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==Noach's Ark==
 
==Noach's Ark==
 
===Noach's Family===
 
===Noach's Family===
Noach was a righteous man, with good deeds,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9">Rashi Berashis 6:9</ref> the main generations of the righteous.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> He was perfect in his generations who walked in the ways of Hashem who encouraged him, unlike Avraham who would strengthened himself in his righteousness.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> If Noach would have lived in the Generation of Avraham in some ways<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach">Shover Zadim Parshas Noach</ref> he would have been more righteous<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> but in other ways<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/> he would not have been considered of any importance.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> He was righteous in compression of the 20 from Adom to Avraham but once Avraham appeared Noach was no longer considered righteous.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/>
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Noach was a righteous man, with good deeds,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9">Rashi Berashis 6:9</ref> the main generations of the righteous.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> He was perfect in his generations who walked in the ways of Hashem who encouraged him, unlike Avraham who would strengthened himself in his righteousness.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> If Noach would have lived in the Generation of Avraham in some ways<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach">Shover Zadim Parshas Noach</ref> he would have been more righteous<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> but in other ways<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/> he would not have been considered of any importance.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 6:9"/> Noach had three sons; Shem, Cham, and Yafes. Noach's family was listed to indicate that now all the earlier generations were irrelevant.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1">Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1</ref>
 
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Noach had three sons; Shem, Cham, and Yafes. Noach's family was listed to indicate that now all the earlier generations were irrelevant.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1">Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1</ref> Nach witnesed the world in three states: Preflood, Flood and Postflood<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1">Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1</ref> and Elifaz Hatimni, Beldad HaShuchi and Tzofer Hanamasi.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/> THe name Noach denotes pleasantness, since Noach was pleasant to Hashem, People, Upper Realms, Lower Realms, In This World and in the Next World.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/> Noach was very wise.<ref name="Baal Haturim Berashis 6:1"/>
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===World's Perversion===
 
===World's Perversion===
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The people of his generation threatened to kill Noach and break the ark, if they see him entering it. Hashem announced that he would bring Noach into the ark before their eyes and they would see whose plan prevailed.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:13">Rashi Berashis 7:13</ref> Therefore Noach entered the ark in middle of the day with his sons; Shem, Cham and Yefes, along with his wife and the daughter in laws. They were accompanied by every type of beast, domestic animal, land creeper, birds and flying creatures with appearance of  feathers,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:14"/> including locusts. <ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:14">Rashi Berashis 7:14</ref> All flesh that contained spirit of life, came in sets of two, male and female to Noach and the ark, as Hashem had commanded him. Hashem then shut him in the ark, sealing it from water<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:16"/> and protecting him from the masses who wanted to break the ark by surrounding it with bear and lions who would kill them.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:16">Rashi Berashis 7:16</ref>
 
The people of his generation threatened to kill Noach and break the ark, if they see him entering it. Hashem announced that he would bring Noach into the ark before their eyes and they would see whose plan prevailed.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:13">Rashi Berashis 7:13</ref> Therefore Noach entered the ark in middle of the day with his sons; Shem, Cham and Yefes, along with his wife and the daughter in laws. They were accompanied by every type of beast, domestic animal, land creeper, birds and flying creatures with appearance of  feathers,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:14"/> including locusts. <ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:14">Rashi Berashis 7:14</ref> All flesh that contained spirit of life, came in sets of two, male and female to Noach and the ark, as Hashem had commanded him. Hashem then shut him in the ark, sealing it from water<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:16"/> and protecting him from the masses who wanted to break the ark by surrounding it with bear and lions who would kill them.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:16">Rashi Berashis 7:16</ref>
  
==The Flood==
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===The Flood===
 
After the seven day extension, on the 600th year of Noach's life, on the 17th of the second month of the year (Which was either Cheshvon or Iyar),<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11">Rashi Berashis 7:11</ref> all the springs of the great depths ruptured to emit their waters<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11"/> and the portals of the sky opened bringing the flood waters upon the earth. Sine that generation had sinned with 'great' evil they were now punished measure for measure with the waters of the 'great' depths.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11"/>
 
After the seven day extension, on the 600th year of Noach's life, on the 17th of the second month of the year (Which was either Cheshvon or Iyar),<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11">Rashi Berashis 7:11</ref> all the springs of the great depths ruptured to emit their waters<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11"/> and the portals of the sky opened bringing the flood waters upon the earth. Sine that generation had sinned with 'great' evil they were now punished measure for measure with the waters of the 'great' depths.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:11"/>
  
