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It might be viewed as an oddity that the Jewish formulation of the seven Noahide laws omits some of the Ten Commandments. Aren\u2019t these the most important commandments?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Most of the Ten Commandments are included in some way in the Noahide formulation. Several are direct matches to the Noahide laws \u2013 the prohibitions on idolatry, illicit relationships, murder, and theft, for example. Others are not direct matches but are related (the prohibitions on using God\u2019s name in vain, bearing false witness, and coveting).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It is generally accepted that the halachic prohibition of work on the Sabbath (fourth commandment) does not apply to non-Jews, since Exodus (31:17) says the stringent Sabbath observance is limited to Jews. But the omission of honoring one\u2019s parents (fifth commandment) is hard to understand. Of course people should honor their parents! It is the most natural and intuitive emotion. A parent brings a child into the world, nurtures the child, and ultimately brings the child to a level of independence. How can there <\/span>not<\/span><\/i> be a law to honor one\u2019s parents?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In chapter 2, we <\/span><\/a>described how the first eleven chapters of Genesis include expectations that the Torah has of all people that are not technically Noahide laws, but are still imperatives. Marriage is one such example, and in chapter 9 we find a vignette that indicates that honoring one\u2019s parents is a universal imperative as well.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the case of honoring one\u2019s parents, it is hard to imagine the first eleven chapters of Genesis without a section that makes clear that all people must do so. This is provided in Genesis chapter 9. It\u2019s a short story. Noah gets drunk. His youngest son Ham sees him naked and physically attacks him in some way. Noah\u2019s older two sons \u2013 Shem and Japheth \u2013 cover their naked father, carefully preserving his dignity by not looking at him in his naked and degraded state. Noah curses Ham and\/or his son Canaan and blesses his other two sons.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

What is the simple message? Ham did not respect his father and was cursed. The other two brothers respected their father and were blessed. The generalization is clear: people must respect their parents. This is not a formal Noahide law, because the Noahide laws are prohibitions, and this is a positive imperative. As a result, the Torah does not communicate it in the form of a direct statement, such as the fifth commandment. The Torah uses its narrative style to communicate the imperative.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Interestingly, the Talmud (<\/span>Kiddushin<\/span><\/i> 31a) attempts to find the world\u2019s best role model for the behavior of honoring one\u2019s parents. It settles on Dama the son of Netinah, who was not Jewish. The Talmud relates that Dama refused to disturb his father\u2019s sleep despite a potentially profitable business deal. The Talmud relates that for this action, God gave a great reward to Dama. 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Our<\/span> chapter<\/span><\/a> includes the Scriptural account of<\/span> Noah's drunkenness<\/span>:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Noah, the tiller of the soil, was the first to plant a vineyard. He drank of the wine and became drunk, and he uncovered himself within his tent. Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father\u2019s nakedness and told his two brothers outside. But Shem and Japheth took a cloth, placed it against both their backs and, walking backward, they covered their father\u2019s nakedness; their faces were turned the other way, so that they did not see their father\u2019s nakedness. When Noah woke up from his wine, he learned what his youngest son had done to him\u2026 (verses 20-24).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Midrash Tanhuma<\/span><\/a> notes that Noah was called a<\/span> \"righteous man -- <\/span>'ish tzaddiq<\/span><\/i>\"<\/span><\/a>. But only until after the Flood, when he began to till the soil and planted a vineyard, after which he became drunk and degraded himself (<\/span>Genesis 9:20-21<\/span><\/a>). Moreover, according to Rabbinic tradition, on the same day he planted the vineyard, it bore its fruit, he harvested it, pressed it, drank the wine, became intoxicated, and exposed his private parts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This same Midrashic text goes on to relate that while Noah was planting the vineyard, Satan appeared before him and asked: \u201cWhat are you planting?\u201d He answered: \u201cA vineyard.\u201d \u201cWhat is it?\u201d inquired Satan. \u201cIts fruits are sweet, whether moist or dry,\u201d he answered, \u201cand from them one produces a wine that causes the heart of man to rejoice, as it is<\/span> written<\/span><\/a>: \u201cAnd wine doth make glad the heart of man\u201d. Satan suggested: \u201cCome, let us be partners in this vineyard\u201d. And Noah replied: \u201cCertainly.\u201d What did Satan do? First, he brought a lamb and slaughtered it over the roots of the vine. Then, he brought a lion and slaughtered it there too. After that he brought a pig and then a monkey and slaughtered them over the roots in the vineyard. Their bloods dripped onto the roots of the vines and irrigated the vineyard. In doing so he suggested to Noah that before drinking wine man is as innocent as a lamb. He is \u201cLike a sheep being led to slaughter, like a ewe, dumb before those who shear her; He will not open his mouth\u201d (Is. 53:7).\u00a0 But after he drinks only as much as he should he becomes like a lion, claiming that no one in the world is like him. Then, when he drinks more than he should, he becomes like a pig, fouling himself in his own urine and excrement. Finally, when he becomes completely drunk, he becomes like a monkey. He gets up and dances, playing the fool, spouting vulgarities in public without knowing what he is doing.\u00a0 Indeed, after he became drunk, this is just what happened to Noah, the previously Righteous Man.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Now, if all this could happen to the righteous Noah, whom the Holy One, blessed be He had praised, how much the more so could this happen to any other person!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Chapter 9 is the conclusion of the flood story. One of the first things that God does following the flood is to bless Noah and his sons, and say to them:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

