Noach vs Avraham Avinu - The Choice of Victim vs Survivor

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Duvi Bensoussan’s own words— taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

there's a fantastic topic that i'd like to touch upon tonight it's something that we just came out of the previous parasha and i think this is really an eye-opener it's a topic that seldomly have we talked about in the past this past friday i had the opportunity to speak for a few minutes on the phone with a very special person in claud israel and as we were talking he shared with me a midrash that i'd like to share with you tonight and talk about the idea of how powerful this midrash really hits home and then from there hashem should give the right words to figure out what exactly in the kuda that we're going to grab upon to take home because this midrash has so much to offer i'm referring to the madras tantrums incredible pasuk we're talking here about noah that already left the tava he comes out and here hashem tells him to go out and start the world over again go out and plant go out and propagate go out and multiply and fill the world again with people fill the world again with crop with food and sure enough noah he goes out and he starts working the land but the midrash jumps and says wait one second take a look at this became mundane suddenly we're calling him ish adama you know in the beginning of the parasha we opened up with the introduction he starts out as an east sadiq tamim and now after the mabul he comes out to start over the world and how we're referring to him as ish

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1. 0:00there's a fantastic topic that i'd like to touch upon tonight it's something that we just…
2. 4:16says the midrash noah dropped into such a depression it was something that hit him so…
3. 8:23but once he lost them he fell into such a depression he became khuleen he became…
4. 12:36was like his second father to me rabbi lankri i was so broken that was a…
5. 17:10and he slaughters the sheep on the carrot and the blood of the sheep drips into…
6. 21:20look what happened look at noah they came and did terrible things to him knock wakes…
7. 25:57to be a survivor it fueled him it pushed him he gave him the strength to…
8. 30:30don't worry no he starts fighting with them these are good kids these are jewish kids…
9. 34:40that he's here in israel to right the wrong of what they did to him in…
10. 38:45the israeli cyclist team is on shabbat mark says well it's probably a mistake they're jewish…

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