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The first of the Hebrew month of Tishri (by Rashi\u2019s calculation), the anniversary of God\u2019s original creation of man, is also the anniversary of the rebirth of the world. The flood waters subsided so that all living creatures could once again proliferate.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Torah tells us that Noah was a righteous man, and besides the fact that God chose him to build the ark, the way in which he was instructed to build it also tells us something of Noah\u2019s greatness. The ark itself was to be built approximately the length of one-and-a-half football fields \u2013 hardly sufficient to house a representative of every living being. As school children we\u2019re taught of the miracle that everything fit, but Ramban asks the question, if God was overriding the laws of mathematics through a miracle, why ask Noah to build something that would take a full year instead of just building a simple boat. Because, answers Rabbi Eli Block (Chabad.org), miracles only come with some level of human effort. By spending a year constructing the ark, Noah demonstrated both his commitment to God and his desire to be part of saving the world. And when it was time for Noah to enter the ark, he waited for God\u2019s permission to do so.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In Genesis 8:16, with the flood waters subsided, God tells Noah, \u201cCome out of the ark.\u201d Now, imagine being cooped up somewhere for a full year (not so unimaginable given our recent history) and being given proof that it was now safe to leave (the proof, In Noah\u2019s case, being the dove\u2019s return.) Would you wait for permission to leave or just bust through the doors at the first opportunity? And yet, just as Noah waited for permission to board the ark, he waited for permission to disembark. He seemed to have some hesitancy about moving forward with the next step of rebuilding.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Noah was indeed a righteous man, and in a sense the head of the new world. However, our sages question why God waited to mark the beginning of the Jewish people with Abraham and not with Noah. Rabbi Jonathan Sacks relates this answer. God\u2019s permission to rebuild a shattered world is tacit. We should not wait for explicit permission, as Noah did, because God expects us to just get on with it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

That is the difference between Noah and Abraham. While Noah \u201cwalked with God (6:9)\u201d, God will ask Abraham to \u201cwalk ahead of Him\u201d (Genesis 17:1). The first leader of the Jewish people needs to have that \u2018special sauce\u2019 of self confidence, faith in God and inner courage that propels them to just step into the unknown and build anew.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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In verse 21, God makes a substantial determination about the future of the world: \u201cNever again will I doom the earth because of humankind.\u201d This determination has special resonance in view of <\/span>Bereshit Rabbah<\/em> <\/span>3:7. which posits that many worlds preceded our world and God was \u201c<\/span>Boreh olamot u\u2019machrivan<\/span><\/em>\u201d \u2013 creating worlds and destroying them. What brought about this extraordinary determination? Apparently it was that humankind had changed.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In 6:5, God saw that \u201cevery plan devised by the human mind was nothing but evil all the time.\u201d By comparison, in 8:21, it is \u201cthe devisings of the human mind are evil from youth.\u201d No longer was it <\/span>every<\/em> <\/span>plan, no longer was the evil <\/span>throughout<\/span><\/em> their life, no longer was it <\/span>continuous<\/span><\/i>. With the moderation of evil, God was able to make a determination to never again destroy the world.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Reflecting on that change, it is interesting to see how the halachic code expected of humankind has changed over time. Today, the code expects that Jews fulfill 613 commandments, and the rest of humanity is obligated in the Noahide code of law. The Torah\u2019s primary purpose is to set out those expectations, starting with the selection of Abraham as the patriarch in chapter 12 of Genesis.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But we actually see that the early chapters of Genesis present several different sets of expectations or demands on humankind. These are presented chronologically, and increasingly they set the stage for what will follow, as the Torah prepares to introduce Abraham in chapter 12.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The four stages presented in Genesis are:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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  1. The Garden of Eden. This is the original place where Adam and Eve lived \u2013 apparently some more spiritual form of life, free of earthly concerns. That model came to an end after Adam and Eve ate from the forbidden fruit.<\/span>
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  2. The world that resulted from the sin of the Garden of Eden until the deluge. Humankind worked hard, but the land was cursed. Humankind quickly left the path of proper behavior. Their hearts contemplated evil continuously. God destroyed this world and only Noah and family remained.<\/span>
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  3. After the flood. God determined He would not curse the land (verse 21). Human evil had been moderated, as mentioned above. God determined never again to destroy the world. Humankind was intended to unite in the worship of God (see Kli Yakar on Genesis 11:1). God dispersed this world after humankind instead united to rise against God.<\/span>
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  4. A Chosen People with additional commitments (613 mitzvot) as a light unto the nations \u2013 while the nations remain obligated with the seven Noahide laws. 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    A staple of the Shabbat zemirot liturgy is a poem written by Rabbi Yehudah Halevi: \u201c<\/span>Yonah Matzah Bo Manoach<\/span><\/em>,\u201d \u201cThe dove found in it [Shabbat] rest.\u201d This Shabbat lunchtime song has a recurring chorus about the dove finding a resting spot on Shabbat. The remainder of the song, though, deals with the giving of the Torah. How does the author know the dove found the resting spot on Shabbat and what is the connection between the dove and giving of the Torah and Shabbat?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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    He waited another <\/span>seven days<\/span><\/em>, and again sent out the dove from the ark. The dove came back to him <\/span>toward evening<\/span><\/em>, and there in its bill was a plucked-off olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the waters had decreased on the earth. He waited still <\/span>another seven days<\/span><\/em> and sent the dove forth; and it did not return to him any more (Verses 10-12).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Noah waits seven days twice to send the dove, and after the first time, the dove waits to return until the evening after the seventh day. The only previous \u201cseventh day\u201d that is mentioned in the Torah is the Sabbath. This is, ostensibly, where Rabbi Judah Halevi determines that the dove rested on Shabbat.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The answer to the second question is a little more complicated. The Israelites are compared to doves a few times in Tanach. For instance in Genesis 15:11 \u201cAnd He said unto him: \u2018Take Me a heifer of three years old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtle-dove, and a young pigeon;\u201d in Psalms 68:14 \u201ceven for those of you who lie among the sheepfolds there are wings of a dove sheathed in silver, its pinions in fine gold.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The dove is also sent out when the Ark rests on a mountain. The third stanza of the poem reads: \u201cOnce on Moriah's mountain He bade His folk heed; 'Keep ye my Sabbaths, hallowed in word and deed.\u201d After a tumultuous year of the flood, the dove finally finds a resting spot at the top of a mountain signaling the end of the flood. For the Israelites, their tumultuous beginning as a nation starting with slavery in Egypt followed by passing through water on dry land. Only after this chaos, were they able to find a resting spot at the base of a mountain and with the giving of the Ten Commandments. They, like the dove, finally found rest.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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    If only day knew
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    If only summer knew
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    \r\nWith love.<\/p>\r\n

