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Zeide — it's raining!
Pouring.
Raining.
…Good.
Today it rains for a very long time.
Sit.
Today — Noach.
You know something from it?
Noach.
A boat.
Animals, two by two.
Everybody knows.
But what was it like inside?
You want to see inside?
…Let's go.
Noach was a big tzaddik.
In a generation where nobody else was.
Noach walked with Hashem.
And the world was ruined, full of stealing.
And Hashem said to Noach:
The end of everyone has come before Me.
…Make yourself a teiva.
Gopher wood.
Pitch, inside and out.
Three hundred amos long.
Fifty wide.
Thirty high.
Three floors — the bottom,
the middle, the top.
And Hashem said:
Make a door in the side of the teiva,
and a roof that slopes up
to one amah at the top,
so the rain runs off.
And make a tzohar — for light.
See it up there?
Remember it.
Zeide, how many years
did he build the teiva?
A hundred and twenty years.
A hundred and twenty YEARS?
So they'd ask.
Every day.
…Go ahead.
Excuse me.
What is Noach building?
Him?
Building something.
A boat, he says.
For the rain.
Is it going to rain?
Kid, look at us.
You think we're scared of water?
If it comes from the ground —
we've got iron.
We cover the ground.
If it comes from the sky —
we've got a thing for that too.
And if the springs open up —
I put my foot on it.
…Done.
And Hashem said:
From every living thing, two of each,
a male and a female, into the teiva,
to stay alive with you.
And all of a sudden — they came.
Two by two.
Everyone.
Stand to the side.
Let them pass.
From the kosher animals —
the ones you can bring as a korban —
Hashem said: seven pairs.
Noach is going to need them.
And Hashem said to Noach: Come —
you and your whole family — into the teiva.
Because in seven more days
I bring rain on the earth.
Forty days and forty nights.
And Noach went in,
and his sons, and his wife,
and his sons' wives, and every animal.
And Hashem closed the door behind him.
It started — softly.
If they'd turned around — rain of blessing.
…They didn't.
And Hashem remembered Noach.
The Midrash says:
the chesed Noach did with the animals.
Twelve months, day and night,
he fed every one of them.
That chesed — Hashem remembered.
Every one of them ate,
every day, for a year.
Noach didn't sleep much.
Now these two.
There's a story — the way I heard it,
from Reb Moshe HaDarshan.
One day the cat says to the mouse:
You know, my father ate your father.
The mouse ran.
He needed a hole.
There's no hole — it's a boat!
…So Hashem made him one.
Mouse-sized.
The cat put in his paw and — rrrip —
tore the mouse's lip, right down the middle.
He ran to Noach: Tzaddik, sew me up!
Noach said: Go, bring me one of his hairs.
He went back to the cat — asleep —
and pulled, very carefully, one hair.
And Noach sewed him up
with the cat's own hair.
Next time you see a mouse — look at his lip.
It's still there.
And Hashem remembered Noach,
and every animal with him.
And Hashem made a wind pass over the earth,
and the water went quiet.
And the teiva rested on
the mountains of Ararat.
Forty days after the
mountaintops peeked out,
Noach opened the window.
And he sent out the raven.
And it went out and back,
round and round the teiva.
And he sent out the dove,
to see if the water had gone down.
And the dove found no place to rest her foot,
and she came back.
And he waited seven more days.
And he sent the dove again.
And toward evening the
dove came back to him —
and look: an olive leaf,
torn off, in her mouth.
…And Noach knew.
A tree.
A tree is growing.
Somewhere.
You know what the dove was saying?
Better bitter from Hashem's hand than
sweet from the hand of a person.
And he waited seven more days.
And he sent the dove.
…And she didn't come back.
And Hashem spoke to Noach:
Go out of the teiva,
you and everyone with you.
And every living thing —
let them fill the earth.
And Noach built a mizbeach to Hashem.
And Hashem said:
Never again will I strike down every living thing, the way I did.
And Hashem said: This is the sign —
My bow in the cloud.
When I bring clouds over the earth,
the bow will be seen — and I will remember.
