fire need to be that the
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Niagara Falls cannot shut it down? Bigger than the Niagara Falls, right? Tremendous
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water, right? Like volcano. So when you try to compare the love of the Jew to
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Hashem that the waters cannot shut off, you need to think of a fire so big that
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even such great waters cannot extinguish. Okay? Let's continue, Rufka, do you want to read for us?
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So let's try to translate word by word, right? For those who don't, who are not English,
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another proficiency. The ma'amareem of our rabbim, that's not so much English but the ma'amareem
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means the discourses of our rabbis, explain that what? That the abandoned waters, the great waters
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refer, what do they mean? Old anxiety, you know what's anxiety?
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anxiety, stress, fear, the opposite of being calm and relaxed, and preoccupation, being
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busy, involved in earning a livelihood. Earning a livelihood means making money, in the meaning
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of not just making money, rather making money for my family to live, buying bread, buying
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clothes, paying rent, things that people need to do.
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So, no I have a question to you, aren't you supposed to work?
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Is it just supposed to work or not supposed to work?
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Not supposed to work, we're supposed to get married then the husband is supposed to work.
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Shepherds, but that's also a job by the way, I don't know what's a better job to send
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the officer to milk cows. I'm saying, is it just supposed to work? So why are they
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considered distractions? We're not saying here that the waters that are trying to
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shut down the love are you going to work. It's you being stressed out and you
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being preoccupied and you having anxiety from your job. Going to work is a good
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thing? Are we just supposed to go work? Happily you serve Hashem by working. The problem is
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when you have tirdot aparnasa, when you have anxiety and preoccupation, it means that the
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constant pressure that I feel and I'm constantly pulled into a different direction, that's
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the problem. The problem is not just having a job, that's what we're going to elaborate
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further on because we'll learn that a Jew is supposed to go work, is supposed to serve Hashem
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through getting a job. The question is how to do that without drowning in it, without being consumed
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by it. You know, I remember when we bought our house, our apartment, we had to put
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you sign an agreement that I'm gonna try to buy this house but in order to be to
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show that you're serious you have to put $50,000 in a bank account in case I
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don't buy the house at the end then you keep the money then the other one
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personalized and I don't get anything it's like a security because the seller
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doesn't want to waste his time right and he's now gonna lose a few months
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till I get the money from the bank. So in the meantime, you put $50,000 on the side,
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you have till this day, if by this day you don't get the bank to pay the person, then
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he keeps the money, it's called escrow. Now, when you have $50,000 laying in a bank account
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and you might lose them, it's very hard to sleep at night because like, and it doesn't
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depend on you, you're waiting for the bank to answer. Every time your phone rings
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He's like, oh, maybe it's the bank answering, calling me.
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You can't just be, you can't just relax.
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There's too much money in risk.
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Now that is to your daughter Paranasa.
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No one says you should not buy a house.
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No one says you should not put their money.
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The question is, how do you live a relaxed life
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when you need to pay, when you need to,
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when you need to, when you're so distracted.
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When there are so many precious elements around you, there is a story to show you how great
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a person could become.
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There is a story that the Baal Shem Tov one time took his students to a simple Jewish
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hotel.
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The Baal Shem Tov has a lot of trips.
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He used to take his students with a wagon to visit different little cities, villages.
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One time they stayed in a Jewish hotel and they spent their the day with the Jewish owner
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and suddenly here is someone knocking on the door and they asked the owner, what is this?
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He says, this is the reminder that I need to go pay rent today, so how much is 500
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golden coins?