    If only we knew
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    \r\nTo sing us her thousand songs again and again,
    \r\nTo dance with us under a canopy of a sky-blue scroll,
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    After the Flood, God promises never to destroy the world again: \u201cSo long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall not cease\u201d (Gen 8:21-22).<\/p>\r\n

    But what is the moral of the story for us? Human behavior doomed the entire world. God orders Noah to build an ark to save not only himself and his family, but significantly, exemplars of all the animals. And then, the covenant itself is with all of creation: \u201cAnd God said to Noah and to his sons with him, \u2018I now establish My covenant with you and your offspring to come, and with every living thing that is with you\u2014birds, cattle and every wild beast as well\u2014every living thing on earth\u2019\u201d (Gen 9:8-10).<\/p>\r\n

    Now we are the ones altering basic earth systems: from global warming that threatens \u201ccold and heat, summer and winter\u201d as we know them, to chemicals such as endocrine disrupters that blur the distinctions between the sexes in animals, upsetting the procreation of species.<\/p>\r\n

    Regarding biodiversity and species extinction, we are in the midst of an era of mass extinction the likes of which the world has not seen since the disappearance of the dinosaurs. A challenge worthy of Noah, but here we cannot apply Noah\u2019s solution: there is no ark that we can build in order to save species that are disappearing due to destructive human activities. The whole world must be our ark, and the fate of all its passengers is one fate. Will we be b\u2019nei Noach<\/em>\u2013 righteous people in our generation, showing compassion, and foresight, and preserving Creation?<\/p>\r\n

    See these other teachings in 929 from some of our great writers:<\/p>\r\n

    Is The Climate Crisis Our Flood? A Post-Modern Interpretation of Humans and Nature<\/em> - \"God did not break His promise not to destroy the world. It is we who have become like God, with the ability to create and destroy. We need to wake up to these capabilities, and work together to choose life.\"
    \r\nBy 929 editor Jeremy Benstein \u2013 https:\/\/www.929.org.il\/lang\/en\/page\/6\/post\/64948<\/a><\/p>\r\n

