Parashat Noach: “It will be good”© Rabbi Menachem Creditor
Imagine standing on the ramp to the ark. It’s not raining yet, but you know it will. You haven’t joined your family and the animals inside, but you know you must. How does it feel?
“Noach was six hundred years old when the Flood came, waters upon the earth. Noah, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, went into the ark because of the waters of the flood. (Gen. 7:6-7)”
Of course they went into the ark “because of the waters of the flood.” Why else would they? What would cause a person to step forward into a new and terrifying place, embark on a journey with no guarantees?
Rashi suggests that Noach and his family didn’t enter the ark until the water reached their ankles. Would you have entered earlier? Or would you have waited until the very last moment before saying good bye to what was?
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I remember moving into my home: empty of furniture, full of potential.
As soon as I walked in I became i…
Imagine standing on the ramp to the ark. It’s not raining yet, but you know it will. You haven’t joined your family and the animals inside, but you know you must. How does it feel?
“Noach was six hundred years old when the Flood came, waters upon the earth. Noah, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, went into the ark because of the waters of the flood. (Gen. 7:6-7)”
Of course they went into the ark “because of the waters of the flood.” Why else would they? What would cause a person to step forward into a new and terrifying place, embark on a journey with no guarantees?
Rashi suggests that Noach and his family didn’t enter the ark until the water reached their ankles. Would you have entered earlier? Or would you have waited until the very last moment before saying good bye to what was?
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I remember moving into my home: empty of furniture, full of potential.
As soon as I walked in I became i…