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Après Moi, le Déluge: Noach, Strong Drink, & Societal Collapse Long as I remember The rain been coming down. Clouds of myst'ry pouring Confusion on the ground. Good men through the ages, Trying to find the sun; And I wonder, Still I wonder, Who'll stop the rain. rain.
1. R. Tsaddok ha-Kohen of Lublin, Divrei Lublin, Divrei Halomot #3
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I had while in Izbica in which were revealed to me issues pertaining to the essence of my soul - among the things I was told was that the generation of the Messiah will be the very same souls of the generation that followed Moshe into the Wilderness... and these are in fact the same souls of the generation of the flood... but at that time the generation destroyed itself through the sin known as ‘the sin of youth’, as it is said of them, that Man’s inclination is evil from the days of his youth, but this was rectified by the generation of the Exodus, their following Moshe into the wilderness being referred to as the goodness of their youth. The generation of Mashiach will be that suggested by the verse (Psalm 103:5) ‘they will be rejuvenated like the eagle’, meaning that they will be the same generation of the goodness of youth, that will be renewed again. This is what I remember [of that dream] ”
2. b. Sanhedrin, 108b
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3. Mishna, Avot 5:2
: [There were] ten generations from Adam to Noah, to make known the extent of God’s patience with Man - all of these generations persisted in their evil ways until God brought the Flood upon them. Ten generations from Noah to Abraham, to make known the extent of God’s patience with man, in that all of these generations persisted in their evil, until Abraham arose and reaped the reward of all of them. 4. Proverbs 18:1
He that separateth himself seeketh his own desire, And rageth against all sound wisdom 5. Zohar, Noah 59b
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6. Genesis 6:3
And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
7. Exodus 2:3-11
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But when she could no longer hide him, she took an ark of bulrushes for him, daubed it with asphalt and pitch, put the child in it, and laid it in in the reeds by the river’s bank. 4 And his sister stood afar off, to know what would be done to him. 5 Then the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river. And her maidens walked along the riverside; and when she saw the ark among the reeds, she sent her maid to get it. 6 And when she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the baby wept. So she had compassion on him, and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.” 7 Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?” 8 And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.” So the maiden went and called the child’s mother. 9 Then Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child away and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages.” So the woman took the child and nursed him. 10 And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. So she called his name Moses, saying, “Because I drew him out of the water.”
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7. b. Hullin 139b
? 8. R. Isaiah Horowitz, SheLa”H: Horowitz, SheLa”H: Torah Ohr; Ohr; Noah no.13
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This is the matter of Moses being hinted to in the Flood narrative, as it taught in … “Where “Where is Moses found in the Torah? It is written: ‘for that He is also flesh’. ‘ B’shegam’ B’shegam’ is numerically equivalent to ‘Moses’... Let us return to the heart of the matter, the matter of Noah - [he was] righteous from above to below, and thus was completely righteous, Abraham our father was [righteous] from below to above, Moses ascended and was thus called ‘The man of God’. There is a tremendous difference between the ‘ark’ of Noah and the ‘ark’ of Moses.
9. Walter Benjamin, The Arcades [fragment]
“Marx says that revolutions are the locomotives of world history. But the situation may be quite different. Perhaps revolutions are not the train ride, but the human race grabbing for the emergency brake.”
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