Saturday, October 29, 2022

 Shabbat Shalom - Parasha Noach - the Merciful Salvation of God !!! 


Previously posted ...
Shabbat Shalom - Parasha Beresheet - Yeshua in Creation Overcoming Self-Imposed Curses !!!  
https://conpats.blogspot.com/2022/10/chuck-kolb_22.html
Situation WW3 Updates 10/21/22 Putin Has Laptop - Nigel Farage - CDC is Child Death Cult
https://conpats.blogspot.com/2022/10/chuck-kolb-situation-updates_22.html
God’s ‘Special Agents’ - 10/22/22
https://conpats.blogspot.com/2022/10/sermon-gods-special-agents.html

Situation WW3 Updates 10/24/22 UKR Nuke Flagged - HaSatan DNA - Karen Kingston Smart Vaxx
https://conpats.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-fear-of-lord-is-beginning-of-wisdom.html
Situation WW3 Updates 10/25/22 Hunter Laptop - Diesel Going - Tripledemic - Gamma Rads
https://conpats.blogspot.com/2022/10/chuck-kolb-situation-updates_25.html
Situation WW3 Updates 10/26/22 Transhuman Agenda - The Called - White Clots - Skynet
https://conpats.blogspot.com/2022/10/chuck-kolb-situation-updates_27.html
Situation WW3 Updates 10/27/22 Nuke Drills - Demonic Realm -  Graphene Pills - Costly Food
https://conpats.blogspot.com/2022/10/for-word-of-god-is-quick-and-powerful.html
 
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world
ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. John 16:33
Blessed are those servants whom the master finds on watch when he returns. Luke 12:37
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. Eph 5:11
I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments. I will never forget thy precepts:
for with them thou hast quickened me. Psalm 119:60,93
The war against Truth has been raging ever since
evil was expulsed from the realm of Heaven.  
God instructed Pharaoh, "Let my people go."
God instructs us, "Let my people know."
Shema Y'israel - Maranatha !
Na'aseh V'nishma  

✡ ✡ ✡
כבוד שם יהוה Baruch Hashem Adonai   
לשבור לחם ביחד Shabbat Shalom Mishpacha
#ShabbatShalom - Welcome to Parasha Noach (Noah), this week’s Torah portion. This is the portion of Scripture that will be read in synagogues around the world during the Shabbat (Saturday) service.  We invite you to read along with us; we know you will be blessed as you rediscover
the importance of covenant and unity!

Last week in Parasha Bereisheet, Adam and Chava (Eve) were exiled from the Garden of Eden because of sin.  They became fruitful and multiplied, as God intended, but sin manifested in their son Cain when he murdered his brother Abel. Tragically, Cain did not take the opportunity God gave him to repent (change his thinking and behavior to follow God).  Murder manifested five generations later in his descendant Lamech, who also refused to repent.
 
This week’s Torah portion specifically identifies that by the time of Noah, the earth was filled with violence (hamas – חָמָ֖ס). God decided to cleanse the world from that hamas by sending a Great Flood upon the earth that would destroy every living thing He had created.

You can view this Parasha on our website complete with embedded links ... 
Parasha Noach (Noah): A Righteous Man
https://free.messianicbible.com/parasha/parasha-noach-noah-a-righteous-man-5783/ 

What Kingdom Secrets Do the Parables of Jesus Teach Rabbis and Us?
https://free.messianicbible.com/feature/kingdom-secrets-parables-jesus-rabbis/

Are You Broken off, Grafted in or Restored to God’s Kingdom?
https://free.messianicbible.com/feature/broken-grafted-restored-gods-kingdom/

Reasons to Sound the Shofar
https://free.messianicbible.com/holiday/rosh-hashanah-blow-trumpet-shofar-zion/
No One Else Brings Salvation but Yeshua
https://free.messianicbible.com/feature/one-else-brings-salvation-yeshua/
Are You a Jew? The Answer Might Surprise You
https://free.messianicbible.com/feature/are-you-a-jew-fname-the-answer-might-surprise-you/
 
Revelation and Na'aseh V'nishma
https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/11880
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/do-first-understand-later/
We will do and we will listen to all that God has declared. Exodus 24:7

