Parsha Perspectives - Noach

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

Shabbat, welcome back to partial perspectives for today. First of all, I'm so deeply appreciative that you were willing to adjust the time together with me for a good reason and a good conflict. But I'm grateful every time we change the time, I wonder whether I'll be sitting here alone. And every time people show up, I'm shocked. But amazingly gratified and I'm so happy to be able to learn together as we launch our new year and a new cycle through learning Humash. The amazing thing is you can learn Humash every year of your life. The same text, the same words, the same story, the same narrative, but the world is different and you're different. We mature, we gain wisdom, life experience, the world around us is changing, and we see in these sacred words, we see in our timeless Torah messages that impact us for today. And tragically, sadly, there are way too many Jews whose knowledge of the parsha and Humash is fixed from when they were in third grade. Whatever they heard from their teacher, the melamed, the parsha and dvar Torah they came home with, that's where they're stuck. But to come every week to explore, to ask questions, to be curious, inquisitive, to think critically about what we're learning, shleimah and a speedy recovery. We're on page 30 in the ArtScroll Stone Humash and we have the privilege this week of learning together parshas Noach. So let's go. Eleh toldos Noach and Noach ish tzaddik tamim hayah b'dorosav. Es Ha Elokim hissalech Noach. We could spend at least an hour on the opening pasuk, but don't worry, we won't. We won't. Tempted to, but we won't. Eleh toldos, these are the offspring of Noach and the Torah doesn't list the offspring of Noach. Already by the second parsha in the Torah, the Torah's got a healthy

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1. 0:00Shabbat, welcome back to partial perspectives for today. First of all, I'm so deeply appreciative that…
2. 6:45Noach was surrendering to Hashem. Rabbi Sacks in his Chumash, I think it's now available. Yes?…
3. 13:06And still, every year on the anniversary of our reading his story and thanking him, we…
4. 19:00I think. Unless you learned in the Mir Brooklyn under Shmuel Bar Amram. Umameila, yesh lomar,…
5. 25:19When is it Yafet Elokim Yefes? Is beauty good or bad? Is beauty in the aesthetic…
6. 31:41Why don't you say Noach and his rebbetzin and the kinderlach, they all came into the…
7. 37:34hatred has been against us in this world. That's not to make us feel better about…
8. 43:48And when there's a segment of society, when there's a people who embrace and hold on…
9. 49:26is devastating. But he says the only thing that kept him alive, those 400-plus days in…
10. 55:49pierce and penetrate the heavens. Venasu lanu shem, and we'll make a name for ourselves. And…

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