Noach: Rebbi Eliyahu Hakohein of Izmir on the Connection Between the Mabul & Migdal Bavel

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Okay, friends. Good afternoon. I'm going to have Shabbos. The learning today is dedicated by Mrs. Judy Gottlieb in Lilith Nishmas her husband Rabbi Yaakov Chaim ben Noach whose Yahrzeit is tomorrow Shabbos Parshas Noach. I want to just share with you from a Sefer called Smuchim La'ad of Rabbi Yoel Kahn of Izmir. Amazing Sefer, beautiful Sefer. Uh last year we mentioned that he connects all the Parshiyos of the Torah connects all the Parshiyos of the Torah which was what our uh our program was last year. But not only does he connect all the Parshiyos of the Torah, he connects every segment of that's in Chamisha Chumshei Torah and he has a very important piece of the story of the Migdal Bavel, the Dor Haflagah, and the Mabul. And he says a very important and simple idea. idea. Why does it say by the Dor Haflagah "Umei'elah nifredu hagoyim ba'aretz achar hamabul vayehi chol ha'aretz safah achas u'dvarim achadim"? It almost sounds like that the narrative of the Migdal Bavel, yeah, of the Dor Haflagah, or as they say in English, the Tower of Babel, why is that the Torah links that to the Mabul? So says Rabbi Yoel Kahn of Izmir, Mabul? So says Rabbi Yoel Kahn of Izmir, "When the generations after the Mabul saw that in the times of the Mabul they were destroyed, why were they destroyed?" Rashi actually points out that the generation of the flood was more innocuous than the generation of Bavel. Uh Migdal Bavel they're trying to attack God himself. In the generation of the flood, it was arayos, it was stealing, but they weren't attacking Hashem. The main reason, and Rashi says, "Look

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1. 0:00Okay, friends. Good afternoon. I'm going to have Shabbos. The learning today is dedicated by Mrs.…
2. 0:30connects all the Parshiyos of the Torah which was what our uh our program was last…
3. 1:01idea. Why does it say by the Dor Haflagah "Umei'elah nifredu hagoyim ba'aretz achar hamabul vayehi…
4. 1:31Mabul? So says Rabbi Yoel Kahn of Izmir, "When the generations after the Mabul saw that…
5. 2:01The main reason, and Rashi says, "Look over here the power of the line." That in…
6. 2:31Mabul, the main reason they were destroyed is because of their Machlokes. One, they stole from…
7. 3:02there is wrongdoing, Hakadosh Baruchu has patience. Like on the pasuk, Chibur Atzavim Ephraim Chanach Lai.…
8. 3:33going to be Be'achtus. Safa Achas, Devarim Achadim." That's why in the immediate aftermath, it says,…
9. 4:03learned specifically from the mabul to avoid machlokes and they came together. So, what did Hashem…
10. 4:33All the best. Kol tuv. Gut Shabbos. Gut Shabbos. >> Recording stopped. >> You're welcome. Chag…

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