Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Noah And it happened, at the end of forty days, That noah opened the window of the ark He had made (Bereishit 8:6)     At the end of forty days – when the waters began to recede. To me it seems that the correct interpretation is from when the ark rested on Mt. Ararat, for how else could Noah have known that the waters had receded? But when it rested on Mt. Ararat, he...

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Noah Two by two they came to Noah to the ark, male and female, as God had commanded Noah. (Bereishit 7:9)   Two by two they came to Noah to the ark, male and female, as God had commanded Noah. It seems proper to interpret God's commanding that two from each simply referring to the ingrained nature of animals, for nature is also called God. They came to...

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Noah These are the generations of Noah, Noah was a righteous man he was perfect in his generations; Noah walked with God. (Bereishit 6:9)   In all cases where the Omnipresent busied Himself to raise up from anyone a nation or a chain of descendants, He took care, as here, in recording the fact, to use the expression generation. Accordingly you will find generations mentioned twelve times in Scripture: These are the generations of the heaven and...

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Noah MY RAINBOW I HAVE PLACED IN THE CLOUD, AND IT SHALL BE FOR A SIGN OF A COVENANT BETWEEN MYSELF AND THE EARTH. (Bereishit 9:13) My rainbow I have placed in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between My utterances and the earth. (Keter Yonatan Bereishit 9:13) The sign and its meaning are told us, about that there can be no doubt. It only remains to consider the connection between...

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Noah AND I WILL ESTABLISH MY COVENANT WITH YOU, AND NEVER AGAIN WILL ALL FLESH BE CUT OFF BY THE FLOOD WATERS, AND THERE WILL NEVER AGAIN BE A FLOOD TO DESTROY THE EARTH." AND GOD SAID: "THIS IS THE SIGN OF THE COVENANT, WHICH I AM PLACING BETWEEN ME AND BETWEEN YOU, AND BETWEEN EVERY LIVING SOUL THAT IS WITH YOU, FOR EVERLASTING GENERATIONS. MY RAINBOW I HAVE PLACED IN THE CLOUD, AND IT...