113. What did the Creator reply to Noah when he came out of the ark and saw the world ruined, and began to cry over it, and said, \u201cLord of the world, You were called \u2018merciful,\u2019 You should have had mercy on Your creations.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
114. The Creator replied to him, \u201cFoolish shepherd, now you say this, and not when I told you in soft words, \u2018Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood \u2026 For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which there is the breath of life \u2026 Come into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before Me in this generation.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI was so delayed with you, and I told you so you would ask for mercy on the world. And since you heard that you will be saved in the ark, the sorrow over the world did not enter your heart, and you made the ark and was saved. And now that the world is lost, you opened your mouth to say before me pleas and litanies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
115. Then Noah offered, as it is written, \u201cand took of every pure animal and of every pure bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
116. What is the difference between the righteous who were in Israel afterwards, and Noah? Noah did not protect his generation and did not pray for it like Abraham. When the Creator said to Abraham, \u201cThe outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great,\u201d it is immediately written, \u201cAnd Abraham approached and said\u201d many things against the Creator until he asked that if there are ten righteous ones there, He will atone for the whole generation for them. Abraham thought that there were ten righteous ones in the city, with Lot and his wife, and his sons and daughters and sons-in-law, which is why he did not pray more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
117. Moses came and protected the whole generation. When the Creator said to Moses, \u201cIsrael have sinned,\u201d as it is written, \u201cThey have quickly turned aside from the way,\u201d it is written, \u201cAnd Moses pleaded.\u201d Pleaded implies that he prayed until trembling gripped him. But Moses did not let the Creator alone until he gave his soul on them, from this world and from the next world, as it is written, \u201cYet now, if You will forgive their sin\u2014but if not, I pray, blot me out of Your book which You have written.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
118. It is written, \u201cAnd He sought to destroy them,\u201d were it not for Moses, His chosen one, who stood up for them before Him. Similarly, all the righteous protected their generation and did not let the quality of judgment control them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
119. But Noah, the Creator was delayed with him and said to him many things, perhaps he would ask for mercy on them, but he did not notice and did not ask for mercy on them, and made the ark, and the whole world was lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
120. What did Noah see that he did not ask for mercy on his generation? It is that even he did not think in his heart that he would escape. It is like one who finds a cluster of grapes that were not ripe, among the unripe, for if they were among ripe grapes, they would be nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
121. This means that the words, \u201cFor I have seen that you are righteous before Me in this generation,\u201d He should have said \u201crighteous before Me,\u201d but what is \u201cin this generation\u201d? It is according to the generation. This is why he did not ask for mercy. He said in his heart, \u201cI wish I will ask for mercy on myself and escape, much less that I should pray for others.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
122. Still, he should have asked the Creator for mercy on the world, since one who speaks well about His children pleases the Creator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
123. How do we know this? From Gideon son of Yoash, who was not righteous or a son of a righteous, but because he spoke favorably about Israel, it is written about him, \u201cAnd the Lord turned to him and said, \u201cGo with this might of yours and save Israel from the hand of Midian.\u201d \u201cWith this might of yours,\u201d namely the good that you said about My children, you will have great strength to save them from the hands of Midian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
124. Even if one is a greater righteous than the whole world, if he says bad things before the Creator, or hatred about Israel, his punishment is greater than all. We did not find a righteous man like Elijah in the whole generation, but because he spoke of Israel with hatred, as it is written, \u201cFor the children of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword.\u201d At that time, it angered Him very much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
125. It is written about Elijah, \u201cAnd he looked, and there by his head was a cake baked on coals.\u201d What are coals? This is what one who speaks with hatred about My children deserves to eat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
126. It is written, \u201cAnd he went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights as far as Horev, the mountain of God.\u201d Did he walk so much by the strength from eating the cake baked on coals?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
12y7. The Creator cast sleep on Elijah and showed him the matter of Moses, who sat before Him forty days and forty nights. While he was there, Israel worshipped the calf. And because he was forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water, he did not move from there until the Creator forgave them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
128. The Creator said to Elijah, \u201cThis is what you should have done, like Moses. Also, you should have seen that they are My children, My beloved children who received My Torah [law] on Mount Horev.\u201d This is why it is written, \u201cAnd he went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights,\u201d since he saw the matter of Moses, who stayed before Him forty days and forty nights, and the matter of Israel receiving the Torah on Mount Horev, as it is written, \u201cas far as Horev, the mountain of God.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
129. Elijah did not move from there until he swore to the Creator to always instruct Israel\u2019s merit, and anyone who does merit, Elijah rushes and says to the Creator \u201cSo and so did this,\u201d and does not move from there until that person\u2019s merit is written down, as it is written, \u201cAnd a book of remembrance will be written before Him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
130. What was Noah\u2019s punishment for not praying for his generation? That he went out from the ark limping on his legs, and lied down and was disgraced, and his son laughed at him and did to him what he did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
131. One should walk on the straight path. Because Jacob took the blessings by acts of deceit, no nation in the world was given permission to enslave Israel, except for the nation of Esau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
132. \u201cAnd he sent out the raven.\u201d It is written, \u201cThen David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, \u2018Arise, and let us flee, or else there will be no escape for us from Avshalom.\u2019\u201d Although he fled, it is written, \u201cA psalm of David when he ran away from Avshalom his son.\u201d Although he was running and was expelled from his kingdom, he did not refrain from saying psalms before the Creator, and to plead before Him once again. \u201cAnd he sent out the raven\u201d is David, who was always calling among them like a crow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
133. The crow that came from Judah is David, who was called a \u201ccrow,\u201d as it is written, \u201cI will guarantee his safety.\u201d The crow is written without a Vav [in Hebrew]. He was called \u201ccrow\u201d since he was walking in the mountains like a crow. It is as he said to Saul, \u201cas when one hunts a partridge in the mountains,\u201d he said to him, \u201cYou have placed me to be as a partridge in the mountains.\u201d Here, it is written, \u201cpartridge,\u201d and it is written, \u201cand to the young ravens that cry\u201d [in Hebrew, partridge is spelled the same word as \u201ccalling\u201d].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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