Failures can be
bruising and hurtful, and seemingly endlessly
debilitating. But there is a more redeeming perspective, in which setback
serve
as the catalyst for a new start, a fresh opportunity to reach greater
achievement
than was even fathomable before. This is the belief of people of courage,
people
of grit and resilience who always win in the end. No less
then Hashem Himself
sees the deluge and carnage of the mabul as a promising reset, enabling
mankind
not only to rectify the sins of that generation, but to fulfill the mandate
which eluded Adom and Chava from day one. This will come to light from a breathtaking
symmetrical pattern in our parsha, linking each of its narratives with a corollary
in Parshas Bereishis as a dramatic take two.