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their descendants. And God's disillu-
sionment grew: from the expulsion of
the man and woman from the garden,
to the first murder, and finally to this
generation when "the wickedness of
humanity was great upon the earth
and
every imagination of the thoughts
e know the story of
of
their
hearts was continuously evil."
Noah by the images in
God's heartbreak before the flood is
the story.
well understood by someone who has
The ark, the animals,
suffered great personal loss, or one
the flood, the rainbow and the dove
who
has watched helplessly as a grand
— all define the story in our minds
dream
was destroyed.
and memories. We tend to not look
But
God learns an important les-
so carefully at the words of the text. I
son: Forbearance. It does no
suggest that there is at least
good to wash away the
one word in the Noah story
world because unless God is
that demands our attention.
prepared to be alone again
In Genesis 6:6, we read:
—
and quite evidently God
"And the Lord regretted
is
not
— there's going to
(Ynachem) making
have
to
be another world,
mankind..." This is followed
and
who
says that it will be
by God's reflection a verse
any better than the first?
later "... for I regret
God learns: If you made
(ilchamti) that I made
it
—
live with it, work with
them."
it.
Lose
your temper if you
RABBI
JOSEPH
God "regrets"? Does this
must,
but
remember that
KLEIN
mean God made a mistake?
you
are
responsible
for it.
Special
to
the
But how could God err?
"In
the
beginning,"
Jewish
News
Though there is disagree-
when this creation project
ment among scholars over
was
first planned and initi-
how best to translate that Hebrew
ated,
God,
the
impetuous romantic
verb, it is clear that God's high hopes
that
God
was,
put
humanity on the
have collapsed and that God is, at the
earth
assuming
that
we would surely
very least, terribly disappointed:
follow
God's
lead
in
creating goodness
The Hebrew verb that is repeated
and
beauty.
But
left
to
our own
in verses 6 and 7 of the text is derived
devices,
able
to
choose
and inclined to
from the verb-root N-Ch-M, and car-
choose
selfishly,
humanity
drove the
ries two very different meanings. It
good
world
into
ruin,
returning
it to
,,
can mean "to be sorry, _repent, regret,
the
chaos
of
its
origin.
and also "to comfort." How can one
But now, after the flood, God will
verb-root describe such opposite
set this project moving again, but
actions?
differently. This time, God knows to
The answer lies in its origins in
be more involved. This time, instead
ancient Ugaritic, a Semitic language
of
trying to relate to all mankind at
closely related to Phoenician and
once,
God will start by connecting
Hebrew, in which the three-letter root
to
just
one of them. Slowly, God will
means "to breath deeply."
work
up
to a covenant with a family;
Thus when the verb-root nacham
and
to
a
tribe,
and to a people, and
means to be sorry about, it is
only
then
to
the
rest of mankind.
expressed in the physical and audible
And
so
this
week's
Torah portion •
action of sighing with a shaking head.
ends
with
Abram,
the
one for whom
And one "comforts" by sighing with a
God waits.
nodding head. In both cases, an un-
spoken message is conveyed with a
sigh, breathing deeply.
We learn from this that God's sigh
is not "regret" in the sense of having
made a mistake, but more a sigh of
How seriously ought we to take
disappointment and sorrow that
the
Torah's anthropomorphic
God's good creation had become cor-
images
of God? Why do you
rupt.
think
the
Torah portrays God
There was a certain naivete in the
with
such
human characteristics?
God who made Adam and Eve, in
What
makes
"disappointment"
expecting too much from them and
about the most powerful tool in
a parent's arsenal of correctives?
Joseph Klein. is rabbi of Temple
EMI/111LE
"
,

Shabbat Noah: Genesis
6:9-11:32;
54:1-55:5.

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Like A Disappointed Parent,
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