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Parshat Noach with Reb Meir Elkabas - The Damage of Exchanges

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Shalom everybody and welcome back to insights in the para of the week parhat no and we're entering now technically the beginning of the year because until the year is yet to be decided and it's eventually being beginning now our first month we're actually starting have a head start now so the para is of course unbelievable depth how can we fathom the depths but still we were trying to find some hints as to what we can use practically. So when we look at the flood the whole incident of the flood the Torah tells us gives us explicitly two reasons why the generation of the flood deserved what they deserved of being drowned and flooded. So it says that there was says that there were there was theft, robbery and also that each man destroyed his way. In other words, sexual perversion not just amongst human beings but even between animals and and species there was there was perversion. Sexual perversion. Okay. So the Torah points out these two things of robbery and theft says that the gazard was because of the gaz. In other words, what sealed the punishment of the flood for the generation of the flood was the robbery, the theft. But before that, preceding that was already a blemish of the covenant, a blemish of sexual moral purity. Hashem gave mankind the gift of reproduction for the sake of reproduction. and not simply for just personal pleasure. So the generation of the flood they were so immersed in this immorality again even between humans and animals and between animals themselves everyone fell down but that wasn't enough the finalization was theft and

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  1. 0:03Shalom everybody and welcome back to insights in the para of the week parhat no and…
  2. 1:37that, preceding that was already a blemish of the covenant, a blemish of sexual moral purity.…
  3. 3:11it with him with and work to develop it. He know he covetss and wants to…
  4. 5:12that point he destroys his free will and there's a point of no return. In a…
  5. 6:46the sea was untouched but the rest of the world everything on that was walking on…
  6. 8:49nuts with that attitude but they held on they did it because they knew that this…
  7. 10:28in the puk it's written without the vaval. So Rashi points out why because there are…
  8. 11:59because that that's what we said earlier. The idea of a flood is a measure formeasure…
  9. 14:03about rashash shana? It's a day of judgment [clears throat] and when the chauffear blasts are…
  10. 15:36But this is the power of the Sahara is to swap. And going back to the…

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