Dominion After Service
Two diets framed early humanity. In Eden, humans ate only plants; meat was forbidden. The Talmud teaches: Rav Yehuda says that Rav says: Meat was
October 25, 2025 / 3 Heshvan 5786
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Noah’s Ark and the Architecture of Creation
The Waters Above and Below Introduction At first glance, the Flood narrative reads like a stark morality tale: humanity sins; G‑d decrees destruction; one righteous
October 24, 2025 / 2 Heshvan 5786
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The Tower of Babel
Quanta of Thought | Parashat Noach The story of the Tower of Babel seems, at first glance, like a triumph of human unity. All spoke
October 24, 2025 / 2 Heshvan 5786
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The Rainbow That Isn’t There
Everyone marvels at the beauty of a rainbow—its perfect arc, its radiant colors. Yet, in truth, the rainbow doesn’t exist out there. The spectrum of
October 22, 2025 / 30 Tishri 5786
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The Covenant of Light: From One to Many
In the aftermath of the Great Flood, God places a rainbow in the sky as an eternal covenant with humanity. Yet this celestial arc is
October 21, 2025 / 29 Tishri 5786
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The Ark Within
When the world was overwhelmed by chaos, Noaḥ found grace in the eyes of G-d (Genesis 6:8). The Zohar explains that “grace” (ḥein) is a
October 20, 2025 / 28 Tishri 5786
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Creation—Destruction—Reconstruction
Structurally identical biblical accounts of creation, destruction, and restoration are viewed as a manifestation of dialectic triad thesis-antithesis-synthesis.
November 11, 2022 / 17 Heshvan 5783
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The Flood—a Quantum Metaphor
Noah’s flood was a cataclysmic event with no parallels in recorded history. All of humanity (along with flora and fauna)—except for Noah and his family
November 4, 2022 / 10 Heshvan 5783
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Zettaflood
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day were all
October 4, 2021 / 28 Tishri 5782
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Noah’s Ark—Three Layers of Reality
A light shalt thou make to the ark…with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it. (Genesis 6:16) We mentioned in the previous posts
October 28, 2020 / 10 Heshvan 5781
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Noah’s Ark—Three Layers of Being Human
A light shalt thou make to the ark, and to a cubit shalt thou finish it upward; and the door of the ark shalt thou
October 23, 2020 / 5 Heshvan 5781
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Noah’s Ark—A Model of a Living Cell
Make thee an ark of gopher wood; with rooms shalt thou make the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch” (Genesis 6:14)
October 20, 2020 / 2 Heshvan 5781
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Noah’s Ark — Sailing through the Flood of Time
Time is a storm in which we are all lost. ” (William Carlos Williams, Introduction to “Selected Essays”) I always had a hard time relating
November 2, 2019 / 4 Heshvan 5780
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Noah — the First Inventor
At the end of the first chapter of the Torah, Genesis (Bereshit), G‑d regrets, as it were, creating humanity that became depraved: And the Lord
October 28, 2019 / 29 Tishri 5780
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Wellsprings from Above and Wellsprings from Below
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month… all the fountains of the great
October 14, 2018 / 5 Heshvan 5779
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