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Two biblical men were rescued by an ark, a \u201cteva.<\/em>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Two biblical men were detached from civilization, by divine fiat, for forty days and nights.<\/span><\/p>\n

Two biblical men were given the same offer: I will destroy everyone and begin a new future from you and your family. <\/span><\/p>\n

Noah:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI am about to bring the Flood\u2014waters upon the earth\u2014to destroy all flesh under the sky in which there is breath of life; everything on earth shall perish. <\/span>But I will establish My covenant with you, and you shall enter the ark, with your sons, your wife, and your sons\u2019 wives\u201d (6:17-18).<\/span><\/p>\n

Moses:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNow, let Me be, that My anger may blaze forth against them and that I may destroy them, and make of you a great nation.\u201d (Ex.32:10)<\/span><\/p>\n

Noah accepted the offer, saved civilization by saving himself and his family.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moses refused the offer and saved his nation.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is one of the reasons that the Rabbis saw Moses in a positive light, and Noah in a negative light: Noah was a righteous man in his generation \u2013 relative to his era he was virtuous, but in another age he would not have been anything special. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A Midrash amplifies the contrast: <\/span><\/p>\n

Noah said to Moshe: \u2018I am greater than you because I was delivered from the generation of the Flood.\u2019 Moshe replied: \u2018I am superior to you. <\/span>You saved yourself, but you had no strength to deliver your generation; but I saved both myself and my generation when they were condemned to destruction at the time of the Golden Calf.\u2019 (Devarim Rabba 11:3) <\/span><\/p>\n

Noah points to the fact that Moses died in the wilderness along with his sinful generation. This \u00a0implicates Moses as one of the sinners, whereas he, Noah, outlived his evil contemporaries due to his personal virtue. Moses responds: \u201cYes maybe I died with my generation, maybe I also sinned; but your generation, Noah, was killed in the Flood. You sat back and watched them die. I mobilized all my energy in a titanic effort to save their lives.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

What can we learn from this?<\/span><\/p>\n

There are two types of \u201ctzadikim<\/em>\u201d – righteous people. One type preserves his own goodness and builds a hermetically sealed cocoon to protect himself from outside influence.<\/span><\/p>\n

The other type is personally righteous but concerns him or herself with building up the environment around him or herself. Sometimes, this person pays a personal price, but ultimately the gain is far greater. <\/span><\/p>\n

Noah is the first type; Moses the second.<\/span><\/p>\n

Which model shall we adopt?<\/span><\/p>\n

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