Every time we return to Parashat Noach, the images of the Flood feel unsettlingly familiar: a world overwhelmed by violence, a humanity that seems to have lost its way, and, amid the devastation, someone entrusted with the task of building an ark. But before the Flood, and even before the Creator calls upon Noach, the Torah offers us several passages that caught our attention when we studied them together in our Thursday Torah Class at 5:30 p.m. (Yes, consider this a little