Noach: Why We Lose Greatness

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

Hi, this is David Olawski with the parsha in five where in five minutes we give you a little insight into the parsha and so for the fourth time we're looking at parshas Noach. I want you to appreciate when I was studying for the SATs in America, they teach you certain words that are like strange words that may or may not pop up in the vocabulary section. And one of them as I remember was called And one of them as I remember was called antediluvian. Antediluvian, ante is before. Yeah. And diluvian is the deluge, the flood. So when you want to speak about something being very old, you say it's antediluvian. It comes from before the flood. But we have a very particular use for the term antediluvian because Adam and Hava were created in a world that was perfect. that was perfect. There was no death, there was no decay. You didn't have to be afraid of wild animals. All the food grew on the trees. You didn't need clothes. Bread grew fully made on the on the trees. You could just reach over and get a bread. If it was a dogwood tree, you got pumpernickel. You know, if you had one of those trees with a hole in the middle, you could pick a bagel, you know. There were little donut bushes. And everything was growing. You didn't have to do anything. You didn't have to plant and plow and thresh and winnow and you know, all the all the malachas that go with the making bread. You didn't do

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1. 0:00Hi, this is David Olawski with the parsha in five where in five minutes we give…
2. 0:30And one of them as I remember was called antediluvian. Antediluvian, ante is before. Yeah. And…
3. 1:00that was perfect. There was no death, there was no decay. You didn't have to be…
4. 1:31go with the making bread. You didn't do anything. Everything was perfect. And after that, the…
5. 2:02walked over to get the knife to cut the umbilical cord. Uh this was a destroyed…
6. 2:34the world that was destroyed from Gan Eden, it was still the antediluvian world was unbelievable.…
7. 3:06Terrible. Cuz instead of using the gifts we were given for good, we used them for…
8. 3:37have to lower the level. And that's why when the Anshei Knesses HaGedolah, the men of…
9. 4:07was a completely different world than the world that I will be was born into. It…
10. 4:37and power well, could you took it away from us. And when we show that we…

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