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The whole world was just destroyed. The few surviving creatures one earth are haltingly marching out of the ark to begin life again. Is this really the time for a barbecue??<\/span><\/p>\n

But let’s judge Noah favorably. After all, the Torah calls these sacrifices a “pleasant odor.” If the primary sin the flood came to punish was theft, an exaggerated, out-of-control sense of entitlement and ownership, Noah’s willingness to sacrifice some of the animals he might well have considered “his own” is a step towards <\/span>tikkun<\/span><\/em>. <\/span><\/p>\n

However, we need not be overly charitable. God expresses his satisfaction in a rather odd way. We might have expected his reaction to Noah’s actions to be along the lines of “I will no longer destroy the earth because I see how humankind is dedicated to me\/has repented\/is fundamentally good.” Instead, God says quite the opposite.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I will no longer curse the earth because of mankind, for the urges of man’s heart are evil from his youth, and I will no longer strike all living things as I did.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Why does Noah’s sacrificial offering invite this conclusion? If anything, this line echoes God’s decision to bring the flood. “And God saw how great man’s evil was on the land, and all the urges of the thoughts of his heart were just evil all day” (chapter 6, verse 5).<\/span><\/p>\n

To understand God’s reaction, we need to remember that Noah’s destiny, from the moment he was named, was to restore the harmony between humankind and the earth. The punishments of both Adam and Cain were bound to the earth, and Noah’s naming echoes both. “This will comfort us from our actions and the suffering of our hands, from the earth which God cursed” (chapter 5, verse 29).<\/span><\/p>\n

Noah failed, the earth was destroyed, and in his decision to appease God by sacrificing animals, he demonstrates that his religious instinct still assumes a power struggle between man and the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

God smiles, shakes His head in resignation, and says: well, if that’s how it is, we need to rethink this. The fate of man and the earth must be separated. The relationship must be reconfigured. How? 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