{"versions": [{"status": "locked", "priority": 5.0, "license": "CC-BY", "versionNotes": "<b>Managing Editor:</b> Jason Rappoport<br>\n<b>Translator:</b> Joshua Schreier<br>\n<b>Editor:</b> Michael Siev<br>\n<b>Editor:</b> Yaacov Francus<br>\n<b>Copy-editor:</b> Deborah Meghnagi Bailey<br>\n<b>Copy-editor:</b> Ilana Sobel\n", "formatAsPoetry": "", "digitizedBySefaria": true, "method": "", "heversionSource": "", "versionUrl": "", "versionTitleInHebrew": "", "versionNotesInHebrew": "", "shortVersionTitle": "", "shortVersionTitleInHebrew": "", "extendedNotes": "", "extendedNotesHebrew": "", "purchaseInformationImage": "", "purchaseInformationURL": "", "hasManuallyWrappedRefs": "", "language": "en", "versionSource": "https://www.sefaria.org/texts", "versionTitle": "The Sefaria Midrash Rabbah, 2022", "actualLanguage": "en", "languageFamilyName": "english", "isSource": false, "isPrimary": false, "direction": "ltr", "text": "“[Noah was a righteous] man [<i>ish</i>]” – everywhere that <i>ish</i> is stated, it is a righteous man who rebukes. As all one hundred and twenty years,<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">8</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Before the Flood, when God first decreed that He was going to destroy the world (see Genesis 6:3).</i> Noah would plant cedars and chop them down [for timber]. They said to him: ‘Why are you doing this?’ He said to them: ‘So said the Master of the world, that He is bringing a flood upon the world.’ They said to him: ‘If He brings a flood, it will come only upon the house of that man!’<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">9</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Noah.</i> When Methuselah died<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">10</sup><i class=\"footnote\">At the conclusion of the 120 years.</i> they said to him: ‘Indeed, it [tragedy] came only upon the house of that man.’<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">11</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Methuselah was Noah’s grandfather, therefore his death was a tragedy for Noah.</i> That is what is written: “A flame [<i>lapid</i>] of contempt for those of complacent thoughts [<i>ashtut</i>], destined to cause slippings of the foot” (Job 12:5). Rabbi Abba bar Kahana said: [God declared:] I had a single herald who arose for me in the generation of the Flood – this is Noah;<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">12</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Noah was a herald in that he announced to his generation the impending Flood, as above.</i> there,<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">13</sup><i class=\"footnote\">In some unspecified location.</i> when they [mean to] say: ‘He has an announcement,’ [they say] he has a <i>lapid</i>.<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">14</sup><i class=\"footnote\">And this is the basis of Rabbi Abba’s interpretation of <i>lapid</i> as “herald.”</i> Of contempt – as they would disparage him, calling him ‘contemptible old man.’ “For those of complacent thoughts [<i>ashtut</i>]” – as they were as hard<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">15</sup><i class=\"footnote\">In their obstinacy.</i> as blocks of metal [<i>ashatot</i>]. “Destined to cause slippings of the foot” – as they were destined for two disasters<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">16</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Hence the plural, “slippings.”</i> – a disaster from above and a disaster from below.<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">17</sup><i class=\"footnote\">“And the windows of the heavens were opened and all the wellsprings of the great depth were breached” (Genesis 7:11).</i>"}], "available_versions": [{"status": "locked", "priority": 5.0, "license": "CC-BY", "versionNotes": "<b>Managing Editor:</b> Jason Rappoport<br>\n<b>Translator:</b> Joshua Schreier<br>\n<b>Editor:</b> Michael Siev<br>\n<b>Editor:</b> Yaacov Francus<br>\n<b>Copy-editor:</b> Deborah Meghnagi Bailey<br>\n<b>Copy-editor:</b> Ilana Sobel\n", "formatAsPoetry": "", "digitizedBySefaria": true, "method": "", "heversionSource": "", "versionUrl": "", "versionTitleInHebrew": "", "versionNotesInHebrew": "", "shortVersionTitle": "", "shortVersionTitleInHebrew": "", "extendedNotes": "", "extendedNotesHebrew": "", "purchaseInformationImage": "", "purchaseInformationURL": "", "hasManuallyWrappedRefs": "", "language": "en", "title": "Bereshit Rabbah", "versionSource": "https://www.sefaria.org/texts", "versionTitle": "The Sefaria Midrash Rabbah, 2022", "actualLanguage": "en", "languageFamilyName": "english", "isSource": false, "isPrimary": false, "direction": "ltr"}, {"status": "locked", "priority": 3.0, "license": "CC-BY-NC", "versionNotes": "", "formatAsPoetry": "", "digitizedBySefaria": "", "method": "", "heversionSource": "", "versionUrl": "", "versionTitleInHebrew": "מדרש רבה - 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