Shimon Schwab

And this is, uh, from Rab- Rabbi Schwab.

Rabbi Shimon Schwab brings on this, on the next pasuk where it talks about that Noach comes with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, uh, with him into the ark because of the waters of the flood.

So what, what, what, what's happening here? Commentaries explain.

Rashi comments that Noach was mik tanei amono, among the small believers.

What is this, what is this bracha about? So some people may say that, well, you're cleaning your hands, and of course, there's many reasons brought down why a person washes their hands in the morning and why a person has to wash their hands in the morning.

But Rav Shimon Schwab says that when a person's washing their hands in the morning and they're making the bracha al netilas yadayim, the translation of the word al netilas yadayim, the meaning of those words is not that you are cleaning your hands, it's that you are uplifting your hands.

Netilah from the [foreign] like the passage in Yeshaya that it means that they're picked up and al netilas yadayim we, we have to think in our heads that we're picking up our hands.

We're raising our hands from a, from a physical level, from being over here in a physical sense of having our hands to use, to raising them up to serve Hashem.

Machar Chodesh asks us, when was the last time we put down the signals and came out with action? Finally, let's address the elephant in the room, in the palace room at the royal table.

Rav Shimon Schwab in his Sefer, Me'ein Beis HaShoeiva, asks why Yonatan asked David to wait until after Rosh Chodesh.

Why not find out King Shaul's mindset on that day? And he answers that Rosh Chodesh is a time of Kapparah, atonement, and our neshamas are stirred to do teshuvah.

It's the basis of our tefillot based on the sin offering that was brought on Rosh Chodesh.