When to Celebrate Yeshua HaMashiach's birthday ...
The Joy of Tabernacles when Yeshua was Born
http://conpats.blogspot.com/2019/10/chuck-kolb-10142019.html
How Yeshua was born on the Feast of Tabernacles by Rabbi Yitzchak
http://www.calledoutbelievers.org/how-yeshua-was-born-on-the-feast-of-tabernacles/

English to Hebrew to English lookup
https://context.reverso.net/translation/hebrew-english/
https://www.doitinhebrew.com/Translate/default.aspx
https://english-hebrew-dictionary.com/
https://alittlehebrew.com/transliterate/  
https://yiddishkeit101.wordpress.com/category/hebrew-word-of-the-day 
The Best Jewish Words You Need To Know: A Yiddish and Hebrew Glossary
https://www.joyofkosher.com/from-jamie/the-best-jewish-words-you-need-to-know/
https://hebrew4christians.com/Glossary/Hebrew_Glossary_-_Sh/hebrew_glossary_-_sh.html
A Living Library of Jewish Texts in Hebrew and English translation
https://www.sefaria.org/   https://dictionary.co.il/   https://www.hebrew-verbs.co.il/
https://www.mechon-mamre.org/

Torah Teasers Parshat Noach by Moshe Erlbaum
https://www.aish.com/tp/i/teasers/Torah-Teasers-Noach.html



Todah Rabah - beloved Rabbi Ralph Messer ...
Simchat Torah Beit Midrash - Joy of God’s Teaching and Instruction

All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine,
for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.  2 Timothy 3:16

What Does It Mean to Choose Life? Every decision you make can be made in a way that you are “choosing life.”
The Torah is God’s constitution; it is His teaching and instruction; it is eternal and it is life.
His Spirit is pure Light, abundant with untouchable, supreme, sovereign power.
God is the Source of all life.
 
Noah’s name in Hebrew is נֹחַ Noach,
which means “rest” and “comfort.”  Noah is described as a righteous, blameless man who walked with God.  What does it mean to “walk with God”?  To walk in the moral principles and values given in the Torah. Contained within the Torah is the wisdom with which God creates the world and manages it.  The Torah is a Book of order given by the Almighty that brings much blessing and success in all matters.
https://stbm.org/noach/ 

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Reaching the Jewish people with the Gospel
https://www.cjfm.org/about-us/who-we-are/history/
Charles Halff - What It Costs a Jew to Become a Christian
https://store.cjfm.org/product/146/what-it-costs-a-jew-to-become-a-christian

Todah Rabah - beloved Rabbi Chaim Richman ...

Weekly Torah Study: with Rav Gedalia Meyer
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The Mystery of the Red Heifer: Divine Promise of Purity
https://templeinstitute.org/red-heifer/
Temple Talk Radio: The Red Heifers Have Arrived!
vid> https://youtu.be/dbrCt9h8r2o (34:58) 9/20/22

Jerusalem Lights - Rabbi Chaim Richman

https://www.youtube.com/c/JerusalemLightsRabbiChaimRichman/videos


Todah Rabah - beloved Rabbi Chaim Jachter ...
Kol Torah Academy of Bergen County 
Parashat Noach - Cheshvan 4, 5783 - October 29, 2022
https://www.koltorah.org/articles/?category=Noach
https://www.koltorah.org/by-parashah  https://www.koltorah.org/parashah
https://www.koltorah.org/rav-jachters-halachah-files
https://www.koltorah.org/about-us > https://www.koltorah.org/books
Rabbi Jachter on JM in the AM with Nachum Segal talking about his book
mp3> Bridging Traditions: Demystifying Differences Between Sephardic and Ashkenazic Jews!
(23:59) https://nachumsegal.com/nachum-and-rabbi-haim-jachter-explore-bridging-traditions-on-jm-in-the-am/
Yeshiva > https://www.tabc.org/  https://www.instagram.com/koltorah.tabc/
Parashat Noach
https://www.koltorah.org/s/Kol-Torah-Noach-2022-5.pdf (4 page pdf)


