- … that six hundred thousand people helped build the tower — and forgot the plan for the city?
- … that a name was written on every brick? A broken brick upset them more than a fallen carpenter.
- … that four men resisted: Noach, Shem, Ever and Avraham — and Avraham was 48 years old at the time?
- … that Nimrod bore three names, and each name tells something different about him?
- … that the first language of the world was Ivrit — the language Hashem spoke with Adam and Chava?
middah keneged middah — measure for measure
Ariella: "In fact there were four parties at the migdal Bavel. The first group said: 'If another mabul comes, we will climb the tower — then the water cannot reach us.' The second group said: 'We must make ourselves a name.' They wanted to gather on top of the tower to serve idols. The third group said it was not right that Hashem lives up there in heaven all alone: 'We will set an idol on top of the tower, with a sword in its hand, to show that we have declared war on G-d.' The fourth group believed only in natural causes. They claimed that every 1,656 years the heavens tremble on their foundations and so cause a mabul. They wanted to prop up the sky — with four pillars, in the east, the west, the north and the south. The eastern pillar was to stand exactly in the valley of Shinar. That was the tower of Bavel."