Introduction
Whereas Shabbos Bereishis merely encompassed the coming year’s potential service, Shabbos Noach is the first actual Shabbos of the new year.
Shabbos Noach is the time to examine a ‘real’ (and the first) week of the new year, evaluate our performance and adjust our approach to divine service for the rest of the year based on ‘facts on the ground.’
Perfecting Our Practice
On Shabbos Parshas Noach, we should make an honest accounting of our actual performance of this new year’s divine service – which has already begun; we should examine the particulars of our weekday and Shabbos performance, in order to correct and perfect them to the fullest extent.
The week of Parshas Noach encompasses our divine service of the entire new year as far as its practical application is concerned. It is therefore understood, that Shabbos Parshas Noach ... [See main text above for continuation]. (Parshas Noach 5752; Hisvaaduyos p.219 – See there at length.)
Gather Jews for Torah study each Shabbos
Shabbos Parshas Noach is always the first Shabbos in the month of Marcheshvan and therefore the first Shabbos of the ‘individual’ months of the year [unlike Tishrei, which is considered an ‘inclusive’ month that includes all others] ... Therefore, it is now the fitting time to promote and goad (‘one only goads the swift’) regarding all that pertains to fulfilling the enactment that Moshe Rabbeinu enacted – that wherever Jewish people find themselves in this planet, they are to strive and promote the gathering of congregations on each and every Shabbos to study Torah and to encourage each another regarding all matter of Judaism, Torah and Mitzvos. (Parshas Noach 5750; Hisvaaduyos p.314)
