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Noah

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Noah: (a) (2704-1754 BCE) Tenth generation descendent of Adam, he and his immediate family were the only ones to remain righteous when all of humankind descended into a state of anarchy and lawlessness. He and his family survived the Flood that wiped out the rest of the human race by taking shelter in the Ark he constructed. According to the Midrash, he invented the plow. (b) A common Jewish name.

Noah Dispatches Raven and Doves (6)

Ark, Noah's (18)

Flood, The (44)

A History of Love

Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe

A famous talk by the Lubavitcher Rebbe analyzes the lives of Noah, Abraham and Moses as milestones in humanity's journey from an instinctive selfhood to a true concept of "love" for a one's fellow. We also encounter the basis of the Rebbe's ...

Learning & Values » Weekly Torah (Parshah) » Vayikra - Leviticus » Kedoshim » Chassidic Masters

The Window

By Yanki Tauber

Noah’s dispatch of the dove from the ark: passive and active anticipation.

Learning & Values » Weekly Torah (Parshah) » Bereishit - Genesis » Noach » Parshah Columnists » Comment

Sons of Noah

By Yanki Tauber

Noah lived nine hundred and fifty years. That's enough time to do everything wrong and everything right

Learning & Values » Kabbalah & Jewish Mysticism » Chassidic Thought » Insights & Readings » By Yanki Tauber

The Forty-Day Mikveh

By Laibl Wolf

The waters of the flood are like the waters of a ritualarium -- a mikveh -- where the waters spiritually cleanse the dross that accumulates in the course of our life's endeavors. The world received a spiritual cleansing, and this set the course of ...

Learning & Values » Weekly Torah (Parshah) » Bereishit - Genesis » Noach » Parshah Columnists » Guest Columnists

Six Kinds of Perfection

By Yanki Tauber

Adam was so perfect that he went looking for imperfection. Noah went by the book, Abraham by love, Isaac honed himself to nothingness, Jacob was a whole of infinite parts and Joseph found perfection in challenge

Learning & Values » Kabbalah & Jewish Mysticism » Chassidic Thought » Insights & Readings » By Yanki Tauber

What the Ark Taught Noah

By Boruch Cohen

This time Noah had no choice -- the world was in his ark and he, as captain, had to take care of it...

Learning & Values » Kabbalah & Jewish Mysticism » Chassidic Thought » Insights & Readings » By Boruch Cohen

Noah and the Flood Book

The Wickedness of the People, The Ark, The Flood, The Flood Recedes, The Raven and the Dove, Noah Offering, The Seven Laws, Covenant with Noah

Learning & Values » Jewish History » A Brief Biblical History

Noah’s Children Book

Ham’s Sin, Shem and His Descendants

Learning & Values » Jewish History » A Brief Biblical History

My Kind of Hero

By Yossy Goldman

His faith may have been bit wobbly in the knees. But he got the job done. My kind of hero

Learning & Values » Weekly Torah (Parshah) » Bereishit - Genesis » Noach » Parshah Columnists » Weekly Sermonette

The Rainbow in the Cloud

By Yaakov Paley

To touch some of heaven’s radiance, then curve gracefully back towards the earth in a glorious ray of colors that are manmade reflections of G‑d’s truth and hope for mankind . . .

Learning & Values » Weekly Torah (Parshah) » Bereishit - Genesis » Noach » Parshah Columnists » Guest Columnists

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