I like to ask people where are you from?  your ethnic back ground.  Most of us never really  think about it any farther than Sweden or Germany or Finland or Norway  where our Grandparents or Great Grand parents are from,  just to mention a few.  

A lot of us are aware of the story of Noah, the Flood and the Ark.  How many of us have actual read this part in the Bible/Torah,  not just taking the story for granted for what we have been told with attending  churches.  I had been a christian for 35  years, Then started to study Jewish teachings to find – truth – I recall being always told that animals came to Noah two by two. This is what was taught in books as a child. This is what I believed for many years until I started to,  Well,…. study,  read and attended seminars, (not christian orientated seminars, I had to look outside the box )  this isn’t really accurate. Noah was instructed to take seven clean pairs of animals and two unclean pairs of animals.  When you start to study the first five books of the Torah (old Testament)  you will read the whole account of creation and of Noah and the Ark.

A covenant was given by G-d during the time of Noah, not only  Noah and his children but  for all of us, we are descendants of Noah and his three sons.

So,  we as a human race, come from before the flood then through Noah, through Noah’s three sons, then we would all be from one of his sons.  There is much more to this story, much more before the flood and  much more after the flood.

Return of Prophecy is a magnificent subject. The fact that Prophecy once existed, ansd that we are promised that it will exist again, this is actually all part of a great plan, the Creator’s plan for mankind.

For instance, Adam and Eve were prophets. Not only did they hear God’s voice, but their relationship will creation was far different than anything we can imagine. If you imagine the Torah as a play or a movie, the first scene ends, the curtain falls, right after Adam and Eve are banished from Eden. The rest of the Torah is about how to get back.  When Adam was in Eden, he was connected to all creation. There was only one thing he lacked. Himself. He was connected to the ALL so deeply that he lacked a solid sense of self . What he got from eating of the Etz Daat Tov veRa (the tree of the Knowledge of Joining of Good and Evil) was himself. but in the process he lost that incredible connection he had had! This is what I mean about the curtain falling at the end of the first act, and that the remainder of the Torah is about getting back in to Eden with our SELF.

by Rabbi Avraham Sutton