'Be fertile and increase, and fill the earth. The fear and the dread of you shall be upon all the beasts of the earth and upon all the birds of the sky\u2014 everything with which the earth is astir\u2014 and upon all the fish of the sea; they are given into your hand' (verses 1-2).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This immediately reminds us of the blessing God gave to Adam and Eve in chapter 1, verse 28:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

God blessed them and God said to them, 'Be fertile and increase, fill the earth and master it; and rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and all the living things that creep on earth.'\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But this is not the only parallel between the stories of the Creation and the Flood.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Both start with destruction and water filling the entire world from above and below. God separates the water and the sky in the Creation story and at the end of the Flood the rains cease, and the water remains. Then land begins to form in the Creation, just as the tops of the mountains begin to appear after the Flood. In the Creation chapters, God creates the birds of the sky, and in the Flood story, Noah sends out two birds after the land appears.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

At the end of the Creation, God sends forth the animals and humans onto the land and commands them to multiply. Likewise, at the end of the Flood, Noah and his family and all the animals leave the ark, and God commands them to be fruitful and multiply. On the seventh day God rests, and after the Flood, God provides the rainbow, a natural phenomenon that instills peace in those who see it. It is a sign that God will no longer destroy the world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But the story does not end there.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Following the Creation stories of chapters 1 and 2, Adam and Eve are in the Garden and partake of the forbidden fruit and sin. God curses them and sends them away. After the Flood, Noah plants his garden vineyard and partakes of its fruits. His youngest son then sins. But this time something different happens. God keeps his promise to not intervene. Instead of God cursing, Noah curses his grandson and then provides blessings to his other sons. God\u2019s promise to no longer intervene and destroy even when humans sin allows Noah to make the decision about the consequences of his son\u2019s actions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The story of Noah then is a creation story as well. 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\u201cAnd it shall come to pass, when I cause clouds to appear upon the earth, that the rainbow shall appear.\u201d<\/em> (Genesis 9:14)
\r\n
\r\nAfter the rain stops,
\r\nA rainbow from time to time is sketched across the sky
\r\nAs God\u2019s unexpected signature
\r\n(In all the hues, shades and tints of His quill-pen\u2019s prism),
\r\nEndorsing the check
\r\nOf His promise: no more Flood
\r\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 and a hint of Providence.
\r\n
\r\nCan a rainbow walk upon the earth, talk, and breathe?
\r\nIn the dull, monotonous fog of ordinary sameness,
\r\nWhen masses of drab and dingy clouds obscure
\r\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The Light,
\r\nA splash of color from time to time breaks out:
\r\nThe tzaddik\u2019s deeds shimmer and vibrate in incandescent reds,
\r\nBlazing yellows, shining greens, illuminating blues.
\r\n
\r\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 As if
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\r\nAn iridescent feather has descended
\r\nTo merge into the tzaddik\u2019s soul, transforming him into a paint-brush
\r\nWhose acts of compassion
