<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><a name="amudb"><p>(b) We recite as one of the ten verses of Zichronos the verse, <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><a name="amudb"><p style="display: inline !important; ">"HaShem remembered Noach" (Bereishis 8:1). Why do we recite this verse? <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Gemara says that we do not mention a Zikaron which is associated with an <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>individual and not with the Tzibur.</p></a></span></p><p>The answer is that the Gemara itself allows the recitation of the verse, <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>"HaShem remembered Sarah" (Bereishis 21:1), even though it is a Zikaron <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>of an individual, because "many people (the entire Jewish nation) came from her" <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>through this Zikaron. Similarly, since the entire world was repopulated through Noach, <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>the Zikaron of Noach counts as a Zikaron of many people.</p><p>This explains why we introduce the verse, "HaShem remembered Noach," in the <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Shemoneh Esreh with a declaration that Hash-m saved Noach "in order to make his children <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>as numerous as the dust of the earth and his offspring like the sand of the sea." Noach's repopulation <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>of the world is what justifies mentioning the verse even though it seems to be a Zikaron of an individual. (M. Kornfeld)</p><p><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#161616">I submit the following chiddush: Noach obviously wasn't Jewish, yet he is remembered by HaShem, <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>as well as mentioned in our liturgy. The fact is that he is the ancestor of all the Jews. Hence, my chiddush <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>is that we should view a non Jew as a potential <i>ger</i> or <i>g'ores</i> as well as his or her progeny. So that might be a good <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>reason to view the pasuk, <i>v'ahavta l'rayecha komocho</i>, as "your neighbor" extending beyond a Jew. </font></p><p><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#161616">Kol tuv.</font></p><p><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#161616">ri </font></p></a></span></body></html>