LAST WEEK’S PARSHA was a laugh. This week’s parsha is to cry for. It’s never easy losing a spouse you love, especially if you had something to do with it.

THEY SAY THAT laughter is the best medicine. Though it is definitely not always the best medicine in every situation, it is certainly a good one in the right place, at the right time. Who doesn’t feel healthier after a good, hearty, endorphin-stimulating laugh?

THE VERSE SAYS, “Chochmah m’ayin timatzei—Wisdom, where can it be found?” (Iyov 28:12). But it is one of those beautifully short and seemingly simple verses that, in the world of Kabbalah, speaks universes…and then some. This one is literally the foundation of all of Creation and life.

RASHI LAST WEEK brought a disagreement about the basis of Noach’s name:

BY NOW, IF you have been reading what I have written over the years, you know that the Creation story that we begin with is the middle of the movie.