People Have Names
Parashat Noach
Parashat Noach
Shai Held
The Tower of Babel is among the best known and most frequently cited stories in the Torah. And yet most of the conventional interpretations of the narrative are mistaken. Genesis 11 is not a simple morality tale about a human attempt to storm the heavens and displace God. The story of Babel is about something else: the importance of individuals and the horrors of totalitarianism.
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