    Let Justice Well Up Like Water<\/em> - \u201cLet justice well up like water, and righteousness like an unfailing stream.\u201d I believe that these words refer to the Flood: righteousness will come like the Flood to sweep away the wickedness of the world. It will not be fine and dandy, dandy. God promises that there will never be another Flood, but this story is a warning not to be complacent about how we treat the earth. We are filling it with bloodshed and are bringing the waters upon ourselves.\"
    \r\nby Rabbi Lawrence Troster, z\"l -     https:\/\/www.929.org.il\/lang\/en\/page\/8\/post\/35089<\/a><\/p>\r\n

    A two- part series by Tzvi Novick, entitled: Reading Deuteronomy in the Anthropocene: Lessons For The End Time On The Fragility Of Existence, 1 & 2 - <\/em>\"The book of Deuteronomy should speak to people, inhabitants of the Anthropocene. To live in this era is to appreciate that, in the most profound way, \u201cHe has given the earth to human beings\u201d (Ps 115:16). We are the makers of this world, and its biggest threat.\"<\/p>\r\n

    https:\/\/www.929.org.il\/lang\/en\/page\/154\/post\/49323<\/a>
    \r\n    https:\/\/www.929.org.il\/lang\/en\/page\/158\/post\/49634<\/a><\/p>\r\n

    When It Becomes Very Good<\/em> \u00a0- \"We are tasked with seeing the invisible miracles that daily grace this earth\u2026how all creatures are to take from the earth, and give back to the earth, so that all can thrive the only way we can. Together.\"
    \r\nby Rabbi Nina Beth Cardin -     https:\/\/www.929.org.il\/lang\/en\/page\/1\/post\/33932<\/a><\/p>\r\n

    God's Creatures are Our Responsibility<\/em>: \"To live in a redeemed world, we must prioritize care for the most vulnerable sentient beings on our planet,\"
    \r\nby Rabby Shmuly Yanklowitz -     https:\/\/www.929.org.il\/lang\/en\/page\/9\/post\/35818<\/a><\/p>\r\n

    Guardin' The Garden<\/em> \u2013 \"In our struggle for the earth's fruits, we sow the seeds of our own, and the world's, destruction -- unless we temper our toil with responsibility and concern for posterity. We can use the fruit, but we must take care to preserve the fruitfulness.\"
    \r\nby 929 editor Jeremy Benstein -     https:\/\/www.929.org.il\/lang\/en\/page\/2\/post\/34040<\/a><\/p>\r\n

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    Noah, the righteous man who \u201cwalked with God\u201d (Gen 6:9), was told to build a wooden ark because: \u201cthe Earth was filled with violence\u201d and God wanted to destroy it. But why did God choose a flood as the way to destroy His Creation? Why was Noah told to build an ark rather than a boat and what did that ark look like? How did the Earth appear when all but the occupants of the ark had perished, the waters had receded, and the ark had come to rest among the mountains of Ararat?<\/p>\r\n

    Avner Moriah\u2019s interpretation of the biblical text suggests a visual perspective to these questions. The image on the right depicts the ark as a three-dimensional solid structure perched miraculously on a mountain top. This ark could not have been steered like a boat: its passage through the waters had been totally dependent on God\u2019s will. The ark is shown with several windows \u2013 not mentioned in the text \u2013 framing the faces of Noah and his family, suggesting their eagerness to see their awesome desolate surroundings. The blue, purple, and green colors used to figure the mountains give them an unrealistic and dreamlike quality. The work describes the episode symbolically, showing the Earth after the flood had washed away all the evil, and Noah, who had faithfully followed God\u2019s command, facing the enormous task of building a renewed world.<\/p>\r\n

    The image on the left visualizes the story of the Tower of Babel, found in the same parasha<\/em>. The two stories of constructions are juxtaposed: one directed by God and the other done in defiance of His will. The solid ark represents obedience to God, whereas the tower, a matchstick structure of pipes, expresses rebellion. The reader wonders why the story of the tower caused such divine anger. What was wrong with the desire to \u201cbuild us a city, and a tower, with its top in Heaven, and let us make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole Earth\u201d? (Gen. 11:4).<\/p>\r\n

    The artist portrays the people of Babel as figurines modeled in the style of the ancient Near East, using a modern cement mixer to make the bricks for the tower, a novel structure with many antennas. By combining modern motifs with ancient imagery, the artist is emphasizing the metaphorical significance of the story and is underscoring its relevance to contemporary society.<\/p>\r\n

