Bresheet 5:1
This is the account of the descendants of Adam, on the day of God's creating of Man, He made him in the likeness of God.
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Rashi on 5:1 This is the account of the descendants of Adam:
This is the recounting of the descendants of Adam. This tells us that on the day he was created, he had children.
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Bresheet 5:3
when Adam had lived one hundred and thirty years, he begot in his likeness and his image, and he named him Seth
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Rashi on 5:3 One hundred and thirty years:
Until this point he dissociated himself from the woman [Chava]
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Bresheet 5:24
And Enoch walked with God, then he was no more, for God had taken him.
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Rashi on 5:24 And Enoch walked:
He was a righteous man, but light in his mind, so that he might regress to doing evil. Therefore, the Holy One, Blessed is He, acted
quickly and removed him and put him to death before his time. This is why Scripture deviated regarding his death by writing
"then he was no more" in the world to fill out his years.
Rashi on 5:24 For God had taken him:
before his time. like "Behold, I take from you the delight of your eyes."
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Bresheet 5:28
Lamech lived one hundred and eighty two years, and he begot a son.
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Rashi on 5:28 And he begot a son:
from whom the world was built[Our verse here chose to start out with the word   (son) instead of Noachs name, because it is
related to   (to build)].
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Bresheet 5:29
And he called his name Noach, saying, "This one will bring us ease from our work and from the toil of our hands, from the ground which Hashem had cursed."
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Rashi on 5:29 This one will bring us ease:
Will ease from us the toil implements for plowing, and he devised them for them. And the earth would produce thorns and thistles when they would sow wheat as a result of the curse of
Adam, the first, and in the days of Noach it rested. This is the meaning of "ease". But if you do not explain it thus, the reason of the language does not fall upon the name, but you
should have named him Menachem. [Rashi is trying to understand the name NoACH. He is relating it to our verse "Ease" (yaNACH), or comfort (NACHam).]
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Bresheet 5:32
When Noach was five hundred years old, Noach begot Shem, Ham, and Yaphet.
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Rashi on 5:32 Five hundred years old:
R'yehudan said, What is the reason that all the generations begot at one hundred years or two hundred years, while this
one, at five hundred? The Holy One, Blessed is He, said, "If Noach's children are to be righteous, I will cause him the bother of making many arks.
God suppressed Noach's fount, and he did not beget until five hundred years, so that Yaphet, the oldest of his sons, should not be fit for punishment before the Flood. As it
is written, "For a hundred year old lad will die," he will be fit for punishment in the future, and such was the case before the giving of the Torah. [If Noach would have
had children at a hundred years old, then there would have been atleast four generations of Noach's offspring at the time of the Flood.
It is written in Isaiah 65:20 that a hundred year old lad will die. This is in reference to the time of Moshiach, may it be now, when man will be judged by heaven at this age.
This also held true before the Flood.]
Rashi on 5:32 Shem, Cham, and Yaphet:
But is not Yaphet the oldest? But first you seek out the one who is righteous, and who was born circumcised, and from whom Abraham descended.
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