D'Var Torah -Noah

Genesis 6:11 The earth became corrupt before God; the earth was filled with lawlessness. 12 When God saw how corrupt the earth was, for all flesh had corrupted its ways on earth, 13..and G-d exclaimed:    Va-yomer El-loheem Le-noach Kay-etz Kol-Bah-sar Bah LefNeh  Kee-Maleah Ha-oretz ha-mahs meefrayhem veheenee mash-hetom et-ha-aretz.

(assuming G-D spoke Hebrew or similar)

God said to Noah, "I have decided to put an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with lawlessness because of them: I am about to destroy them with the earth!”

So, G-d instructs Noah to gather “HIS” immediate family (his own wife and their 3 sons, and their respective wives) & the animals of course, so “AFTER” the massive rains and flooding that will perish ALL… with-in the 40 days and 40 nights, and THEN the “recreation” can successfully occur and the world can honestly start a new, and be recreated per G-d’s Directive!!! And believe me, this is a labor of love, on G-d’s part, but Oy, Really doesn’t want to do this again and again and again, and figures, a NEW start is just what is needed, and the acceptance of how men and women act, needs to be ‘tolerated’, and adjusted, although still observed carefully, with the acceptable and unacceptable behaviors in motion.  

Reader’s Digest Version: So over a time span of a few hundred years, the Earth perished, but Noah, Family, and a flock of animals were saved(as Noah was reverent to G-d), so when the time came, proactive and procreation could successfully rebuild G-d’s Original plan, although ….now take 2!  And to be put back all new once again! Rather Exhausting and very laborious, but the message is well taken OBVIOUSLY, and G-d needs to do…. what G-d must do!  

So, here we go:

As in the words and thoughts of the late Andy Rooney of CBS’s 60 minute fame;

‘Have you ever wondered why people or companies create things or products and THEN in a short period of time re-create and re-introduce them!?  Companies are simple- More revenue from sales and advertising and a product that is probably almost the same as the previous version! I phone 4 to 4s, Pepsi and Pepsi X??? Really Now?  All about the Benjamin’s and satisfying the consumer’s urges…  “URGES”….Hmmmmmmm, and that’s another topic! Let’s leave this one alone, Please!’  See, G-d could get involved here too, couldn’t he…Funny how that works??

Let’s focus on people, please!

Okay, okay….Enough with the impressions and my sense of humor, but THE point should be very well taken (with smiles of course), WE create and recreate!!! BUT really, let’s look at people, as individuals!

Prime example is with my own children; a son and a daughter, Nathan and Mia, or any child for that matter!

Nathan is a kid that loves his LEGOs!

Mia just got a sewing machine for her birthday in August!

Nathan is such a cool kid!  Nathan gets Legos; Nathan builds Lego’s per directions and goes thru the process (actually without looking or reading them), and lets the building stand in its existence for some time. He is so proud and shows everybody his “model”… and I mean everybody! Being the proud dad, I Youtubed part of the process and send to my folks, etc….  It is, and it was cool, how it was created, and how Nathan’s mind works! The process is amazing!  In time, he either gets board, or seriously peeved (oh, yes HE does) that he ran out of pieces/blocks, or just anxious and creative, so he totally destroys, tears apart, demolishes, destructs, ruins, disregards and ”all” the other words that mean to destroy and rebuild with intent……. and uses the same exact pieces that let’s say made a fire truck, and NOW takes his time and creativity, and reconstructs each piece with his little hands and creative spirit into…….ah, ah,ah… The empire state building or a Temple maybe!? And like that of the Earth,  Again, those same exact building blocks(more or less), but a fresh start in Nathan’s mind and that of a physical space, allowing him to re-create, restructure, restart,…and this really parallels G-d’s actions with Noah! ... Nathan had some or maybe a little disdain with his Fire truck in time, and wanted to start a new, and showed his creativity, and RE-CREATED as did G-d.

My sweet daughter Mia, started sewing this last Summer, so we bought her a sewing machine for her birthday.   She learned many stitches, and how to use different fabric, and honestly, she learned “Processes and Procedures”……….  Mia took a little of this and a lot of that, and just attached one another together via her sewing machine, creating… I don’t know what!  But , SHE created!   One day, she came down stairs, with a looooong, and I mean long blanket of many different pieces of fabric and what I think are or were remnants of  jeans, sweats, swim suits, blouses, towels, etc., and things that she had sewn before!.................. Really, Things and fabric that had a purposeful use once before.   She re-CREATED, Period!  She grew tired of those jeans or that blouse, or shall I say, “Grew out of them to her 10 year old liking”, AND she decided to start a new, and RECREATE with purpose!  For Mia, she took a new look and started all over and built the longest blanket I’ve ever seen!  I did smile, as she is Daddy’s little girl, of course.   She created something new, and something fresh in HER mind, as did G-d in G-d’s mind!

My gentle thought and lesson here, G-d did indeed CREATE the world, and things happened,…. good, bad and indifferent. We change our minds as people,….. We error, we try again hopefully with great successes, implemented by our own imaginations!!!!  With that understood, G-d took care and needed to rectify the Bad and indifferent, and adjusted the plans of action and used Noah as the vessel, and tore down and recycled, as did both Nathan and Mia, with that of purpose(MY FAVE WORD) and that of LOVE! 

My friends- If G-d did indeed created US in his/her own IMAGE (and own heart), then Nathan and Mia’s play and all of our doings, indeed mirrors that of G-d’s, doesn’t it?