{"id":34745,"date":"2018-07-22T14:33:19","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T11:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=34745"},"modified":"2022-02-13T13:36:31","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T11:36:31","slug":"noah-the-righteous-say-no-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/noah-the-righteous-say-no-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Noah the Righteous &#8211; Say No More"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[392,400],"acf":{"old_id":"34745","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":34281,"related_cahpter":"7","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"What have you ever done - save the world? Come on!","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Like many things in our lives, the verses in the Bible also have ratings. There are those that are frequently quoted. \u00a0There are others that no one touches. There are verses that have become swords wave about in arguments. Recently I have been thinking about the famous verses. They often suffer from over-use and remind me of those poor greyhounds from the petting corners that have gone bald from so much attention. Why do we repeatedly stop at the same sermon and the same interpretation?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here is one of these: &#8220;&#8230;You alone have I found righteous before Me in this generation&#8221; (Genesis 7:1).<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> This is what God says to Noah, and inadvertently, God takes part in the most banal sermon at the expense of the old sailor. &#8220;In this generation.&#8221; And that&#8217;s exactly how his story begins. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Noah was a righteous man; he was blameless in his generation\u2026\u201d(Genesis 6:9).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Everyone always focuses on the fact that it says \u201cin his generation.\u201d And now, even after proving himself, and after the long and arduous project of building the ark, Noah still has to hear that he was only relatively okay. As of now, you know These preachers are a little stern, even stingy, with his Noah and his righteousness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIn this generation you are considered righteous\u201d note the hackneyed sermons, but who knows what they would say about you in another generation? Would Chaim Hecht, the host of the reality show \u201cDo you remain honest?,\u201d which uses hidden cameras to investigate the trustworthiness of different tradespeople, be prepared to honor you? Because, among us Noah, who are you and what are you? Have you built a<em> kolel<\/em> for study of Torah? A pre-army service academy ? Have you written a new interpretation of the laws of the Sabbatical Year? You\u2019ve done none of this. All you\u2019ve done is save the world. Righteous?! Come on &#8211; really!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the years pass, I have to admit that I think more and more highly of Noah&#8217;s righteousness and especially his blamelessness. Whether in his generation or not, I think we would all say that two or three people like Noah in our generation are worthy of praise. Even in our \u201cexcellent\u201d generation. Every time \u00a0children ask if that is a protected flower, every time they check if the shampoo is a product of animal experimentation and whether the dolphin is smiling on the can of tuna, something in me mutters, &#8220;Good going, Noah!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":98610,"id":98610,"title":"neh9-men clapping praise","filename":"neh9-men-clapping-praise.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/neh9-men-clapping-praise.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/when-praise-is-insulting\/neh9-men-clapping-praise\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"neh9-men-clapping-praise","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":98609,"date":"2021-10-27 15:03:37","modified":"2023-12-03 15:49:17","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1489,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/neh9-men-clapping-praise-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/neh9-men-clapping-praise-300x233.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":233,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/neh9-men-clapping-praise-768x596.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":596,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/neh9-men-clapping-praise-1024x794.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":794,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/neh9-men-clapping-praise.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1191,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/neh9-men-clapping-praise.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1489,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/neh9-men-clapping-praise-1200x931.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":931,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/neh9-men-clapping-praise-542x420.jpg","home_baner-width":542,"home_baner-height":420}},"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"Noah the Righteous - Say No More","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"What have you ever done - save the world? 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