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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">The following is from RSRH's commentary on Bereishis 6:16</p>
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<div>You shall make a light for the ark and finish it within one cubit of the
<div>top, and set the entrance to the ark in its side; you shall make it with<br>
lower, second and third stories.</div>
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<div>God chose one man who was to save<br>
himself, his family and the animal world; he would be able to save them<br>
and himself — only if he would do everything just as God had commanded<br>
him.“<em><a href="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/7689-high-priest" class="glossaryLink cmtt_Jobs and Social Status OWAAutoLink" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>High Priest</div><div class=glossaryItemBody>כהן גדול - <em>kohen gadol</em>, "Leader". A spiritual leader of the <em>Kohanim</em>, the first of whom was Aaron (Aharon), the brother of Moses. Their father, Amram, was called <em>gadol ha-dor</em>, leader of a generation.<br />For more information and a list of High Priests, see the <a href="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/7689-high-priest" target="_blank">Jewish Encyclopedia</a>.</div>" id="LPlnk759792" previewremoved="true">Gadol</a>
ha-mitzuveh ve-oseh me-me she-aino metzuveh ve-oseh</em> (Kiddushin 31a) is a<br>
fundamental principle in Judaism. Contrary to prevailing opinion, a person’s<br>
actions have value only if they constitute the performance of God’s<br>
Will. What a person does on the basis of his own judgment, and the like,<br>
is of secondary, uncertain importance. During the 120 years that passed<br>
between God’s announcement to Noach and the actual onset of the flood,<br>
Noach could have done so many things: he could have built a hundred<br>
arks, and so forth. Scripture’s sole intent, however, is to say that Noach<br>
did exactly as God had commanded him; the rest he left to God.</div>
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