    The colors of the skies in these portrayals suggest the difference in symbolism between the two scenarios. 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    In this week's parasha, the world is destroyed and yet it does not come to an end.\u00a0The paradox of the immediate destruction of what has been created, the undoing of what has been done, so soon after the beginning, is disturbing.<\/p>\r\n

    When God says, \u201ceverything on earth shall perish\u201d (6: 17) it seems that the world is coming to an end. Not quite.\u00a0\u201cAnd I will establish my covenant with you and you shall enter the ark, with your sons, your wife and your sons\u2019 wives\u201d (6:18). Amidst the destruction there will be survivors, a remnant that will start over.<\/p>\r\n

    Yet all is not rosy once the ark has landed on dry land, the storm has abated and the waters recede.<\/p>\r\n

    When the waters stopped, \u201cGod remembered Noah\u201d (8:1). Nahum Sarna writes that Biblical remembering\u00a0is \u201ca focusing upon the object of memory that results in action.\u201d\u00a0God is able to stop the waters and make possible the conditions for the rejuvenation of the earth.<\/p>\r\n

    Yet, human nature retains the propensities for evil that it had in the past: \u201cthe inclinations of the heart of man are evil from his youth\u201d (8:21), as stated earlier in Genesis 6:5.<\/p>\r\n

    Yet this time, God makes a promise.\u00a0\u201cNor will I ever again destroy every living being as I have done\u201d (8:21). What is done to assure this promise? A tangible object appears.<\/p>\r\n

    Why is it necessary?\u00a0One suggestion is that it is a symbol of God\u2019s future nonaggression, a bow that is not aimed down at humanity on earth but up in the sky where it can do no harm.<\/p>\r\n

    The rainbow itself is a glistening but insubstantial thing, a completely natural phenomenon which can be glimpsed only rarely, when conditions are optimal for its appearance.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

    The Talmud in Berachot 59a says that one who sees a rainbow should \u201cfall upon his face\u201d because the rainbow is a manifestation of the glory of God (see Ezekiel 1:28).\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\r\n

    After this, Noah plants a vineyard (9:20) and gets drunk (9:21), yet the rainbow and its covenant is still with him.\u00a0At his death, we are told, \u201cNoah lived after the flood 350 years\u201d (9:28).\u00a0The rest of his 950 -year life was informed by his presence at the destruction of the world, though the majority of his life, 600 of his 950 years, had been prior to it.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

    Noah has a choice. He could forget the trauma he witnessed in the violent floods raging over the earth by drinking, or by remembering the covenant as God remembers the covenant (9:15) along with the rainbow which symbolizes it, exemplifying God\u2019s awareness of human needs for indicators of God in the world.\u00a0 Noah could live the last part of his life in a drunken stupor, or striving for post-traumatic growth that could come with appreciation of the rainbow and other divine manifestations in the world, however small they are or difficult to find and interpret.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

