Thursday
Oct312019
KIDDUSH LEVANA WITH ADDED CARE AND ENHANCEMENT
October 31, 2019תרגום קטעים משיחות ש”פ נח, ד’ מר-חשון תשנ”ב Shabbos Parshas Noach, 4 Mar-Cheshvan 5752
Entries in Noach (15)
Thursday
Oct312019
SEE NO EVIL
Here the Rebbe provides a kind of litmus test for righteousness… * When we are no longer bogged down in the mire of the world, we are available to focus on bettering the world around us. Now our attention is directed to only positivity, seeing signposts to light up and blaze our path.
Thursday
Oct312019
What Makes Us Human?
The success of artificial intelligence forces us to define more sharply what is unique about human intelligence. Many times, when computers succeed in imitating some human function, the response is, “But this isn’t really what human intelligence is all about.”
Thursday
Oct312019
TO REALLY, REALLY REST!
“I h-h-heard th-th-that y-y-you c-c-can h-h-help m-m-me,” said the stutterer to the speech therapist. “Indeed,” answered the therapist, “sit back and relax in the chair, look straight into my eyes and count slowly to ten.”
Thursday
Oct112018
ALL JEWS ENTER THE ARK
Noach held his ground and maintained his virtue in the face of a wicked generation, avoiding their negative influence and remaining righteous. How much more virtuous would he have been had he lived in a more upright generation. Noach was an exception, a maverick, but regarding the average Jew, how can he be saved from mayim ha’zeidonim?
Thursday
Oct112018
FEEDING YOUR ANIMAL IN THE ARK AND IN THE MESSIANIC AGE
A question has been raised: why did G-d mention food for the people first and then for the animals. Doesn’t this contradict the Torah’s well-known instruction for us to feed our animals before feeding ourselves?
Tuesday
Oct172017
MAIMONIDES’ TOWER OF BABEL
The Tower of Babel narrative underscores the double-edged sword nature of unity.
Wednesday
Nov022016
OUT OF THE DISTURBING FLOOD WATERS AND INTO A NEW WORLD
Although leaving the exile and entering the redemption can only be according to G-d’s directive, nevertheless, when G-d sees Jews yearning for the redemption to come immediately – “we want Moshiach now!” – this itself quickens the commandment to be issued forth from G-d to “leave the ark,” to leave the exile for the true and complete redemption.
Wednesday
Nov022016
NOACH AND MENACHEM: EASING AND COMFORTING
The Midrash, the source of Rashi’s comment, provides an enigmatic answer: Even the earth was corrupted and “unfaithful.” When its inhabitants planted wheat it would produce “zunin” [some translate this as darnel, a grain that is poisonous for humans but fit for some birds.] Thus, G-d punished the earth for its unfaithfulness.
Tuesday
Oct132015
A DECISIVE MOVE
One day, my mother asked me and my twin brothers, Mendy and Yossi, to do some shopping in the neighborhood fruit and vegetable store owned by Kalman. Kalman, an older man, does not have a worker to make deliveries for him, so the three of us had to carry the heavy bags to the bus stop nearest the store, and from the stop we got off at we carried the bags until our house.
Tuesday
Oct132015
THE NOACH PARADIGM IS A PROTOTYPE FOR OUR TIMES
Noach was the symbol of righteousness. No other person is described in the Torah as a “perfectly righteous” person. Righteousness is defined as one who does everything right; no deviation to the right or the left.
Tuesday
Oct212014
NOAH’S ARK AND HAMAN’S GALLOWS
One of history’s most famous construction projects was the building of Noah’s Ark, through which he and civilization itself were saved from the flood that destroyed every other living creature in the world.
Friday
Oct192012
OUT OF THE DISTURBING FLOOD WATERS AND INTO A NEW WORLD
Although leaving the exile and entering the redemption can only be according to G-d’s directive, nevertheless, when G-d sees Jews yearning for the redemption to come immediately – “we want Moshiach now!” – this itself quickens the commandment to be issued forth from G-d to “leave the ark,” to leave the exile for the true and complete redemption.