This week the story of parsha “Noach” completes, with Genesis chapters 10 through 11, and what happens AFTER the flood. But, arguably, still part of the ‘days of Noah.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This time we pick up the narrative with the events just after the eight human survivors emerge from the Ark. Some time later, there is a somewhat enigmatic recounting of Ham having done SOMETHING — interpretations and even speculations vary greatly — that result in a curse; not on Ham himself, but his youngest son, who bears a name that subsequently becomes infamous: Canaan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Erev Shabbat reading continues through the rise of another son of a son of Ham, Nimrod, and a building whose name has become synonymous with incoherent language. And a genealogy that results in YHVH taking a whole new path with man:<\/p>\n\n\n\n