Noah Dispatches Raven and Doves

Noah’s dispatch of the dove from the ark: passive and active anticipation.

The story does not say where the dove found the leaf, nor how this convinced Noah that it was safe to unseal the door of the vessel that had kept him and his family safe for an entire year.

While every day is a struggle, we are able to make the best of it by realizing that there is a positive purpose to what we are going through.

The Great Flood: the transformation and purification of the world. The generation of the Flood were the closest descendants of the first man, who possessed unimaginable spiritual power, because he communicated directly with the Creator. Therefore the gene...

A selfish society can’t survive, let alone thrive . . .

Noach sends out a dove from the ark, the earth dries out and he leaves the ark, and Hashem allows Noach to eat meat.

The Wickedness of the People, The Ark, The Flood, The Flood Recedes, The Raven and the Dove, Noah Offering, The Seven Laws, Covenant with Noah