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You Survived the Flood. Now What? | Zvi Gluck

1.2K views · Oct 24, 2025

Yaakov Lemmer

A reflection on trauma, survival, and rebuilding after loss, inspired by Parshas Noach and Jewish wisdom.

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Have you ever felt like the world around you was falling apart and you were just trying to survive? You weren't building something amazing. You were just holding it together and even that took everything you had. That's the story of Paras Noah and it's the story of trauma, of survival, and of what it means to live through the flood but still be standing. The Torah tells us the world became corrupted, violent, and broken. Hashem brought about the marble, the flood. Everything gets destroyed except for Noah, his family, and his tva. But

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  1. 0:00Have you ever felt like the world around you was falling apart and you were just
  2. 0:30for Noah, his family, and his tva. But here's the part that we sometimes forget. Noah
  3. 1:00step back into the world when everything looks different. No one prepares you for the after.
  4. 1:30you're also allowed to plant something new." Maybe you didn't ask for the storm. Maybe you

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