Noah / Noach / נח “Rest, Comfort” (Genesis 6:9–11:32) Torah Study and Poetry (2)
A B’nai Mitzvah Torah Planner with Poetry and Inspiration.
Like a Landscape with Rainbow
Henley-on-Thames by Belgian painter, Jan Siberchts / life has patches of light and darkness / seen more clearly from different vantage points / Noah’s life righteousness and drunkenness / water and land / life and death / listening and ignoring / and cutting through the middle a rainbow and hope of a better tomorrow / more life, listening and love.
―Genesis 6:9–11:32 Ekphrastic Poetry, words written in response to art.
Endurance
The 25th Day of the Omer is Netzach shebe Netzach / Endurance within Endurance / Noah’s wife in a modern midrash given the name Naamah / perhaps the first environmentalist / collects every seed and bulb / plants saved from the flood / plants like a few people survive / to thrive and rebuild again / lean into this Torah portion if you save seeds / ideas, children, animals, books from destruction / to thrive and nourish the world around us again
―Genesis 4:22, Genesis 6:9–9:17 Resources at Ritualwell.org — Omer Calendar of Biblical Women
New Beginnings Again and Again
Ten generations a new restart / floods the world / righteousness and paired animals / saved by an ark gradually chaos reigns again / with tower of Babel and different languages / stand up experience a new beginning / or rise if in need of a renew.
―Genesis 6:9–11:32
Maariv Aravim
Who brings on the evening / the first of the prayers / begin again / the shema praises God / Creator and Sustainer of the Universe / renew again our wonder at the world we experience / every day and night we have / in the garden: seedtime and harvest / the elements: cold and heat / the season: summer and winter / time: day and night.
―Found Poetry from Genesis 8:22 “So long as the earth endures, Seedtime and harvest, Cold and heat, Summer and winter, Day and night Shall not cease.”
Wonder Renewal
Renew again our wonder / at the world we experience / endure long enough to renew / again our wonder
―Genesis 8
Pray and Trust in The Sun Rise
Jacob left his hometown / Beersheva to go to Haran / pray at the place for the sun had set / night falls / Jacob recited a prayer after he fled his homeland / renewing again trust in God.
―Genesis 28:11
Originally Published in Noah / Noach / נח “Rest, Comfort” (Genesis 6:9–11:32) Journal Your Journey Through a Year of Torah https://www.nervewhisperer.solutions/peace-poetry/category/torah-poetry on November 02, 2019.