Parshat Noach

https://www.chabad.org/parshah/article_cdo/aid/3155/jewish/Noach-in-a-Nutshell.htm
http://www.chabad.org/parshah/default.asp?tDate=10/29/2022  
https://www.chabad.org/calendar/view/month_cdo/jewish/Jewish-Calendar.htm
https://www.chabad.org/calendar/converter_cdo/aid/6225/jewish/Jewish-Hebrew-Date-Converter.htm

Todah Rabah - beloved Rabbi Naphtali “Tuly” Weisz ...  

https://israel365.com/  https://www.israel365news.com/
https://www.israel365.com/about/  https://theisraelbible.com/
https://theisraelbible.com/bible/torah/  https://theisraelbible.com/blog/
 
What are Noah’s Seven Commandments?
https://theisraelbible.com/category/weekly-torah-portion/genesis/the-portion-of-noach/
The Portion of Noah

https://theisraelbible.com/portion-noah/

Noah’s Lesson of Faith
https://theisraelbible.com/noahs-lesson-of-faith/

The world’s oldest known star map discovered in Egypt
https://www.israel365news.com/276066/the-worlds-oldest-known-star-map-discovered-in-egypt/
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00218286221128289

The 39 Acts Forbidden on the Sabbath
https://theisraelbible.com/the-39-acts-forbidden-on-the-sabbath/
https://theisraelbible.com/the-true-day-of-rest/

Anti-Semitism is on the rise in the United States.
Stand with 100,000+ people who stand with Israel.
https://www.israel365.com/the-israel-covenant/

ACLJ Petition - Jay Sekulow
Stop Biden IRS From Spying on You and Your Bank Account
https://aclj.org/government-corruption/stop-biden-irs-from-spying-on-your-bank-account
 
DONALD DATES
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Trump  
Ivanka 10/30/81 < Happy Birthday
Donald, Jr. 12/31/77 <


President Donald J. Trump's Speech - Save America Rally in Robstown, TX 10/22/22
vid> https://rumble.com/v1pbqfy-full-speech-president-donald-j.-trumps-speech-save-america-rally-in-robstow.html (1:50:24)

Watch > https://rumble.com/c/RSBN RSBN  
Events > https://www.donaldjtrump.com/events
https://rumble.com/c/DonaldTrump Donald J. Trump


RALLIES
Events > https://www.donaldjtrump.com/events
11/3 Sioux City, IA
11/5 Latrobe, PA
11/6 Miami, FL!
11/7/ Dayton, OH!
Watch > https://rumble.com/c/RSBN RSBN  
https://rumble.com/c/DonaldTrump Donald J. Trump

Tiffany Trump wedding set for November 12th at Mar-a-Lago
Tiffany Trump and Michael Boulos met in Mykonos in July 2018 and got engaged in January 2021.
https://pagesix.com/2022/05/05/tiffany-trump-wedding-set-for-november-at-mar-a-lago/
https://www.insider.com/tiffany-trump-wedding-details-date-location-fiance-2022-8


Good News From Israel - Achievements and Heartwarming Stories

In the 23rd Oct 22 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:
https://verygoodnewsisrael.blogspot.com/2022/10/israel-good-news-newsletter-to-23rd-oct.html
http://verygoodnewsisrael.blogspot.com/

Mishpacha Jewish Family Weekly
https://mishpacha.com/

Todah Rabah - beloved Ted Belman writing from Jerusalem, Israel for 21+ years ...  
THERE IS NO DIPLOMATIC SOLUTION
Israel should declare three nos;
no to nuclear Iran, no to two-state solution, no to bi-national state  

The unholy alliance between Republicans and Islamists
https://www.israpundit.org/the-unholy-alliance-between-republicans-and-islamists/
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/361819

Putin offers to talk peace. US and Ukraine said no or ignored him
US planning a false flag to blame Putin for
vid> https://youtu.be/ivgSI-lAmGI (17:25) 10/27/22 Redacted
https://www.israpundit.org/putin-offers-to-talk-peace-us-and-ukraine-said-no/

Mail-In Ballot Total Surges Past 10 Million Across US Ahead of 2022 Midterms
https://www.israpundit.org/mail-in-ballot-total-surges-past-10-million-across-us-ahead-of-2022-midterms/
https://www.theepochtimes.com/mail-in-ballot-total-skyrockets-to-10-million-across-us-ahead-of-2022-midterms-research_4825018.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=whatfinger

