After the Flood

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  1. Noah in the Garden of Eden

    Rabbi Alex Israel | 38 minutes

    Parashat Noah is famous for the flood story, but this shiur focuses on the final story of Noah: the strange story of his drunkenness. Why did Noah deliberately plant a vineyard? Comparing this story with other stories bearing similar thematic and linguistic elements, such as the Garden of Eden, allows us to gain insight into Noah’s state of mind and character. 

  2. Parashat Noah: What is Wrong with the Tower of Babel?

    Rabbi Alex Israel | 30 minutes

    What is the problem that God sees in the building of the city and tower of Babel? How is it that the generation of the flood were killed, but the people in the Tower of Babel survived? Why did the people seek to build the town and tower? And if they wanted to reach the heavens, why would they build in a valley? We describe a number of approaches, challenge them, and then come up with a final approach: Is the goal supposed to be merely making a name for man, or to use human strength and talents to promote God’s name?

  3. Noah's Fear after the Flood

    Rabbi David Silverberg

  4. Migdal Bavel: Fear of a Second Flood

    Rabbi David Silverberg

  5. The Sanctity of Human Life

    Rabbi Yaakov Beasley

    Traditionally, rabbinic literature referred to the set of laws granted to humanity after the flood as the Sheva Mitzvot Benei Noach, the seven commandments of Noach's children or the Noachide code. The commandments include prohibitions against stealing, killing, eating the limb of live animals, acts of sexual immorality, idolatry, blasphemy, and a requirement to establish courts of law.  

    In this week's study, we will speculate regarding what occurred after the flood that required that these commandments be explicitly stated, and we will concentrate on the nature of the central prohibition, the prohibition against taking another life.

  6. The Trace of God

    Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

    How did the flood change our perspective of the human condition? Through an examination of the text we understand that after the Flood God taught Noach and through him all humanity, that we should think, not of ourselves but of the other as in the image of God. That is the only way to save ourselves from violence and self-destruction.

    This article is part of the Covenant & Conversation series.

    To read more from Rabbi Sacks or to subscribe to his mailing list, please visit http://www.rabbisacks.org/. You can also follow him on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. 

  7. The Trace of God (Audio)

    Rabbi Jonathan Sacks | 7 minutes

    How did the flood change our perspective of the human condition? Through an examination of the text we understand that after the Flood God taught Noach and through him all humanity, that we should think, not of ourselves but of the other as in the image of God. That is the only way to save ourselves from violence and self-destruction.

     

    This lecture is part of the Covenant & Conversation series.

    To read more from Rabbi Sacks or to subscribe to his mailing list, please visit http://www.rabbisacks.org/. You can also follow him on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. 

  8. Parshat Noah Part 3: After the Flood

    Rabbi Alex Israel | 29 minutes

    In the aftermath of the flood, there is a covenant between Noah and God, and between God and all of mankind. An analysis of the laws for the newly re-created world sheds light on the nature of the sins for which the world had been destroyed. 

    Courtesy of www.tanachstudy.com

  9. "This one shall comfort us for our work" The Story of the Flood and the Principle of Teshuva (Repentance)

    Dr. Brachi Elitzur

    A major part of Parashat Noach is devoted to a description of the construction of the ark, its size and structure, the materials used to build it, and the animals brought inside it. The extensive detail raises to two questions. First, if there is a Divine promise that there will be no repeat of the Flood, what is the point of this detailed description, as it will have no relevant application in the future? Second, it would seem that notwithstanding the tremendous efforts invested in building the ark, the salvation of Noach, his family, and the animals aboard with them could not have been possible without a Divine miracle. If a miracle was necessary in any case, then why the need for all the hard work? Would the miracle not have been even more impressive had Noach and his family remained at home and all the animals remained in their natural habitats, with the Flood simply passing over them, like the death of the firstborn later on in Egypt?