Parshas Bereishis 5787

Automatic transcript of the voice note (unedited) — Hebrew and Yiddish terms may be spelled phonetically.

Let's start with one of my favorite ideas in Chazak, there's nothing that's empty, it's an idea in the end of the Torah, in the end of Ha'azinah, we mentioned it, it plays very prominently in the Medrash in Ha'ashas Bereshas. The idea is that there's so many hidden secrets in the Chumash, let's start with this one. In Bereshas, in Pesach Chaf Be'ez, it says, Akha is Tuval Kain Na'oma, the sister of Tuval Kain is Na'oma. Re'ashi says over there, that's the wife of Noyach, and that's what it says in Bereshas Rava. Tzifzei Chum says, what's Re'ashi coming to tell us? Because while we're mentioning the woman,

the Psukim over here are usually only mentioning the men, so we know everything breaks down, the lineage of the different families, why all of a sudden did the Chumash mention the woman? The families usually go by the men. Chumash says, but the idea in general is that families are usually broken down by the men and not by the woman. Tzifzei Chum says, that's why Re'ashi came to tell us that Na'oma is the wife of Noyach, to tell us that she survived the Mabo. Normally we think of that all of Kain's descendants were killed. It's not true Kain's descendants survived through Na'oma. Kain and Na'oma survived the Mabo. That's what the Tzifzei Chum tells us in Re'ashi.

But it's actually much more fascinating and deeper. If you just take a quick look at the Psukim, the Psukim start off a few Psukim before Lamech had two wives, Adah and Sila. Sila is the one that took the contraceptives according to Re'ashi, and that's why she was always nearby Lamech. As opposed to Adah, she was the one that was supposed to give birth to the babies. So Pasek then goes on to say who Adah's children were. So then in Pasek Chav Be'ez, a couple of Psukim later it says, you should know Sila also gave birth. Sila also had children. She gave birth to two of Kain and two of Kain's sister Na'oma.

So here too, listen to this crazy secret that the Torah is hitting to us. Lamech had two wives. One wife was supposed to have the children, the other wife was not supposed to have the children. The wife that was not supposed to have the children, she drank the contraceptive. She wasn't supposed to have any kids. No one has the contraceptive. She was supposed to have the contraceptive. She was called Kershel Ikren. That's what's called in the Gemara's times. Yet even though she had the contraceptive, she gave birth both to two of Kain and also to two of Kain's sister Na'oma, meaning to say that the daughter of Sila is the daughter of all of mankind. That's what the Torah is hinting to.

The Torah is hinting to the two of Kain and Sila. The Torah is hinting to the two of Kain and Sila. The Torah is hinting to the two of Kain and Sila. The Torah is hinting to the two of Kain and Sila.