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How do we repair the broken state of humanity\u2019s relationship to all of God\u2019s creatures? In the Garden of Eden, no animal was eaten. Yet, humanity failed and God permitted a circumscribed allowance of flesh: \u201cThe fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, in everything that moves on earth and in the fish of the sea; in your hand they are given\u201d (Genesis 9:2).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Contrast this concern for animals with how we slaughter God\u2019s creatures today<\/span>. In 2015, over nine billion land animals were slaughtered for food purposes<\/span><\/a>. It\u2019s estimated that in 2009, 4.8 billion pounds of fish were consumed in the United States alone. And every day, 50 million animals lose their lives for human use. Can any heart remain unmoved in the face of such shocking figures, and the ensuing, incalculable moral suffering?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Though cruelty flourished, Noah could not have imagined a world without animals existing in it. The Midrash teaches that Noah not only heroically saved two from each species by giving them shelter on the ark, but for all those weeks, he would run tirelessly from one to the next to give them proper care. The rabbis suggest that Noah and his sons didn\u2019t sleep at all since they were so preoccupied with the needs of the animals (<\/span>Midrash Tanchuma<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Noach<\/span><\/i> 9). Reading the story of the flood each year reminds us that to live in a redeemed world, we must prioritize care for the most vulnerable sentient beings on our planet.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Let Noah be our model, for the rabbis considered Noah righteous precisely because of his care for animals <\/span>(Midrash Tanchuma, Noach 4). <\/span><\/i>Today, let\u2019s follow Noah\u2019s compassionate spirit to end the rampant abuse and neglect shown to animals. Even more so, let us, as fervently committed Jews, return to the Garden of Eden and a world where eating sentient beings is not imaginable but anathema. 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After the Flood, there is a new world order. It is reflected in this beautifully concise line, a chiastically structured short poem (ABC\/CBA) followed by a profound statement of theological anthropology.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u05e9\u05c1\u05b9\u05e4\u05b5\u05da\u05b0 \u05d3\u05bc\u05b7\u05dd \u05d4\u05b8\u05d0\u05b8\u05d3\u05b8\u05dd \u05d1\u05bc\u05b8\u05d0\u05b8\u05d3\u05b8\u05dd \u05d3\u05bc\u05b8\u05de\u05d5\u05b9 \u05d9\u05b4\u05e9\u05bc\u05c1\u05b8\u05e4\u05b5\u05da\u05b0 \/ \u05db\u05bc\u05b4\u05d9 \u05d1\u05bc\u05b0\u05e6\u05b6\u05dc\u05b6\u05dd \u05d0\u05b1\u05dc\u05b9\u05d4\u05b4\u05d9\u05dd \u05e2\u05b8\u05e9\u05c2\u05b8\u05d4 \u05d0\u05b6\u05ea-\u05d4\u05b8\u05d0\u05b8\u05d3\u05b8\u05dd<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cWhoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed\/ For in His image did God make man.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Though short in words, the verse makes three critical points about the post-deluvian world.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The first, is that human beings are sacred. There had been bloodshed in the past \u2013 Cain, Lemech perhaps \u2013 but no retribution. Paradoxically, the shedding of human blood requires that more blood be shed. Otherwise, the land becomes defiled. Second is that justice is in the hands of humans. There will be no appeal to the divine court. One who violates the law must be punished <\/span>by humankind<\/span><\/em>.<\/em> And finally, there must, therefore, be law in the world. We cannot rely upon people to \u201cdo good\u201d intuitively: God had seen that \u201cevery plan of the human heart was nothing but evil\u201d (6:5).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

