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PARASHAT “NOACH”

This week’s parasha is Parashat Noach. Now I’ll be honest, when I first heard I was layning Parashat Noach, I was very annoyed that I got my brother, Noah, as a parasha. Like, seriously? But I quickly realized that this parasha is one of the most important Parashot. In this parasha, the people of Earth are being wicked and sinful.  So God creates a flood to destroy civilization. God, however, does not want to destroy humanity in its entirety.  Nor does he want to destroy the other species. So God tells Noach, the most righteous and caring person in his generation, to build an ark to save himself, his family, and the animals of the world. Thereby, Noach saves the fate of God’s creations.

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PARASHAT “NOACH” | tORAH pORTION “nOAH”

Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation.  Noah walked with God.

God said to Noah, “Because the earth is filled with wrongdoing and corruption and robbery I am going to destroy it.  Make yourself an ark of wood with enclosures for animals and gather food for all aboard.  I shall bring a flood through the water upon the earth and destroy all that has the spirit of life.”

God said, “It is with you, your wives and sons, I will maintain My Covenant.  It is you who have been righteous before Me in this corrupt age.   Now go and get for the ark seven pairs of all the clean animals and two pairs of animals who are unclean. Each pair, male and female, is to be taken according to their species.  In seven days, I will blot out everything in existence that I have made.” (click button to read Parashat Noach)

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