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Noach | The Rainbow and the Covenant
Noach | The Rainbow and the Covenant, by Rav Yitzchak Etshalom
Who are the parties to the first Berit, symbolized by the rainbow?
The first ברית made in the Tanakh is between God and...? (People? Animals? The Earth?) in the immediate aftermath of the cataclysmic flood. The rainbow is presented as the "sign of the Berit", which is there so that God will "remember" His commitment to never again destroy the world or its inhabitants. Besides the obvious theological challenges inherent in this presentation, it is also unclear what the role of this covenant is and who the two "sides" of the…
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