I enjoyed this dvar from the Ziegler school on [...]
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It says Noah was righteous in his generation and commentators question whether this means “even in his generation” or “relative to his generation”. A related question is, both Abraham and Moses argued with God against destroying two cities and his people respectively. Why didn’t Noah argue with God not to destroy the world? (culled from [...] Yair Zakovitch in “Lo Kakh Katuv baTanakh” writes about the Taninim created on the fifth day. These are my notes from a Dvar Torah I gave on the subject. There are also Sumerian parallels (book) and Ugaritic. The basic idea is that the line in Genesis 1:21 about the Taninim/Dragons referred to a well known mythology [...] Genesis 1:1-6:8 The first parashah of the Torah, Genesis, covers from God’s creation of the World, to Noah. Its famous opening, alternatively “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth” or “When God began to create the heavens and the earth”, catches some people by surprise. If the Torah, which means teaching in Hebrew, [...] | ||||
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