Noach
Envy, Lust, Vainglory
Posted by Rabbi Avi Heller | Tags: Noach
"Rabbi Elazar ha-Kappar said: envy, lust and vain-glory take a person out of this world" Ethics of the Fathers (Pirkei Avot) 4:21 The first 11 chapters of the book of Genesis read like a primer on how to tick off God. It is a litany of human disobedience and divine attempts to discipline....
My Weekly Drash (a mini D'var Torah) - Noach (3)
Posted by Daniel M. Kimmel | Tags: Noach
The Etz Hayyim commentary raises an interesting question about Parshah Noach. God tells Noah he is going to destroy the world in a flood, and that Noah should "make yourself an ark of gopher wood; make it an ark with compartments and cover it inside and out with pitch." (Gen. 6:14) The question is...
My video divrei Torah on this parasha from youtube
Posted by Jonathan Ginsburg | Tags: Noach
Tower of Babel vs Abraham's Call Lech lecha jewu 440 How do non-Jews achieve salvation? Noahide laws JewU 155 Torah portion Noah and the flood JewU 60Sputnik, Bears half-time speech and rainbows JewU 245 Noah, water-too much and too little JewU 247
Noach 5769/2008: "Are We What We Need?"
Posted by Rabbi Menachem Creditor | Tags: Noach
The Noach epic births ever-more pressing questions as story-teller and reader grow in life experience. Beyond "why did God destroy the earth?" and "what about the animals who weren't in the ark?" and "why doesn't Noach's wife have a name?" and countless other reactions to the narrative, beyond...
My Weekly Drash (a mini D'var Torah) - Noach (2)
Posted by Daniel M. Kimmel | Tags: Noach
The stories in Parshah Noach - the Flood, the Tower of Babel - may seem remote to us, but there are lessons there with practical value for us today. Take the fantastic Babel story. While we remember the tower and the creation of numerous languages so the people could not speak to each other, Rashi...
The Sin of Babel
Posted by Abe Mezrich | Tags: Noach
[And they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly." And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. And they said, "Come, let us build us a city and a tower…and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole...
My Weekly Drash (a mini D'var Torah) - Noach
Posted by Daniel M. Kimmel | Tags: Noach
It's one of those Bible stories we don't tell the kids. In Parshah Noach, Noah gets drunk and gets naked, and is discovered by his son Ham, who runs out to tell his brothers Shem and Japheth. For this he and his descendents are cursed. What did he do wrong? Instead of coming to his father's...
Reflecting the rainbow's light back to the heavens
Posted by Shoshana Michael Zucker | Tags: Noach
One of the most significant questions that a person has to deal with is the basic nature of human beings: Are they good or bad? When humankind is created, the Torah tells us that people were created in God's image. When we proceed to the portion on Noah, we get a more specific but very...
