Parshas Noach: The Macro Effect of Our Actions

The Gemara in Sanhedrin says, The word herviu, as we've had in the Gemara, if you recall that Gemara, In other words, they mounted behemoths on chayas, chayas on behemoths, kulam on odom, all of them on man, odom on kulam, and man on all of them.

Now the expression here, view, implies that they mounted the animals.

If that's the case, then really what it means is that the animals didn't on their own do it.

But man, in their perversion and their perverted state of complete laxity of morals, were interested.

They wanted to break every taboo, this reality.

And as a result, they started getting the animals doing it with different animals.

Here we go.

They did it, the animals, but they did the animals as well.

Could be that the animals continued doing what they were doing, but it was man's doing.

As a result, as a result, if you learn like that, then obviously the point of the apostolic is to say that man became so corrupted that they even were doing it with the animals and causing the animals to do it.

amongst other animals.

The Medrash, though, says it slightly differently.

The Medrash says it the way our Rashi has it.

Apparently, our Rashi followed the Medrash as opposed to the Gemara.

All of them became deviant in their deeds and became corrupted.

The dog went off to the she-wolf.

And the rooster went off to the peacock, and the peacock went to the hens.

And...

Exactly.

From the Medush, it sounds as if the animals were doing this.

By my show, Sanhedrin Shah.

We have to understand what this point is.

Man endowed with free will and choices.

So obviously he could and would do these things.

And likewise, it's considered to be an evil when he doesn't.