Parashah

Here you go.

This Parashah is one of the most classic Parashot but much of the details of the story I've ever hung.

And the way I'd like to do it, if we can do it, is that the beginning of Parashah we'll look at different points part by part and then ultimately we'll try to put together a theme because it's a glaring question on the flow of the Parashah.

First of all, as follows.

That was the Tachlis of the Akedah.

So that's how the Akedah ties into the beginning of the Parashah as well.

We were laying these Parashahs after Chodesh Tishri, and Chodesh Tishri was such a high Parashah, such a high month.

We had all the Yom Nero, Sukkot, Shemini Atzer, it's so, so, so, so high.

What's the void of Chodesh Cheshvan? The void of Chodesh Mahacheshvan is for care, to bring it all the way down, to bring it down to this world.

So after the world is created, that's pretty much the period that we're in.

If you chapter four and on, we cover chapters one through 11, Aleph through Yod-Aleph in this book, Parashiot, Breishit, Genesis, and Noach-Noah.

And we're in the pre-Bronze Age for most of this book, from the period of Noah through the end of the Tower of Babel, the Migdal Bavel.

And we want to know, we're asking all the tough questions, what were the textiles like? What clothes would they have worn? We learned, for example, that fringe was the height of haute couture back then.

And so as a korban yachid, The person would say to themselves, well, I'm probably in need of this Ola, so I should do it.

So those who are seriously committed to Korbanot will add in now all these Parashiyot which deal with the various individual Korbanot.

You know, so the Bira Lacha in the Mishtavura makes the comment, it sounds like he really recommends it strongly.

but it would mean an extra, an extra chunk.

Notice I phrased it a bit differently because we're still getting back into sync.

As you know, I am a big fan of spending a little bit more time on the first, especially, and also the second or the first two of the Parashot in the beginning of Genesis.

And this one is the...

Well, this is essentially, hey, what happened after a whole bunch of generations and the flood? So this is the Parsha called Noach.

So what's interesting is that we have a phenomenon that appears in a few different places in the Torah.

A phenomenon where you scratch your head as to who it was that was deciding how to split up the Parashiyot.

Let me explain what I mean.

We have this phenomenon in the story of Pinchas.

Lifespan.

Remember we mentioned this in Parshash here a couple of months ago, in Parshat Bereshit, when the Gema-- Parshat Bereshit HaNoach lists off all the people that lived, lived nine hundred years, eight hundred years, even three hundred years.

Was that everybody in the generation, or was that just, like, these unique people? So the Rambam says it was just these...

Right, uh, who says what? I have to remember.