Parshas Noach: Miktanei Emunah and Real Emunah
- In Parshah
- Drasha
AI summary (may contain mistakes)
What does Rashi mean when he calls Noach one of the mi'ketanei amanah, who believed and did not believe and entered the teva only when the water pushed him? Emunah is not just believing but making knowledge real, the way nobody would drink from a cup he watched being filled with poison. A katan can know more than a gadol, but in a gadol the das, the connection, carries knowledge into action. Noach believed in the mabul for 120 years but could not step into the teva as the world's new reality.
Key points
- Knowing cigarettes are poison and still smoking shows knowledge that has not become reality.
- Any aveira, even a lapse of kavana in Shemoneh Esrei, is a slip in emunah.
- In a story heard years ago, Rav Moshe Feinstein saw a man davening Shemoneh Esrei as a wall.
