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Parashat Noach | 10/13/18                                 ‫פרשת נח | ד' חשוון ה'תשע"ט‬

Walking In The Ways Of Hahsem

           Pesi Katz

Noach was known as a very righteous man, and walked       happened. The answer is pretty simple: He wasn’t going
with Hashem, which seemed very special. Later in the      out and searching the meaning of life or Hashem.
Torah, Hashem makes a ‫ ברית‬with Avraham. In               Instead Hashem showed himself to Noach. If Noach had
parshat Lech Lecha it says that he should walk before     helped the people around him, he would have been
Hashem and be perfect. Why does it say Noach should       involved in what everyone was doing.
walk with Hashem, but Avraham should walk before
Hashem?                                                   Now we can see why it says Noach walked with Hahem
                                                          and Avraham walked before hashem. When hashem
The ‫ טעם ודעת‬says the difference between these            showed himself to Noach, he gave him a task to go out
two words has to do with the personalities. Avraham       into the world. Since Hashem knew Noach didn’t
had a more outgoing personality. He loved doing the       believe in him as much as Avraham did, Hashem stood
mitzvah of ‫ הכנסת אורחים‬which was a mitzvah that          by him the whole time. Since Avraham fully believed in
had to do with people. He loved spreading Hashem’s        Hashem, he stood behind him, because he knew he
name to the people around him. Avraham showed             could take on the tasks. Avraham walked before
himself to the world even though this was a time of       Hashem without any support.
‫עבודה זרה‬. Avraham had emunah in Hashem, and
because it was so strong there was no way he was          We should all try and reach to the level of emunah, so
going to do ‫עבודה זרה‬.                                    we can work on ourselves, but also work on improving
                                                          the world, while being devoted to Hashem.
Noach was more of a shy person. Although he didn’t
involve himself in the bad, in no way did he rad out the
evil his generation was doing. But if he was such a
tzadik why didn’t he try and influence them to do good?
If he had helped them do good the flood wouldn't have

     Torah MiTzion: Tuvya Schey | Eldar Cohen | Elyashiv Cohen | Dror Rettig
Bat Ami: Hodaya Regensburger | Shachar Shushan | Shira Diamant | Adi Marocco

                                   Rabbi Refael and Orit Azugi
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