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When Is Noach Read?
/ 6 Heshvan 5787
/ 6 Heshvan 5788
/ 1 Heshvan 5789
Summary
- God decides to cause a flood that will destroy the world, sparing only Noah's family and the animals that Noah gathers together on the ark. (6:9-8:22)
- Life starts over again after the Flood. The Noahide Commandments are listed, and God uses a rainbow to make a symbol of the first covenant. (9:1-17)
- People start to build a city and the Tower of Babel. God scatters the people and gives them different languages to speak. (11:1-9)
- The ten generations from Noah to Abram are listed. (11:10-29:2)
More Noach Commentaries
- The Human Brotherhood of Shem, Ham, and Yefet
- The Leaders We Need
- Everything We Do Matters
- The Window of Noah’s Ark
- The Divine is No Ordinary Parent: Lessons from One God to One People
- Another Brick in the Wall
- Naming Naamah, Noach’s Wife (and the Other Torah Women Too)
- Finding Wholeheartedness in Your Life
- Noach for Teens: Shabbat Sha-raps
- Learning Lessons From and With God
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Listen to Podcasts About Noach
Listen to Rabbi Rick Jacobs discuss Parashat Noach in these episodes of his podcast, On the Other Hand: Ten Minutes of Torah.
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Ten Minutes of Torah: Noach Commentary
Covenant and Resilience After the Flood
By: Rabbi Lea Mühlstein
At the heart of Parashat Noach stands the rainbow covenant, God's eternal promise to never again annihilate creation through flood. The Torah presents this image at a moment of unbearable fragility.
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