Uppity humans

First, they decide that they want to know the difference between good and evil.* Then, they decide that they’re going to build a stairway to heaven.**

Sigh. Well, I made them that way, and I guess I can’t just keep wiping them out in floods. So I suppose I’ll simply have to put up with them. But really, how arrogant of them, to think that they can defy Me and encroach on My turf with impunity.


*See Parshat B’reishit here.
**See Parshat Noach here and an explanation of the ziggurat theory here.

See also my post Parshat B'reishit: Fun with the DH :) (and more)