From The Pulpit of DUMC

#26. Needing A Bigger Boat - Rev. Shane Page

Episode Summary

This Sunday we continue our brief tour during September through the book of Genesis, looking at a few of the memorable or perhaps foundational stories of the opening book of the Torah. Last week we revisited the fall of Adam and Eve. This week we move to the sixth chapter, which contains the infamous story of Noah and his Ark. There is in the character of Noah, and in the story itself, great truths worthy of imitation; and yet there are also, according to ancient rabbinic Judaism, other truths lying well beneath the surface of the text also worthy of our imitation. Noah, according to the rabbis, leads at once by great and by questionable example. He's a man of great virtue and of great flaws. This Sunday let's consider what the great minds of Jewish tradition meant.