The Difference Between Violence in Noah and Jonah

Rabbi Lamb explores the contrasting attitudes towards violence in the books of Noah and Jonah, highlighting the potential for redemption in Nineveh and the inevitability of destruction in Assyria. He suggests that Jonah's aversion to Nineveh may have been an intuition of its future evil, and discusses the lesson of repentance and forgiveness through the metaphor of a shrub.