Rabbi Laura Duhan Kaplan: What does Na'amah ("Singer") do on the ark? The Torah tells us that Na'amah's half-brother [Yuval] is the world's first musician. Na'amah, says Rabbi Juliet Spitzer, plays music on the ark to calm the animals. The Torah also tells us that the ark has a skylight. According to Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, G-d has given Na'amah a task of her own: to collect the planet's plants and care for them in the greenhouse under the skylight.
