Beginner Parsha Class. This class from the 1999/2000 Maayan Chai series is accessible to all listeners. Parshas Noach is reviewed including many interesting details regarding the mabul (flood), The primary focus of the shiur is the keshes (rainbow). Including a story on the Ruzhiner which is timely as the yarzheit of this tzadik is coming…

4 Marcheshvan 5720, Dor Haflaga Lesson Class One: You survive a holocaust, rebuild correctly and not selfishly. The lesson from this for Chinuch. Class Two: The cities and towers must be of Torah and they are forever and you “even” get fame as a secondary reward.

Noach (5781/ 2020) Yeshiva, three points.A series of short points on Parshas Noach on lesser known aspects of the parsha. A key theme is analysis of the interconnected nature of life in Hashem’s Creation and the tension between life under a body of man-made law versus internal natural morality.1) The fate of life was determined…

All in one class. Likutei Sichos vol. 20 page 13 ff. The Rebbe explains that the RaMbaM considers it important to underscore the idea that Avrohom’s pursuit of God started out initially as a strictly intellectual one. However, he then explains that intellect in and of itself it is not sustainable, as is evidenced from…

Various interpretations for the double allusion to Noach. 1) A soul in two worlds, 2) Two levels of reward, 3) The dual Avoda of Noach: two תיבות and two בא אל התיבה. He’s called Noach twice before he does anything.

There was no rainbow before the מבול as the air was too dense for clouds that would allow light through. The מבול refined the world so the clouds would allow light through in the form of a rainbow. The מאמר explains clouds first and then the rainbow: Clouds come from the earth and reflect the…

The Tzohar (Window or precious stone) in Noach’s Taiva (ark) was far more than for light. IT opened a spiritual light 1) into the darkness and judgement that was the flood; 2) In our Avoda this is expanding the Tzara (narrowness) of Torah and Tefilla that is constrained in this world to Tzohar- becoming an…

Toldos Noach. Noach can be compared to the two levels of Shabbos and the higher unifying point.

Noach The entire Torah is about Moshe and bringing heaven down to earth. In Braishis and Noach this has not yet happened, in fact we learn of a world which was either heaven or earth but never both and Hashem destroyed it.

Class on first Possuk of the Parsha. NOACH 2006 – RIGHTEOUS IN HIS GENERATION CLASSES This class on Parshas Noach analyzes a fundamental question posed by all the great commentators, “Why does the Torah qualify Noach’s righteousness in terms of his generation(s)?” Sources include Rashi, Eben Ezra, Ramban, Sforno, Taz, Ralbag, Alshich, Abarbanel, and a…