Noah:the end of passivity

The end of the antediluvian world is passive:

נִשְׁחָתָה : it had become destroyed, the world had destroyed itself!The catastrophe was the salvation. The absence of divine intervention, the laissez-faire approach had led to terminal degradation. the only solution was a hard reset, control-alt-delete.

That process involved a decision about whom to save. Two from each species. The core of love would survive. Seven of all the pure ones (3 sons of Noah, their wives and Noah’s wife = 7).

Every audience is an audience of survivors, the descendants of survivors.

When the world is restarted, the rule is clear: You are your brother’s keeper. Gd will demand reponsibility from the lowliest, (from the person that considers himself a) wild animal.
וְאַךְ אֶת-דִּמְכֶם לְנַפְשֹׁתֵיכֶם אֶדְרֹשׁ, מִיַּד כָּל-חַיָּה אֶדְרְשֶׁנּוּ; וּמִיַּד הָאָדָם, מִיַּד אִישׁ אָחִיו--אֶדְרֹשׁ, אֶת-נֶפֶשׁ הָאָדָם.
5 And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it; and at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, will I require the life of man.

The parsha ends with the descendants of Terach: Avram and his brothers. The brothers are N(o)ach[or] and the variant spelling CHAraN. Names that reflect a connection to the savior of the world, the father of the world, the king of the world. Av-ram is the father on high or the father of all {and the father of Rome}. Also a regal name. Terach sets them off for Cannaan...

May we all be selected for life and love.