Posts Tagged: Noah torah
Progress Requires Balance, and Change Must Be Accompanied by Caution
Let me introduce you to the Overton Window. It sounds like something out of a spy thriller, but it’s actually a brilliant way to understand...
If You Don’t Put Others First, You’ll Harm Yourself
A favorite assignment topic of history lecturers is to ask students to compare and contrast two great historical figures, to see where each of them...
Shabbat Noah: The Curse of Canaan
After the great flood, Noah emerged from the ark with his family. He offered a thanksgiving sacrifice to God. And then the first thing he...
How Animals Can Teach Us About Our Behavior
I would like to share a beautiful piece of wisdom from my late grandfather, Rabbi Yosef Zvi Dunner (1913-2007), a remarkable man whose rabbinic career...
The Story of Noah and the Moral Life
The praise accorded to Noah is unparalleled in Tanach. He was, says the Torah, “a righteous man, perfect in his generations; Noah walked with God.”...
Noah: Finding the Light in the Ark
Amid all the drama of the impending flood and the destruction of almost all of creation, this week we focus on Noah building the ark,...
These Religious Fanatics Are Like Noah, Not Abraham
A couple of weeks ago, several hundred ultra-Orthodox anti-Zionists demonstrated outside the United Nations during the intermediate days of Sukkot, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...
Why Divergent Thinking Is Critical to Judaism
All of us have been shocked by the images of yeshivah boys and their rabbinic mentors disrupting traffic and causing mayhem in Israel. They were...
How to Truly Love a Stranger
The story of the first eight chapters of Bereishit is tragic but simple: creation, followed by decreation, followed by recreation. God creates order. Humans then destroy...
Human Sanctity and the Animal Kingdom
In this week’s reading of Parshat Noah, the Torah presents the first in a series of teachings where God imparts a code of ethics for how our “new world”...
