The Raven & The Dove - Parsha Noach

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi YY Jacobson’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[Music] good evening and welcome to all who are joining us here this evening from around the world tonight's class is graciously dedicated by david and eder schottenstein in the loving and sacred memory of rabbi gabi and rifki holtzberg and all of the kedaishim who were massacred in last year's terrorist attack in mumbai india this evening this evening we are going to explore one of the intriguing components of the story of noah and the flood as the waters of the flood recede nayach wants to determine what is happening outside of the ark open up your sources source number one right below the video you have a curriculum and source number one tells us the story 40 days have ended noah opens the window of the ark which he isha he sends out the raven the ark was filled with noah his wife his children their wives and as the torah records every species of animals which was also taken into the ark including birds new york sends out the raven new york sends out the raven vayatsay yatsoy vershoev adivasha samayamalarits raven bird kept going and returning until the waters dried from upon the surface of the earth it would seem as if the raven did its job admirably and successfully and the story should have ended right here should have ended right here the raven was hanging around the raven was coming and returning but would not go back into the ark until the water dried up until the surface of the earth was dried and then we can assume the raven went and found a new location for itself because it could dwell on the land so we can expect the story to stop right here but no the torah continues and describes a drawn out process in which nayak

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1. 3:30in which nayak now sends out a dove three times and you could continue in source…
2. 6:34story various commentators offering different insights and perspectives into the story tonight we are going to…
3. 9:49one of them is the raven and this is one of the reasons because it's seen…
4. 12:52had intimacy had intimate relations in the ark which was forbidden to knoyak to his family…
5. 16:46the raven represents gevorah aggression strength sternness it is a very uh aggressive bird the dove…
6. 19:51a place of such addiction after which there was no return there was only destruction which…
7. 22:55the raven to encompass and envelop the earth the raven is important to have in order…
8. 25:58from a flood a flood which destroyed a third of our nation a flood which consumed…
9. 29:04to be so indifferent to continue to rise and give light in a place where there…

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