Noah: Commentary Genesis Chapters 6:9-11:32

By Rabbi Itzhak Levy

This book opens with the line, In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth with the intent to get readers focus on the idea that, after the flood, it is as if God was beginning a new creation all over againa new creation of heaven and Earth. The heavens and the earth were affected by the flood, which lasted one year and ten days; one year is a complete and full cycle of twelve months; ten days is a full cycle that represents the number of righteousness12+10=22. It also speaks of the significance of the twenty-two Hebrew alphabet letters. Noah becomes the new Adam in this newly created world.

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Rabbi Itzhak Levy

Rabbi Itzhak Levy is the founder, president, and teacher of Beit Or in Forney, Texas. He was born and raised in Israel. He has envisioned and brought together Beit Or House of Light Synagogue to teach the knowledge of Torah and Yeshua to his people and others. He has honorably served in the Israel Defense Forces and the Israel Police Force. He has also taught the Bible for more than fifty years. The Lord has blessed him with knowledge, wisdom, and revelation of the Bible. The Lord has also preserved him through difficult circumstances: the poverty of Israel, and dangers and persecution from both Jews and Gentiles for his beliefs in Yeshua and its teachings. Despite the odds, Rabbi Itzhak Levy has dedicated his entire life to his walk with God and the ministry of teaching. Rabbi Levy brings to Beit Or his knowledge and understanding of scripture that goes back four thousand years, which has been passed down to him by his forefathers. He also brings his desire and willingness to serve. He has a vision of raising a community of believers filled with great leaders—for the kingdom of God.

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CONTENTS

Glossary

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1   Noah

Chapter 2   The Ark

Chapter 3   The Ark’s Final Resting Place

Chapter 4   Shem, Ham and Japheth

Chapter 5   Fish?

Chapter 6   Practical Things Learned from Noah

Chapter 7   The Tower of Babel

Chapter 8   Two Creations Unfold—Creation of Adam and Creation of Noah

Chapter 9   Clean and Unclean Food (food and not food)

Chapter 10   The Reason for the Seven Pairs of the Clean and the One Pair of the Unclean

Chapter 11   Zachar - זכר Remembered

Chapter 12   Tikun Olam: Fixing a Broken World

Chapter 13   The Generation of Noah Wanted to Be the First Global Power

Chapter 14   Ham

Chapter 15   Mercy toward animals

Chapter 16   The Rainbow Is God’s Covenant in the Sky—a Confirmation to His Promise

Chapter 17   The Rainbow—a Visible Symbol for All People

Chapter 18   Comparing the Sabbath to the Rainbow

Chapter 19   Seven Laws before Moses Were Called the Laws of Noah

Chapter 20   Two Civilizations Or One?

Chapter 21   Humans Procreate with Angels

Chapter 22   God’s Covenant with the Land

Bio Of Rabbi Itzhak Levy

GLOSSARY

S ome of the names and words mentioned in the Scriptures have been reverted to their original Hebrew names:

PREFACE

The Aut Baush (בש את)

T he Aut Baush style of study is among the oldest forms of Hebraic biblical studies. The concept is based on the use of the Hebrew alphabet, starting with the aleph (א), the first letter, and ending with the tav (ת), the last letter. The process is called mirroring, where the last letter mirrors the first letter. The Aut Baush flows from the aleph (א) and the tav (ת), to the bet (ב), the second letter, and the shin (ש), the next-to-last letter, to the gemal ( ג ), the third letter, and the resh ( ר ), traveling from the outside inward, as illustrated below.

Hebrew aleph-bet

(The aleph-bet reads from right to left.)

א- ב- ג- ד- ה- ו- ז- ח- ט- י- כ- ל- מ- נ- ס- ע- פ- צ- ק- ר- ש- ת

The objective is to search out the text and find the related portions that reveal the opposing and complementary aspects of the storyline. Studying the subject from the beginning and the end (while working toward the middle) opens the hidden secrets of the passage. There are many comparisons and dualities throughout the Word of God that reveal the purpose and intent of God’s love for His Son and all of creation.

The origin of the Aut Baush comes to us from the fourth word of Genesis 1:1, seen only in the Hebrew, the et (את). It speaks or describes Yeshua’s origin. In Revelation 1:11, Yeshua tells us that He is the first and the last. According the Greek/English translation, He is called the Alpha and Omega, when in reality He is the aleph (א), and the tav (ת).

The question is this: the first and the last of what? (This question will be addressed in this study.)

The sixth word of Genesis 1:1 is va-et (ואת). What is the purpose of the vav (ו)? The value of the vav is six, representing mortality and humanity. This is to show the humanity of Yeshua when He was sent by His father to earth, the evidence of which is recorded in John 1:14, where the the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

In Genesis 1:1, the first seven words spoken in the Torah reveal to us God’s plan of salvation through Yeshua and completed in the prophetic fulfillment of Yeshua’s sacrifice for mankind, and His return to His Father.

That which has been is that which will be, and that which has been done is that which will be done. So there is nothing new under the sun (Ecclesiastes 1:9).

INTRODUCTION

N oah did not introduce sin to the world; our earthly father, Adam, is solely responsible.

So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate (Genesis 3:6).

When Adam and Eve ate from the tree, it triggered a new mode of response for Adam, Eve, and the entire human experience for all generations to come. The sense of sight became more powerful than the intellect, affecting the ability to reason. Because all sensory delights are, by nature, subjective, at this point man’s frame of reference became personal rather than universal. Thus, each person feels empowered to decide for himself or herself what is right and what is wrong.

This moral confusion permeated the generation of Noah. Instead of man reasoning with his God-given intellect, he begins to rely on his emotion and senses. The sense of sight, driven by emotion, proves to be the catalyst that drags the world to a watery grave—a baptism of sort. The message is summed up in a single word: remember (ze-chor). Remember what caused man’s downfall. So be baptized, bury the old man, and be resurrected to a new man. We must use our God-given intellect and not our senses.

The sad part of it all is that man did not learn the lesson. We have continued where Adam and Eve left off. We carry the torch of living like the beast of the field. We are led by emotions and senses rather than the God-given Spirit called intellect—the mind that has the ability to reason, to create, and to do.

CHAPTER 1

Noah

This portion is from Genesis 6:9–11:32

בראשׁית ברא אלהים את השׁמים ואת הארץ

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth …

T he Torah portion of Noah opens with And these are the generations of Noah …

I have opened this chapter with In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth to point out that after the flood, it was as if God began a new creation all over again—a new creation of heaven and earth. The heavens and the earth were affected by the flood, which lasted one year and ten days. One year is a complete cycle of twelve months; ten days is a full cycle that represents the number of righteousness: 12 + 10 = 22. It also speaks of the twenty-two Hebrew alphabet letters. Noah becomes the new Adam in this newly created world.

In Hebrew, Noah is spelled with a noon-chet (חנ) and is pronounced Noach. If you reverse the letters as chet-noon (ןח), which is pronounced chen, it is Noach