Noach (5781/ 2020) Yeshiva, three points. A series of short points on Parshas Noach on lesser known aspects of the parsha. A key theme is analysis of the interconnected nature of life in Hashem’s Creation and the tension between life under a body of man-made law versus internal natural morality. 1) The fate of life was determined ultimately by the sin of theft: when people stop being people the world is destroyed. 2) After the Mabul people were allowed to eat meat, and before then it was murder. What are the implications of that vis-à-vis the vegetarian debate. 3) Man has evil (Yetzer HaRa) in him; this logic was used to decide to bring the Mabul and to never do it again; how does that make sense. 4) A short reference to the 70 names in the Parsha and that they are the seventy nations, listed in the Septuagint in Greek, (Rabbi Arye Kaplan Z”l attempts to identify them). Class length (40:10).