At this point in the formation of the world as we know it, then, comes the birth of human responsibility and the quest for a just society. It does not quickly work \u2013 as the Tower of Babel is about to show \u2013 and this will bring us to the need for a chosen people, beginning with Abraham in chapter 12. The poetics of this new world order underscores the sacred calling and responsibility to establish, maintain and implement justice. 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After the flood, God begins again, this time with Noah in place of Adam. Genesis 9 is therefore parallel to Genesis 1 save two significant differences. Firstly, both have a keyword, repeated seven times. In Genesis 1 the word is <\/span>tov<\/span><\/i>, \u201cgood.\u201d In Genesis 9, the word is <\/span>brit<\/span><\/i>, \u201ccovenant.\u201d Secondly, God said, \u201c<\/span>...So God created man in His image\u201d <\/span><\/em>versus how it is stated in Genesis 9: <\/span>Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God, He made man<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/i> (Gen. 9:6). Genesis 1 tells me that <\/span>I<\/span><\/em> am in the image of God. Genesis 9 tells me that <\/span>the other person<\/span><\/em> is in the image of God. Genesis 9 speaks about the sanctity of life and the prohibition of murder. The first chapter tells us about the potential power of human beings, while the ninth chapter tells us about the moral limits of that power. We may not use it to deprive another person of life. This also explains why the keyword, repeated seven times, changes from \u201cgood\u201d to \u201ccovenant.\u201d When we call something <\/span>good<\/span><\/i>, we are speaking about how it is in itself. But when we speak of <\/span>covenant<\/span><\/i>, we are talking about relationships.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

With one simple move, God transformed the terms of the equation. After the Flood, He taught Noah and through him all humanity, that we should think, <\/span>not of ourselves but of the human other<\/span><\/i> as in the image of God. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Noah just wants to go back to the good old days.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

He is, like Adam, an <\/span>Ish Adamah<\/span><\/i>, a man of the earth. But in the new covenant God has created, the earth will no longer be held accountable for humankind's sins. This represents a further distancing from the Edenic state of harmony between <\/span>Adam<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>Adamah<\/span><\/i>. So Noah tries to force a return. He plants a garden of sorts, and drinks himself back into a naked, pre-knowledge state of being. After all, wasn't this the way the world was supposed to be?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But rather than bring Eden closer, this act of self-deception pushes it even further away. The reality of the post-flood world had introduced the necessity of a hierarchy between man and animal, reflected in the distinction between taking the life of an animal and the life of a human. Noah seems to be reluctant to embrace this new reality, and his misguided attempt to try to undo it, to live in a mythical Garden, ultimately causes the introduction of further hierarchy, this time between humans, with the invention of slavery in Noah's curse. \"Cursed is Canaan, a slave of slaves will he be to his brothers\" (9:25). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Noah is right to want to return to Eden. But he is wrong to think that the clock can be set back, or that new realities can be ignored. 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\u201cNoah woke up from his wine, and he knew what his youngest son had done to him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But we don\u2019t. We don\u2019t know who the perpetrator was. The verse speaks of Ham, but he was not the youngest son, and Noah doesn\u2019t curse Ham he curses his grandson Canaan. \u00a0We also don\u2019t know what was done to Noah. Ham sees his father\u2019s nakedness and tells his brothers about it. Is the offense that he is body shaming his father? Or does the word vayeda<\/em> \"and he knew\" point to a sexual encounter, similar to Adam \u201cknowing\u201d his wife back in chapter 4?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It appears that the Torah is purposely ambiguous, Noah knew exactly what was done to him, but we will never know. Perhaps this a lesson about modesty, hiding the offense done to Noah, to not shame him further. Perhaps it is a life lesson, we can never truly know and understand the effects of sexual abuse.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Either way, the purposeful ambiguity aligns with our general understanding of Noah. Was he truly righteous, or only when measured against the wicked generation that he was born into? Was he justified in cursing his grandson, or did he go too far with the harsh words?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It is a truly sad ending to the dramatic life of Noah. 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Whenever a rainbow appears in the sky, a kind of Pavlovian response appears in my mind, God's promise to avoid sweeping collective punishment and not to destroy humanity.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The appearance of the rainbow in the sky symbolizes the collective rescue of humanity, and the rainbow\u2019s place in the sky is not coincidental. It is intended to serve humanity as a whole. As great as the joy over the survival of humanity, what about personal salvation?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Humanity may not be destroyed, but human beings will disappear one by one into the realm of nothingness. Here are lines, in the words of Omar Khayyim, that Noah should have said, but he remained silent:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cCreator of the world, why are we taken for death?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

