Compliment or insult?
PARASHAT NOAH: Noah may have been righteous and wholehearted as an individual, but he lacked the strength and the boldness to confront God’s decision and to oppose the wicked ways of the world.
“Noah was a righteous man, wholehearted in his generations; Noah walked together with God” (Genesis 6:9) If, indeed, Noah was a righteous, wholehearted partner of God, why is he not the first Hebrew? He seems to have had all of the necessary qualifications.