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They asked him, do you have the money, he says, no, I don't, it was not a good
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month. I have no money to pay. So what are you going to do? Don't worry, Hashem will
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provide. And so he sits and continues to sit with them and study Torah and
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Febring. An hour later, another knock. He says that's the second reminder that I
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have to pay rent. And then the third reminder. Okay, so the man puts on his
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jacket and starts walking out. That's where you're going. So it's just to go
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pay rent but he says but you don't have the money he said don't worry I said
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we'll provide so I was in charge he starts walking and then the the student
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see a wagon coming outside stopping by that Jew and then driving off the Jew
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continues walking 10 minutes later the wagon comes again and gives him a bag
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of money and that's it. Man went, paid rent, come back, they asked him, what's
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happened? He says, don't worry, I went and paid rent, what's the problem? He says,
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okay, but you didn't have money. Where was the money from? He says, I walked out
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and the wagon stopped next to me, two people, they asked me if I could sell
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alcohol, their vodka, and they want me to sell it. Okay, they wanted something
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with alcohol related. So I told them I need 500 rubles to do it. I said no, it's too expensive.
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He said, okay, no, I need 500. I need 500. So they drove away. I kept going to pay my rent.
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So they came around and said, no, you look like an honest guy, we'll pay you 500. So
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they paid me 500 rubles and I went and paid rent. The Basantov showed the students
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Look what level of confidence Hashemah person could have.
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He was not stressed out.
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He was not worried.
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He's going to make it.
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How?
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We don't know.
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Hashemah provide.
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Now the question is how do we get there?
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Because right now we're going to talk about the abandoned
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waters that are existing.
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So we're going to see that they definitely
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preoccupy a person.
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OK, let's continue in Esther.
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the thoughts so it's not just business where they're also matters of the world in general
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insurance health doctors car car rental and whatever you know like bureaucracy okay and
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continue nevertheless despite even though I have such an intense preoccupation in
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business. And worldly matters, these thoughts cannot shut down the love that I
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have to God that every Jew has deep in his heart. Okay? It tells us that we
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already, it's a spoiler alert. We know the end result. That is not going to
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extinguish. Hannah, do you want to read from us? As explained in Tanya?
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Every Jew has a natural and a desire to bond with him, nevertheless, because the Godly soul is the only one in the whole of this desire often we use it in.
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Subconsciousness
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I don't know what you're talking about
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Tanya tells us that every Jew has an ashamma
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and every ashamma is a part of God
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so you have a natural desire to bond with Hashem
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it's like a magnet wanting to go back to its...
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it's like there's a magnet
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it just wants to go back
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it's a natural desire for it
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it's like a helium balloon
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it just goes up
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doesn't think about it, it's the natural desire. But being that you are part in the body, that desire
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is hidden in the subconscious. Okay, so we're telling you that there's no way that's going
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to extinguish it.
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May I, ma'am?
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Yes, ma'am.
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Marking rivers wash it away.
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The term waters can refer to water that stands still with the waters of the sea.
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Which are contained and stand in one place.
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Rivers by contract, low of the current and indeed a time of terrible current.
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So, what are we saying here?
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We're saying there's two words here.
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Great waters and strong rivers.
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What's the difference between water and a river?
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Water stays, river goes.
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what's the difference in the metaphor and the metaphor means water there's a lot
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of water okay I get it so the water is not going to extinguish but rivers they
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keep on going all the time all the time all the time and even then even though
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it's so intense it doesn't take us over what does that mean imply that what's
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What's your name?
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Chaya.
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Chaya.
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Welcome.
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That what?
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Implies that what?
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That even the thoughts?
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Even the thoughts.
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I need a preoccupation with earning a livelihood and other worldly matters.
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I'll set them to the extent that they well up and flow powerfully and consistently
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without any interaction at all.
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Like rivers that flow incessantly, moving and gushing with a powerful current.
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Nevertheless, they cannot wash away a used love for God.
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Nor can they extinguish it.
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Very good.
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say that we're going to learn these two levels, where they come from, what they represent,
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and how we in our life can overcome them.
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But it's already saying that even though it keeps on going strongly, and that there's
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a powerful current keeps on going, they cannot wash away your love.