If a person is perfect, then you must spare his life.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But if he is not perfect in your eyes,<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Let's remember who created him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Omar Khayyam was a poet, an astronomer philosopher and mathematician who lived in Persia between 1048-1131. Khayyam was very angry at our status as mortal beings. He used the image of the theater world to describe his resentment of this issue. He believed that we were marionettes whose strings were held by the Creator, and He leads us back and forth on the stage of life and throws us into a box of used toys when we reach the edge of the stage and the end of the play.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

And perhaps the Persian poet is mistaken? Perhaps, as Martin Buber thought, death is an act of the infinite compassion of the Creator towards us?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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How do you develop a sense of morality?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

When the world was created, God blessed humanity, conveyed to them \u00a0instructions on how to rule and exist, and gave them the freedom of choice, believing that morality and conscience would develop on its own. Humanity\u2019s moral deterioration happened without much delay: the violation of the command not to eat the forbidden fruit, murder in the family, murder in society, the corruption of the ways of all living creatures on earth.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

For the first time, we read in Chapter 6 an emotional response from God reflecting on the poor results of His creations<\/span>: \u00a0\"And the Lord regretted that He had made man on earth, and His heart was saddened\" (Genesis 6:6).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

God was saddened because human beings did not meet His expectations; human beings did not succeed in developing social morality and a moral conscience. How do these come about? Can we give instructions for an emotion? How do you develop morals and a conscience?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

For the first time, after the flood, and with a desire to correct that which is perverted, God delivers the first law that seeks to preserve the sanctity of human life and even provides a justification that \"of man, too, will I require a reckoning for human life, of every man for that of his fellow man! Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for in His image did God make man\u201d (Genesis 9:5-6).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This is an explicit law detailing the punishment of those who violate it, a law that seeks to develop fear of God, a law that presents what humans and God have in common. It may be what succeeds in developing the conscience and morality that has been lacking until now.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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People who think that the word \u05d1\u05e8\u05d9\u05ea, brit<\/em> (or in common Ashkenazi parlance, bris<\/em>) means \"circumcision\" can be forgiven. It's an honest mistake. When you attend the ceremony known as a \"brit\" (\"bris\"), what you see, if you're standing close enough, is indeed a circumcision. The full name of the ceremony is brit milah<\/em>, which literally means \"the covenant of the circumcision.\" The brit,<\/em> part, then, means \"covenant.\" The name of the organization B'nai Brith means \"the children of the covenant.\"<\/p>\r\n

A covenant is a pact or a treaty, entered into willingly by two bodies, creating a relationship based on trust and loyalty, with attending rights and responsibilities.<\/p>\r\n

The first Biblical covenant is here in chapter 9, with Noah and all the survivors of the Ark (9:9-17). Indeed, it is framed as an everlasting pact between God and humanity, and strikingly, between God and every living thing (v. 10), the entire natural world. This covenant has a sign \u2013 this one a lot less painful than circumcision \u2013 the rainbow.<\/p>\r\n

The next big covenant is between Abram and Sarai and God. The word \u05d1\u05e8\u05d9\u05ea, brit<\/em>, covenant, appears in this chapter seven times, there (Gen 17:1-14) 10 times. See also Rabbi Jonathan Sacks' piece in in this chapter about covenant.<\/p>\r\n

