Rainbow Recipes for Parshat Noach This year’s reading of Parshat Noah is on October 21. The tradition is to celebrate by baking and enjoying rainbow treats.

After leaving the ark, Noah becomes drunk and uncovers himself (Genesis 9:21). His children, having witnessed this act, react in very different ways. Ham and his son Canaan appear to mock their fat… ...

This week's parsha, Noach, tells the famous story of God punishing mankind and inflicting it with a Flood that destroys everyone and everything. There is skepticism to the validity of the story in ...

Noach was a tzaddik; his generation had sinned, had not repented, and had been wiped out. This caused Noach extreme grief, not because he now had to contend with a post-apocalyptic world but ...

Jerusalem Post / Judaism / Torah Portion Parashat Noach: Escape from dystopia As Jews, we don’t just believe in the possibility of better tomorrow – we actively yearn and pray for it.

In the beginning of this week’s Parsha, a relatively famous Gemara mentioned by Rashi prompts additional thought and consideration. Commenting on the Torah’s description of Noach as a ...

Parshat Noach relates the incident of the mabul, the flood that destroyed the world. Only Noach, his wife Naama, their family and a representation of 2 or 7 of each species of animal, survived ...

One of the classic questions in Parshat Noach is the Torah’s profile on Noach at the onset of the parsha. “This is the line of Noach,” it begins, “Noach was a man, righteous and whole ...

This week’s portion describes the story in Genesis of the great deluge that destroyed the earth. Why must the narrative tell us about the flood in such great detail? The Torah, very simply, c… ...

Parshat Noach records the incredible survival of the world after the flood through the righteous Noach, his three sons and their wives. The end of the parsha, however, is anticlimactic. After ...