Brigitte Gabriel is a good friend of mine and the CEO of ACT for America
> Brigitte on Newsmax “The Left’s Voter Suppression Hoax!
vid> https://rumble.com/v1q711v-the-left-will-never-admit-they-were-wrong-brigitte-gabriel-destroys-lefts-v.html (3:30) 10/27/22
> Don’t Miss Brigitte’s Riveting Report on the Southern Border!
twitvid > https://twitter.com/ACTBrigitte/status/1582893352290291712 (4:10) 10/19/22
https://www.israpundit.org/bridgitte-gabriel-is-a-good-friend-of-mine-and-the-ceo-of-act-for-america/

Full text of Putin speech and answers at Valdai Discussion Club
Russia Kherson Offensive; Putin Rejects Globalism, Fair World System, Warns of Great Dangers Ahead
vid> https://youtu.be/accaQtzi_7Y (58:58) 10/28/22 Alexander Mercouris
full text> https://www.miragenews.com/full-text-of-putin-speech-and-answers-at-valdai-884161/
https://www.israpundit.org/full-text-of-putin-speech-and-answers-at-valdai-discussion-club/

The Two State Solution is no more
>> https://www.israpundit.org/63684392-2/
The Jordan Option Conference Videos reposted
>> https://www.israpundit.org/the-jordan-option-conference-videos/
https://www.israpundit.org/jordan-past-present-and-future-the-jordan-option-revisited/
>> The Jordan Option, plain and simple
https://www.israpundit.org/the-jordan-option-plain-and-simple/
>> The Jordanian Option is the only game in town
https://www.israpundit.org/my-jordan-option-is-the-only-game-in-town/
>> The Ultimate Alternate Israel-Palestine Solution by Ted Belman
https://www.israpundit.org/the-ultimate-alternate-israel-palestine-solution-3/

Kindly donate to support the work I do
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Quest For The Lost Tribes - Full Simcha Jacobovici Documentary
vid> https://www.bitchute.com/video/jbB2ELq4xPw/ (1:33:29) 8/18/19
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simcha_Jacobovici
12 Tribes of Israel: The Shevatim

https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/3798842/jewish/12-Tribes-of-Israel-The-Shevatim.htm
https://www.jewishvoice.org/read/blog/who-are-tribes-judah
 
Welcome to Kashrut Malchut Shamayim

 
This week we read Parsha Noach

  Every year it seems more and more people are jumping on the rainbow cake band wagon for Parsha Noach.  Probably for the same reason there are so many songs about rainbows and what's on the other side.  There is just something magical and mysterious and exciting and it is an easy symbol to draw or create out of food.  You can go all out with multi layered Rainbow Cake or you can go back to our roots with this old school Jewish Italian rainbow cake you might remember from your childhood.  Either way, we have nothing to hide.
The Rainbow Connection Shabbat Menu
https://jamiegeller.com/holidays/the-rainbow-connection-shabbat-menu/

It is time for Parshat Noach and we needed a new rainbow cake
https://jamiegeller.com/recipes/chocolate-rainbow-cake/
Rainbow Layer Cake
https://jamiegeller.com/recipes/rainbow-layer-cake/
Rainbow Cookies
vid> https://cdn.jwplayer.com/players/rxGGjbkU-FSMnt4zj.html (0:52)
https://jamiegeller.com/recipes/rainbow-cookies/
Vegan Sloppy Joes
https://jamiegeller.com/recipes/vegan-sloppy-joes/
Mushrooms Bourguignon
https://jamiegeller.com/recipes/mushrooms-bourguignon/
Steak with Red Wine Glazed Carrots, Parsnips & Mushrooms
https://jamiegeller.com/recipes/steak-with-red-wine-glazed-carrots-parsnips-mushrooms/
Spiced Maple Pumpkin Soup with Sauteed Cremini Mushrooms
https://jamiegeller.com/recipes/spiced-maple-pumpkin-soup-with-sauteed-cremini-mushrooms/
Guide To Cooking For Autumn
https://jamiegeller.com/recipes/guide-to-cooking-for-autumn/
Hearty Fall Soups
https://jamiegeller.com/recipes/hearty-fall-soups/
Spaghetti Squash Skillet Dinner
https://jamiegeller.com/recipes/spaghetti-squash-skillet-dinner/

