March 29th thru April 4th, 2026
02 – Parasha Noach (נֹ֔חַ) – “Noach”
Aviyv 9th thru Aviyv 15th
02 – Parasha Noach (נֹ֔חַ) – “Noach”
March 29th thru April 4th
Torah Portion: Bere’shiyth (Genesis) 6:9 – 11:32
Haftarah: Yesha’yahu (Isaiah) 54 & 55
Brit Ha’dasha: Mattithyahu (Matthew) 24:1-51 & 1st Kepha (1 Peter) 3:12-22
Daily Readings
1stday (Sunday) – Bere’shiyth (Genesis) 6:9-22 – The generations of Noach; The corruption of the earth; Yahuah judges the earth; Elohiym gives Noach the commandments to build the ark; Noach obeys all of Elohiym’s commandments.
Yesha’yahu (Isaiah) 54:1-17 – Call to the barren wife; Yahuah the merciful Redeemer; Yahuah teaches her children; The blessings of the renewed covenant.
Mattithyahu (Matthew) 24:1-51 – Yahusha foretells the destruction of Yahuah’s sukkah made with human hands; The talmidiym seek the Kingdom of Yahuah; Yahusha gives the commandment to preach the good news of Yahuah’s Kingdom; The end times tribulations are foretold by Mashiach and compared to the days of Noach; The faithful, obedient and wise slave is blessed and the wicked slave is also rewarded for his disobedient rebellion.
2ndday (Monday) – Bere’shiyth (Genesis) 7:1-24 – Yahuah rewards Noach for his righteous obedience; Noach continues to obey all of Yahuah’s commandments; Noach loads the ark per Elohiym’s commandments; Yahuah number two shut Noach and his family in the ark; The horrific judgment and wrath of Yahuah that kills all flesh that moved on the earth; The flood waters stay on the earth for on hundred and fifty days.
1st Kepha (1 Peter) 3:12-22 – Yahuah watches over the righteous and hears their prayers; Yahuah is against them that do evil; Sanctify Yahuah in your heart and be ready to share your hope in Yahuah with others; It is better to suffer for doing good than for doing evil; Mashiach the Just One is the only way to Elohiym; Everyone dead and alive have been preached to by Mashiach Yahusha; Elohiym was longsuffering desiring none to perish but only eight souls were saved through the water in the days of Noach; Baptism through the resurrection of Yahusha Ha’Mashiach saves us now; Mashiach Yahusha sits at the right hand of Elohiym with all things under subjection to Him.
3rdday (Tuesday) – Bere’shiyth (Genesis) 8:1-22 – Elohiym remembers Noach; The fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were closed; The waters leave the earth and the mountain tops are seen; Noach sends birds to scout the land; On the first day of the first month of the sixth hundred and first year the waters were dried; Elohiym commands Noach and his family to leave the ark with the animals; Noach sacrifices clean animals to Yahuah and He is please with it; Yahuah acknowledges that the imaginations of peoples hearts are wicked from their youth; Yahuah promises to not curse the ground or smite every living thing as He did during the flood.
Yesha’yahu (Isaiah) 55:1-13 – The invitation is made to drink the waters, wine and milk of Yahuah for free; The bread of Yahuah satisfies the soul; The soul lives through obedience to the everlasting covenant of Yahuah; The command is given to seek Yahuah while He can be found; True repentance is the only way to return to Yahuah and receive His mercy and pardon; We can not comprehend Yahuah’s thoughts: His ways are higher than ours; The Word of Elohiym will not return to Him void; The curse is lifted as a sign from Yahuah.
4thday (Wednesday) – Bere’shiyth (Genesis) 9:1-28 – Elohiym blesses Noach and his sons; The commandment to be fruitful is given again; The commandments about blood are given; Elohiym establishes His covenant with Noach, his seed and every beast of the earth; The rainbow token of Elohiym’s covenant is set in the clouds for a reminder; The first major sin is committed after the flood; Noach curses his son Cham for his sin and bestows blessings upon Shem and Yapheth; Noach dies three hundred and fifty years after the flood when he was nine hundred and fifty years old.
5thday (Thursday) – Bere’shiyth (Genesis) 10:1-32 – The generations of Noach’s three sons begin; Yapheth’s sons are given; The sons of Yapheth populated the islands; The sin and rebellion of Cham is passed to his grandson Nimrod; Nimrod builds cities of rebellion against Yahuah, his chief city being Babel; The rest of Cham’s descendants are given; The descendants of Shem are given; The earth (land and people) were divided during the time of Peleg; The sons of Noach divided the earth into nations after the flood.
6thday (Friday) – Bere’shiyth (Genesis) 11:1-32 – The whole earth is on one accord, speaking one language; The people (under Nimrod’s leadership most believe) build an offensive military city and tower in Babel to reach heaven in order to rebel or war against Yahuah because of the flood; Yahuah walked among the people to see the fortress being built to reach heaven; Both Yahuah’s (Us) go down and stop the rebellion by confusion instead of destruction this time; Yahuah scatters the people over all the earth instead of destroying them; The lineage from Shem to Avram is given; Avram’s wife Sarai is barren; Avram’s father Terach dies.
