An original “swim” into the unchartered midrashic waters
By Michele Weiner
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And G-d said to two angels, “Bring her. Bring the one with the big heart to the forest that I will show you.”
And the two angels turned into large birds, one white and one black, and they flew off on their mission.
Naamah was a child then. She loved to be outside during the time of the sunset. Naamah, the comforter, the one who cried when a flower died, would wave goodbye to the sun and shout hello to the moon.
It was at that very moment, between the setting light and the dawning dark, that the two birds appeared and invited her to ride on their backs for a special journey into the air. Behind their wings she placed one leg on the white bird and the other on the black bird. She rested one forearm on the white bird and one on the black bird. Her balance was perfect because her heart was pure. And off they flew to the forest that G-d showed them.
Naamah then lived in that forest for a year by herself but not alone. The angels assigned to the plants and animals kept her safe and alive. She learned the languages of the plants and the animals. Their angels taught her. They would all sing together on the evening of each full moon, each sounding off its own vibrational frequency, creating a truly wonderous concert which G-d loved to hear.
On her 365th day in this forest, Naamah, on the back of a donkey, was taken to the very edge of the forest. “Donkey, why are we stopping here?” she asked. His neigh in response said, “It’s time for you, great singer and comforter, to go on, to fulfill your mission in life.”
Naamah understood. With some sadness, she blessed the donkey with a long, genetic memory of its ability to communicate, and one day in the future its descendent would speak in its own self-defense and touch the heart of one with a closed heart and change the course of history. She blessed the angels and the plants and animals, thanking them for teaching her their languages and their songs. The same two angels, one shaped as a black bird and one shaped as a white bird, appeared and invited Naamah for a homebound journey through the air. They flew, once again, in perfect balance.
As Naamah disembarked from the backs of these angel birds, they told her that she was the descendent of Cain, the one whose great mistake brought violence into the world. It was her mission to restore wholeness and holiness back into the world. That was all they said. They flew off, leaving her baffled. How was she to do that?
Naamah arrived home on the same day that she left. Her time in the forest was not the same time as that of her parents’ home. Her parents never knew of her time away.
When Naamah grew to be a young woman, she heard whispers about a man who was told to build a big boat because a great flood would someday come and destroy the plants, the animals, and the bad people who lived in the world. She was frightened by this, and because she so loved all of life, she felt drawn to this man; Noach was his name. She wished to help him save the helpless plants and animals. Someone would have to do this if the whispers she heard were true.
Naamah’s father was a wood seller. He bought branches and tree trunks and sold them after he cut them into firewood so people could see and be warm at night. Noach needed a special wood to build his big boat. He came to Naamah’s father and asked for help. Her father did not believe these whisperings about a big flood coming one day, so he had no interest in finding this special wood that Noach needed. Naamah, though, knew where to get this wood; she knew about these trees and where they grew, and she secretly led Noach to where these trees lived.
The angels of these trees put a desire to serve into the hearts and roots of the oldest and wisest of them. Naamah put her ear to the ground to listen to their vibrational frequencies. They sang a song of a holy sacrifice that one day would be theirs. Naamah found the helpers who could help her assist Noach, and then she remembered what the angel birds told her long ago about her mission of restoring wholeness and holiness to the world and about her ancestor, Cain, who brought violence into the world. She knew at this moment she was living her mission.
Noach fell in love with Naamah, her big heart, her empathic nature; she was the one who led him to the trees that would save humanity. So, they married and worked together, preparing for the big flood.
As Noah was building the ark, Naamah was preparing for the filling of the ark with the animals and birds. She was a gifted animal whisperer. She learned the languages of the animals and birds and she loved all of these creations. She would help them when they needed assistance or food.
As so many of the people of her generation were wicked in their interactions with people, many were also wicked in their interactions with animals and birds. These wicked cruel actions included hunting and eating animal and bird flesh and playing cruel games that injured these creatures. Naamah would help the injured ones. She came to be recognized by her sweet natural fragrance, and the animals and birds could smell her approaching before they saw her.
When it was time to bring the designated animals and birds into the ark, it was Naamah who recruited and trained the selected few. When she informed all of the creatures of what would soon be coming, only a few of them believed that such a disaster could occur. They had never witnessed devastating flooding. They were naïve. A few who had extraordinary faith in her because of her kindnesses did believe her and wanted to be saved and have the merit of starting the animal and bird kingdoms once again. The idea of a boat ride was also intriguing to them.
She built a miniature ark and had practice sessions with those who were up for this challenge. They learned how to enter the mini ark and practiced settling in for short periods of time. She also taught them how to connect to the vibrations of her thoughts, specifically, to the command to enter the ark when the time was right. The command would be a silent thought command so as not to disturb the others who did not believe their lives were in danger. Soon they were prepared and excited about this new venture.
When the rains started, Naamah called to them, using her thought command so the other creatures would not know or hear her voice calling out. She cried for the ones who could not enter, and her tears fell with the raindrops down her cheeks as she stood at the entrance to the ark waiting for her beloved friends to join her in this life saving venture. They quietly entered also with tears rolling down their faces as they were leaving the life they had known and all their fellow creatures who would soon perish beneath the waters.
Once on the ark, Naamah would play a drum and sing softly to comfort her family of humans and her family of the animals and the birds. This helped them to sleep. Her song was one of love and gratitude for all the plants that sustained them and all the creatures whose companionship she enjoyed. When the creatures were despondent, she taught them and the plants to sing the vibrational frequencies of their names, the names given to them by Adam in the original Adamic language so they would not forget who they were while trapped in the ark rocking on the waves of destruction. Naamah knew this Adamic language in addition to ancient Hebrew. It was passed down to her from Cain her ancestor.
After the flood, Noach encouraged Naamah to write down her knowledge of the vibrational frequencies and songs sung by the plants and creatures on the ark to be shared with the wisest in each generation to come. She did. On clay tablets using the Adamic language, she recorded her knowledge. Many years later after her death, her tablets were found in the burial place she shared with Noach in Mesopotamia.
Many species of birds would stop to rest from their migratory flights on top of the shared tomb. This was their pilgrimage paying honor to Naamah and Noach for their roles in the second creation story. The story of how the raven and the dove helped all on board the ark navigate their way back to living on the land and in the air was passed down to them and became a part of their genetic code. Each year during their migratory journeys they always perched on top of the tomb and retold the story of the raven and the dove. This phenomenon became known in the area, but was not understood.
One wise teacher wanted to understand why the birds stopped here to rest and to sing. One day, as he was observing the singing resting birds, he saw what looked like a shard in the ground by the edge of the burial plot. He secretly and carefully removed the dirt surrounding this object. He discovered multiple tablets with an unknown language. He sent them to a wise friend living in Egypt, but his friend could not decipher the language. His friend sent the tablets to King Solomon, known for his wisdom. King Solomon translated the language and came to learn the songs and original names of the plants and all of G-d’s creatures of the land and air. These names were energetic codes for the essence of each creature. These names were passed down from the wisdom of Naamah to King Solomon, who then shared this knowledge with his father, King David. They were so moved by Naamah’s tablets. They were inspired to write their own version of the songs of creatures using the language of King David’s psalms to correspond to the vibrational frequency of each creature and plant since the Adamic language was no longer used. Later prophets added their writings and intuitive understandings, expanding the father/son writings.
We know these writings today as Perek Shirah, the true legacy of Naamah, the one with a big heart, the wife of Noach.
