מגדל בבל
Class Questions:
- Why was their first instinct to build a city in a place where they have to cultivate the land-shouldn't their focus be on working the land?
- How come we don't see them speak more often if they all understand each other?
- Did they feel strayed from G-d (just like Kayin did) and is that what urged them to make a tower that reached all the way to the heavens where G-d dwells?
- What name did they make for themselves and how did making a name help them be less scattered among the world?
- What does it mean that HaShem "came down" to see the city?
- Why did Hashem switch their languages and disperse them. They would've eventually found out they can't reach him?
- If Hashem did not pledge to never destroy the world again, would have done it because they tried to reach his level?
- What was the original language every one spike? Would we still be united if that hadn't happened?
- What was their reaction when they couldn't communicate with each other?
- How did the ENTIRE world speak one single language?
- Why did hashem get mad at something that seemed so good and seemed to have unified the people?
- Why did Hashem come down to punish them for trying to reach Hashem?
- What does the word "Babel" mean? It seems like it has some sort of big meaning since he named the city this
- Were there a lot of people in the entire earth, or were they all in this one city and the surrounding area?
- Who is speaking in פסוק ג?
- Why specifically east?
- How will the tower fix the fear of spreading out?
- What is the purpose of this story to be told/ what is it coming to teach us?
- What does the tower symbolize and how does it relate to them being a separate nation and having one language.
- What are they building?
- Why do the people want to build a building to reach Hashem?
