Parshas Noach: Rashi brings a medrash which talks about the window of the teivah either it was a window or a stone.In the beginning of the parsha Rashi brings a machlokes if Noach was objectively a tzaddik or only for his times.These Rashi seem to have nothing to do with each other but they really do. By the episode with lot, lot’s wife turned around and she was punished because she didn’t deserve to see the demise of others when she herself was not worthy.So to in our parsha if Noach was truly a tzadik then it was a window which he can see out of,but if only in his times it was only a stone.It should be noted R’Yochanan is the one who says it was a stone and was also the one who said that Noach was subjectively a tzadik.(Toras Moshe,Torah Timimah)
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