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In Torah O, the Al Tareb explains that although the simple meaning of the verses
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that rivers is only the subject of wash away, an extended sentence can be explained that
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it also serves as a subject of the word extinguish. Even when a Jew's a preoccupation with a
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Zavio drives him with the incessant power of a river, it will not extinguish the love
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for God. But he is saying that extinguish is shutting down. If there is fire burning,
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the fire is extinguishing the fire. Now I have a question to you, what is stronger?
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The Neshama of a Jew or the power of the Yetzarara in the world? If the power of a Jew is fire and
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the world destruction, Yetzarara, Avodazara, whatever you want to call it, it's going to be water.
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Which one is going to win? Fire. Yeah? You have to know what water is stronger.
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like if we are like looking our like our materialistic life like water always
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strongly even no even if you like cup like water it's maybe can't to extinguish the
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old fire but it can distract like this or that I saw entire I saw the entire
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California burnt down a while ago didn't help any water when there is a big fire water
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also becomes fire yeah yeah becomes even everything becomes fire just evaporates
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yeah just disappears it becomes fuel because it has oxygen yeah it keeps the
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fire running not not how to grow almost sometimes so but so you saying what's
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stronger the fire than the fire if that's the case then why is this such an
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interesting we're saying wow the water is not gonna win the fire of course those
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are gonna win the fire because the fire is God and the water is tiktok who's
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gonna win tiktok or Hashem you're like tiktok tiktok no who's gonna win so
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So it's not a surprise, it's not like, wow, what a tremendous idea.
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The love is not going to extinguish, of course it's not going to extinguish because the Nishama is stronger than the going.
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But maybe Hashem needs that we will win, not his.
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So whatever way we'll go, that's going to be, it's like the ping-pong that we'll play here.
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It's like, if the fire is stronger, then it's not so interesting because of course it's like that.
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And if the water is stronger than the fire, how come it doesn't win?
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Hashem helps us?
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Okay, I hear you, I hear you, my question is like, it's like, if the water is so strong
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and it could really close the fire, then why doesn't it close the fire?
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It's a miracle, it's like, how is it happening?
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How is it staying there?
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And either way will go, it's like either it's not a novelty, it's not a Hidush, it's not like wow, or it doesn't make sense and it doesn't shut it off.
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Really it should shut it off.
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Maybe because the Neshama can never be extinguished.
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So then what's the novelty of the statement?
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So like there's an essence of, in our physical essence, like oil in the fire.
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So if you pour the water, if you take the right lesson from the water, it will make a
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big difference.
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True.
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So then what's the novelty of the state?
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Why doesn't it mean, wow, the love is so great, the water is not going to be ever
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extinguished.
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Of course it's not going to ever extinguish it.
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It's God's fire.
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It's like telling you, Mexico is not going to win the, no, Cuba is not Cuban.
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take some small country like and of Costa Rica is not gonna win the United
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States what Russia not gonna win Ukraine I wanted to say that but then I was
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like too personal I'm saying it's not it's not a novelty of course not I will
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probably Costa Rica we like Costa Rica
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I could check as a great place. Yeah
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the
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What?
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When I was just like wow
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Costa Rica is not gonna get of course meaning of course Costa Rica is not gonna win the United States
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And if and if it would be I don't know that then it's like
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It doesn't it there's no there's no either way. There's no point in in the in the statement
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It's either pointless or there's no novelty one of the two
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Okay? So that's our homework. That's what we're going to leave off with today. The question. So we know, there's going to, we know already the end result. We know the spoiler that at the end, no question, the Shamaz are going to get extinguished.
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Level win. What's the waters? How do we escape the waters? How do I grow from the waters? That's already, no, and how come that really, if the water is so great?
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And that's where the Ram is going to go, it's like which one is more powerful we're going to learn that within spirituality and Hashem's creation, they're both Hashem's creations.
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So we're going to learn how one could overcome the other and apply this to our practical life.
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Wishing you all a great day ahead.