Mixed Up Priorities

Mixed Up Priorities

In his comments on the Torah portion of Noach (VeHigadeta, Bereshit pp. 137 – 140), R. Yaakov Galinsky wonders about the verse (Bereshit 9:20), “And Noah, the man of the earth, debased himself and planted a vineyard.”  As Rashi points out ad locum, the Sages opined that, after leaving the ark that saved him and…