SHABBAT SHALOM (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Noah They came to Noah into the ark, two each of all flesh in which there was a breath of life. (Noach 7:15)   They came. It is a miracle that they all came to Noah, as most animals flee from man and flee from enclosures and love freedom. It is also a miracle that only two of each species came and not more, and that all the species came and none were missing. (Malbim, ibid)   Man is revealed here...

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...

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Noah NOAH, WITH HIS SONS, HIS WIFE, AND HIS SON'S WIVES, WENT INTO THE ARK BECAUSE OF THE WATERS OF THE FLOOD. OF THE CLEAN ANIMALS, OF THE ANIMALS THAT ARE NOT CLEAN, OF THE BIRDS, AND OF EVERYTHING THAT CREEPS ON THE GROUND, TWO EACH, MALE AND FEMALE, CAME TO NOAH INTO THE ARK, AS GOD HAD COMMANDED NOAH. (Bereishit 7:7-9) THEY CAME TO NOAH, INTO THE ARK, TWO OF ALL FLESH IN WHICH...

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Noah LET US GO DOWN AND DISRUPT THEIR LANGUAGE SO THAT EACH WILL NOT UNDERSTAND HIS FELLOW'S LANGUAGE. (Bereishit 11:7)   Dor HaPalagah – Ruthless Unity and Reforming Dissolution Else we be scattered all over the world – One must understand why they worried that some of their number might move to another land; clearly, this is connected to the same words which they shared. Since people differ in their...

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 ON THE SEVENTH DAY THE WATERS OF THE FLOOD CAME UPON THE EARTH. IN THE SIXTH HUNDREDTH YEAR OF NOAH'S LIFE, IN THE SECOND MONTH, ON THE SEVENTEENTH DAY OF THE MONTH, ON THAT DAY, ALL THE FOUNTAINS OF THE DEEP BURST APART, AND THE FLOODGATES OF THE SKY BROKE OPEN. THE RAIN FELL ON THE EARTH FORTY DAYS AND FORTY NIGHTS. (Bereishit 7:10-12)   BY THESE THINGS HE CONTROLS PEOPLES; HE GIVES...

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parashat Noah BUT GOD CAME DOWN TO LOOK OVER THE CITY AND THE TOWER THAT THE HUMANS WERE BUILDING. (Bereishit 11:5)     One Language? One Set of Words? When they expressed this intention ("and let us make ourselves a name") God fully understood their intention and well knew that their end would be the opposite of what they thought. On the contrary, there exists the possibility of a unified nation. When? When a people is...