Bnei Buzz (01-11-19) (parshat Noach!!!)

B’’h

33 Noach
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B’’h

ould you like to hear some extremely exciting news? Well regardless of your answer, I’m
telling you anyways…. Camps is only 32 days away!!! #4moreshabbats #saywhat!! Until

then, I wish you all luck on your exams and last few weeks of school
#itsalmostoverbaruchhashem

“Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; make the ark with compartments, and cover it inside
and out with pitch”

Daniel calls up his contractor and says, "I just bought a sizeable piece of land and would like you
to build me a magnificent house. I would like the kitchen counters to be made from the finest
granite...

The contractor interrupts, "Woah! Just slow down a little! First we need to deal with the zoning,
write up the blueprints and get a building permit. Then we'll begin with the details; how many
floors and what type of materials. We have plenty of time until we begin discussing the kitchen
counters...!"
God commanded Noah to build an ark. He gave Noah the building plans for the ark: make an ark
of gopher wood and make many rooms. The ark should be covered inside and out with pitch. It
should be 300 cubits in length, 50 cubits wide and 30 cubits high. He then proceeds to the
details, telling him how many floors there should be and where the window and door should be
placed. It seems that the command to make "many rooms" is really out of place. God should've
first finished explaining the basic structure, before he told him about the "many rooms"!

Now, if the main reason Daniel decided to build a new house was that he could not tolerate his
kitchen counters, which were poor quality and looked terrible, then we would understand why
one of the first things he mentioned was the counters. After all, that's why he wanted to move.

The same concept applies to the ark. The behavior of the people was so corrupt that it affected
the animals as well, until they too cohabited with other species. God therefore decided to
destroy the world and start it over from scratch. Since His reason for destroying the world was
because of the corruption it would make sense that the first thing He would care about in
rebuilding the world was that it not get corrupt again; hence came the commandment to make
many different rooms, since all the animals needed to be kept separate from other species.

When a person turns over a new leaf and wants to change, he begins working hard and growing,
but can often find himself falling back into the same hole. For example, a person switches
schools to get away from bad influences, and yet before he knows it he's hanging out with the
same type of crowd once again. The first step in the growing process is to create some plan to
ensure the mistake doesn't repeat itself. Failing to plan is planning to fail.

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The Parsha famously opens up by calling Noach "a Perfectly Righteous
man in his generation" . It is a well known Midrash brought by Rashi
about the argument of what that means; does it mean that he was a
‫צדיק‬despite being in such a lowly generation but if he was in the
generation of Avraham, he would have been even greater or does it
mean the opposite that he was a ‫צדיק‬because he was in that specific
generation relative the ‫רשעים‬of the time but if he was in Avraham’s
generation, he would have been a nothing.
However, there is a less known Rashi a few Pesukim later. The Torah
says that “[They went into the ark] Because of the flood”.
Rashi comments that Noach in fact was 'of little faith' and he did not
believe fully that the flood would come and thus did not enter until
the waters compelled him to. This is baffling! Even if we say that
Noach was not as great as Avraham, to say that he had so little faith is
perplexing. At the very least he spent the last 120 years building it;
how can one with no faith, devote a life to such a big mission?!The
Kedushat Halevi writes that Noach didn't have a lack of faith in
Hashem that he would bring the flood but rather a lack of faith in
himself. Noach lacked the belief that he was worthy of being saved
himself.
When the Midrash says he was ‫מקטני האמנה‬it was not of Hashem but
of himself. In today’s world, it is only just coming out in psychology, the
importance of self-confidence. Something the Chassidish grand-
masters of the 18th/19th century understood.May we all learn from
Noach that there is place to be confident and believe in ourselves.
Shabbat Shalom.

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B’’h

My spirit animal would be a My spirit animal this
springbok weekend is the springbok
GOBOKKE! #KeepingItTogether
#Itscominghome Yello Moledet! In 5 weeks we
Guuurim
will be having shabbat all
Been a long time ey together on Machaneh Derech
Missing you guys so much! Now
that we are all back at school, we Chaim!! Get ready because
will be coming to visit you guys and this is going to be one to never

girls! forget
Camp is literally soooooo soon Love Team Moledet
get your sunglasses, slides and food
Ariel Kahanovitz
trommel packed because it's all
going down in 5 weeks!Good luck My spirit animal is definitely
Gabi Farber
with the rest of exams to our
wonderful Madrichim❤ Yo Roim, how you?
Camp is like so soon
Good luck to the Boks bring it madnessssssss! I hope you are
home boys! starting to think how you are
spray painting your trommels
#SiyaforRoshMach #winnergetsaprize
Have a great shabbas Have a fantastic weekend Roim
Shabbat Shalom LekulamXXX
Yoni Rosenthal
The Roim hustlers
Have a beautiful Shabbas Dena Cohen
everyone Can’t wait to have
the best 5 days on that campsite
Wishing our Maddie’s writing
good luck for this week!!! ❤

