Weekly Portion Noah
October 17, 2026

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Boarding Noah’s ark
Animal pairs

Parashat Noah נֹח Genesis 6:9-11:32, is the 2nd weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading beginning after Rosh Ha Shana, the Jewish New Year.
It begins as G-d decides to destroy mankind with a Flood.
He gives Noah specific instructions in the making of an ark to save a remnant of humanity and all living animal species during the Flood.
And G-d confounds the speech of those building the Tower of Babel.
There is a recounting of all the generations down to Abram ending with Terach, father of Abram, Nachor and Haran, whose son is Lot, in Ur Casdim.
Abram marries Sarai. Nachor marries Milcah, the daughter of Haran. Sarai is sterile. Terach travels with his son Abram, Sarai, and his grandson Lot, and leaves Ur Casdim for the land of Canaan. They come as far as Charan and settle there.

Noah Tallit

Band I
Noach leads horses onto the ark.
The detail of Noah is adapted from a Purim story lithograph of 18th century French lithographer Gustave Dore.

Tallit Band II
Animals approach the ark, two by two.