 
Hashem began the flood with mercy bringdown light rains that would have concluded as rains of blessing had they repented. When they did not, it turned into a flood.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12">Rashi Berashis 7:12</ref> There was rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights, lasting until the 28th of Kislev<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/> (12 Cheshvon + 28 Kislev).<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/> In truth, it rained for 41 days but the first was not counted since it did not rain during its proceeding night.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/>
 
Hashem began the flood with mercy bringdown light rains that would have concluded as rains of blessing had they repented. When they did not, it turned into a flood.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12">Rashi Berashis 7:12</ref> There was rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights, lasting until the 28th of Kislev<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/> (12 Cheshvon + 28 Kislev).<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/> In truth, it rained for 41 days but the first was not counted since it did not rain during its proceeding night.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:12"/>
 
When the forty days of flood upon the earth began, the waters increased and lifted the ark, and raising it off the earth. Like all loaded ships, the bottom of the ark remained submerged 11 cubits in the water.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:17">Rashi Berashis 7:17</ref> The waters became powerful, greatly increased on their own<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:18">Rashi Berashis 7:18</ref> upon the earth, the ark moving above the waters. When the waters became exceedingly powerful upon the earth, all the tall mountains found under the heavens, became covered by water. The mountains were covered by an additional 15 cubits of water above their highest peaks.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:20">Rashi Berashis 7:20</ref>
 
 
===Destruction of Life===
 
All flesh perished that moved upon the earth, including all birds, cattle, beasts, creeping creatures that creep upon the earth and all humans. Everything that breathed the spirit of life in its nostrils,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:22">Rashi Berashis 7:22</ref> that were on dry land died. However the fish that were in the ocean did not die.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:22"/>
 
 
The bulk<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/> residue from the living and vegetation matter were dragged by the Flood waters to the Bavel area, where it settled.<ref name="Medrash Rabba Icha 23">Medrash Rabba Icha 23</ref> This area at the time<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/> was the lowest region on Earth.<ref name="Medrash Rabba Icha 23"/> Even after the land level elevated over time and from the Flood residue, this area which in modern times contains Iraq, Kuwait and possibly Eastern Saudi Arabia and UAE, remains only 0 - 150 Meters above sea level.<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/> Ironically this same region is a mass source of petroleum crude oil and other fossil fuels, which scientists claim are formed when large quantities of dead organisms are buried underneath sedimentary rock and are subjected to both intense heat and pressure, which were the exact effects of the Flood.<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Noach"/>
 
 
The Flood<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23">Rashi Berashis 7:23</ref> obliterated all beings that were upon the face of the earth, including man, animal, birds of the skys and creeping things. They were obliterated from the earth. Only Noach and those with him in the ark survived. Although Noach survived, it was rough experience for him as well. He was groaning and spitting blood because of the burden taking care of the cattle and beasts.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23"/> He was also wounded after the lion struck him when he delayed feeding it.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23"/> This was to eradicate any misdoings of Noach while still in This World, so he would not be punished in the next.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 7:23"/>
 
 
==Ending of Flood==
 
The water prevailed upon the earth for one hundred and fifty days. Hashem remembered Noach and all the beasts and cattle that were with him in the ark. This was due to the prayers of Noach and his sons that transformed the Divine attribute of Justice into the attribute of mercy.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 8:1">Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> Hashem also remembered the merits of the animals, that they did not corrupt their ways before the flood and that they did not have marital relationships in ark.<ref>Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> Hashem passed a spirit of consolation and calm before Him<ref>Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> regarding the events<ref>Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> of the earth, calming the anger<ref>Rashi Berashis 8:1</ref> and the waters subsided.
 
 
===Rainbows===
 
Rainbows are caused by light refracting and dispersing through airborne droplets of water. Before the Flood, the atmosphere air was extremely clean and refined and water droplets would not hang in it. Only after the Flood whose waters contaminated the world with an influx of sulphur and scorched all living and vegetation matter, which were then absorbed by the earth, did the atmosphere become polluted. This caused the air and clouds to thicken and only then did water drops start clinging in it, causing the rainbow effect.<ref>Shover Zadim Noach based on Tiferes Yonason Berashis 9:12</ref>
 
  
 
===Permitting of Meat===
 
===Permitting of Meat===

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