We began the reading of Parsha Noach last week, both with the story of his genealogy, the nature of the world at that time, and the Flood itself. But that parsha also includes at least one other famous story, and one which also bears more relevance today that we might like to admit.

The Erev Shabbat reading of the parsha follows the Flood, in chapters ten 12 of Bereshiet/Genesis, and includes the story of Nimrod, and the Tower of Babel:

The Sabbath Day midrash picks up the theme of Nimrod, Babel, and what it was about that tower that was so unique to YHVH that it merited the response He gave it.

And it seems to have lot to do with what Bebylon became, and evidently still represents: a system that is antagonistic to His.

There are parallels, anti-parallels, but this time the question concerns what might follow the parallels after that Flood, “as it was in the days of Noach…”

The issue this time is Babylon, and what constitutes the ‘Greater Babylon Metro Area.’

The combined two-part teaching is here: