Noah's Drunkenness

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Survival and Revival - On the Righteousness of Noah
Rabbi Chanoch Waxman
Noah is introduced as a wholly righteous man, but ends his life drunk and humiliated. How does such a tragedy occur? A comparative read of the stories of the Flood and the destruction of Sodom reveals that Noah's failure stems from the fact that he didn't seek to help those around him, in contrast with Avraham, who attempts to help even the sinners of Sodom.
Creation Anew
Rabbi Zeev Weitman
After mankind was corrupted, God regrets creating man, and destroys every living thing. The renewal of the world after the flood is described as a re-creation of the world. Is the new world more successful than the first? What is the relationship between Noah's drunkenness and Adam's sin? Is there a relationship between Lot's drunkenness after the destruction of Sodom and Noah's drunkenness after the destruction of the world?
"Do not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites..."
Sharón Rimón
Why does the Torah describe the purchase of the Cave at Makhpela in such great detail? Who is a wife worthy of Yitzchak? Why does Avraham object to his son marrying Canaanite women? And why does he insist on Yitzchak marrying a woman from the land of his birth, when God had instructed him to disengage from their culture? These questions are explored in light of the obvious danger: that the potential wife found in Haran will not want to come to Canaan, while Yitzchak cannot leave the land. Will Avraham be willing to forgo one of these two values?
"Do Not Take a Wife from the Daughters of the Canaanites"
Rabbi Dr. Tamir Granot
The story about finding a wife for Yitzchak seems simple, but the Torah describes it in great length, both in a detailed description of the events and in lengthy monologues. What can we learn from the long repetition? Why does Avraham want his son to marry a woman from Haran, and not from Canaan?
The Descendants of Rekhav
Rabbi David Sabato
The descendants of Rekhav, who abstain from drinking wine and do not settle down permanently, symbolize absolute adherence to the ancient ancestral command. This is a lesson for Israel, that they must keep God's commands. But why does this adherence deserve an extreme Divine promise?

The prohibition against settling down might not stem from a nomadic perception, but rather from experience that teaches that settling down leads by necessity to forgetting God and ultimately to idol worship, as the book of Devarim warns many times in anticipation of Israel's entry into the land.

Additionally, farmers whose lives were dependent on the seasons of the year and on the forces of nature deified these forces and worshipped them. Therefore, the Torah is concerned about the dangers of agricultural life in the land of Israel, the chief of which is immersion in idolatry, which will lead to the removal of the people from their land.
The Flood and Its Aftermath
Rabbi Yitzchak Blau
After Noah and his family leave the ark, Hashem both blesses them with the promise of offspring and commands them to procreate. In between the blessing and the command, Hashem also prohibits murder. Why are these the essential commandments at this juncture of human history? This article examines the aftermath of the flood and the commandments given to Noah, attempting to repair and rebuild a destroyed world.
Exposure vs. Dignity: Noah and his Sons
Rabbi David Silverberg
Noah's Tent
Rabbi David Silverberg
The Difference Between Shem and Yefet
Rabbi David Silverberg
Adam's Sin and Noah's Sin
Noah's Vineyard - Wine for Libations?
Rabbi David Silverberg
A Man of the Earth - or a Man of God
Rabbi David Silverberg
Cham's Haggada
Rabbi David Silverberg
Noach – To Be A Man of the Earth
Rabbi Yaakov Beasley
How did Noah, filled with the hopes of his generation, descend so rapidly to the state of shame and dishonor that marks his final appearance in the Torah? In order to answer our questions, we will rely on literary allusions and connections to other stories to decipher the cryptic answers encoded within the text in front of us.

In direct opposition to God's wish to repopulate the desolate earth, Noach chooses to refrain from bringing new life forth. Instead, he chose to avoid his destiny, to drown himself in his own handiwork.
Yosef and Canaan Son of Ham
Rabbi David Silverberg
Righteousness and Rescue: Noah, Lot and the Two Stories of the Flood
Rabbi Chanoch Waxman
תאריך פרסום: 5777 | | Hour and 11 minutes
In this shiur, we will take a critical look at the righteousness of Noah. We will also discuss the way Hazal and the text approach the problems of the generation and the multifaceted narrative of the flood, as we address claims of biblical criticism. An intertextual comparative approach brings us to the story of Lot's rescue from Sodom and the aftermath of that destruction, as we compare and contrast the personalities of Noah, Lot, and Avraham. Is there something from the text that justifies the traditional relativization of Noah's righteousness as compared to Avraham's? What explanation can we offer for Noah's decline after the flood? What does Noah's righteousness consist of, and what is his response to the Divine signal that it is time to rebuild the world?

We discover different - and unequal - models of righteousness: Noah's is about survival and obedience, but Avraham's involves the important element of caring about the world.
Re'eh: Commitment to Values vs. the Exhiliration of Controversy
Rabbi David Silverberg
Parshat Noah Part 4: Rainbow & a Drunken Noah
Rabbi Alex Israel | 33 minutes
This section of Parshat Noah deals with the aftermath of the flood. What is the hidden symbolism behind the rainbow? What can we learn from the narrative of Noah’s drunkenness? Through an examination of the text we can answer these questions and gain deeper insights into the story of the flood.

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