Noah brought three sons into the ark

Hello Alan Cohen, my name is John Comfort, I'm here to be a tutor to prepare you for your Bar Mitzvah."

< = = = I'm already learning my Torah reading in Hebrew school and how did you get in here anyway?

Mr Comfort calmly answered, "I know the code to your smartlock, your father has been asking for someone to teach the story of how Judaism came to be. Feel free to call him."

< = = = That's OK, I'll talk to him when he gets home from work. I don't need to pay you or anything, do I?

"Not a problem, I'm a graduate of the first one's free school of business. Shall we get started?"

"Young Master Cohen, I'm sure you know the story of the flood. Perhaps you have wondered if God warned the world they needed to change their evil ways. There is a Jewish Midrash that asserts He gave mankind a chance to change; but they would not. At the very least the act of building an ark, a teivah, should have gotten Noah's neighbors curious. Regardless, the flood came, the ark did its job, the waters receded, the ark came to rest on dry land. The next major milestone in the journey to help humanity reconcile with God will be the calling of Abraham, and we get there via the sons of Noah.

Noah brought three sons, (Shem, Ham, and Japheth), into the ark along with their wives. Japheth is my favorite as from him come the mariners. Ham, AKA Canaan, is the bad boy. But Shem is the prize winner as Abram is descended from his line.

"Abram's forefathers lived long lives compared to people today, Eber lived 430 years; can you imagine? "

 24 When Nahor was 29 years old, he became the father of Terah. 25 And after he had become the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters. 26When Terah was 70 years old, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

27 This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot. 28 During his father Terah’s lifetime, Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

29 And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. Abram’s wife was named Sarai, and Nahor’s wife was named Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, who was the father of both Milcah and Iscah. 30 But Sarai was barren; she had no children.

31 And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there. 32 Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Haran. Genesis 11: 24 - 32 BSB

To recap: Terah, Abram's father decides to leave Ur and move to Haran, an inland city in modern day Turkey, taking Lot, his grandson, Abram and his wife Sarai with him. 

Activities:

Parade of patriarchs, the names of some of the people we discussed are below, number their generations. 1 for the oldest, (the patriarch that came first). For instance:

____ Cain

____ Adam

____ Enoch would be

__2__ Cain

__1__ Adam

__3__ Enoch

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____ Nahor

____ Abram

____ Terah

____ Milcah

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