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Travel Info And Hashem said to Noach: Come, you and your entire household, into the ark, 抓for I have seen you to be a righteous man before Me in this generation. (7:1) The Mishnah in Bava Metzia (44a) says that a person who goes back on a transaction after the money was given but before the kinyan takes effect is cursed with the following words: 鈥淗e Who punished the men of the generation of the Flood and the men of the generation of the Dispersal, will punish whomever does not stand by his word.鈥?What is the connection between the sins of those wicked generations and the sin of not standing by one鈥檚 word? The Satmar Rav explained this based on the Midrash Tanchuma (Re鈥檈h 3), which says that there were many people in Noach鈥檚 generation who were as good as he, but were wiped out in the Flood. Why then was Noach chosen to be saved? The Gemara in Sanhedrin 108a says that Noach tried to rebuke the wicked people in his time. But in another place (Midrash Rabbah at the end of Parshas Bereishis) the commentators on the Midrash says that Noach did not rebuke the people. The answer is that for many years he rebuked them, but then he saw that the other tzaddikim were keeping quiet. Noach decided to follow the majority and keep quiet as well. This is the reason why, at the beginning of the Parsha, Noach is called 鈥渁 righteous man in his generations鈥?鈥?i.e. he rebuked the people for many generations, whereas later Hashem calls him 鈥渁 righteous man before Me in this generation鈥?鈥?i.e. during that last generation prior to the Flood, he was only righteous in private, before Hashem, but in public he kept quiet. Since his intentions in following the majority were good, he was saved, but the others who were wrong for holding back their rebuke were punished along with the wicked people in the Flood. When a righteous person holds himself back from telling the truth to others in his generation who are mistaken, he is forced at many times to contradict himself 鈥?to say words that contradict his actions, or to answer questions in a forced way in order to keep from saying certain things. This is called 鈥渘ot standing by his word.鈥?br /> Thus, one who does not keep his word is cursed like the 鈥渕en鈥?br /> 鈥?i.e. the righteous people 鈥?of the generation of the Flood, who were punished for not rebuking the wicked of their time. (Divrei Yoel) Travel Tips Yes, unlike some people around here, I am not responsible for anyone's death. Hey king, know how to spell Tefillin? Hey Michael and Itay, how's your Hebrew? Why didn't YOU catch that spelling error??????? Others No, I have not ..kr Yes, yes I have. Have you? Ugh, George- you can stop spamming now. Yes. I keep kosher, put teffillin every day, go to shul, and observe hashems commandments. |
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