Parashat Noach - Why punish the world with water? - Rabbi Alon Anava

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We are in parashat Noach. And it's a very unique parasha because the theme of the parasha is the flood. And even though there's other details in the parasha, which in this parasha, by the way, if you follow a lot of my videos, especially the ones that we're talking about Mashiach, there are a lot of secrets that are revealed about the coming of Mashiach specifically in this parasha. But the theme of the parasha is is a flood and destruction and and like a horror movie. And we know the Torah is a positive thing. The Torah is coming to teach us positive things, and how can I relate to something so negative? And especially what I can learn from that. I mean, the Torah is coming to teach me something, not to coming to scare me or to put fear into me or to create a horror situation. The Torah is coming to inspire me and to teach me something. So, it must be something positive behind this whole story of a flood. And really we know that rain is a sign for blessing. It says gashmi gashamim siman bracha. When we see rain, it's a sign for for good blessing. They actually say that the the Talmud says that rain, when we have rain, is uh such a joyous time that is equivalent to the time that we receive the Torah. And the halacha, we know that when there's rain, I'm not talking about a flood, when there's rain, we know based on the teachings of our sages that this is Hashem's way of smiling at us.

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