Main Themes & Commandments
Judgment and Salvation Through Obedience
Yahuah brings judgment upon the earth because of widespread wickedness, yet provides a way of salvation through obedience.
Bere’shiyth 6:22 – “Thus did Noach; according to all that Elohiym commanded him, so did he.”
Mattithyahu 24:37 – “But as the days of Noach were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.”
Kepha Aleph 3:20 – “Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of Elohiym waited in the days of Noach, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.”
**Salvation was available, but only those who obeyed Yahuah entered the ark. In the same way, Yahusha Ha’Mashiach is the Ark of salvation today and only those who are obedient and enter in will obtain yeshu’ah.
The Eternal Covenant and Mercy of Yahuah
After the judgment and wrath of Yahuah, He formalizes His eternal covenant of grace and mercy with Noach and his sons by giving them a token that can be still seen today, Yahuah Elohiym’s bow in the clouds, letting us know that He still honours His eternal covenant with mankind and the earth.
Bere’shiyth 9:13 – “אֶת My bow I do set in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between Me and the earth.”
Yesha’yahu 54:9-10 – “For this is as the waters of Noach unto Me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noach should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee. For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but My kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of My peace be removed, saith Yahuah that hath mercy on thee.”
**Yahuah’s judgment and wrath are real, but His mercy and covenant are everlasting for those who walk in the way of obedience with His Son Yahusha Ha’Mashiach. Are you striving for Yahuah’s grace and mercy or are you storing up wrath unto the day of judgment?
Be Fruitful – The First Commandment Repeated to Noach
Elohiym blesses Noach and his sons and then repeats the first commandment to be fruitful to them. In only ten generations, mankind had corrupted their way so much by being unfruitful for Yahuah and being fruitful for the enemy that He had to destroy them for their rebellion against Him.
Bere’shiyth (Genesis) 9:1 –“And Elohiym blessed אֶת Noach and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish אֶת the earth.”
Devariym (Deuteronomy) 28:1 & 4 – “And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of Yahuah Elohayka, to observe and to do all His commandments which I command thee this day, that Yahuah Elohayka will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: & 4. “Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.”
Mishlei (Proverbs) 11:30 – “The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.”
**The command to be fruitful once again is not talking about physical human reproduction but it is talking about bearing fruit through obedience to Yahuah’s commandments. The blessings of multiplying (bearing the physical fruit of offspring) is tied directly to being fruitful through obedience to Yahuah’s commandments.
Rebellion after Salvation – The Tower of Babel
Even after deliverance, mankind returns to rebellion and builds a city and a tower to try and make war against Yahuah so they won’t be destroyed like the civilizations before the flood but their rebellion is futile.
Bere’shiyth (Genesis) 11:4 – “And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.”
Tehilliym (Psalms) 2:1-4 –– “Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahuah, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: Yahuah shall have them in derision.”
**Without continued obedience, mankind quickly returns to pride and self-exaltation—seeking to replace Yahuah rather than submit to Him.
Hebrew Link Words
Noach (nō·aḥ) נֹ֔חַ — “Noach” — Strong’s Hebrew Word 5146 [e]
The Hebrew word נֹ֔חַ (Noach) “Noach” is the title of the second portion of Yahuah’s year and is the name of the patriarch of the flood and is the same as SHW 5118 (נוַּח נוַֹח – To rest)
**Are you listening to Elohiym and being obedient so that you can enter into His ark of salvation or are you being disobedient like the people who were around Noach?
Beriyth (bə·rî·ṯî) בְּרִיתִ֖י — “My covenant” — Strong’s Hebrew Word 1285 [e]
The Hebrew word בְּרִיתִ֖י (Beriyth) “My covenant” is from SHW 1262 (in the sense of cutting (like bara’)); a compact (because made by passing between pieces of flesh) — confederacy, (con-)feder(-ate), covenant, league.
**Are you guarding covenant with Father Yahuah that was cut with you through the flesh and blood of His Son Mashiach Yahusha?
Yahusha Ha’Mashiach in the Torah Portion
- Yahusha Ha’Mashiach was Elohiym that Noach walked with.
- Yahusha Ha’Mashiach is Yahuah that shut Noach and his family in the ark.
- The eternal covenant was made through Yahusha Ha’Mashaich.
- He was the second Yahuah who went down to see the city and tower of Babel and confounds the language of mankind.
- He is the aleph and the tav signature who is the action that allows mankind to multiply that begat אֶת the sons of men.
Reflection & Self-Study Questions
- Are you walking in obedience like Noach, even when the world around you is in rebellion?
- Is Yahusha Ha’Mashiach your ark of salvation or are you living according to the world?
- Are you prepared for the return of the Son of Man, or are you living as in the days of Noach?
- How can you remain set apart in a generation that rejects the commandments of Yahuah?
- In what areas of your life are you being called to deeper obedience?
- Are you building according to Yahuah’s instructions, or according to your own understanding?
- How can we guard against the pride and rebellion seen in the tower of Bavel today?