Parashat Noach

A Fur Coat or a Bonfire

A Fur Coat or a Bonfire

Parashat Noach - By Rabbi Steve Greenberg - Noah and Abraham are both paragons of righteousness.  While both characters are deemed virtuous, it is not the similarity of these two moral giants that is highlighted by the biblical text and its interpreters, but their difference.   Noah's righteousness is seen as relative and limited, while Abraham's [more]