    The author acknowledges Rabbi Daniel Yolkut for his source sheet on Noah as well as a helpful discussion, and Avivah Zornberg who told me last fall that the world was not coming to an end, just as it did not in parshat 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    \"Since the devisings of man\u2019s mind are evil from his youth\" (Genesis 8:21). This is the testimony of the Omnipotent One. <\/span>Because of this conclusio<\/span>n, one should not blame and punish the earth and \"every living being\" only because of the conduct of human beings. \"A person shall be put to death only for his own crime\" (Deuteronomy 24:16), it is said later, and from here it begins.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Nevertheless, what is to be done with this sentence - \"<\/span>Since the devisings of man\u2019s mind are evil from his youth?<\/span>\" In fact, things are very clear. After the complete destruction, with the first signs of life and the first sacrifice on Noah's altar: <\/span>\u201cThe Lord smelled the pleasing odor, and the Lord said to Himself: \u201cNever again will I doom the earth because of man, since the devisings of man\u2019s mind are evil from his youth\u201d (Genesis 8:21).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The words \"the devisings of man\u2019s mind are evil from his youth\" are a parenthetical expression, explains Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch: \"If the \u201cdevisings of man\u2019s mind\u201d should be \u201cevil\u201d again, \u00a0and even \u201cfrom his youth,\u201d (which goes against a child\u2019s nature because typically children by their nature try to do what is right), so that the only way to save the world is through the destruction of that generation, even if it happens again, \u201cI will never again destroy\u201d (Genesis 8:21). \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    But the deficiency, \u201cthe devisings of man\u2019s mind are evil from his youth,\u201d is not clear. And the reasons that this would be the case are also not clear. Only the conclusion is clear and the fact that it came from the Omnipotent One.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    It follows that since \"the Lord God formed man from the dust of the earth\" (2:7) and furthermore, that there is no guilt in the earth, given that the Omnipotent One already cleansed it, means, therefore, that the \u201cevil inclination\u201d comes specifically with \u201cthe breath of life\u201d which God blew into us, \u201cHe blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living being\u201d (Genesis 2:7).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    This is the source.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    On this point Yehuda Halevi wrote, with heartbreaking helplessness in a poem, \u201cOh God, only You I desire\u2026.How can I serve my Creator, when I, enmeshed in images, am a slave to desire?\u201d<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":67678,"alt":"","title":"is45-good and evil","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is45-good-and-evil.jpg","width":1920,"height":1483,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is45-good-and-evil-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is45-good-and-evil-300x232.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":232,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is45-good-and-evil-768x593.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":593,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is45-good-and-evil-1024x791.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":791,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is45-good-and-evil.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1186,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is45-good-and-evil.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1483,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is45-good-and-evil-1200x927.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":927,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is45-good-and-evil-544x420.jpg","home_baner-width":544,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"","tile_main_caption":"The Devisings of The Human Mind","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"...but there is no guilt in the earth....","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":67678,"alt":"","title":"is45-good and evil","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is45-good-and-evil.jpg","width":1920,"height":1483,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is45-good-and-evil-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is45-good-and-evil-300x232.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":232,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is45-good-and-evil-768x593.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":593,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is45-good-and-evil-1024x791.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":791,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is45-good-and-evil.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1186,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is45-good-and-evil.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1483,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is45-good-and-evil-1200x927.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":927,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is45-good-and-evil-544x420.jpg","home_baner-width":544,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","old_create_date":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","links":false,"send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Genesis","chapter":"8","chapter_main_number":"8","date":"20250909","wall_id":"8"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"370","name":"Divine\/human","old_id":"770"},{"term_id":"374","name":"Humanity","old_id":"774"},{"term_id":"400","name":"Sin","old_id":"800"}]},{"order":11,"id":"35073","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"2","name":"A Bad Barbecue ","post_title":"A Bad Barbecue","slug":"a-bad-barbecue","old_id":"35073","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":33859,"post_title":"Avidan Freedman","slug":"avidan-freedman","old_id":"33859","first_name":"Avidan","last_name":"Freedman","description":"Rabbi Avidan Freedman is the Rabbi of Hevruta, the Shalom Hartman Institute's post high school program for Israelis and North Americans, and an educator in the institute's high school. 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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>\r\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>\r\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>\r\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>\r\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>\r\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>\r\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>\r\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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    The dove returns with the branch in its beak and Noah realizes the time to exit and the Ark, and restart humanity, is eminent. An extraordinary midrash comments on God\u2019s words to Noah \u201c\u2018Come out of the ark\u2019\u201d (Gen. 8:16). The Midrash says: \u201cNoah said to himself, since I only entered the ark with permission (from God), shall I leave without permission? The Holy One blessed be He said, to him: Are you looking for permission? In that case I give you permission, as it says, \u2018Then God said to Noah, Come out of the ark.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The Midrash then adds: \u201cSaid Rabbi Judah bar Ilai, If I had been there I would have smashed down [the doors of] the ark and taken myself out of it.\u201d <\/span>A significant part of what faith is in Judaism is to have the courage to pioneer, to do something new, to venture out into the unknown. That is what Abraham and Sarah had done when they left their land, their home and their father\u2019s house. It is what the Israelites did in the days of Moses when they journeyed forth into the wilderness, guided only by a pillar of cloud by day and fire by night.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Rabbi Dr Nachum Rabinovitch, one of the great rabbinic scholars of our time, drew a possible \u2013 indeed the only one possible \u2013 was that when it comes to rebuilding a shattered world, you do not wait for permission. God gives us permission. He expects us to go on ahead.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Excerpted from: <\/span>http:\/\/rabbisacks.org\/noach-5777<\/span><\/a><\/p>\r\n

