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Oct 18, 2026, 12:41 AM

Between Languages and Silences – Noah 5787

I approach the weekly Torah portion not as a religious scholar or someone seeking to offer an authoritative interpretation, but as a secular Jew for whom Jewish texts remain a source of curiosity, questioning, and spiritual reflection. My reading...

Oct 16, 2026, 7:24 PM

A Story of Heaven and Earth (Noach, Covenant & Conversation)

Written by Rabbi Sacks in 2007 Set between the pre-history of humanity as a whole and the particular covenant with Abraham, the story of the Tower of Babel is one of the turning points of the biblical narrative, central to...

Hande Gençünal

Oct 16, 2026, 8:51 AM

On the smallest letter and the whole that a broken thing remembers Whatever letter a scribe is about to write, the pen first touches the parchment as a single dot. That dot grows, stretches, bends, and becomes an alef, a...

Douglas F. Williamson

Oct 15, 2026, 11:02 PM

Noach: What the Tower of Babel taught me about multinational teams

Torah interpretations through the Bridge6 leadership model Parashat Noach · Genesis 11:1-9 This Shabbat we read Parashat Noach. From a leadership perspective, the story of Babel jumps out at me more than the other lessons this week. This part of the...

Michael Laitman

Oct 15, 2026, 10:32 PM

Abraham’s Wisdom of Happiness

“The greatest among giants.” This is how Abraham is described by the sages. What insights did he attain in his lifetime? What did he discover that we still fail to grasp today? Animals have no questions. They act instinctively. As...

Jonathan Muskat

Oct 15, 2026, 7:58 PM

When Torah Challenges Our Moral Intuitions

A student recently wrote to me about something she had learned in class. She was studying Yehoshua’s conquest of Eretz Yisrael and was troubled by the Torah’s command to destroy the Canaanite nations, including women and children. When she...

Oct 15, 2026, 7:40 PM

Confronting A Destroyed World

The door of the ark opens to a new world. Noach emerges with his family. God makes a covenant with Man, promising that he will never wreak such destruction upon the world again. The rainbow in the sky symbolises...

Uri Pilichowski

Oct 15, 2026, 6:55 AM

Balancing Torah and Zionism

Zionism has returned the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and restored Jewish sovereignty to the center of Jewish life, and Torah-observant Jews still argue over whether that return honors the covenant or wounds it. Towards the end of...

Sharona Margolin Halickman

Oct 14, 2026, 3:24 PM

Save the raven!

We read about the raven (orev) in Parshat Noach (Breisheet 8:6-7): At the end of forty days, Noach opened the window of the ark which he made. He sent out the raven, and it went out to and fro until...

Aharon Ariel Lavi

Oct 13, 2026, 5:37 PM

Hamas in the Torah?

The word “Hamas” (חָמָס) already appears near the very beginning of the Torah, in Parashat Noah, and is in fact presented as the reason for bringing the Flood upon the earth: “The earth became corrupt before God, and the earth...

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