ADAM,
NOAH and ABRAHAM
Adam was the father of
Mankind. Noah, 10 generations later, was
the father of our national groups. 10
generations later came Abraham, the father of one tiny, ever-dying clan,
but who was called to be the father -of-many-nations whose descendant will soon unite diverse believers in a
unified ethical walk,
with knowledge of our One Creator and
our one root Language of Eden.
After disobedience, Adam feared the
מתהלך
walking
sound
of the Lord heard in the
Garden wind (Gen 3:8).
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Noah’s
התהלך
,
walking with
HaShem, is praiseworthy, but is passive when contrasted with Abraham’s
walking before
the Lord in 7:1 and 7:124:40. לפניו
הלבתי
indicates Abraham’s walking before
HaShem,
with an ethical spirit so independent and robust, that Abraham can argue with
Hashem to spare Sodom.
Noah obediently
works decades in building a huge ark, and in feeding and housing the word’s
land animals. (Exemplary execution of Adam’s task of working and guarding the
world עבדה
ולשמרה
of
Genesis
2:15).
Noah was his generation’s spiritual giant. But he was privately
pious, not sharing Araham’s
zeal for spreading godliness. Where Noah
accepts the Deluge as divine judgement, Abraham challenges divine
justice and bargains to save any possible innocents from perishing in Sodom.
Noah was born in 1558 since Adam, ten generations after the
Creator’s first chosen human partner to perfect the world. Noah merited to become a second Adam, but HaShem
had to wait ten more generations until finding the spiritual extrovert who
could found a covenantal people.
To extend this Noah-Abraham
contrast to future history. The religious gentile often responds to the appeal
for personal salvation… as witnessed by Christianity. The Torah, instead,
focuses on striving to create the model society and nation. The extremes of
these trends has given Christianity the monk and nun, and has given lapsed Jews
from Karl Marx to Bernie Sanders the failed utopia of Socialism.
Both Judaism and Christianity have
produced some marvelously pious individuals, and, when their constituents
abandoned these paths, some remarkably immoral states.
Creation took 6 ions to get right; it may take Mankind 6 millennia to
become the right Creation.
It’s only 5780 since Adam. Does
that mean 220 more years
until our Sabbatical era?!
Don’t worry. According to הלכה
(the way to go or walk)
one can accept Sabbath
a bit early.