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    God remembers and the act of remembering brings compassion. Later on in Genesis, God will remember Abraham and Rachel and His covenant. However, it seems that remembering was not sufficient to stop the flood in order to make a decision not to bring further destruction to the world.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    What did affect God\u2019s decision? \"<\/span>Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and...he offered burnt offerings on the altar.<\/span> The Lord smelled the pleasing odor, and the Lord said to Himself: \u201cNever again will I doom the earth because of man, since the devisings of man\u2019s mind are evil from his youth; nor will I ever again destroy every living being, as I have done<\/span>\" (Genesis 8:20-21). The smell of a sacrifice is what did it? Is this what caused God to forgive humanity?! Does a Being that has no body or corporeality have the ability to smell?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Numerous commentaries address these questions. Abraham Ibn Ezra explains God willingly accepted Noah's sacrifice. \u00a0Or, as Radak, Rabbi David Kimchi, states--\"the Torah expresses itself using language common to human beings.\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    In contrast to the above interpretations, the author of the work HaKetav V\u2019hakabalah explains that what God \u201csmelled\u201d were man\u2019s good deeds. What was Noah's good deed? The midrash says: \u201c\u2018The<\/span>n Noah built\u2019 <\/span>vayiven Noach<\/span><\/em>\u2026 should be understood to mean based on similar Hebrew root words, <\/span>nitbonen Noach<\/span><\/em>,<\/span><\/i> \u2018Noah observed (or understood).\u2019\u201d <\/span>Man also knows how to observe, to use his intelligence and to build (for the first time!) an altar to thank God for having rescued him, and to use all that surrounds him to elevate his existence. The smell of the good deed seems to awaken the memory that man can do good in the world, that man is not evil in his essence, but that evil enters into him at different times. 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    This chapter opens with first act of remembering in Tanakh: \u00a0\u201cGod remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the cattle that were with him in the ark\u201d (8:1). \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Over the last two chapters the creation has been progressively undone. \u00a0The plants and birds, animals and humans (Days 3, 5, 6) are gone (7:21-23), and even the waters that were separated on Day 2 of creation (1:6-7) have rushed back together (7:11) and threaten to return the world to welter and waste (1:2). \u00a0\u201cThe waters surged over the earth one hundred and fifty days\u201d (7:24) - And then, \u201cGod remembered.\u201d Just before the world would be returned to chaos, to \u201cdarkness over the deep and God\u2019s breath (<\/span>ruah Elokim<\/em>) <\/span><\/i>hovering over the waters\u201d (1:2), God remembers, and \u201cGod sent a wind (<\/span>va-ya\u2019aver Elokim ruah<\/em>) over the earth\u201d (8:1) to dissipate the water. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    What did God remember? \u00a0Noah and all the animals, helpless in the ark. \u00a0What about them? Rashi suggests: their righteousness. Ramban notes that animals are not moral actors - rather what God \u201cremembered\u201d about them was God\u2019s initial desire to create the world. \u00a0God still wanted that world, and the species with which God had populated it. So God pulled away from the brink of total annihilation.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    This about face at the last moment happens through memory, through transporting past events and a past disposition into the present. \u00a0God remembered Noah. From this moment on, even though Noah and his family and the animals still had months left in the ark, their trajectory was changed, perhaps without them even knowing it.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    On Rosh Hashanah, we open the biblical citations in the <\/span>zikhronot<\/span><\/em> (memorials) portion of the prayer with this verse: God remembered Noah. \u00a0We pray that we too may be pulled back from the brink, whether or not we see the results immediately, and that we experience the winds of consolation pushing back against the deep. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":102023,"alt":"","title":"-620a776869fd0--620a776869fd1gen8-face memory 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    At the summer camp I attended, we often sang songs at lunch time. One song was <\/span>Rise and Shine<\/span><\/i>, a cheery retelling of the Noah story with funny rhymes. Afte<\/span>r the Lord tells Noah that there is going to be a floody, floody, he builds an arky arky and all the animals go in by twosies, twosies. After the flood the sun comes out and everything was fine and dandy, dandy.<\/p>\r\n

    This song is the usual way the Flood story is taught to children which ignores the reality of what the story actually is. An \u201cadult version\u201d of the story is found in the illustrated Bible (1866) of Gustav Dor\u00e9 (1832-1886), a French artist. He created four illustrations for the Flood story. Included here is his picture of Noah sending out the dove. Dor\u00e9 does not shirk from depicting the horrible aftermath of the Flood: torn dead carcasses cover the landscape. He shows us the Fl<\/span>ood as a\u00a0catastrophe, the undoing of Creation.<\/p>\r\n

