From Online Torah Classes with Rabbi Mendy Goldberg by R Mendy Goldberg.

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The painful ending to Noah's life.

When we notice a problem in another person, does it really exist in him, or is it coming from within us, as the Gemara says, "he disqualifies others with his own blemish?"

Is our job to rebuke the other, or is the other a mirror, sent from Above to remind us what needs fixing in ourselves? This week the Torah gives a clear answer through the sons of Noach. But first we must face the great puzzle of the parsha: Noach begins higher than anyone in all of Tanach, the only person the Torah ever calls a "tzaddik,"; yet his story ends in the most painful way of all.