Noah (Sidra)

Noah ( Biblical Hebrew נֹחַ) designates a reading section ( Parascha or Sidra) of the Torah after the main character Noach and comprises the text Genesis / Bereschit 6.9–11.32 (6.9–22 BHS , 7 BHS , 8 BHS , 9 BHS , 10 BHS , 11 BHS ).

It is the cider of the 1st Shabbat in the month of Marcheschwan .

Essential content

The human race is exterminated because of its moral corruption, only Noah with his wife and three sons and their wives are saved from the flood in the ark - as are all kinds of animals

After 40 days of rain, the ark rests on one of the mountains of Ararat

After sending raven and dove several times, Noah leaves the ark, makes burnt offerings, and God resolves not to destroy the world any more and not to abolish the change of seasons, day and night

Noah is given the right to eat the meat of the animals, but not their blood

Prohibition of murder and determination of the death penalty for the murderer

The rainbow as a sign of the covenant between God and man

The drunken Noah is reviled by his son Ham , Noach curses him, but blesses Shem and Jafet

Noach dies at the age of 950

The descendants of Noah: Table of Nations

The Tower of Babel

Ten families from Shem to Abraham

Migration of the family of Terah from Ur Kasdim to Haran

Death of Haran and Terach

Haftara

The associated Haftara is in the Ashkenazi area Isa 54.1–55.5 (54 BHS , 55.1–5 BHS ). In the Sephardic rite Isa 54 : 1-10 BHS is read.

literature

David Sander: NOACH . In: Jewish Lexicon . tape IV / 1 . Jewish publishing house, Berlin 1927, Sp. 514 ( uni-frankfurt.de ).
Sidratext Bereschit / Genesis 1.1–6.8. after the Codex L . In: tanach.us. Retrieved October 7, 2017 .
Haftaratext Isa 54.1-55.5. according to the Codex L werk = tanach.us. Retrieved October 7, 2017 .

Web links

Daniel Alter : Noah - Under the sign of ethical monotheism. In: ark.de. General Rabbinical Conference, November 11, 2016, accessed April 28, 2018 .
Henry G. Brandt : Noach - death, devastation, destruction. In: ark.de. General Rabbinical Conference, October 31, 2014, accessed December 21, 2018 .
Walter Rothschild : Noach - Who is responsible for disasters? In: ark.de. General Rabbinical Conference, October 30, 2015, accessed December 21, 2018 .
Elisa Klapheck : Noah - Seven Laws. In: ark.de. General Rabbinical Conference, October 27, 2017, accessed December 21, 2018 .

Individual evidence

↑ Hanna Liss: Tanach - Textbook of the Jewish Bible . 3. Edition. Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH, Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8253-5904-1 , p. 27 (414 pp.).

[1] Hanna Liss: Tanach - Textbook of the Jewish Bible . 3. Edition. Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH, Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8253-5904-1 , p. 27 (414 pp.).