Prioritizing Purpose: Noach’s Legacy and the First Actions that Define Us

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Decisions of Refinement: Folding Your Tallis, Setting the Table, or Checking Your Phone

Ever wondered how the choices you make today could shape your legacy tomorrow? Our latest episode explores the powerful metaphor of Noah's life and decision-making after the flood. Rabbi Yerucham and Rashi's insightful commentary on Noah's choice to plant grapevines first serves as the cornerstone of our discussion. Is it the sequence of our actions that define us as people of purpose or does it mark us as mundane? As we transition from the solace of Shabbat to the demands of a new week, we invite you to reflect on those first actions and the values they project.

Join us for a captivating conversation that examines the small yet significant decisions in our everyday lives. What does prioritizing the transient joys over the essentials that sustain us mean? We look into the choices that frame our identity, from setting the table for Melaveh Malka to reaching for the phone at week’s end. This episode challenges you to consider your actions and the legacy they create. Are you setting the stage for a life of higher calling or caught in the routine cycle? Discover the profound impact of your choices and redefine what truly matters.

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At 5.46 and 40 seconds, exactly this Matzei Shabbos, you will be faced with the decision of a lifetime, a decision that may very well decide your future and your legacy.

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Why?

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Because Vayichal Noach Esho Adomo Vayitak Harem.

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We have already learned that irksome lesson from the narrative of Noah, when he was tasked with the greatest job known to mankind of what is literally rebuilding humanity.

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The world is empty.

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Here's a new blessing Go and build the world again, start from scratch.

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And Noah's decision R Go and build the world again, start from scratch.

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And Noach's decision Rashi picks up on the word that Noach made himself mundane, plain average, by choosing to plant grapes, grape vines and consume wine before he chose to plant something else, before he chose to plant something else.

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He made himself mundane, a man of the field, because he chose to plant wine before he chose to plant barley or wheat, something else more crucial to sustain life.

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See Rabbi Ruchem.

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The great mirror mashkiach during the Roaring Twenties shows us that, if you read Rashi critically, the problem is not that he planted wine, but the problem is the order in which he chose to plant different crops and species.

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Shehoyalol lasok t'chila.

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He first should have planted something else.

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Shehoyalol lasok bat'chila.

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What you choose to do first in a situation will define if you are an ish or elekim, or an ish or adamah.

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Will you decide, after 72 minutes and it is complete nightfall, I must say Shabbos to go right back to the phone, as my brother would say, he would rebuke me.

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Will you choose to set the table and have Malava Malkin escort the queen back home?

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Will you choose to fold your talus?

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Will you choose to clean the kitchen?

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What will you choose to do first?

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Because the sequence of events and the choice that you make, that what you do first, especially at the very beginning of a new week, kick things off.

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May you very well decide if you are a man of God or are you a man of the field.

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