Love the KT team xxx

Gabi Uria

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B’’h

Google quizzes say my spirit My spirit animal is definitely a Chinchilla .
animal is a llama so guess I’ll Howzit howzit howzit❤ Hope everyone is
experiencing Hashem's abundant brocha and
have to take it. support in their lives Time is flying and the
Howzit Everyone excitement is building. Camp is literally in a
33 Days and counting. The month For all those that are
greatest time of our lives awaits starting exams this week good luck. Study hard,
us. Dorot, couldn’t ask for a get lots of Sleep, stay calm and daven to
better family to spend 19 days Hashem. For those of you that only start in
while, put in the hours now so you can chill
with later . Enough about exams, it is Shabbas
A big Goodluck to all maddies Kodesh and the rugby world cup finals. So much
and channies writing exams. to look forward too.May you all have a holy
shabbas and in the merit of this may Faf finally
See you on the other side.. stop kicking the ball, Willie finally start catching
#IfIPass
the ball and may all the holy men of the
Good shabbos all, springboks unite to bring us the William Webb
Love Dorot
Tyler Richter Ellis Trophy and Moashiach.
Shabbat shalom

Yoni Mindel

Don't care as long as there's 7 pairs of kosher spirit animals and 2 pairs of non kosher
I'm in

Good shabbas Hineinow watch me whip, now watch Hineinei(I'm running out of these
sorry) ‍♂Hope we all had a cracking week

Transfer update: It's official - Aviah Wolff has completed her medical at Shevet Hineini and
has agreed a 1 year spell with the blues " Ever since I was a kid, I dreamed of being a
maddie for Hineini. They're just so much better than Orot.....Orot Sucks" says the Israeli

superstar.
Start packing your trommels cos there's only 32 more sleeps woohoo Also no number

from 1-999 have the letter 'a’.
Stop trying just trust✌

Love you all and PG see you soon
Good shabbas❤
Gilad Kohaly

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Questions
1. How many floors or levels (or decks) did the Ark contain?
2. Which people was Noah told to take onto the Ark with him?
3. What was Noah’s wife’s name?
4. How many of each living thing was Noah to take onto the Ark?
5. How long was the entire earth completely submerged?
6. Why was Noah commanded to take seven pairs of each fowl?
7. What bird did Noah send out first?
8. What bird did Noah send out next? How often, and with what result?
9. After Noah and his family left the Ark, God blessed them and gave them a
commandment. What was it, and how often did He give it?
10. What was the sign of God’s covenant between Himself and all living
creatures? What was the purpose of this sign?
11. Ham had four sons. Name three of them and the countries their names
represent.
Answers

1. The ark contained 3 floors (6:16).

2. Noah was told to take his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives (6:18).
3. We don’t know what Noah’s wife’s name was.
4. Noah took “two of everything except the clean beasts (seven pairs of each) and fowl (also seven
pairs) (7:2-3).”
5. The earth was submerged for 150 days (8:4).
6. Noah was commanded to take seven pairs “to keep seed alive on the face of the earth (6:20).”
7. Noah first sent out a raven (8:7).
8. Noah sent a dove three times: The first time it returned with an empty beak; the second time it
brought an olive leaf; the third time it did not return (8:8-12).
9. God gave the commandment: Be fruitful and multiply. He gave this commandment three times
(8:17, 9:1, 9:7).
10. The sign of God’s covenant is the rainbow, which reminds God of His promise never to destroy
the earth again (9:13-15).
11. Ham’s four sons were named: Cush (Ethiopia), Mizraim (Egypt), Put (Libya), and Canaan
(Phoenicia) (9:18-19).

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A king has no sons, no daughters, and no Why do bananas need sunscreen?
Because they peel
queen. For this reason he must decide who
will take the throne after he dies. To do this I hate perforated lines,
he decides that he will give all of the they're tearable
children of the kingdom a single seed.
Whichever child has the largest, most Son: Where are my sunglasses?
beautiful plant will earn the throne; this Dad: I don't know…
being a metaphor for the kingdom. At the
end of the contest all of the children came Where are my dad-glasses?
to the palace with their enormous and
beautiful plants in hand. After he looks at all I used to have a job at the calendar
of the children's pots, he finally decides that factory, but they fired me because I
the little girl with an empty pot will be the
next Queen. Why did he choose this little girl took a couple of days off.
over all of the other children with their
beautiful plants?

A1. . The king 7

gave them all
fake seeds and

the little girl
was the only
honest child
who didn't
switch seeds.

B’’h

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