Pasta Came From The Jews
Jerusalem Talmud, written in the Land of Israel nearly 2,000 years ago.
https://aish.com/jewish-facts-about-pasta-plus-3-recipes/ JewLish


Vegan Recipes
https://jamiegeller.com/search?query=vegan+recipes  
https://jamiegeller.com/browse/the-best-crowd-pleasing-vegan-appetizers/
Cook the 21 Most Popular Recipes of 2021

https://jamiegeller.com/from-jamie/cook-the-21-most-popular-recipes-of-2021/

This is Where You Can Find Me Most of the Time
JewLish - One People - Many Flavors

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Lots of 💕 Jamie - Until next week Shabbat Shalom from Israel ! 

 The answer is, it's made with love from Israel ! 
https://jamiegeller.com/from-jamie/my-jewish-food-memories/
My Love Affair With Jerusalem

https://jamiegeller.com/from-jamie/my-love-affair-with-jerusalem/

Jamie's Honey Collection
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Jerusalem Street Food with Jamie Geller Spices
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Machane Yehuda - https://jamiegeller.com/browse/a-haute-market-in-jerusalem-the-shuk/
https://jamiegeller.com/browse/4-israeli-desserts-inspired-by-the-shuk-in-jerusalem/

The Jamie Geller Spice Collection: Now Available Worldwide!
Sending you love and my heartfelt wishes for peace, from Israel.
New Trio of Pilaf Mixes - Mujadara Lentil, Festive Herb and Jeweled Almond
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Babies, Books, and a Billion Views: My Decade in Review
https://jamiegeller.com/from-jamie/a-decade-in-review/

Best of the Best w Hubby - Family Heirloom Cholent ...
vid> https://youtu.be/Ae2-lQVFsGw (12:01) 8/11/11 JG classic
https://jamiegeller.com/recipes/family-heirloom-chulent/
https://jamiegeller.com/blogs/cholent/


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The Influence of the Hebrew Bible on America's Founding Fathers
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https://www.aish.com/jl/h/h/The-Influence-of-the-Hebrew-Bible-on-Americas-Founding.html
Serpents of Desire: Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden. An Introduction
https://www.aish.com/jl/b/eb/ge/48966101.html


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Titles by Jamie Geller
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https://jamiegeller.com/blogs/
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http://supportourfarmers.org
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LIVE Series: FEED YOUR SOUL
https://jamiegeller.com/from-jamie/feed-your-soul/

 
These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man; he was blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God. Genesis 6:9

Shabbat Shalom - Parasha Noach - the Merciful Salvation of God !!! 

 
Shabbat Shalom
 
Welcome to Parasha Noach (Noah), this week’s Torah portion.
 
This is the portion of Scripture that will be read in synagogues around the world during the Shabbat (Saturday) service.  We invite you to read along with us; we know you will be blessed as you rediscover the importance of covenant and unity!
 
NOACH (Noah / Rest)
 
Genesis 6:9–11:32; Isaiah 54:1–55:5; Luke 1:5–80
 
“This is the account of Noah and his family.  Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God.”  (Genesis 6:9)
 

This model of Noah's Ark was created in the Netherlands by Johan
Huibers, who used the measurements found in Genesis 6 as a guide.
 
Last week in Parasha Bereisheet, Adam and Chava (Eve) were exiled from the Garden of Eden because of sin.  They became fruitful and multiplied, as God intended, but sin manifested in their son Cain when he murdered his brother Abel.
 
Tragically, Cain did not take the opportunity God gave him to repent (change his thinking and behavior to follow God).  Murder manifested five generations later in his descendant Lamech, who also
refused to repent.
 
This week’s Torah portion specifically identifies that by the time of Noah, the earth was filled with violence (hamas – חָמָ֖ס).
 
God decided to cleanse the world from that hamas by sending a Great Flood upon the earth that would destroy every living thing
He had created.
 
