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 | | This seminal act of Noah, his planting a vineyard after he leaves the ark, provides a startling insight into how we must react to the terrorism that has engulfed us for the past three years, and which is threatening to engulf the entire world. |
 | | Apparently, Rashi is perplexed as to the genesis of the grape seeds; after all, animal and plant life had been totally destroyed in the Flood - except for whatever had been preserved in the ark. Rashi is therefore telling us that Noah preserved branches of the vine. |
 | | According to this view, Noah took 120 years to construct the ark, spending all the extra time trying to persuade humanity to forsake its violence, to accept the basic laws of morality expressed by ethical monotheism, and to establish democratic, freedom-loving, anti-terror governments whose greatest value was the pursuit of peace. |
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