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Noach 5762 - October 19, 2001

The Memory of Water

When your world's strangeness becomes too much to bear, and your battle's loneliness too heavy to carry, you seek solace in your watery past.
Parshah
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Noah makes an ark, G-d floods the earth, a dove brings an olive branch, Shem and Japeth drag a blan-ket, men build a tower and the first Jew is born.
Story
The Jewish ABC

The boy was confused. "But teacher," he said, "this is the alphabet that you taught us… This is what we have been reading for the last two years!"
The View from Above

A wave of pity swept over me. I was filled with great compassion, for my body, for the life I had wasted, for my loved ones who would remain in this world.
Parenting
Ooh and Ah

"If you want to have a successful life," the father explained, "you must ensure that the 'ooh' sound comes before the 'ah' sound."
Forty days before the fetus is formed a heavenly voice announces, "The daughter of so-and-so shall marry so-and-so"
— The Talmud
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