“So God said to Noah, I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence [hamas] because of them.  I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.’”  (Genesis 6:13)
 

Noah and His Ark (1819), by Charles Willson Peale
 
Noah Means Rest
“By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family.  By his faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that is in keeping with faith.” 
(Hebrews 11:7)
 
Although the world was filled with injustice, cruelty and violence, God found one man worth saving.  Noach (Noah) was in his generation the only ish tzadik (righteous man).
 
In Hebrew, the name Noach means rest or consolation.  It is related to the word for comfort.
 
His father called him Noach believing that he would bring him rest from hard labor over the ground that was cursed because of sin.
(Genesis 5:29)
 
Perhaps his father also foresaw a greater calling of Noach
to bring rest.
 
Because Noach was a righteous man, God instructed him to build the ark to save himself, his family, and the world’s animals from the coming deluge.  In that way, those who followed Noah into the ark found rest from God’s judgment.
 
When his family left the ark, they entered what was essentially
a new world.
 

The Dove Returns to Noah,
by James Tissot
 
The Obedience of Faith
Though Noach likely could not even imagine a flood so severe that everything and everyone on earth would be destroyed,
he obeyed God.
 
Year after year, he labored in the sun, following through
on God’s instructions.
 
He did not need to see evidence of the coming rain;
he had faith in God.
 
It was Noah’s great faith that led him to work obediently with Godly fear to build an ark for the saving of his family.  (Hebrews 11:7)
 
It must be noted, however, that Noah’s Ark (Tevat Noach) guaranteed only their physical salvation, not their spiritual destiny.
 

Building the Ark, by James Tissot
 
The ark seems to foreshadow the protection of the Israelites through the blood of the lamb on the doorpost in Egypt.
 
Like the ark, that blood only guaranteed the physical safety and deliverance from the final plague in Egypt, the death of the firstborn.  (Exodus 12:12)
 
It also did not guarantee that those who survived as a result of that blood would make it to the Promised Land.  Each person determined their own entry into that Land.
 
Tragically, just as most of the people perished in the flood, the vast majority of the children of Israel also died in the wilderness due to unbelief.
 
Only two men, Caleb and Joshua, who walked with God wholeheartedly, were given the right to enter the Promised Land.
 
Unbelief leads to disobedience that robs us of the rest of God.
 
“And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed?  So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.”  (Hebrews 3:18–19)
 

An orthodox Jewish man walks with other Israelis and tourists
outside the Old City walls of Jerusalem.
 
The faith of Noach is something of a parallel with our own walk with God and entrance to the "New Jerusalem."
 
It is by faith that we inherit the promises, not good deeds, though good deeds and obedience are essential hallmarks of a living faith.
 
After all, Noach did not establish his faith only with words; he demonstrated it with faithful obedience.
 
“But someone will say, ‘You have faith; I have deeds.’  Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds.” 
(James 2:18)
 
Thanksgiving after Leaving Noah's Ark (1901), by Domenico Morelli 
 
The Rainbow: the Sign of the Covenant
After Noah and his family emerged from the Ark, they sacrificed to God an offering of the clean animals carried on the Ark
for that purpose.
 
God promises Noah that He will never again curse the earth because of the wickedness of man, and never again destroy every living, breathing creature on earth as He had done in the flood:
 
“And the Lord smelled a soothing aroma.  Then the Lord said in His heart, ‘I will never again curse the ground for man’s sake, although the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done.’”  (Genesis 8:21)
 
God sets a rainbow in the sky as a sign of the covenant (ot brit / אוֹת בְּרִית) with all people of the earth:  “I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.”  (Genesis 9:13)
 
This is not the only covenant that God has made.  Other covenants were to follow, and each one comes with its own particular sign (ot).  The sign of the Abrahamic covenant is circumcision of all male infants on the eighth day.
 
The sign of the Mosaic covenant is the keeping of the
seventh-day Sabbath.
 
Yeshua said that the great hallmark of faith in Him — of having the Torah written inside our hearts and minds in the Brit Chadashah (New Covenant) — is love:
 
“By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another."  (John 13:35)
 

Jewish women chat in an Israeli cafe.
 
Haftarah (Prophetic Portion)
"To Me this is like the days of Noah, when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover
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