Weekly Reading – נֹחַ – Noach – Noah; Genesis 6:9-11:32; Isaiah 54:1-55:1
Most people associate the weekly reading Parashat Noach with the Flood, the Ark, the animals, the rain that lasts forty days, and the rainbow that appears at the end. Yet the most human and open moment of the story only begins when the rain stops and Noah leaves the Ark.
The land gradually re-emerges, the waters recede, the sky above clears – and life can seemingly begin anew. Yet the world into which Noah steps is no longer the world he left behind when he entered the Ark. Everything he knew has changed: the people, the places, the everyday life, and the reality in which he had lived. Noah has survived the Flood, but now an entirely different task lies before him: rebuilding a life after the Flood.
The Bible does not describe what went on inside Noah as he left the Ark. But it tells us what he does. First, he builds an altar in the new world and turns to God. Then he begins to...
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