Rabbi Howard Morrison

Noach is introduced as a wholly righteous person in his generation. A few verses later, the text says twice that the world was filled with Hamas.

The Hebrew Hamas has been translated as robbery, corruption, violence, lawlessness, and more. Perhaps the pure evil associated with the Hebrew term makes it hard to translate. It seems to me that the terrorist group of the same name resembles the Hebrew word Hamas.

Noach is the father of humanity. Now is the time for all civilized humanity, not just small Israel, to wage battle against the Hamas of our time.

May righteousness win out over evil speedily in our day.

Shabbat Shalom,
Rabbi Howard Morrison