#Noach

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Noah was Righteous, But…

     Noah was a completely righteous man. Of all the World, he and his family were the only ones saved from the destruction of the flood. But he lacked something... something that would have made him a much greater person.    

     Noah was concerned only with his own family and not with the other people in the World. Had he been concerned with others too, maybe there would not have had to have been a flood.

     This, as with all lessons in the Torah, is not just teaching us something about that man way back then. The Torah is talking about us today. It is not enough to be concerned with our own family’s spiritual wellbeing. We should try to help everyone we can. Teach a Jew how to do a mitzvah with joy and teach the gentiles the Seven Commandments of Noah… then, we will be fulfilling our role as children of Avraham… and then, we will be getting the most we can from our stay in this world.

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27 Iyyar 5784 (3-4 Iyyar 2024)

In the story of Noach and the great deluge in B’reshit, the waters cover the earth for a full 364 day solar year, or a year and ten days by lunar reckoning. It is the 17th day of the second month when the flood begins, and the 27th day of the second month of the following year when Noach and all the other passengers leave the ark. It is at this point that HaShem covenants to not destroy human life by flood again, which the Torah establishes as the etiological origin of rainbows. The Noachide mitzvot are also given at this point. Some progressive Jewish communities observe the twenty-seventh of Iyyar as Rainbow Day, a reminder of our ecological interconnectedness and obligations to all of creation.

The twenty-seventh of Iyyar is the final night of the sixth week of the Omer count. Yesterday was the forty-first day of the Omer. After tonight’s count, one week remains before Shavuot.

[geostatonary]

tonight in torah study we talk about the flood, the nature of miracles, the logistics of covering naked men with blankets, and the contrary lessons of babel

[rickpoet]

The news reminds us how much we've forgotten. This is my new poem for this week's Torah portion. The flood is over...everything else is just beginning. See the full text at https://jewishpoetry.net/this-is-where-we-forgot-a-poem-for-parsha-noach-aliyah-6/

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Otto Marseus van Schrieck schilderde met geuren

Ik ontmoette Atte Jongstra, schrijver, geboren in Terwispel. Hij gaf me zijn boek De ontgroende mens. Essays. Thuis begon ik natuurlijk niet met pagina 1, ik bladerde, keek plaatjes en las te hooi en te gras. Het is een prachtig boek, dat me weinig nachtrust zal gunnen. Ik las bijvoorbeeld het hoofdstuk over de (Nijmeegse) schilder Otto Marseus van Schrieck (1617-1678). Hij is specialist op het…

[worfsbarmitzvah]

there’s such an attitude among ex-christian atheists that religions just spring up out of the void with no cultural context behind them. like ive heard people say shit like “those (((zionists))) think they own a piece of land bc their book of fairy tales told them so!!!” and they refuse to understand that no, we don’t belong there because of the torah, it’s in the torah because we belong there. because we’re from there. the torah (from a reform perspective) was written by ancient jews in and about the land that they were actively living on at the time. the torah contains instructions for agriculture because the people who lived in the land needed a way to teach their children how to care for it. it contains laws of jurisprudence because those are pretty important to have when you’re trying to run a society. same for the parts that talk about city planning. it contains our national origin story for the same reason that american schools teach kids about the boston tea party. it’s an extremely complex and fascinating text that is the furthest thing from just a “book of fairy tales”

[fromnature4you]

#2 Noach

Last week’s parsha ended on this verse… 8 Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD. Gen 6:8 Here we are in this month of Cheshvan which centers around Noah and the flood and now we have this parsha that centers around him. I want to focus on this word favor for a moment, which by the way is also the word “grace”. Favor (chen) = favor, gracious, pleasant, precious, well-favored,…

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Extending a hand to uplift a person

Extending a hand to uplift a person

The stories of Genesis contain hints and allusions to how we should live and treat one another. While some of these lessons are complicated by shifting ethics and morality, many others stand the test of time and are important to review and reflect upon. One such lesson relates to how to support someone who has experienced a loss or a failure within life. While we know the dove eventually finds…

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At a Comic Con panel between vol 1 and 2, Noah said that if he acted in a superhero movie, he'd want to be Spiderman.

Then vol 2 drops and Mike says this

And Noah dresses up like Superman instead of Spiderman 🤔

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Shabbat Shalom, friends! שבת שלום!

May you have a peaceful and blessed Shabbat!

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The Silly pt 2

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Me and noah schanpp wearing turtlenecks on the same night… what is this what does it mean