The idea of \u05d1\u05e8\u05d9\u05ea, brit<\/em>, is central to Jewish existence. The fact that Biblical religion is a covenantal<\/em> religion, a reciprocal relationship, is fundamental to understanding the nature of the Jewish tradition, the Jewish people and our struggle with our own sources and identity over the millennia. The covenant is what binds us one to the other, and all of us together to a common fate, destiny or mission.<\/p>\r\n

The Tanakh itself is the story of that covenantal relationship, played out over time, and is a testament to it. Indeed, the way the Christian term New Testament is translated is with this word: \u05d4\u05d1\u05e8\u05d9\u05ea \u05d4\u05d7\u05d3\u05e9\u05d4, habrit hachadashah<\/em>, using a term from Jeremiah 31:31, referring to a new covenant that will replace the old. Jews obviously don't endorse that idea, known as \"supersessionism,\" and there are a number of possible Jewish ways to refer to the fact that there is another Bible out there in addition to ours: Jewish and Christian Bible, or Hebrew and Greek Scripture are the two leading candidates.<\/p>\r\n

Finally, there's another important modern use of the word, and idea, of \u05d1\u05e8\u05d9\u05ea, brit.<\/em> Since the mid-19th<\/sup> century (that is, before the revival of spoken Hebrew, but as part of the literary revival of Hebrew journalism) the United States has been referred to in Hebrew as \u05d0\u05e8\u05e6\u05d5\u05ea \u05d4\u05d1\u05e8\u05d9\u05ea, artzot ha-brit<\/em>, literally \"the lands of the covenant.\" It's not known why this somewhat poetic turn of phrase was chosen, rather than, say, \u05d4\u05de\u05d3\u05d9\u05e0\u05d5\u05ea \u05d4\u05de\u05d0\u05d5\u05d7\u05d3\u05d5\u05ea, ha-medinot ha-meuchadot<\/em>, which would be closer to the literal \"United States.\" But it does give an almost Biblical flavor to the name of the nation whose Constitution, a sort of \u05d1\u05e8\u05d9\u05ea, brit<\/em>, and constitutionally protected rights are central to its identity and 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The new beginning is promising and organized. God blesses Noah and his sons who came out of the ark with the same blessing God had given the first man, immediately after he was created: \"Be fertile and increase, and fill the earth\" (Genesis 9: 1). The blessing is the same blessing, but the arrangements of life change, and man's control of the living world expands. Thus, after ten generations of vegetarianism (from Adam to Noah), humans are allowed to eat meat from animals--with certain restrictions.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The new life arrangements also include the first social law: the prohibition of murder. It is a law that is styled surprisingly as a poem (9:6):<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cWhoever sheds the blood of man
\r\n<\/span>By man shall his blood be shed;
\r\n<\/span>For in His image
\r\n<\/span>Did God make man.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The new beginning also includes a covenant of peace and a promise that there will not be another flood, a promise that is validated and symbolized ever since by the beautiful sign of the rainbow in the clouds. \u00a0But a moment after the promise and the new order begin, human chaos emerges again: Noah plants a vineyard, yes, a vineyard, and then what follows is drunkenness, nakedness, disgrace, and a curse proving that \u201cthe devisings of man\u2019s mind are evil from its youth\u201d (8:21).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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

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  1. \u00a0<\/span> The abolition of vegetarianism (verse 3). This is a moment that is not easy for the venerable vegans among us.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. \u00a0<\/span> Why is it forbidden to shed human blood? Because \u201cin His image did God make man\u201d (9:6). \u00a0Harming a human being is tantamount to harming God. However, the responsibility to correct\/punish, actually rests on man--\u201dBy man shall his blood be shed.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. \u00a0<\/span> Who needs a sign that there will not be another flood? According to verse 15, it is God that needs the reminder (\"Stop Me before I ...\")?<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. \u00a0<\/span> Why a rainbow? Imagine a picture of a bow hanging in the sky. Without arrows. Not directed toward the inhabitants of the land. Just a beautiful decoration on a rainy day.<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n

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