    \"\"<\/p>\r\n

    The Flood is the result of the moral degeneration of the world: \u201cThe earth was filled with violence,\u201d (Genesis 6:11) Murder and bloodshed renders the earth impure.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    So how can the earth become purified? Through water and blood (Leviticus 16) the earth is purged. (Genesis 8:20). This is how to understand Amos 5:18-24 where it says that those who desire the \u201cDay of the Lord\u201d to bring justice in the world are deluded if they think it will be a time of light. It is like a man who fleeing from a lion runs into a bear and fleeing from the bear into a hou<\/span>se is bitten by a snake.<\/p>\r\n

    Then it says: \u201cBut\u00a0<\/span>let justice well up like water, and righteousness like an unfailing stream.\u201d I believe that these words refer to the Flood: righteousness will come like the Flood to sweep away the wickedness of the world. It will not be fine and dandy, dandy.<\/p>\r\n

    God promises that there will never be another Flood (Genesis 8:21-22) but this story is a warning not to be complacent about how we treat the earth. We are filling it with bloodshed and are bringing the waters upon ourselves. We think that we can flee the lion of climate change, but the bear and the snake await us. 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    I stood in the shadow of the gateway to Auschwitz, and the beautiful light spilled across the grass. How can the trees sway so prettily, I wondered. How can the sky be this deep shade of blue? Somehow, that perverse serenity hurt me more than the death chamber. It was an insult. It was obscene.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    It was what God allowed it to be, I realized later. It was what God decreed when he said \u201cI will no longer curse the earth because of man.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    I used to think of God\u2019s promise as an act of kindness. But His kindness in this case is bittersweet. By separating the fate of the natural order from humanity\u2019s actions, God exiled us into a world that\u2019s blind and deaf to us, where evil doesn\u2019t carry natural consequences, and where justice can remain beyond our reach. After all, the light never shrank away from Auschwitz, the earth didn\u2019t open up to swallow our murderers, and the trees only swayed, oh-so-gracefully, in the wind.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The world where such serenity can coexist with horrors, is the one that was created in Genesis 8. Like in Genesis 1, God reshaped the world by separating between the sky and the earth and between the water and the dry land. And just as before, these distinctions set the stage for life to (re)appear. But while the original natural divisions were vulnerable to our choices, and were literally washed away when people stopped distinguishing right from wrong and good from bad, the post-flood world does not reflect our moral state.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    It can, however, offer us an incentive to action. True, nature won\u2019t reflect the moral order. But we can look for inspiration in the divisions between sky and earth and water. 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    \u201cImagine a world where everyone speaks in the same words and the same language. In\u00a0Parshat Noach<\/em>\u00a0this world exists in the story of The Tower of Bavel (Genesis 11:1-9). The people say to each other, \u201cLet\u2019s build a city with a tower that reaches the sky and make a name for ourselves.\u201d God worries about why they are doing what they are doing.\u00a0 God decides to make it so that they no longer all speak the same language, so it will be harder for them to do their work.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

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    \u05d5\u05d9\u05d6\u05db\u05d5\u05e8 \u05d0\u05dc\u05d5\u05d4\u05d9\u05dd \u05d0\u05ea \u05e0\u05d5\u05d7, <\/span>vayizkor Elohim et Noach<\/span><\/em>, <\/span><\/i>\u00a0\"And God remembered Noah, and all the beasts and all the cattle\u2026\" (8:1).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Readers familiar with Jewish tradition will recognize in this first word of chapter 8 a well-known prayer and service, said several times a year in memory of the dead: <\/span>yizkor<\/span><\/em>. This actually means \"He will remember,\" referring to divine consideration \u2013 which is actually what Noah and his arkmates received.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The root of the Hebrew word for \"memory\" is \u05d6-\u05db-\u05e8 <\/span>z-ch-r<\/em> <\/span>(where the softer \"ch\" sound becomes a hard \"k\" at the beginning of a syllable). Words based on this root fall into two groups: those related to death, and everything else. In addition to <\/span>yizkor<\/span><\/em>, <\/span><\/i>there is<\/span> the<\/span> memorial service held at graveside is an <\/span>azkarah<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\r\n

