The first bit of the Torah I translated was the story of Noah. The dramatic events of the Flood and all the heroic moments of the making of the Ark are followed by the extraordinary episode of Noah’s nakedness. Noah gets drunk – drunk with joy – and his son Ham sees him naked in his tent and tells his brothers.
What does that tell us about our relation-ship with our parents? What obligations do we have to them? What’s required of us? We’re told that when Ham told his brothers, Shem and Japhet, what had happened to Noah, they walked backwards towards their father, with a shawl to cover him… What does that say to us?
