Parasha From A Poets Perspective: Parashas Noach - The Flood
Dear friends, The following introduction is quite long and detailed as I felt in order to properly establish ground with this poem, (and also, it happened rather naturally as the introduction flowed) I needed to keep the introduction the way it is. I hope you still will read it and enjoy both, the introduction and the poem. All the best. Yitzy The second week of "Parasha From A Poets Perspective" takes us into the story of Noach. Noach lived in a time of tremendous upheaval, to put it mildly. It was more than that. It was a time of tremendous dishonesty, immorality, thievery, robbery and a complete disregard for any and everything that is righteous and good. As the Al-mighty prepared to bring the flood into and upon all the world, He commanded Noach to build a Teiva, an Ark, so as to eventually protect him from the ferocious and terrifying rains, but also, as we know the Ark was built and worked on by Noach for 120 years, so as that his generation shall see him at work in con...