    Referring to a person who is deceased, one can add the acronym \u05d6\"\u05dc <\/span>\"<\/span><\/i>zal<\/span><\/em>\"<\/span><\/i>, \u05d6\u05db\u05e8\u05d5\u05e0\u05d5\/\u05d4 \u05dc\u05d1\u05e8\u05db\u05d4 <\/span>zichrono\/a livrachah,<\/em> <\/span>\"may his\/her memory be for a blessing\". And the sages of Talmudic times are collectively known as \u05d7\u05d6\"\u05dc <\/span>Chazal<\/span><\/em>,<\/span><\/i> short for \u05d7\u05db\u05de\u05d9\u05dd \u05d6\u05db\u05e8\u05d5\u05e0\u05dd \u05dc\u05d1\u05e8\u05db\u05d4 <\/span>chachamim<\/em> <\/span>(\"wise ones\"), <\/span>zichronam <\/span><\/em>(<\/span><\/i>memories, pl., their) <\/span>livrachah<\/em> <\/span>(for a blessing)<\/span> \u2013 sages of blessed memory.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The general noun \u05d6\u05d9\u05db\u05e8\u05d5\u05df <\/span>zikaron<\/em> <\/span>unites the different nuances of the English terms \"memorial,\" \"remembrance,\" and also \"memory\" - what one remembers, and how. I live in a town in Israel named in memory of James Rothschild by his son the \"generous benefactor,\" Baron Edmond de Rothschild, and so is called \u05d6\u05db\u05e8\u05d5\u05df \u05d9\u05e2\u05e7\u05d1, Zichron Ya'akov, using the father's Hebrew name.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Likewise, another Israeli place name (and bit of Rothschild lore), is the town of Mazkeret Batya, named for James' wife, Betty. \u05de\u05d6\u05db\u05e8\u05ea, <\/span>mazkeret<\/span><\/em>, here means a token or a memorial, to the Lady Rothschild. In regular spoken Hebrew, though, <\/span>mazkeret<\/span><\/em> more commonly signifies \"a souvenir\" (from the French, \"to remember\").<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Most Jewish holidays, including Shabbat, are said to be observed in \"memory of,\" <\/span>zecher<\/span><\/em>, one or both of two foundational acts: <\/span>zecher ma'aseh breshit<\/span><\/em>, <\/span><\/i>remembering the act of Creation, and <\/span>zecher leyetziat mitzrayim<\/span><\/em>, remembering the Exodus from Egypt. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    This sort of \"memory\" is the very subjective and collectively transmitted narrative of identity, according to historian Yosef Yerushalmi. 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    Chapter 8: \u00a0The calm after the storm<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The chapter begins with the great calm after the storm (i.e. the flood). This calm can be imagined literally, for there is not a single living creature outside the ark that is around to make a noise. Together with Noah and the animals that are in the ark, we, the readers, wait. We wait for quite a while: 150 days, the ark rocks back and forth on the water until it rests on Mount Ararat. Another forty days pass before anyone dares to open the hatch and send birds to scout out and see if it is possible to leave. \u00a0First a raven, then a dove, and finally another dove.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    And then, exactly a year after the flood began, all the survivors exit the ark to start over.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    How do you start over?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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    1. \u00a0<\/span> With thanks - Noah builds an altar and sacrifices offerings.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
    2. \u00a0<\/span> With a promise - God promises not to destroy the world anymore because of human beings.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
    3. \u00a0<\/span> With God coming to terms - \u00a0that \u201cthe devisings of man\u2019s mind are evil from his youth\u201d (8:21).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
    4. \u00a0<\/span> With a blessing, a covenant, and a new arrangement-although the latter is in the next chapter.<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n

      Points to ponder:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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      1. \u00a0<\/span> Ararat - Why Ararat? Why not something more \u201cIsraeli\u201d? Perhaps this is a hint of the non-biblical flood stories told in ancient times.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
      2. \u00a0<\/span> The brave birds that scout out the area do so gradually. The first sign of life in the world is the one brought by the dove on her second mission \"and there in its bill was a plucked-off olive leaf\u201d (verse 11). And since then a dove with an olive leaf is a sign of peace and hope.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
      3. \u00a0<\/span> The greatest hope is independence. When the dove does not return to the ark, it is a sign that is safe enough outside (verse 12).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
      4. \u00a0<\/span> How many seasons are there in a year? According to verse 22 - perhaps six or three, it depends on how one counts: \"Seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter\u201d (8:22).<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>","post_main_content_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"The Daily Summary","tile_main_caption":"Points to Ponder: Genesis 8","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Insights and questions for personal reflection and group discussion","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","old_create_date":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","links":false,"send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Genesis","chapter":"8","chapter_main_number":"8","date":"20250909","wall_id":"8"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false}],"hide_acf":true,"home_image":false,"home_posts":false,"posts_home":[],"home_posts_title":"","static_cube_title":"","static_cube_brief":"","static_cube_color":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall\/34897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wall"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}