The Ashkenazi Revolution

15The boundaries between God and man, in the critical area of time, hadbecome indistinct. God had fixed a boundary to “separate” between Himand man. The boundary is the hundred and twenty year limit to the life ofman.However, in the meantime, a certain amount of mixture had already beencreated between the two categories, God and humanity.The fallen ones were upon the Earth in those days and even afterwards,during which the sons of God came upon the daughters of man and theybore them offspring. They were the mighty men of old, men of fame.Once more, man stretches out his hand toward the tree of life, and the wrathof God does not hesitate to come.God saw that the evil of man was great upon the Earth. All of the thoughtsof his heart were only evil all day long. So God said, “I shall erase man,which I have created, from upon the face of the Earth; from man to beast tothose that crawl to those that fly in the heavens, for I have regretted what Ihave done.”4The flood put an end to the “old regime” on Earth, the regime where manwas a partner of God. But Noah found grace, and by this merit, theprivileges of being a quasi-god, which were granted to Adam, werepreserved in him. He did not live a hundred and twenty years but ninehundred and fifty years. (Adam lived nine hundred and thirty years). Thisdifference of twenty years, in favor of Noah, is faithful testimony to theaffection that God showed him.The status of quasi-god, which was given to Adam and then nullified later,at the time of the banishment fromheaven and the flood, was returned toNoah. For Noah (he was as his name implies) “found favor in the eyes ofthe Lord”. This privilege of being a quasi-god was erased in the days of