Category: Noach
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Noach and the Flood
*** Possible potential heresy warning *** Over on his blog, Dovbear asks what an Orthodox Jew is supposed to do with the story of Noah and the flood. He provides several answers, and to be honest, none of them are totally satisfactory. I would add another difficulty to the story, which is the great similarity… Read more
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Missing vav in Parshat Noach
There seems to be a vav missing from my Chumash in parshat Noach. Can anyone help explain to me where it has gone? Let me explain what I mean (I am really no expert in these things, so there may be a really obvious answer): In Bereishit 9:29 the verse (in my chumash) reads: וִיהִי,… Read more
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Ralbag on Noach
Ralbag (Rabbi Levi ben Gershon) has a very interesting explanation of the Tower of Bavel. He says that they really didn’t do anything wrong, except that G-d wanted them to spread around the world, rather than stay in one place. Why did they need to spread over the world? He writes that if they were… Read more
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17th Sivan – end of Noah’s flood
According to the Talmud in Rosh Hashana (11b) based on the verses in Bereishit (and according to the opinion of Rabbi Eliezer) today is the day that the Ark came to rest on Mount Ararat. The flood is one of those issues that bible critics love to use as proof that the Torah cannot be… Read more